All software is buggy as fuck, especially software running on a layer it definitely shouldn't fucking run on Just Because Capitalism Decided The Peons Needed To Be Punished.
Or have we all forgotten how Sony when they first did this garbage basically gave birth to an entire new fucking way of doing malware?
EAC, a supposed anti-cheat engine designed to stop cheating regardless of game played, did nothing to stop these cheats from being deployed.
This was actually one of the first things that crossed my mind. I have never played (or watched) Apex Legends, I have never heard of EAC, I'm not "up" on modern gaming, so I was coming in cold here, and my first take was "yeah it does look like the anti-cheat was hacked, because the result was cheats being deployed!", and then when the story started to shift to "the anti-cheat wasn't hacked", I just watched the video of the wallhack and aimbot functioning perfectly fine, and mentally gestured in the direction of EAC while emitting question mark emojis
Yeah. Somewhat related, I got Destiny 2 a little while back from the humble bundle, and I've been procrastinating Actually Playing It (which I do want to do!) bc I don't want to install BattleEye's kernel-level anti cheat. The stuff about EAC definitely played a role in my hesitation.
do you know if battleye is completely removed once the game is uninstalled? i played d2 for a few years but it is taking up space now. i want to delete it as thoroughly as can be
"You can use a thing and still be critical of it" is a notion I think more people need to internalize. Like, I can see stanning a video game company, but anti-cheat software? That's like waving a giant foam finger for Microsoft Powerpoint.
