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Linux Gaming: Anti-Cheats question
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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I don't want to be pessimistic, but I consider that in this scenario (as a Battlefield 2042 player) there are only three possible options:
The company kindly activates Proton/Wine support, but they don't do it because they love their users, they do it because they realized that specifically the Steam Deck has a certain market share that they are losing.
Valve makes an agreement with those companies and with the anticheats and allows us gamers to play from Linux as if it was Windows but not bypassing the anticheat, but implementing some kind of anticheat also for Wine/Proton.
The one I consider most likely, we're screwed and we'll have to wait for some hacker (or experienced users) to figure out how the hell to make the anticheat think we're in Windows when we're really in Wine. It seems to me that this happens with some Wine prefixes that I have no idea make it possible to play LOL on Linux.
Since they wish to maintain a cheat free environment, perhaps they should stand up a server only for Linux users where the anti-cheat is not required. This way they can serve the Linux community. Players who want to play under Linux will be informed that they play without the benefit of the anti-cheat?
That would be very cool actually. And hell, while they are at it, give us the tools to host the servers on our own and moderate them. IMO this would solve some issues