Steamworks breaks another great game - Fixed

[Saber]

https://gyazo.com/7e4ec605162381fc316dfefa2b729db6

Post steamworks update. Fantastic.

Just a reminder. Steam can push mandatory updates to brick any game you "own".

Sad. Love absolver and now i can't play it.

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Here's the fix. Turns out it was cheat engine. It wasn't running at the time but it was installed on my PC. You can't use cheat engine on any decent MP game anyway, it just doesn't work. I mostly use it for singleplayer games like F:GW.

Anyway EAC now won't let you launch any games secured by it unless you uninstall cheat engine.

[obliviondoll]

1. Verify file integrity and if that doesn't work, reinstall. If that doesn't work...
2. Report as a bug to support_pc (at) sloclap (dot) com but obviously with the bits written like (this) corrected into making that a real email address.
3. If they don't/can't fix it (including if they don't reply within a reasonable timeframe, report to Valve that an update has caused the game to be 100% unplayable and politely request that they fix it or give you a refund.

Point 3, if you get that far, will in most civilised countries (and even a number of US states) be ground for a legally-mandated refund on this game. Valve, as scummy as they are with a lot of things, tend to actually honour refund requests when the problem isn't fixable through any reasonable measures. Regardless of what they might try and pretend their rights are, if they or a game dev produce an update which unaviodably breaks a game, and you show them evidence of that being the case, they will usually honour a refund request outside of normal policy limits on the basis of the breaking of the game not being something you should be held responsible for.

[Saber]

my EasyAntiCheat is also broken for squad aswell

[obliviondoll]

Saber lähetti viestin:

my EasyAntiCheat is also broken for squad aswell

If it's EAC that's broken, contact EAC support. If they confirm it's Valve's fault it's broken, then contact Valve and get them to fix it.

https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/absolver/contact/tech/

That's their contact page specifically for Absolver, I'd assume there's a similar link for Squad.

[Saber]

im guessing that steam pushed an update for EAC through steamworks that is incompatible with absolver and squad.

[HyperComplex]

I loved this game but it didnt seem alive some time ago. Is it now ?

[Ki11Bi11y]

Anyone have issues starting up and it wont connect to the network?

[Saber]

utkuhang lähetti viestin:

I loved this game but it didnt seem alive some time ago. Is it now ?

I'm in europe and the game is still pretty alive here. The pvp is still populated and full of veeery skilled endgame players.

[Xaks32]

Saber lähetti viestin:

https://gyazo.com/7e4ec605162381fc316dfefa2b729db6

Post steamworks update. Fantastic.

Just a reminder. Steam can push mandatory updates to brick any game you "own".

Sad. Love absolver and now i can't play it.

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Here's the fix. Turns out it was cheat engine. It wasn't running at the time but it was installed on my PC. You can't use cheat engine on any decent MP game anyway, it just doesn't work. I mostly use it for singleplayer games like F:GW.

Anyway EAC now won't let you launch any games secured by it unless you uninstall cheat engine.

You need Anti Cheat Engine running for all games that might use Anti Cheat Engine. FighterZ also have this issue, and a lot of players complain; Bandai never bothered warning players about this.

I think games that use anti cheat system should warn people on it's hardware/software requirement.

[Warborg]

Xakurinha32 lähetti viestin:

Saber lähetti viestin:

https://gyazo.com/7e4ec605162381fc316dfefa2b729db6

Post steamworks update. Fantastic.

Just a reminder. Steam can push mandatory updates to brick any game you "own".

Sad. Love absolver and now i can't play it.

-------------------------------------------------------
Here's the fix. Turns out it was cheat engine. It wasn't running at the time but it was installed on my PC. You can't use cheat engine on any decent MP game anyway, it just doesn't work. I mostly use it for singleplayer games like F:GW.

Anyway EAC now won't let you launch any games secured by it unless you uninstall cheat engine.

You need Anti Cheat Engine running for all games that might use Anti Cheat Engine. FighterZ also have this issue, and a lot of players complain; Bandai never bothered warning players about this.

I think games that use anti cheat system should warn people on it's hardware/software requirement.

They should warn people that you shouldn't be running cheat software while playing their games that have a multiplayer component?

[Saber]

Warborg lähetti viestin:

Xakurinha32 lähetti viestin:

You need Anti Cheat Engine running for all games that might use Anti Cheat Engine. FighterZ also have this issue, and a lot of players complain; Bandai never bothered warning players about this.

I think games that use anti cheat system should warn people on it's hardware/software requirement.

They should warn people that you shouldn't be running cheat software while playing their games that have a multiplayer component?

Problem is it wasn't running. It was just installed on my PC. I went throught task manager to check if it was running as well which is what confused me.

At the time EAC wasn't giving me an error message either which sucked.