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Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck (update: now Battleye too)

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“Earlier this year, Easy Anti-Cheat for Windows games was made available to all developers, for free. Today, we extend support to Linux and Mac for developers who maintain full native builds of their games for these platforms.”


“To make it easy for developers to ship their games across PC platforms, support for the Wine and Proton compatibility layers on Linux is included. Starting with the latest SDK release, developers can activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal.“


https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck?sessionInvalidated=true

 

Epic finally doing good for once.

 

The Sheep were so quick to say this game and that game won’t work, despite being months out from the launch :killzone: this is a huge hurdle removed.

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And another one

 

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/battleye-confirms-linux-support-for-steam-deck-will-be-opt-in-like-easy-anti-cheat

 

Battleye native and will now support Proton as well

 

Between native ports and proton they had enough games supported, but now two huge hurdles of the remaining unplayable games just got addressed.

 

Sheep are being sheared

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No wonder he's in hiding :drake: cherry picking games to prove a point and still having it backfire. I'm surprised his sidekick hasn't chirped up.

You can see the difference in philosophy between Valve and Nintendo. One tries to improve the service at no cost to the user, the other increases their mandatory online subscription fee to justify 20-30 year old rom dumps :kaz:

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1 minute ago, The Mother Fucker said:

Is it because of online cheating?


otherwise I think cheating, game enhancers are fair game for solo play.  You bought the game, you should be able to do whatever you want with it.

Yes it’s for online PVP.

 

A number of games couldn’t be played on Linux/Steam Deck as they had no native version, and while they could possibly be run via Proton (some worked fine offline), the way anti-cheat worked stopped the Proton versions from being played online as…well the anticheat knew something smelled fishy lol

 

Now battleye (pubg, rainbow six) and Easy anti cheat (Halo, dead by daylight, apex) not only support Linux natively but they will also now work with Proton which means if the devs enable this the steam deck should be able to play these games just fine with full online features.

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