I dual boot with win 11, I do so for programming purposes, not gaming. I read online that the game straight up blocks Linux on all fronts (typical EA). So, I booted into win 11 and launched the beta. It still refused to start and complained that secure boot was “disabled”. Booted into BIOS and it was enabled, but not active. I had to reset the keys to the windows default keys to be able to play this game. This is a no go for me. Not giving them my money until they stop this bullshit. Just wanted to let everyone know the situation so far.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    9 months ago

    As an exclusive Linux user, I’m glad they just block Linux instead of normalizing kernel-level anti-cheat. BF6 is dead on arrival to me.

  • PHLAK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    253·
    9 months ago

    As I already said in another thread…

    There’s nothing wrong with Secure Boot and enabling it can prevent a small subset of attack vectors with no real downsides. That being said, the things Secure Boot does protect against aren’t likely to be an issue for most users but it’s nothing to be afraid of.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      It’s a bad thing when it’s used to control people. On its own, it’s a good thing.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          4·
          9 months ago

          Secure boot is a good feature to protect against certain kinds of threats, but “you can’t run this entertainment software because you aren’t running a completely Microsoft-prescribed system” is a super lame use of it.

  • commander@lemmy.world
    201·
    9 months ago

    I hope Battlebit Remastered gets popular again. I suppose it’s tough to make it as an indie multiplayer video game dev. Everyone expects regular frequent updates

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        13·
        9 months ago

        Yep, seems they are trying to push a big update but that the playerbase is a fraction of what it once was due to the lack of updates.

    • HouseWolf@pawb.social
      10·
      9 months ago

      I still love Battlebit, it’s the closet thing to a real Battlefield game we’ve have in a long time.

      But sadly devs took the money and ran…

      Game hasn’t been updated in 19 months.

      • commander@lemmy.world
        8·
        9 months ago

        I saw occasional news about progress on a big update someday. Any indie multiplayer has to make it easy from day one for user created content. Maps, server hosting files that’s has some easy to configure parameters for fun casual servers like servers that enable model swap outs, skins, etc.

        Just looked, still 8000 people playing original counter strike

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        They did not take the money and run. From my understanding, it just ended up with everything they’re working on being tied to some critical update, and making it effectively impossible for them to update the existing version of the game until it’s out. It was bad version control management, but not malice.

        • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          8 months ago

          I hope so. It should have been communicated tho, because most people know think that they have just left

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      6·
      9 months ago

      There’s a big overhaul update that got teased after over a year of radio silence, fingers crossed that it comes out soon!

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    Gigabyte motherboards might brick on users turning this on. IIRC you gotta take the cmos battery out and use the motherboard hdmi port to reset it somehow.

    To many games out there to fuck with this shit. Have fun playing BF6 yall, I wont be there.

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      9 months ago

      I have a gigabyte MB. Thankfully, nothing bad happened. I disabled it again. Fuck BF6 and fuck EA.

  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    This merely reinforces my decision to not buy it because it only is going to have manipulative EBMM for its main modes instead of a server browser. Even if Portal has a server browser, they know the average player is going to stick to their match making system.

    I bought 2042 and I did play it a lot but my experience was sort of existentially dreadful. I kind of understood its match making was keeping me playing longer by sandbagging my progression on its overly bloated exp requirements. It was like watered down drip feed fun. Fun enough and low barrier enough that I kept jumping on. Every other BF game felt way more mechanically rich and because they lacked match making they were more fulfilling to learn and play. You start out sucking, and you slowly get better, feeling yourself win more often over time. There is satisfaction in starting out bad and being rewarded for your efforts to learn the game that EBMM steals from you.

    Its painful for me though. BF6 looks like such a waste. It checks so many boxes for me in that it looks like a great pvp military shooter: fast TTK, robust map editor, point buy loadout system.

    But all wrapped up in typical corporate bullshit.

  • Chivera@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    I have an older gigabyte motherboard, it’s giving me trouble getting secure boot enabled. But all the other modern games play just fine. No battlefield 6 for me then.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    2·
    9 months ago

    Every time this franchise comes up I just find myself remembering all the fun I had with BF2 and 2142. I wanna play those again…

    BF4 was actually pretty great fun too.

    Now I’m just so over it.

  • taaz@biglemmowski.win
    31·
    9 months ago

    I’ve tested the beta yesterday (dual boot) and only had to enable SB and leave it in custom mode - no need to sign & enroll the linux kernel(s) too.