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RollAigs's avatar
RollAigs
New Novice
23 days ago

Secure Boot

I am glad EA has reminded me why I no longer support their company/ brand; the most recent endeavor was attempting to play one of their games. They seem to not care about their customers and have proved it by requiring software programming before playing a game with their new "secure" boot setting. I looked online and it appears to be a 50% chance to brick your PC by enabling this setting, so I just did not risk it. 

I was actually disappointed, which is crazy considering how little I have come to expect over the years from EA, because I now know I should not even waste my time with the newest battlefield. We all know it will release bugged and with terrible server performance... again, we have all come to expect this from EA, but the reason I won't waste my time is because I don't want a 50% chance of losing my PC.

Do better EA, please just listen to us suckers who still pretend that there is a chance to enjoy a Battlefield game.

10 Replies

  • It's to prevent cheating, so chaeting software is harder to run. btw your headshot % is realy high

  • Agree - they do this for a reason. Let's face it - there are way to many cheaters in this game - perhaps not aimbot using - but definitely using the wallhack. Way too often you think what the heck - how did he know I was in that corner - no way sniper / sentry or anything could spot you. If Paik makes the scan - you are alerted by this - Rao hack - you also know. A map that shows all people in the game is very helpfull - you dont need aimbot to get high scores when you know where all are.

    Secure boot and windows memory protection (integrity) could be ways to limit the cheats - but I'm no expert in this. I do hope BF 6 will have good protection !

  • CPU_UK's avatar
    CPU_UK
    Seasoned Ace
    22 days ago

    I have an old Win10 dual boot, it took me longer to read the post about enabling Secure boot than it took to turn it on. If it slows down cheaters I'm all for it.

  • BadPeewee201's avatar
    BadPeewee201
    Seasoned Newcomer
    21 days ago

    People are going to cheat no matter what. All this does is make it harder for people with older hardware to even boot up the game, this will lose more players than people quitting because of cheaters

  • Even Call of Duty is forcing Secure Boot in their games. Where are you going to go to play games? The way forward is clear.

  • it is the standard now, just face it or not buy it, stop pretending the world owns you an answer

  • I will not purchase Battlefield 6 due to the TPM and Secure Poot filth. It will be the first ever Battlefield title I haven't owned and as long as that garbage is required, I will never purchase any future release. I only play single-player campaign. I will not enable TPM or Secure Poot. Period. Micro$lop and game developers need to mind their own business and stop acting like dictators. Do the right thing EA. At the very least you will make it optional for single player campaign. If you make the anti-cheat garbage required to launch and run single-player campaign I will never purchase anything, Battlefield or otherwise, from EA ever again. And, that's a promise, not a threat.

  • mr_fox_rox's avatar
    mr_fox_rox
    Rising Novice
    19 days ago

    Yes, it is very clear. Only play old games and buy nothing that requires TPM and Secure Poot rubbish. No game is worth buying or playing if I have do submit to control freak behavior. End of story.

  • SpoolaZ's avatar
    SpoolaZ
    Seasoned Ace
    17 days ago

    You don't think EA has taken into account in their budget that there are people who can't run secure boot due to old hardware. So why adapt to a shrinking minority who will upgrade their computers eventually anyway.

  • tuili-the-cat's avatar
    tuili-the-cat
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 days ago

    I had huge technical issues with enabled secure boot (on multiple PC's) before and i won't turn it on again just because EA wants to force us to do so. I always play the campaign only and honestly i don't care about any cheaters or anything that happens in multiplayer. I definitely won't buy Battlefield 6 with this BS condition and regarding Black Ops 7, either i also won't purchase it or maybe i'll build a secondary PC (with minimum requirements) for that product only and will sell the machine afterwards... Please stop hazing single player gamers and keep this anti-cheat terror in multiplayer only. I've been playing CoD and BF from their first "episodes" (except of Black Ops 4 where the developer team was too lazy to include campaign) and i'd really like to keep playing until my last breath. But definitely not with Secure Boot on. 🤷‍♂️

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