But it at least stops cheating, right? Right?

How else would I get my hourly dose of homophobic insults on voice from teenagers with barely broken voices?! Not to mention being frequently informed that my 70 year old mom is a prostitute. If I try and simulate the multiplayer experience on a single player game by insulting myself, it's just not the same.

The anticheat runs all the time unless you specifically exit it and requires a reboot of the computer for the exit to take, the reverse is true to turn it back on as well.

Hm - arguably, that actually puts Riot more at fault here. It’s a scummy environment either way, but at least if Battlefield is shutting down anticheat when you close the game, that’s a small step above.

How about games that dont run a anticheat deep into the kernel or Server side anticheat.

Most people have zero understanding of what it is, what the implications are, or even that they're installing it when they press play.

Oh I think they're both at fault. Fuck EA/Battlefield for the SecureBoot requirement too. In fact, fuck all games with kernel level anti-cheats.

Just like DRM, the people hurt are the paying customers not the pirates.

As a linux gamer, I agree…

This beta has been a whole clownfest.

If there's a game that ever needed stringent anticheat, it's Battlefield.

In 400+ hours of Helldivers 2 I have only had a handful of groups with people talking shit in voice or type chat. The co-op nature of the game probably helps with that.

Bold of you to assume anyone who has Valorant installed wants to play BF6

Doesn't matter I found bots and cheaters. Kernel level anticheat is nothing more than a security theater

Yep. There’s money to be made coding cheats. There’s absolutely no shortage of people willing to cheat and shit on other players. “giT gUd KiD, LeRn HoW tOo Aim!1!1!” I’ve got over 3k hours in BF2042 and easily the top 3-5 players give or take on either team are using some form of cheat, whether it be a Cronus or an actual software cheat, they’re obvious as hell. Like most fps games, they only keep the cheats to just enough of a minimum that they can delete cheat discussions from the forums and the community to lick the boot, “stfu hackusations!”

Just a reminder that Valorant is spyware

I'm confused. I thought the last mainline BF title was Battlefield 4? (And then after that came BF1, and then that failure BF2042.) Did they skip a number, or was Battlefield 5 just so fucking bad that I blanked it from my memory? I honestly can't tell. I haven't enjoyed a Battlefield game since Bad Company 2.

I will always prefer multiplayer games for the simple reason that single-player AI is stupid and predictable. Why does every enemy behave like every single other enemy in literally every game? Is it really *that* much more difficult to program enemies to behave in various, unpredictable ways? Until that day comes, I will always prefer my enemies to be human.

This is wrong. You can't run both at the same time but there's nothing stopping you from having valorant installed

Valorant’s anticheat always runs in the background, even when the game isn’t booted. There’s a reason people call the game spyware.