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How are ProtonDB medals awarded? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was looking at the protondb for Battlefield V and it has a gold medal despite the fact that it has been literally unplayable (the game won't even start) fpr 6 months now.

Are medals impossible to lose? Or do they run on some sort of manual verification? Is there some way to request a game to have it's grade changed.

For reference, the change in this case was the addition of EA Anti-cheat, which breaks linux compatibility and borked a considerable number of games, even older ones.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There's contact info right there. There's also the GitHub pages to report back to the actual project.

ProtonDB is more about people finding fixes to problems. If you haven't tried all combinations of stuff, it's probably not worth registering a bug in GitHub because the project is more about generalized compatibility versus specific games. It's an open source project, so not based on specific games or game engines.

Maybe work through all the different proton engines first and get back to a working version before registering a complaint. Meaning: don't run on the bleeding edge, go back a few versions to when it worked for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The problem here is that about 6 months ago the game implemented an anti-cheat that blocks linux. Despite 6 months of reports that it flat out does not work, the game still has a gold medal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Well if theie anti-cheat blocks Linux...I'm not sure what you expect the proton devs to do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not expecting a fix, I am just trying to understand what needs to happen for the game's grade to reflect the actual status of the title.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

The game's functional state in Proton is one thing: does it start, support controls, and render without crashing.

That's "Gold" on ProtonDB.

This does not guarantee online play and anti-cheat bans by platform, because that's not what the project is about.

The project is simply about making games RUN. Online play is a separate thing.