October 2021
Easy anti-cheat has a new feature that enables support for Proton and Wine. It is very simple to enable this feature and that will allow the game to be played on Linux and it will enable compatibility for the Steam Deck. It is a lot easier and profitable than maintaining an entire port for the Steam Deck. Many people might be excited to see a demo of Apex Legends working on the deck before it launches and it will enable Linux users like me to get rid of Windows.
Are there any plans to enable Proton support in EAC for Apex Legends season 11?
October 2021
October 2021 - last edited October 2021
Yeah. EA and Respawn have remained largely silent on this. The Verge reached out too and is still waiting for a response. Hopefully, the devs are considering it at least for sometime in the future.
October 2021
Logically they have to keep the anticheat up to date. So this feature should come eventually.
Besides, having a top10 Steam game not working on Steam Deck is weird.
October 2021
But the Proton EAC thing must manually be enabled by the developer. They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.
October 2021 - last edited October 2021
@decisivedove wrote:They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.
What it would say?
"We think that the anticheat developers don't know what they're doing so we won't enable it"
"We think that the Steam Deck is bad so no need to support it"
"We think that the Steam Deck is good, but we wait and see, we won't move a finger to check the checkbox to help"
"We think that Apex Legends isn't suitable for the handheld, so not worth to check the checkbox (at the same time we've got a version for Switch and we've actually developed a handheld version "Apex Legends Mobile" for two entirely different OSes using a different game engine)"
November 2021
November 2021
EA/Respawn will not lift a finger if it isn't lucrative enough, to add on what @devel_origin mentioned. They'd have to opt-in to add native Linux support for EAC. Although Apex loads fine (menu) using proton they'll have to maintain separate Linux versions of the EAC. AFAIA, unless the deck actually sells, they will not bother.
November 2021
@jamate2142 wrote:Although Apex loads fine (menu) using proton they'll have to maintain separate Linux versions of the EAC.
EAC is maintained by the EAC developers, Proton working with games is maintained by Valve/CodeWeavers. EA/Respawn has just to check a checkbox.
November 2021