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This update makes me wish I could get a refund. Been playing BF2042 since day 1. Now I can't play it because of a BIOS setting that I refuse to change simply because of a **bleep** game. Even worse that in your quest for "Fair and fun".... which I'm pretty sure MANY OTHER people have been enjoying this game since launch, you're forcing them, with many warnings and "At your own risk"'s, to do something they may have never done, nor feel comfortable doing. Absolutely freaking stupid.
I just copy-paste my previous reply:
Good luck with that refund request lol. There is nothing broken on EA's side. All that EA did was answer to your cries by fighting back against cheaters.
The difference is...... I've been a PC gamer for the last..... like 25 years. I know cheaters are a thing. I know that whatever companies try to do to COMBAT cheaters, there will always be a new cheat found days, if not hours later. I've never once got all pissy about someone cheating, because the way I look at it, if they ARE cheating, they can't play the game at all, and I usually find it more fun to target them while playing than actually playing the game. I've even had people accuse me of using an aimbot.... in Half-Life 2 Deathmatch.... because I kept killing them with a MELEE weapon.
But please..... explain to me how requiring a feature in ones BIOS to be enabled, whose ONLY PURPOSE is to prevent potentially malicious code from being executed during the BOOT process of a computer, is going to somehow prevent a cheat from functioning? It is a startup process protection. Unless people found a way to load up their game during the POST, I'm pretty sure this is just as meaningless as game devs banning a cheaters account on a free-to-play game.... if not even MORE meaningless.
Sabather wrote:
But please..... explain to me how requiring a feature in ones BIOS to be enabled, whose ONLY PURPOSE is to prevent potentially malicious code from being executed during the BOOT process of a computer, is going to somehow prevent a cheat from functioning? It is a startup process protection.
Secure Boot attempts to harden the Windows operating system by allowing only certain software approved by Microsoft to run. Software such as bootloaders, firmware, drivers, and kernels.
Cheat developers can use a driver to gain access to system memory so they can read Battlefield game data such as player location. Once they know every player's location they can create wallhacks for example.
Secure Boot prevents apps from installing drivers unless they're signed by a Microsoft approved cryptographic key. That said, anyone with a few hundred dollars can probably submit their driver to Microsoft for approval.
Secure Boot on gaming consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation is much more secure than on PC. Gaming consoles have much more control over which software is allowed to run. Sony and Microsoft have complete control over which drivers and apps are allowed to run on consoles.
Secure Boot on PC is better than nothing, but there's still a lot of attack vectors since Secure Boot allows any app to be installed and drivers can still be submitted to Microsoft for signing with a few hundred dollars.
I'm not against Secure Boot and understand it's causing frustrating issues for people. I think it's good EA anticheat team are trying to remove cheaters from the game. It's an impossible task on PC due to the open nature of the platform. Which is why I prefer to game on console with PC crossplay disabled.
