Requiring Secure Boot provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process. It also lets the Battlefield Positive Play team use its own features and related dependent security features like TPM to combat other forms of cheating, the most relevant of which include:
Kernel-Level Cheats and Rootkits
Memory Manipulation and Injection
Spoofing and Hardware ID Manipulation
Virtual Machines and Emulation
Tampering with Anti-Cheat Systems
It feels very anti-linux, and I don’t like it, but with a good number of hours in BF6 so far, I have yet to run into an obvious cheater so maybe it works.
The problem isn’t even software running on the host machine anymore. Cheaters have long since moved to using a different machine running ocr software and handling input, then it just sends mouse and keyboard inputs based on what it sees. It’s all of the advantage of esp hacks and aimbots of yore, all while being 100% undetectable as all the game sees is generic peripherals and no code other than legit code running on the main machine.
Yeah, losing the ability to run games in a VM adds a bit of complexity to the setup, but you can still plug a capture card into a raspberry pi and let it do the aiming/firing and just look like an l33t gam3r in the stats.
None of this even touches on DMA hacks that read host memory over a bus like PCIe, but that’s getting into some complexity far and above the average cheating kid. Unfortunately plugging in a couple cables and flashing an SD card is pretty trivial for someone wanting to get more headshots.
It didn’t though, those types of hacks have been around forever. It’s how people cheat on consoles without risking bans for modded lobbies and trainers.
I want to be clear, the cheats are just as easy as they have always been to use, particularly if you throw money at them. These kernel modules and invasive anti-cheat mechanisms are far more effective at exfiltrating data and destroying privacy than they are at preventing aimbots.
They even game me a refund after I bought KOTOR 1 without realising it was an EA game, saying I wanted to get a refund because I was boycotting EA.
I did comply with the less than an hour playtime for refunds, so they might have given it regardless, but it’s nice to know they accept refunds labelled as boycotts.
Know your enemy
Yeah, don’t need to read further. I just avoid their crap on reflex.
Requires TPM 2.0? Wtf??
Tense Penile Member 2.0. Some refer to it as a rock hard dick.
I read that in Matt Barry’s voice and so should you
Why does a game need a tpm
According to EA
It feels very anti-linux, and I don’t like it, but with a good number of hours in BF6 so far, I have yet to run into an obvious cheater so maybe it works.
The problem isn’t even software running on the host machine anymore. Cheaters have long since moved to using a different machine running ocr software and handling input, then it just sends mouse and keyboard inputs based on what it sees. It’s all of the advantage of esp hacks and aimbots of yore, all while being 100% undetectable as all the game sees is generic peripherals and no code other than legit code running on the main machine.
Yeah, losing the ability to run games in a VM adds a bit of complexity to the setup, but you can still plug a capture card into a raspberry pi and let it do the aiming/firing and just look like an l33t gam3r in the stats.
None of this even touches on DMA hacks that read host memory over a bus like PCIe, but that’s getting into some complexity far and above the average cheating kid. Unfortunately plugging in a couple cables and flashing an SD card is pretty trivial for someone wanting to get more headshots.
That sounds like the anti-cheat is working then. The entire point is increasing the barrier of entry to cheating.
It didn’t though, those types of hacks have been around forever. It’s how people cheat on consoles without risking bans for modded lobbies and trainers.
I want to be clear, the cheats are just as easy as they have always been to use, particularly if you throw money at them. These kernel modules and invasive anti-cheat mechanisms are far more effective at exfiltrating data and destroying privacy than they are at preventing aimbots.
At least you’re warned about the bullshit requirements for a particular game.
Reminds me of what fdroid and aurora-store do, warning the users of potential “disgusting” features. That’s respect for its users
I like that fdroid is “this doesn’t meet what our users expect from our service, here’s why, and here it is anyway if you want cancer”
And most of the time, it’s pretty palatable cancer too. It turns out most don’t bother uploading to FDroid if their app is truly bad.
Pretty common in flatpak managers as well
We always knew that battlefield would be like that. It’s an EA product after all.
I’m genuinely amazed it doesn’t have day one microtransactions, maybe that’s going later.
There will be a season one battle pass with skins, but the guns, maps, etc. will be free.
Do you think Dice have something on an EA CEO, or maybe they think this won’t do well after 2048 or whatever it was called.
They even game me a refund after I bought KOTOR 1 without realising it was an EA game, saying I wanted to get a refund because I was boycotting EA.
I did comply with the less than an hour playtime for refunds, so they might have given it regardless, but it’s nice to know they accept refunds labelled as boycotts.
It used to be even worse. In 2042, you had to install the EA app.