Requiring PC players to potentially brick their motherboard by enabling Secure Boot is a slap in the face. It has seriously lowered the chance that I will buy the full game on release. Why should I be have to change my BIOS settings to play a dang game. Especially when it's only the second day of the Beta and people have already figured out how to cheat around it.
I agree. I do not even consider buying the game anymore after I downloaded the open beta today and learned that I need to fundamentally change settings in my system (which I am able to but simply do not want to because EA is "forcing" me to do so). Me and some friends were eager to see whether BF6 was better than the BF5 disaster and we won't give it another chance with this start.
@EA customer and UX experts: Please consider this to be a shoutout to rethink your decision...
To be clear, my understanding isn't necessarily that Secure Boot auto-stops cheats from working, but creates a permanent hardware ID for the machine and OS, which makes permanent bans signficantly more difficult (and/or at least expensive) to go around as it requires new hardware. Unfortunately, this comes at the expense of many legitimate folks needing to change settings in their BIOS, and many (not saying you, OP) which are not technically inclined end up breaking their OS install due to needing to switch from Legacy/BIOS to UEFI in the process (which will not let Windows boot)
I doubt that there are many users with Legacy BIOS on the system. Especially a system that can run a AAA game in 2025. Intel discontinued support for legacy BIOS in 2020. Thats 5years ago
Haven't come across a cheater yet, sorry you can't sell your hacks OP
I don't sell hacks, goober. I'm an irritated consumer, voicing my irritation on the public forum for the product I am trying.
My PC parts were purchased new in 2024. I have rarely messed with BIOS settings, and am thankfully technically inclined so it wasn't too much of a process. The 30 and some older series Nvidia cards are still a good chunk of the most common on Steam. The 30 series was released late in 2020.
Understood, but note that the minimum spec I believe is the Intel 8xxx series [and AMD equivalent] which dates back to 2017. While that's now 8 years ago, I can fully imagine that there's folks that have upgraded their GPUs but not CPU or whathaveyou. Granted, many of these folks will be required to turn on SecureBoot and such in order to upgrade to Win11 (as it is also the minimum CPU required for it), but that's tangentially related.
My system relies on secure boot being turned off. Having to restart, edit bios settings, restart, play, and then changing bios settings back after playing. I know myself and even if I bought the game, this would prevent me from regularly playing it. It's stopped me from playing the beta. It is a headache that I don't need to get my down time.
So there better be compensation from EA for the game bricking motherboards, I followed the EA instructions video and forums page and my motherboard bricked. I could not get it to come back to life. I tried everything but nothing worked, bios flash,cmos reset, new ssd. I ended up having to buy a new motherboard and cpu because of this beta. this is ridiculous just from a beta having to pay 400$ because it ruined my pc. EA I want compensation no other game has ever required a bios setting altering the 10 years I’ve been on pc.
