Easy Anti Cheat Issues Locked New World Players Out This Week

But it wasn’t just New World facing these issues. The same problems were being reported by players trying to open a bunch of other EAC games on Steam, including Apex Legends, Rust, Fall Guys, and Dead By Daylight. Some encountered a pop-up when trying to launch that said Easy Anti-Cheat doesn’t trust their files, while others were unable to go online once the game was open. Turns out, EAC was working a bit too hard thanks to a recent Steam client update. Last night, Steam rolled back a patch to fix some EAC issues, which seems to have worked. I managed to open Apex Legends myself through Steam this morning.