The developers of BattleBit Remastered have now given a much more clear answer to what their plans are for their anti-cheat and it seems it's great news for gamers on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.
As detailed previously, their communication on it has been a little bit confusing with some conflicting statements and just generally unclear plans. Now, they're giving it to us straight and it's quite interesting! This news comes from their latest developer video where they said:
"We will not use the FACEIT that exists today. Like the current FACEIT that CS:GO uses, we will not use that FACEIT. The developers are making a new anti-cheat. They are making a fresh new anti-cheat that is different to their original anti-cheat that will support Linux - Steam Deck OS, it will have less restrictions to what CS:GO has but at the same time it will still be effective. It won't be as effective as what CS:GO uses because obviously the restrictions are there to squeeze any possibility but working with their team we can squeeze a lot more than what we have right now. It will be a completely new anti-cheat that we will be the first user of, and it will definitely support the popular versions of Linux and Steam Deck OS. So if you have bought the game and if you were playing on Linux or Steam Deck OS - you don't have to worry about that it will still be supported and FACEIT will ensure it's supported. They will troubleshoot any case if you have problems there."
Side-note: to be clear normal CS:GO uses VAC. However, FACEIT have their own competitive side of CS:GO with FACEIT Anti-Cheat. They're two separate online communities.
Listen on from 11:42 for the full statement:
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So that's good news for all fans of BattleBit Remastered, currently one of the most popular shooters available on Steam - it's not going to suddenly stop working. If it does, it's a bug and they should fix it.
Interesting though that they went from FACEIT to Easy Anti-Cheat, with plans to go back to FACEIT where they said they will also keep Easy Anti-Cheat but now they're working with FACEIT on a new anti-cheat that supports Linux. What a time to be a Linux gamer huh?
You can buy the game on Steam. I also did a quick news video on this.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: WORMMaybe. Although IMO that dictum is overapplied. The fact is that although, sure, there is a lot of incompetence in the world, there is also a lot of malice (or at least, greed applied in such a way that we experience it as malice--"nuttin' personal, just business"). The proportions are close enough that effectively ignoring the whole "malice" category for simplicity's sake is going to make you miss quite a few important things.Quoting: ElectricPrismIt's more probable that anti-cheat is intended to be malware to spy on people -- after all -- WHY NOT only run it when connecting to gaming servers -- why does it need to be running the whole time a game is open?
General laziness. Hanlon's razor might apply here.
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