I'm not sure what I expected, but I was in the beta of this one and really could not get into it. It was "just" a rather generic survival/crafting game for me, with respawning baddies in those caves, even if you built it your home. I mean, come on. Basic takeovers like that should be expected to work in todays survival games.

Also there was no story there that I could detect, just a huge desert and... That's about it?

Very, very underwhelming.

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Quoting: compholio

Quoting: BeamboomWhat's the server-side difference between a player with great game sense, and one with wallhacks?

You don't send the position of other players to someone when they're not in view.

Do you not, really? How then can the client embed sounds (footsteps, guns fired etc) from the enemy?
And if not - how do you determine they are not, since the server already believes they are since it is triggered to send the coordinates?

Listen, I'm not an expert on the stack involved here, far from it. But logically, when an entire industry - no exceptions - struggle with this, it's clearly, CLEARLY not an easy task. If they *could* avoid this entire challenge of client side with all their endless variations on hardware, systems, peripherals etc, they would. Clearly, they would.

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This is a massive downer for me. Apex has become my major title over the last couple of years, I've got a long friends list in that game of players I met ingame and hook up with regularly.

So yeah, major blow. Surely, surely there must be a way for us to get Linux at least on par with Windows on the anti-cheat situation.

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Quoting: williamjcmrather than implementing server-side anti-cheat, huh.

I see this claimed all the time, "why not implement it serverside, lazy fucks...". How exactly would you do that? How would you fairly accurate algoritmically determine the difference between a cheater and a very good player? Sure, *some* types of cheats are fairly obvious. But most aren't. What's the server-side difference between a player with great game sense, and one with wallhacks? Or a player with insane aim and tracking control, versus one with aimbot? Or someone with remarkable movement skills, and one with scripted assistance? Because, the best players are at a skill level that looks like pure trickery for an average gamer.

These things can, simply put, only be reliably detected clientside. Think about it; Would ANY developer ever bother the efforts of making a client side anticheat if it could all be solved safely within their own server park?

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Quoting: Leahi84What I don't understand is why are these companies so hostile towards Linux?

This is such a common misconception. They are not hostile. Why should a corporation be hostile against anything really.

They are ignorant towards Linux, that's what they are. The Linux segment is so miniscule, and the cheating problem so massive, so the potential loss is nothing compared to not holding the cheaters at bay.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Beamboomit caused a serious hog on my system resources.

I am now imagining this pig with a deep frown of concentration running diagnostics on your system.

LOL but isn't that what it's called, resource hog?

/runs off to Google this

... phew, it was. That's good to know, that my vocabulary is fairly intact. :)

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Sounds very reasonable to me.

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Maybe it's me who did something wrong in the settings, but when I tried OBS Studio it caused a serious hog on my system resources. Games that ran steadily in 144fps suddenly struggled around 100-110fps with the game plus the webcam in OBS. That's a pretty severe drop.

Isn't that you guys experience too? May it be there's some settings I just haven't got right?
I'm on an ultrawide 3440x1440 resolution, rtx3080.

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Do any of you guys have recording of the mic working in Game Recording now? Because I can't get it to work, the workaround is to route the mic to the system output channels on the board, but that leads to an annoying delay that I'd love to get rid of.

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I'm so happy to see a majority in this community have a sober perspective on this. Over at Reddit I see so many fanatics now throwing doomsday spells east and west over this, it's really only depressing to watch.

I love the Linux community overall, but some quarters therein... I rather stay out of.

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