Apex Legends Upheaval update live with EOS Anti-Cheat breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux
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Respawn and EA have today released a major update for the popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends, which gives it an anti-cheat upgrade. Sadly it's causing issues for Steam Deck / Linux players.

It switched from the standalone version of EAC to Epic Online Services anticheat instead, breaking steam deck support in the process.

However, EOS is normally supported on Steam Deck, so this is probably a temporary issue and will hopefully be resolved by either Valve or Respawn/Epic. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Edit: this is reportedly now fixed on proton experimental

  • Björn Tantau
    11•8 months ago

    Wasn’t Apex Legends one of the first games with supported anti cheat on the Deck?

    • OwlBoy
      5•8 months ago

      Yeah. It used EAC. EAC is supported on SteamDeck. They moved away from it.

      • FubarberryOPMEnglish
        5•8 months ago

        EOS (which is what it switched to) is also supported on linux. So hopefully this is a temporary problem.

        • OwlBoy
          1•8 months ago

          Ah, that’s good to hear.

    • FubarberryOPMEnglish
      1•8 months ago

      I know it was a pretty early one to support the deck, but games like CS;GO supported Linux for many years before the proton was a thing.