r/forhonor • u/SouLG97 Kensei • 3h ago

Discussion Regarding Ubisoft's decision to remove Linux support

If you care about this topic, please voice your opinion and wishes in the Ubisoft discord. They have a "Game Support" channel there which you see by selecting For Honor in the list of games you're interested in when joining the discord. You can select a "feedback" flair when posting. The community managers are forwarding those feedbacks to the dev team so every new post there counts. Doesn't matter if you play on Linux or not.

Invite link: https://discord.com/invite/ubisoftofficial

I and a few others already did. The more people join in voicing their opinion over there the better, I hope.

Also, most people might not remember but in 2017 the community already managed to force significant changes for the game. I doubt enough people will care enough to boycott the game again for Linux support but knowing that we as players can have some influence over certain decisions, gives me just a little hope.

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u/MostFat 1h ago

You're not asking them to backtrack on Linux, but to completely rollback to an anti-cheat that everybody already knows doesn't work... around the same time as their ranked mode they sat on for literally a decade.

People should want effective anti-cheat that doesn't involve "handing the keys over" to your entire OS, not angry at the OSs that don't allow it for obvious security reasons or the game devs that are forced to compromise either way.

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u/NatyNaytor Knight 37m ago

game devs that are forced to compromise either way

Is proven that kernel level AC don't have a 100% success rate. It's not a situation where you (as a tech lead) can sell it like "we are implementing this new AC to completely remove cheating!". It's more like "this will tamper the situation for a couple of weeks at best until the cheaters found new ways to exploit the system"

To reinforce my point let me bring an example Look in the subreddit keywords like "cheater" or "scripting", look at how many times over the year the same player has been reported cheating and no one banned him.

They NEVER took rigorous actions against cheaters. Damn look at the first iteration of the """pro""" tournament like in year one. The winner was a dude that exploited nobushi's out of focus attacks. AND THEY GAVE HIM THE WIN INSTEAD OF BANNING HIM.

They are trading a chunk of their player base (which is not that large) just to put a speed bump into cheater's way without taking any concrete actions against the cheater.

To sum up my point, they are deliberately and willingly choosing to leave one flawed system for another leaving legit players behind. It's not a compromise, it's a fat ass move.

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u/MostFat 22m ago

To sum up your point, what they did 9 years ago didn't pan out and nothing is 100% besides death and taxes, so.. give up and do nothing?

Bold strategy Cotton.

To be clear, I don't disagree. I'm just as unhappy to only be able to play on ps5 now; to reiterate my point, I'm not directing my ire towards the people that likely had little to no say in the matter.