With the Steam Deck just around the corner, that's a bad timing for them.
Well not all game devs can have it right I suppose :smile:

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The sad reality is that not only Fortnite, but any game requiring the kernel level EAC will never support Proton.
No wonder why nobody flipped the switch yet.
Elden Ring has recently announced it will use EAC as well... So there is pretty no hope it will work on Proton :/
While I honestly don't give a shxxx of Fortnite, I would have loved to play Elden Ring on the Steam Deck.

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Tim Swe

Quoting: CorbenHow about learning to fix it? What use does EAC have if it's compatible with Wine/Linux but it's not safely protecting from cheating?
Thank's Tim for destroying any hopes for games using this POS (piece of software :P) to be running on Linux.
I can't believe it... this statement renders all efforts from Valve bringing these games to Linux or the Deck worthless...

Clearly his comment will hurt the confidence of other Studio when activating Proton support.
This is a very bad communication that's undermining Valve's efforts.

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The threat model for anti-cheat varies per game based on the number of active players and ability to gain profit by selling cheats or gain prominence by cheating. Hence anti-cheat which suffices for one game may not for another game with 10, 100, or 1000 times more players.

I find this answer is lunar.
So he is basically saying that it doesn't matter if his anti-cheat tech is not that good on other games, because they probably don't have as much cheaters he has on Fortnite.

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Finally!

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There are Linux binaries missing on GOG although a port is available on Steam. These developers don't have to do much but upload the existing build, besides their Windows and potential macOS releases, but simply refuse to avoid the work afterwards!

So I have my doubts that many games will be made compatible for a system of which many developers are unsure. They'll rather wait to see how many people will install Windows on the Steam Deck before committing to anything.

I think the situation here with Valve is different than the situation with GOG.
Because the support charge comes essentially to Valve instead of the developer.
If a developer enables EAC on Proton, the validation/testing is essentially made by Valve.
So yes they will have to support Proton, but it won't cost them as much as if they had to support native Linux.

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I fail to see why the most played EAC titles on Steam would not jump on the opportunity to easily support more platforms now.
I mean the potential return on investment is clearly in their favour now.

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I can't wait to see a video of this game running on the Steam Deck :)

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I can see things improving on my side.
I have some games that were not correctly supported by Proton (Grid 2 for example) and they are now working perfectly with the latest Proton Experimental release.
I'm also confident we will have another compatibility boost this year thanks to the Steam Deck (mine is still listed at Q1, I can't wait to order it).

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