Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 follows Battlefield 6's lead, will also require secure boot on PC
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I like it. If the game is unplayable to everyone then cheaters can’t get in.
The games been unplayable for more than a decade.
Secure Boot is literally one toggle in the BIOS what are you talking about 😭
On my linux gaming install it ain't, its not only quite hard to set up, the current certificates which can be used are said to expire in... 2026? I remember reading that somewhere on here.
Windows is always updating its Secure Boot protocols so it makes sense.
Honestly this isn't a problem, since it's simply looking at the checks Secure Boot makes when starting. The issue is still the deep root access. Altho, both BF6 and Cod's anti-cheat only run when the game is on, so it's uhh, less bad than something like Riot Vanguard.
Still terrible, tho.
Yeah, if the anticheat is ever compromised, I don't think it's going to patiently wait until you're done playing to fuck up your day. So I don't really see a difference between always-on and sometimes-on kernel anti cheat.
Yeah I agree they're both terrible in their own regards, but cheating has become such a profitable industry that I don't see anything short of government regulations or extremely aggressive anti-cheat solving it. And also, if a group of hackers managed to compromise an anti-cheat, I'm sure there would be terrible consequences for them. They'd paint a target on their backs and companies affected would go to the ends of the earth to make sure they got prosecuted. I think that's the reason they haven't tried yet, and just try to bypass it with quiet, advanced stuff that has no media attention. The worst thing a hacker can do is attract attention to themselves.