The problem is not specifically Linux users cheating, it’s Linux being a platform repeatedly abused by cheat makers to run them. So it makes Linux an easy target to just block. Low hanging fruit in the fight against cheaters.

Also implementing kernel-level anti-cheat on linux would...

• require skilled linux kernel devs


• require extra maintenance


• not increase sales much


• likely be easier to circumvent due to the kernel being open source

In short it would be a terrible return on investment.

I still have some hope for valve or a government to label kernel level anti-cheats as the terrible security liability they are and ban them.

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A few picks from my collection (good games which ran great for me on linux):

- The wandering village
- Deep Rock Galactic (all DLCs are purely cosmetic)
- Wildmender
- Bastion
- Transistor
- FAR: Lone Sail
- Pine

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Let us hope the next gem by hazelight is not published by EA. Thankfully they're not a subsidiary so there is hope.

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Looking forward to playing that one! I can never get enough of these coop adventure games.

Also can I just point out that it really irks me when people use reviews as a grievance form for what's obviously a bug.

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I haven't looked too much into it but apparently people have already modded the demo.
Wouldn't be surprised if we get an offline patch within launch week.
Still absolutely ridiculous but at least SEGA incompetence might come to the rescue.

Unfortunately I'd wager denuvo will prevent moders from fixing the game.

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1. The proper way to do age verification is for the government of a nation to provide a service which other parties can use to verify that a person is old enough to access said content (so not 'is this person at least 18', but 'is this person old enough that they are allowed to access this type of content').

It is also really important that the government service is not used directly by the content provider but by the end user, so that the government does not know what the verification is being used for.

This could work something like this:

- government has a website which you can only access after registering and proving who you are (plenty common already for voting, taxes and whatnot)
- on that website you can generate a time-limited token which proves your age (or anything else for that matter)
- any website can validate that said token has been emitted by the government and is therefore valid, without a request to the government services

It is essentially asymmetric cryptography which is widely used and not that hard to implement.

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Got accepted in the play test a couple weeks back and was not impressed.

Some of the ideas look pretty fun and interesting, but after over 3h playing there was still none of that. Only slow, boring, resources gathering and survival which was about filling need bars every so often.

I really hope they work on the first impression/early game before releasing the demo. If your game is built around a core idea, don't make people grind for hours before experiencing it.

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Got in the beta and gave it a whirl. The art looks great, reminiscent of klei (don't starve, oxygen not included) and the game runs perfectly fine on desktop.

Aside from that, there is sadly not much to say after over 3h. The gameplay so far is not great about (slow paced and a lot of micro management) and the cool island-related features are either locked in the current build or further along.

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The game uses a modified source 1 engine (strata source). Source 1 is 20 years old. Linux support was slapped on 13 years ago and relies on opengl.

In my opinion, proton is the better technical choice with its modern proven vulkan-based rendering. The proton version might even outlast both the windows and the (theoretical) native linux version.

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I've been desperately waiting for gearbox to fix the mess they made with risk of rain 2. This might just be what I needed instead, will give it a whirl!

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