THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux : linux

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This game is so fun. It’s one of the only games I play that couldn’t be played on Linux. Very glad they’re fixing this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's great. My only complaint is that the character models are not to my taste at all. But theyre fine targets so it's a minute issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The way they run in that opening scene makes me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (5 children)

No official announcements means you could get banned for trying it. Don't do it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Respawn/EA have never announced Linux support for Apex Legends, as far as I can tell, and it's been working most of the time for the past two years, except for the few times when they've botched an update (and which they fixed it afterwards).

The Finals used to kick me before I've got to the main screen, claiming the lack of anticheat as a reason. now the launch shows EAC window loading and lets me fully through, so it seems quite obvious to me that they've enabled the support on their end.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Apex Legends was one of the big things that they were using as an example to show off the Steam Deck and is one of the main games listed on their "Steam Deck Verified" pages. I assume this means that Valve and Respawn/EA were talking to each other about it at least.

I would like to see Steam to require games to not ban Linux users for using Linux (or at least disclose that they are doing it) as a requirement for being listed on their store, but that's probably not going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

It's F2P, just don't buy any cosmetics and make a new account if it gets banned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

That's pretty normal tho.

I also do not care. That would just mean going back to not playing it. Boohoo.

If they can't help banning people for playing on Linux, that's honestly a bigger problem for the devs than me, imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Don't play it because they might ban you then you won't be able to play it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I've tried it and wasn't banned. Before the update, EAC would quit right after launch with a message

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Just today on another thread someone said they were banned. I would've saved the comment if I thought it was worthwhile. It was on a meme post about getting games to run on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Literally the only game I'm playing rn. It's so fucking good

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Interesting. I've been getting hounded to play this game by friends. I might check it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I keep seeing TV ads where the key only show the actual game title for like 0.1seconds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The destruction is epic but I'm really not a fan of the only 2 game modes. Just give me classic TDM or something...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Had it installed for a while. Even sent the devs a friendly email that I'm interested but waiting on them to enable support to let me play.

It looks good. Now I can find out myself.

[+] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Try to play a competitive online game without anti-cheat and see if it is still fun.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (9 children)

The embark account thing is kinda annoying when you already have steam but literally all you have to do is confirm your email. And the anti cheat is required because without it there would be even more hackers than the already is. Try to find a good game that is popular, multiplayer, with no anti cheat and no need for one because nobody cheats.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (17 children)

F2P isn't a problem if you care rats ass about skins or if it isn't P2W

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The steam community was quite active. Who knows, maybe the devs considered it worthwhile seeing the activity there.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

lots of people asked for it in their Discord group, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I can enjoy this game for like 10 mins and I need a break. I follow the markers and then I'm in the middle of nowhere just to follow markers and do it again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Apex has been crashing on me (bug with corrupted game files/ .pak files not updating properly) for the last year. It's intermittent and happens more after some releases than others.

I was going back into windows to play but I decided f it. It's not worth the trouble of switching I'd just go through my library of games that actually work on linux.

I'm really excited to hear that the finals is now a possibility. It looks really fun but I lazily refused to switch to windows to try it for the same reason above.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I get Bad Company 2 vibes from this. Might give it a shot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Intentional, the game is made by Battlefield alums. This also means that playing the objective influences your score more directly than kill count does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@sirsquid This game looks damn good graphically!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It also imo runs really well for how good it looks. I'm really impressed because it ran horribly in the closed beta, they did an impressive job optimizing it.