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[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 30 points 11 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.

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 3 points 11 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.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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

[–] simple@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 8 points 11 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.

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

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

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 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.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 11 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.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 11 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...

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 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.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 11 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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[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] MTG8175@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 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.

[–] 0x0@social.rocketsfall.net 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 4 points 11 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.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 5 points 11 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.

[–] mac_alice@mastodon.social 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@sirsquid This game looks damn good graphically!

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's also really chaotic and fun

[–] mac_alice@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@Evotech glad to hear it, what kind of shooter is it? Tactical or more run & gun?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Definitely run and gun, destructible environments is the key, battlefield devs who made it.

It's 3v3v3 at its core. Although there's different modes

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not that I'm aware of. It's designed around teams.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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