In our efforts to combat cheating in Apex, we've identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats. As a result, we've decided to block Linux OS access to the game.
Apex Legends does have access to Epic Games' Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software, which has been compatible with Linux for years. This must have not been a good enough safeguard against cheating.
It remains to be seen if Linux is simply harder to develop anti-cheating measures for or if doing so is just an added expense at a time when game developers have been tightening their purse strings.
Bad actors could "make a Linux distribution that's purpose-built for cheating and we'd be smoked," indicates Phillip Koskinas, director of anti-cheat on Valorant.
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