Quoting: valguskIt is impressive, but TBH I am far more impressed by how cute the dogs look like this :D Nice work from artistic point of view too!

And somehow a little scary too...

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Quoting: GuppySomebody explain to me the various packages though :huh:

- base game 19.99€
- Minecraft Dungeons: Ultimativt DLC-bundle 19.99€ ( listed under packages containing this game, but seems to be only dlc minus the base game )
- Minecraft Dungeons Ultimate Edition 39.99€ ( doesn't seem to have it's own page? )

Presumably the 'Ultimate Edition' is the base game + 'Ultimate DLC' - but it's 0.01€ more expensive that hardly matters, but the fact that that its the same price rather than cheaper combined with the fact that there isn't a page separate page or even bundle info for the Ultimate Edition really makes wonder

Yeah it's a bit odd. A penny more expensive here to buy the full edition. Wat.

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Quoting: TermyWhile this is really great news, the most relevant part of this in my opinion is: how is this done? I hope we don't need to install some kind of EAC kernel driver or shit like hat?

Afaik you will at least require Kernel 5.11 as it has some syscall firewall to route the EAC calls back into user space and therefore to Wine/Proton.
This needs to be done because AC does not use standard Win32 API calls but rather interact with the Kernel directly.

IF I am not mistaken. I remember reading something like this. But other than that, we'll see I guess :D

Nope, the previous kernel work was for DRM, nothing to do with anti-cheat. We even wrote about it as people (still it seems...) think otherwise.

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Quoting: EikeRelax, Liam. It was said jokingly to express what I find more interesting. In general, you do too much defending.

Well, it didn't read jokingly and when you deal with hundreds of comments a week across here, social networks, reddit, discord, telegram and so on...

Besides, I am perfectly relaxed but I do very much like to explain how things work. Most people just don't understand the trials of SEO to get them to actually pick us up :)

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Quoting: EikeThe heading got it all wrong!

... including native builds!

We knew EAC on Proton would be a thing this year, but native comes as a very pleasant surprise - at least for me!

Well, no. Native support was already there with developers already using it but now it's been bumped up in a more official and advertised way. The more exciting news for 99% of readers is Wine and Proton which is why we went for that as the headline, it's simple really. We may not work on clicks and such since no adverts but we still need to make sure headlines cover the most important bits for drawing people in.

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Quoting: sudoerInteresting though I've heard Epic Online Services is THE spyware.

It's really not much different to Steamworks which the vast majority of Steam games hook into.

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Quoting: Sil_el_motSoooo... Fortnite uses eac? Right?

Both BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat actually.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleWe're about to find out how little some of these publishers/developers actually care about Linux. "just a few clicks", can they be bothered?

Well, hopefully people will use our fancy email form to notify us when games work. Tried Rust, it's a nope but I would be surprised if any worked so soon.

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Quoting: einherjarSigning a piece of software to prevent it from being changed has nothing to do with "security by obscurity". You can argue, that closed source software alone is security by obscurity but in combination with signing it is clearly not.

My bit was in reply to it being open source, said nothing about signing.

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Quoting: toorBut i don't think they can "simply" release it open source and let anybody change it and allow it for anti cheat without some kind of verification

Why not? That would just be security by obscurity and would show that the anti-cheat systems aren't very good if a few changes to Wine/Proton would suddenly enable cheating. I doubt there will be any closed part on the side of Proton for this.

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