[fleebee]

There's a number of good reasons not to make everyone run a kernel level anti-cheat. Linux (and therefore SteamOS) compatibility is a big one.

I think the status quo where anyone on any platform can access the vanilla game -- where cheaters may not even be a huge problem depending on one's skill rating -- and the most competitively-minded players have the choice to play on FACEIT, works pretty fine.

I do wonder what the 90% of built-in game content you're referring to actually is.

[unaindz]

Valve's approach was to avoid the cat and mouse game knowing it doesn't lead anywhere. You can always cheat using DMA or reading the monitor with another computer that simulates a hardware mouse to get aimbot abilities. They wanted a machine learning to detect, flag and ban suspicious behaviour. This didn't work out and I'm not sure they are still trying but there's a few conferences talking about it.

[charcircuit]

Valve's approach is to not care and let the money printer Steam do its thing.

Do not try and copy Valve. They have no financial incentive to actually care.

[Workaccount2]

I think the killer is that even if you have an ML anti-cheat that is 97% accurate, that 3% collateral damage will be your undoing.

[Hikikomori]

They did try some stuff but got pushback from Reddit community for being too invasive. Not that it really matters for something already running on your pc.

[Double_a_92]

To be fair in the specific case of CS2, the normal modes without FACEIT are really barely playable. Most games are just a massive loss or win, depending on who has the suspiciously good player with 100 hours in their team.

[AppleBananaPie]

Most fps games when you get high enough rating are this :/

It also doesn't help most streamers have soft aim lock so that's everyone thinks is normal.

I swear fps games have been in the steroid baseball era for years and it'll be interesting if it ever comes out.

There's also a financial incentive to not reveal 25% of the player base is cheating both in the immediate loss of player base and the inability to simultaneously prove it's happening in all the competitors.

[weberer]

EAC supports Linux nowadays, but developers have to manually check the box to enable it.

[jeroenhd]

EAC on Linux doesn't run in the kernel, it's all userspace. Which is part of the reason some developers choose not to accept EAC on Linux.