cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1603224

There has been some controversy in the BattleBit community over the fact that they will implement an anti-cheat that may stop Linux users from playing the game.

Luckily, the developers have confirmed that they will use a new version of the FaceIT anticheat that will still allow Linux/Steam Deck users to keep playing. They will be the first game to implement this feature.

  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am still worried what faceit will require to be “linux compatible”.

    But this is good. Battlebit is fun as hell and my recent 'fuck it, I am done with windows outside of ms flight sim and vr" threatened to mean no more battlebit

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      1 year ago

      faceit will just make sure it runs on wine and move on. None of these companies have a clue about Linux and most anticheat is pretty basic.

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        1 year ago

        That is the hope (and basically what EAC does?). But don’t underestimate the anticheat companies. They actually have VERY intelligent developers… who have mostly realized that installing an incredibly invasive rootkit is easy mode.

        I doubt they have the resources to insist on outright kernel mods, but I wouldn’t put it past them to want to have faceit running as root.

        The dream is to actually run an ML/CV model on the user’s screen to detect unnatural/anomalous camera movement. But that requires compute resources and battlebit is definitely not the game I expect to be doing that.

        … And, as someone who very much lives the two monitor life, I don’t need an anticheat company to know that I am re-watching Warehouse 13 right now.

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      1 year ago

      Praying Abode has Linux support. Hoping it also isn’t an Electroc app, but I’m willing to compromise there.