I see your point, but installing your usual linux distro on a new device is quite easier than switching to linux for the first time, which is what people don’t wanna do.

I’ve seen it first hand recently with a friend who sought advice regarding a low budget laptop purchase for school work and multimedia use. While he was open minded about what hardware to choose, there was no convincing him to ditch Windows. I told him he’d be better off using a lightweight linux distro on such modest hardware, but he insisted on Windows 11 based on questionable arguments (“I need office”), even knowing it’d be slow, bloated, full of ads and AI features no one care for. Old habits do die hard.

For me, it started when they took the non-standard maps out of competitive play.

I’m guessing you’re talking about the old neo-tokyo map. I felt it was a bit chaotic for ranked myself, so I liked that change. But Epic is still trash, don’t get me wrong 😂

Seems nice, count me in! (PC)

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Thanks for a great post :-)

This is easy. We clean them, and then we go home.

I played this game so much as a kid. I’m eager to try out this new release.

Wow, EA doing the right thing!

Cool to see. I might buy this game :)

Cheaters are a big problem in this game. To experience the cool parts of the game without all the bulshit, there is still SPT-AKI for playing solo and also the SIT mod for PvE multiplayer coop.

I just run proton 8 and switch to experimental or GE when troubleshooting a game that doesn’t work, which is rare.

Thanks for the tip, unfortunately I play via proton so autohotkey is not an option. I tried autokey which is a linux alternative but weirdly, while the key swaps worked on the desktop, it didn’t have an effect within the game for some reason. I’m sure there is some way it can be done but I couldn’t be bothered spending the time fixing it for this game which I don’t have much hope i’ll even like.

Yes! I tried it again this weekend because of this. After all this time, you still cannot rebind the keys of the building mode, which is ridiculous and makes this game difficult to enjoy for me.

I got the Flydigi Vader 3 and i’m very happy with it. The sticks are butter smooth. The buttons are very clicky.

That’s a fair point, but proton works so well that native linux games can be a worse experience than windows games via proton, so I don’t really care at the end of the day.

Very hyped for 2.0. I’m on yet another Factorio playthrough, this time on the steam deck. This game on the go is brilliant. Gamepad support is very good, framerate is solid. The devs really did a fine job.

Consider a dual boot if you ever try in out. You won’t be able to play all games on linux because of anti-cheat unfortunately 😔

Even the first versions of steam that came with hl2 back in the day were more usable than epic’s trash launcher.