It figures. They've improved the UI though I think. The M3 went too far down the minimalist path. That said, the M3 is known for its high safety factor. The Volvo will be new to that arena.
As it would happen, yes. I play it on Debian and have yet to be banned. It runs alright when the state caches are built up, but it's pretty miserable until then (ie extremely choppy, even resulting in disconnects). EA hasn't announced any official prohibition of playing through emulation...
I don't understand all the crying about the TTK changes. The changes, at most, made a kill take one more bullet and only from certain guns and only when dealing with body shots.
Saying the changes ruined anything is a pretty dramatic way to describe the minor impact of what changed.
I'm going to take a try at this on Debian tonight, time permitting. Proton is great, but not a single game will actually launch and run on my system using it.
Anyone know if this guy had to install any prereqs using winetricks before Battlefield would install and run?
DirectX 12 has proven to be difficult to extract a large benefit from using in practice. It does allow for some edge cases to be greatly helped, but for most general purpose game content it doesn't seem to be a significant improvement. Vulkan is similarly difficult to extract large performance...