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24 days ago

Any updates on Linux support?

Will Battlefield 6 fully support playing on Linux? I read something about anti-cheat, but as it is 2025 and even e-sports titles like The Finals are handling anti-cheat on Linux fine, this is just a bad excuse.

The only reason for not supporting Linux would be pure developer laziness and I want to believe that the people working on Battlefield 6 at as competent as the devs of The Finals, although they have a lot of ex-Dice people over there.

Any updates on Linux support besides the usual anti-cheat stuff that has obviously nothing to do with supporting Linux or not?

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  • It is NOT pure developer laziness!  The BF6 developers/EA had no choice but to implement these new requirements because of constant hacks cheats and exploits by unethical people. Gamers complain when game makers don't try hard enough to stop cheaters and then when those devs try to do the right thing people like you chime in that they are lazy without actually knowing why Linux has this issue and go straight to blaming the wrong people.

    I'm no IT pro but it took only an hour trying to find proper TPM 2.0 firmware update and proper update tool to patch TPM vulnerabilities. I Simply patched current 2.0 module to most current version which took 5 minutes to update the module. Then took 5 min to download and update my UEFI firmware for my motherboard. Then 15 minutes to enable both secure boot functions and TPM and TMP and confirm everything was working properly. Total of not even 2 hours to do my part for the benefit of BF6 Anti cheat by implement secure boot and the bonus is my pc is now more secure for things not related to games!

    I'm sure some companies devs would rather just sit on their *** and take the EZ route but NOT  but bad actors gave them no other choice. So rather than being lazy/greedy by creating yet another crappy prematurely released buggy exploitable cheat ladened game just to sell more copies and get richer they decided on quality over quantity instead of lining their pockets. The additional toolset of secure boot and TPM is needed to better enforce or investigate cheat reports leading to a more enjoyable user experience. What BF6 is doing is setting a higher standard for themselves and will result in better future cheat blocking mechanisms/detection methods to keep up with modern advanced cheat methods. It minimizes the risk and the number of cheats getting past in the first place and a solid foundation to any good Anti cheat system. This deters & helps properly monitor to better ensure dishonest players are not easily getting around the Anti cheat by loading modified unofficial uncertified drivers at boot time. 

    By the way it's not the fault of EA or the DEVS that Linux don't properly support secure boot/TPM. Linux is open source so there are many different compilations from different dev teams and/or diff communities all together. Because of there being so many different versions and/or builds of LINUX, those Linux devs were lazy and took the EZ route and utilized exploit that at the time existed to make a workaround to load unofficial uncertified and possibly unsafe drivers by using now expiring/expired security keys which are used byTPM/UEFI Bios to properly authenticate the loading of official unmodified drivers. All Linux communities would have to work together to create a unified universal key and issue it for Linux and insure there is a list of secure certified drivers to boot to. UEFI Bios and TPM firmware would need to be updated by hardware vendors? maybe?

    I'm no IT pro but it took only an hour trying to find proper TPM 2.0 firmware update and proper update tool to patch TPM vulnerabilities. I Simply patched current 2.0 module to most current version which took 5 minutes to update the module. Then took 5 min to download and update my UEFI firmware for my motherboard. Then 15 minutes to enable both secure boot functions and TPM and TMP and confirm everything was working properly. 

  • The biggest take away is EA is doing the right thing with BF6 in the face of all this criticism and look I think we all get it that everyone wants to play BF6. But nobody wants yet another compromised game that is filled with hackers that after only a short time the game is no longer worth playing or buying! In the long run EA wants to invest in an enjoyable title for the gaming community that lasts years and has potential to become a loved classic not some washed out "has been" game. And in (my opinion) and I'm sure probably in many others' opinions cod/warzone has gotten so bad with hackers its now nearly unplayable simply and for some not worth playing at all. I have even been told many times in game by random people using hacks, that they only cheat because everyone else does and when I said Well I don't and you're ruining my game experience, and they then informed me I should get the cheats too. So, it is like they now have the attitude that it is ok to disrupt and ruin the quality gameplay and destroy the intellectual property value of the game creators and violate the TOS agreement that they agreed to when they installed the game. This behavior has been normalized due to inaction in favor of profits by many companies. Because hey I used to love warzone and modern warfare and modern warfare2 and cold war etc while playing day in day out with friends and family, but they all since quit because of hackers. It's just no longer enjoyable and we all leave miserable so no longer will I support anything cod and nor will I buy any cod game or battle pass or skins or patterns. So, I swear this to you EA if your listening, I am all in on whatever you need to do to stop this @#$% from happening and make these individuals sorry they tried to cheat in the first place and I'm all for full hardware id bans such as GPU id bans and CPU id bans and hard drive serial number bans whatever it takes and I will buy every game you make from hence forth.

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