[qalmakka]

leaving aside that most anticheats are useless and constantly teetering on the thin line between legitimate software and malware, not enabling anti-cheat solutions that support Linux on Linux is really an asshole move that almost definitely stems from an unmotivated or ideological hostility to Linux in general (I'm specifically referring to Tim Sweeney here).

[umbra07]

Another offender is Ubisoft, or more specifically the R6 Siege team. Battleye works perfectly fine on Linux - in fact, other Ubisoft teams have enabled Battleye-Linux support for their games (ex: For Honor) - but for whatever reason, the Siege team refuses to do so, even though it's one of the most upvoted issues on the bug tracker [1].

[1] https://r6fix.ubi.com/projects/RAINBOW6-SIEGE-LIVE/issues/LI...

[Cortex5936]

Doesn't the Battleye build in Linux makes it easier for cheaters to cheat on Linux vs. the windows one ? Just trying to understand their reasoning

[themoonisachees]

BattlEye is generally broken even on windows (though it happens that it is actually working as intended right now). Cheaters generally use windows, and switching to Linux will only be done when the windows anticheat is considerably harder to break, and with proton/wine, you even get to run the same version on both.

[maccard]

I agree that they teeter the line, but hard disagree that they’re ineffective. They’re ineffective if you run your own servers and vet your own community because you don’t need them, but that’s not how most popular games are being played these days whether you like it or not. Fall guys was fundamentally broken, they added easy anti cheat and the problem disappeared pretty much.