Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Decided to power through the requirements of both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0 under the assumption that the game would win me over... and those requirements prevented me from being able to play. Joke's on me! Even worse, when I did get into a multiplayer match the netcode visibly struggled which resulted in desync, disconnects, and plenty of frustration. SEGA: remove Secure Boot & TPM 2.0, and please improve the multiplayer. Virtua Fighter deserves better and it's already a niche game to begin with. What are you doing?

A year after initial release the game was patched with Kernel anti-cheat that requires Secure Boot & TPM 2.0. Not only is this scummy and hilariously inappropriate for a port of a 20 year old fighting game, but it means some people might not be able to boot the game up anymore if they're not able/willing to enable TPM 2.0. The Sega humiliation ritual will continue until morale improves I guess

So apparently they added a requirement that you have Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 somewhat recently, which super sucks. Especially with the people who may be coming in to check it out based on the news about VF6. There is, however, a saving grace: by simply tricking the game into thinking you're on steamdeck, you can bypass the secure boot check. Just go to Preferences > Launch Options and put "SteamDeck=1". Don't know if it works for everyone, but it did work for me. My review is only negative because of this change. I love this game and am really looking forward to the next one.

Why would you add a random, bs security measure to a game that has been around for 20 years, with no issues

Secure Boot and TPM were retroactively made mandatory requirements to play the game. I bought the game and played it way before this was a thing. Game worked just fine without them. If I remember correctly it's always been one way; you make the game based on certain technical requirements and it stays that way until the game is obsolete, you don't get to change the requirements after people have actually bought and played the game. I don't know who this serves, really, but go ahead, knock yourselves out. I'm not playing the game until this "requirement" is completely removed.

several months after release an update brought anti cheat now game is unplayable on steam os all of a sudden . not cool

Can't recommend anyone buying this game. Instead of adding things the game needs (like single player modes and suitable netcode) it seems SEGA is more interested in adding things the game doesn't need (like EAC and kernel level anti-cheats). I feel this game is no longer the product I paid for.

'Easy' Anti-cheat made it so the game no longer works offline... not playing MP & yet it tracks how long I'm on for, where I am, what characters I play and what else is running on my computer. RGG Studio are basically thieves for adding this force online tracking after every one bought the game & dishonest for not adminiting what they track. Thumbs down.

This might be the only good fighting game in the universe with sane default keyboard controls.

had this when it launched cus i use linux i cant play this due to the secure boot feature this game should have its steamdeck verified badge removed as you can no longer play it on steamdeck