EA and developer Respawn have introduced that Apex Legends can not be performed on Linux working techniques, probably leaving Steam Deck gamers out within the chilly with out a workaround.
In an replace posted on X (previously Twitter), Respawn places the choice right down to a need to take care of “aggressive integrity” in Apex Legends. The developer says Linux is a “path for a wide range of impactful exploits and cheats”.
Respawn admits that the Apex Legends Linux inhabitants is “small”, however the “influence” of these gamers “contaminated a good quantity of gamers’ video games”.
Addressing the problem in a extra nuanced approach would have required an “outsized stage of focus and a focus” given the Linux platform’s measurement, so the choice was made to ban Linux outright as a substitute. This determination takes impact “instantly”, too, so you will not be capable of play Apex on Linux anymore.
If, nevertheless, you resolve to put in Home windows in your Steam Deck, you possibly can nonetheless play Apex Legends that approach. For those who favor to play Apex Legends straight out of your Steam Deck’s OS, nevertheless, you are out of luck, sadly.
This additionally will not have an effect on Apex Legends gamers who’re enjoying on Steam through Home windows platforms, nor, after all, those that are enjoying on console or wherever else (until that “wherever else” occurs to be a PC operating Linux, after all).
Apex Legends has run into issues with cheaters up to now.
Again in March, a weird hacking incident noticed skilled Apex gamers being hit with a hack that injected numerous unfair benefits into their video games, together with wallhacks and aimbots. That is not the one time the sport has run afoul of dishonest and hacking, both.
This announcement additionally comes shortly after Valve introduced that builders who need their video games to be on Steam should declare whether or not their titles have kernel-level anti-cheat mechanisms in place. Apex Legends is one such sport; it makes use of the favored Simple Anti-Cheat software program.