What does it mean for steamdeck/linux support? can we play offline without the anticheat running?

Edit: I've seen now that it won't run on steam deck any longer...

Originally posted by MIQQADONK®:

What does it mean for steamdeck/linux support? can we play offline without the anticheat running?

Edit: I've seen now that it won't run on steam deck any longer...

Came here for the same question and, sadly, found the answer..
I really miss the old Codemasters..

♥♥♥♥ EA's anticheat. RIP steamdeck and linux players

Will reshade still be possible with EA Anti cheat without being banned ?

what kind of cheats would a rally game have? perfect control of the car? flying car? never thought about it

What about graphicial ini files? They don't rely on kernel and should be good right as they only tweak existing graphical values?

Do not allow this spyware on your machine. Kernel level anticheat being required to catch cheaters is a myth created by lazy, incompetent and malicious people.
They could have created a demo system to analyse inputs and verify physics values out of the client or something similar. Instead they went with the laziest route that puts the users at risk by introducing a gaping hole to your system security, not to mention the access to any information that passes through your machine if they so desire. "Trust me bro, I won't spy on you." does not mean they can't or won't.

Edit:
To you who want to comment "lol why would EA want to spy on you?"

Spyware doesn't exist to exploit individual users but rather to create effective marketing or propaganda targeting thousands or millions of people.
Running anything non-critical in the kernel is a massive security risk to your system and a corporation collecting marketing data from thousands or millions of users is a threat to all consumers. EA doesn't want to catch cheaters, they want to make more money.
Selling more garbage isn't where it ends though. That same marketing data is immensely valuable in political context as well.

Originally posted by N.em-e:

Do not allow this spyware on your machine. Kernel level anticheat being required to catch cheaters is a myth created by lazy, incompetent and malicious people.
They could have created a demo system to analyse inputs and verify physics values out of the client or something similar. Instead they went with the laziest route that puts the users at risk by introducing a gaping hole to your system security, not to mention the access to any information that passes through your machine if they so desire. "Trust me bro, I won't spy on you." does not mean they can't or won't.

I agree, especially in a game like this, it's so unnecessary, after 8 months of release on top of that... If they don't give an option to run the game without this, or give access to an older build of the game like 1.8.0 from steam beta menu, I am never buying anything from EA/Codemasters again.

Please, please change your review to negative and say why you do so. We should not have to put up with kernel-level access anti-cheat *after* the launch. This is a slap in the face and we should shout from the roof tops about this unwanted and unwarranted change.

Originally posted by MIQQADONK®:

can we play offline without the anticheat running?

This. Okay to have an anti-cheat for online stuff, but I really don't care about the leaderboards or all that, career progress and moments medals aren't linked to that so should be usable offline.

Originally posted by Obi Want Kanabis:

what kind of cheats would a rally game have? perfect control of the car? flying car? never thought about it

If take a look to global times leaderboard for the stages, you will notice some kind of absurd times like 6 seconds or similar to complete a stage instead of around 5 minutes.... that's the cheating.... Unfortunately the introduction of all this is due these people.... Blame them, not EA or the developers.....

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Stop-EA-Anti-Cheat/m-p/13731477/highlight/true#M4453

Originally posted by JD_FD75:

Originally posted by Obi Want Kanabis:

what kind of cheats would a rally game have? perfect control of the car? flying car? never thought about it

If take a look to global times leaderboard for the stages, you will notice some kind of absurd times like 6 seconds or similar to complete a stage instead of around 5 minutes.... that's the cheating.... Unfortunately the introduction of all this is due these people.... Blame them, not EA or the developers.....

Blatant cheating is easy to spot, and easy to remove. It does not impact my driving or experience. There is no incentive for someone to cheat to be 1 second faster on a stage, and even if someone does it, it is not like it makes driving on the stage less fun for me.

It is not like a conventional multiplayer game like an FPS where cheating harms the experience of playing and getting good at the game (getting killed by someone who is obviously cheating etc.)

There is no good reason to add Kernel level anti-cheat with known memory bugs.

well off to pirate the version without anticheat i go. sad since i already paid for this, but oh well