Amid player complaints, EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta’s first two days.
How does their rootkit work on a virtual machine? Have anyone tried?
Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools
Submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It does not, they detect the VM.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Thanks. This is really crazy level of invasion. They might rather build an authorized device at that level and become hardware manufacturer.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta
Or 330,000 users without secure boot :P
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
How thoughtful of them to “apologize” yet keep requiring you voluntary installing a rootkit to your machine to play a video game. Some people are just Too Dumb to Live.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are people still parroting that secure boot is a rootkit, even though its actually designed to prevent root kits from being installed?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Secure Boot is not the rootkit, the anti-cheat software that requires kernel level access (Secure Boot) to operate is the rootkit.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Yeah it really sucks. The fact they are providing free hosting of persistent servers almost makes me want to buy it but fuck that secure boot shit.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I really don’t understand the aversion to Secure Boot, can somebody share some perspective?
It’s a setting that you toggle in BIOS and is found on virtually every motherboard from the last 12 years. Some platforms are slightly counterintuitive, requiring you the manually switch to custom keys and then back to factory key in order for it to install/activate. For booting alternative OSes, enrolling a custom key takes 5 seconds.
It hardens security of the boot process, and It’s already a requirement for Windows 11, the primary OS that most PC Gamers are already going to be choosing.
I feel like there’s a ton of bitching going on over the most minor of inconveniences that will actually prove to be a net benefit overall.
Grimy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I do all my gaming on steam deck these days, which means every battlefield except 4 is unplayable. Idk if bf6 would have worked but 2042 did before they turned on their new anti-cheat in an update.
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dual boot.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Why not enroll a key for your second OS?
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d have a problem as it’s been turned off since my original Windows 10 install. I’d have to reinstall if I enabled it because I installed Windows in BIOS mode. There are ways around all that, but it’s a little risky.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
There a particular reason you wanted Legacy / BIOS mode?
MBR2GPT makes the conversion easy and can even be run from the OS while it’s running. We get an image backup first, but we’ve never had to use it. There are occasionally complications getting it to actually run, but those are usually when the disk is full when folks have a really weird nonstandard partition arrangement.