Surprising to see after the CrowdStrike debacle.
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I heard somewhere that Microsoft was blocking access to the kernel for third party developers like CrowdStrike and EA because of what CrowdStrike did. Have they reversed course?
They wanted to many years ago but the EU actually stopped them, out of fear Microsoft would have the monopoly on anti virus software or something.
Aaaa fuck off I still play BF1 and doubt I'll get an origin refund after 400hours gameplay
whether you're right or not, it's just so frustrating to imagine that something you may have been playing for another hundreds of hours is just totally unaccesible from now on... so frustrating and so unfair... Definitely worthy of a refund in my book.
Yeah, you won't. Best you can do is complain, but they won't listen. It's similar to if the game went offline. You are not promised a refund for that.
Im so happy for the new game Delta Force which is in open beta right now and going to be a BF killer. EA and Dice can go to hell!
Damn that reminds me of the old school Novalogic gem of the same name. Added to my wishlist, thanks.
I’d recommend removing it from your wishlist. Tencent bought the name and are the reason all the NovaLogic Delta Force games have been pulled from Steam and stuff. A Tencent subsidiary is developing the game, which is a free to play hero shooter. At this point a game about being a sky marshal on Delta flights would be a closer spiritual successor to Delta Force.
Appreciate the insight. Between that and not functioning on Linux or Proton, I'm out!
Follow up. I was still able to purchase DF1, 2, LW, and TFD from Steam as a pack for 21 CAD. Playing now via Proton. I do not think they have been removed unless it's a regional issue.
Ah, so all of them have been delisted on GoG. Black Hawk Down was delisted on Steam, however the rest remain available.
https://delistedgames.com/delta-force-titles-likely-leaving-gog-and-steam-today/
So much of my youth spent (wasted, my parents would say) on BHD, and then Joint Ops!!!
Oh no....
..........Anyway......
My EA account was hijacked months ago, I couldn't get it back. Now learning that even if I had it back I wouldn't play BF1, definetly makes it less of a pain.
Tho still sucks for its enjoyers.
Is this like a remastered original or did they name a new game 1?
It's a game about WW1. It came out a few years ago, before Battlefield V iirc.
It's also better than v and much much better than 2042. It's a pretty fun arcadey shooter, with a very non toxic player base
Huh I guess I should ask for a refund
If you use this hardware, I would reconsider playing any game that uses kernel level anticheat. It would only take one of them to get compromised to brick your machine.
This malware persists between new OS installs. You'd need to reflash your CPU and I think only factories have that equipment.
AMD still rocks, don't let this dissuade you from buying them over intel/nvidia
Does the EA kernel ac work on virtual machines?
No. Unless you hide that you are in a VM and do GPU passthrough.