Quoting: callciferI don't know what they promised in the original crowdfunding campaign, but if they did commit to a Win/Mac/Linux release at the same time they should at least make a DRM-free release for Linux.

I say DRM-free, because I think the Windows depot on Steam is mandatory, so they couldn't use Steam just for Linux.

ARMA I (aka Operation Flashpoint) has a Mac/Linux only repo.

Check it out:

https://steamdb.info/app/65790/info/ [External Link]
https://steamdb.info/app/594550/info/ [External Link]

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Quoting: jensOn Windows drivers are already signed as part of the shipping process, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/driver-signing [External Link] As far as I remember all libraries from Microsoft are also signed by Microsoft itself.
The Linux kernel supports this too for kernel modules, but no idea if desktop oriented distributions are using this. But even if it is used, this would not cover Mesa and friends.

But as stated, I'm no expert in this area, don't know how relevant this is.

I doubt that anticheats programs relies on drivers/libraries signatures/checksums. In fact, many cheats works by modifying the memory of the running program from a privileged program that runs in parallel, so the ac software definitely do something more than just "check for know files" (probably they do something similar to an AV heuristic).

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Who would have say that PUBG may be able to finally leave my wishlist?

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My main complain with the current blood version is that running on DOSBOX there isn't an easy way to play at svga res without getting lots of fps drops. I remember that I played this game in the early 2000's and in high res (i.e. 1024x768 XD) was glorious.

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: Kimyrielle"Pausing" to work on such a piece of software is a funny concept overall. How do you "pause" supporting Anti Cheat software? This isn't a MMO where you can stop releasing new features for half a year and nothing bad will happen other than users getting bored. Anti-Cheat software is really a binary thing: It either works as intended, or does not. There is no in-between. Clients using this software HAVE to rely on it working correctly at any time. You can't hand them an anti cheat tool that stops the game from working on the platform its supposed to run on, nor can you tell them that it will catch only 50% of the known cheats because development is "paused".

It makes...no sense to me.

well, no.
No Anticheat will ever be 100% bulletproof. And pausing may mean just no new features/updated cheat-definitions and no fixing of bugs - but it will still work as it does at the time.

It will work with old well known cheats but will probably fail to detect new ones during the pause. Which means that they create a big backdoor for any MMO that have multiplatform support and a big problem for the devs and community if the cheaters start abusing of any new security breach. In the end this gives the devs of Facepunch yet another excuse to end with Linux support builds.

Pausing the development of an AC won't be innocuous to our platform.

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I'm starting to feel like we will have to actually start paying from our pockets to get proper support in our platform for even third party tools.

All this situation recalls me of the recent events of Vivox, with the difference that for this case we have the comments from two bullies of the industry. Propitious days...

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The barrel roll makes me remember Star Fox. I'll definitely keep track of this one.

BTW, the patreon page states that the developer releases all the source code of his games with MIT license. I think this is something worth to mention!

Quoting: PatolaAmazing! A sure buy for me! Now that I got my HOTAS kit tho, I just want to know whether it'll have HOTAS support. :)

It looks very arcade for a HOTAS... I'm not sure if an official support will have any priority. But as he publish the source code, it should be completely possible to get it to work flawlessly.

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Quoting: tonRHonestly, I'm not affected at all, (apologies to GoL users who online gamers).
But I hope this shitty moves will make more developers to build more LAN and split-screen option games for PC in general and especially for Linux gamers.

You aren't affected in a direct way, but you're indirectly. Not having AC software working on Linux means that the most played games won't work on Linux --> less people will be willing to try Linux --> less customers on Linux market --> less native games we will get.

It's funny how in the past the big issue was DirectX but now that we almost overcome that problem, we get yet another impediment :/

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Quoting: callciferMaybe you could reach out to some developers who decided against a Linux port and ask them - off the record - their impressions of the community. I bet it won't be sunshines and rainbows.

And you agree with that "impression"? Linux gamer community isn't different in anyway to Windows gamer community IMHO. In fact many of the claims you read in this thread against Epic are the same that you will read in a Windows gamer forum.

Unless you really believe that we give such impression, I think that you have a very childish argument if you think that making Linux gamers feel "ashamed" will change their opinion regarding Epic.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWith the crappy economy We have in Argentina, this will NEVER happen.

You know that we have a little monarchy that will buy it... in the moment they leave the country with our economy leftovers.

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