I don't know what that is but you lost me at "Windows".

Yet no other game requires secure boot and plenty of them don't require kernel level access either. Many of those games have no such cheating problem. It's a cop-out because they aren't good at their jobs and instead want to gobble up more and more access to your computer instead.

It's ego and they actually think they can win against cheat makers. But like it or not, there will always be cheats, for the same reason there will always be cracked copies of their games. *If it runs, it can be cracked.* -An old 0day saying PS - Just let us have our own dedicated servers again. Then we can just banhammer a bitch, instead of relying on a stupid lobby vote system and a report button.

If you could have your own server, you could keep playing the game after they decide it's time for you to pay $90 for the next one.

Their AC doesn't work on Linux, so my odds of plying it went to 0 when I found that out. Fuck them anyway. They haven't made a game worth playing in probably decades. There are better cheaper games not ran by greedy corpos.

CoD WWII is the only one I want to play.

Game is just watered down af anyway to appeal to the call of duty crowd as much as possible. BF lost its identity, so you aren't missing anything.

Not going to happen because they want shitty skill based matchmaking and lobbies filled with bots!

Moderators that actually go trough reports helps quite a lot you know.

They could easily identify the worst hackers just based on the game play data without needing to actually confirm that they have cheats installed. Snapping between spread out people to get a half dozen head shots in a quarter second? Hacking. Locking on to someone behind a wall? Hacking. Hacks that nullify recoil? They should be able to tell by unrealistically precise counter movements. Sure, games can occasionally have network issues that result in these kinds of things but if someone does it regularly then it isn't a networking thing.

Every Riot game requires Secure Boot for Vanguard to work. It's not unique to those two games. And what the fuck would they want with your computer anyways?

You mean CoD (2003) and United Offensive right? *Right?*

Secure Boot isn’t going to do shit about console players running what’s functionally aim assist with cronus zens or xims. They could catch the hardware hackers in the same way you mentioned, but they just don’t do shit.

>cracked copies of their games There actually isn't for any of their newer games due to the always online requirement.

Cod 2 is where it's at. The smoke blew my mind back in the day

EA Gets hacked and all the extra info they have been storing on me goes right to the hackers. It's also a huge back door they could sell to shady 3 letter agencies.

I mean, this is fine. Secure Boot is on everything motherboard from the last 12 years, there are very few reasons not to have it enabled and those reasons are usually edge case scenarios. Would absolutely take this over a kernel level driver.

Man... *Call of Duty: United Offense* was the game my squadron played all the time while we were deployed to Iraq in 2007. Someone had a cracked copy they brought with them and we installed it on all our computers in the squadron (we were an IT squadron). Once a day, around lunchtime, we'd shut down the whole squadron for about 30 minutes. We'd hang signs on our doors that said we were closed for "simulated warfare training." Then we'd jump into a massive free-for-all match and shoot everything that moved until there was one person left standing. Someone had dozens of custom maps people had made online, so we always had some new and unique map to play with. I don't miss Iraq, but I do miss those days. CoD was my favorite FPS series back in the day. Now it's complete garbage. *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2* (the 2009 original, not the 2022 reboot) was the first time I felt like the franchise wasn't trying anymore. I mostly played the campaign mode and that was the first campaign that was basically just a carbon copy of the previous game. Same exact plot, same exact ending, just a new villain who took over for the villain in the previous *Modern Warfare* game. *Black Ops* was kind of weird, but not that bad. However, I completely lost interest when trying to play *Black Ops 2* and haven't bought a new game since. I hear they're up to *Black Ops 6* now?

[The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing](https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html). Don't accept "just the tip"

I don't see how secure boot is relevant to a video game.