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BattleBit Remastered is good fun but anti-cheat for Steam Deck & Linux is concerning (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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BattleBit Remastered is the current game climbing the ranks on Steam, made by a tiny team of only 3 people it has regularly seen tens of thousands of players. It works on Steam Deck and desktop Linux but the anti-cheat may turn into a big problem.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know people are gung-ho on Proton as the future, but I can't trust anything that's not officially supported. I recognize it's bridging a gap here, but we cannot put all our eggs in this basket. The end goal should be getting developers to officially support Linux instead of just hoping Proton never breaks.

Support developers that support us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proton is useful for improving support for games so that more people may consider Linux, once Linux's market share grows then more official support will come. But Linux has bigger issues than games to solve before masses could adopt it outside of specific implementations e.g. SteamOS/ChromeOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Microsoft will never let go the gaming market. And certainly not by nicely allowing devs to mimic their API. If linux is every taking off as a gaming platform then Microsoft will simply release their own anti-cheat just like they released their own antivirus. With tpm2 etc...etc... and gamers will clap.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If your comparison is TPM and Defender then I'm sorry to tell you but absolutely nobody is clapping at this. People despise pretty much every Microsoft decision and will actively try to work around them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Microsoft don't really get to dictate it beyond their own games. Vulkan already exists, it's on developers to use it and through use it will be improved. Nvidia is a problem, right now you really want an AMD card for Linux and Nvidia are not rushing to support it. Linux is forever maturing, which is why it will struggle to ever see wide-spread use, unless major players suddenly start support for it, but why would they, when the market share isn't worth it... and on and on it goes.