Ubisoft have announced that their third-person hero-based melee fighting game FOR HONOR will be blocking all SteamOS / Linux players on September 10th.
The game uses Easy Anti-Cheat which is currently enabled for Linux, but they plan to disable it - making it another game that will no longer be playable across Linux Desktop, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
In an announcement on the official site they said:
"To reinforce a fair competitive environment, the team is introducing additional player safety measures. We are removing For Honor from the Linux platform to ensure a safer environment for our players as we cannot meaningfully deploy protection on this platform. This means that For Honor will no longer be playable on Steam Deck starting September 10th. We will continue to investigate different ways to improve our anti-cheat with the possibility of reopening the platform in the future."
A real shame - any game that intentionally blocks Linux is a loss for the platform. We've seen the same in the past with the likes of the Battlefield series, Apex Legends, GTA V and more listed on our anti-cheat page.
Hopefully Linux will continue pulling in more gamers and grow, so that these bigger publishers will one day be unable to just block Linux. Or perhaps Valve will be able to do something about it so publishers have some kind of system that they feel is good enough to secure their games from cheaters.
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Woodlandor 1 Sep 2026
2) They spelled Honour wrong 😂
seflasporin 1 Sep 2026
to ensure a safer environment for our playersThis is the same company that says you need to enter your password every time you launch a game released before 2015 because of "security" when it's actually because they couldn't be bothered to port of the Ubisoft Club rewards system to Ubisoft Connect properly.
StalePopcorn 1 Sep 2026
Most games/publishers/devs don't even bother to test, whether an intrusive anti-cheat is really necessary from the very start, especially in the fighting game genre (see: 2XKO, Marvel Tokon). So I have mixed feelings about this, as they have "allowed" Linux players for some time, but now officially put an end to it.
Quoting: LinasValve should really have a negative compatibility rating below "unsupported" for this kind of nonsense."Intentionally unsupported"
Quoting: pbI think we can at least make that an unofficial steam tag, can't we?Quoting: LinasValve should really have a negative compatibility rating below "unsupported" for this kind of nonsense."Intentionally unsupported"
benstor214 1 Sep 2026
Quoting: doragasuIs this justified? (e.g. were there players cheating under Linux?) or is it just shitty Ubisoft being shitty.I can't find a market for Linux cheats, nor open source projects with linux for honor cheats.
As such I don't think its a big group, but I didn't find a big group of linux players either, so they might simply have introduced more stringent requirements for Windows and accept Linux falling of the wagon.
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Friends don't let friends buy games from these scammers.
Quoting: pbOr maybeQuoting: LinasValve should really have a negative compatibility rating below "unsupported" for this kind of nonsense."Intentionally unsupported"
"Actively Blocked"
Quoting: LinasValve should really have a negative compatibility rating below "unsupported" for this kind of nonsense."Broken on purpose"
or
"Hostile to Deck"
or something along these lines, to highlight the intention of removing the support, versus never having it in first place.
Also, when these things happen, I'd really love to know, 3, 6 or 12 months down the line, if the cheater problem is really resolved.
More often than not, we never hear from them again (hello Rockstar!), the cheating stays rampant, and the proof that their "fix" didn't fix a darn thing is there in plain sight.
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