Quoting: RavenWingsSince the last stable update, my power button is showing some strange behaviour. Most times I have to press it 5-10 times to turn the deck on or off.

Anyone else having similar problems?

Not as much as you. Sometimes I press the power button, and it does the chime, but does not boot up, I have to press a second or third time. It seems to happen most when I also dock or undock it while suspended.

I'm also eager to see some updates pushed to stable :)

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Gosh I hope they drop coherent UI with this one. Otherwise, the trailer seems pretty decent, while it doesn't show much in terms of gameplay. It reminds me of mindustry a little, but more focused on units than ammo.

I'm not sure how well that kind of gameplay would fit with quick skirmishes?

Also, we never saw Human Resources past the trailer phase, I hope they can deliver :)

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Here's a link to the steam page [External Link] since I didn't see one on this page.

Interesting, I hadn't heard of this one. I may enjoy it, but I have so many more games to play first, including XCOM. Plus, the asking price of 50€ seems a bit steep.

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Quoting: JuliusThe player increase is probably from the simultaneous 60% discount last week.

Its a nice Godot engine based game, but the combat isn't really tower defense (and it would be probably a better game if it was).

Yeah the discount and update were too tempting to ignore :P

That said, I also bought the cosmetic DLC, so the price is the same as the base game.

One of the few games I played right after buying (instead of waiting a few years...), I had a blast! I wish there was a bit more guidance on the first run, though, I had to look up a few things like how overdriving the shield would work, or how to unlock some chambers (the new type of camber unlocks with water, I couldn't find this information online).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou know, to this day every time I see "Master Chief" I find myself thinking "Master Chef".

Oh, are you asking about Chef Pretty Officer Mister Chief Spartan 117 [External Link]? :P

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Yup, I played co-op yesterday with my Windows buddy (still need the ucrtbase "fix" to prevent desynchronization, maybe I'll look into fixing that one day). I'm glad they fixed it.

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Quoting: 1xokThe kernel based AC will or have already lead to external image recognition. Extract video signal, process it and feed the result back via Bluetooth/USB. For example mouse corrections.

Chess services, where cheating is obviously done on external systems, rely 100% on AI for recognition.

In the future, in EA games, you may not even notice that you are playing against cheaters. Maybe that is already the case. Without an objective evaluation system, it's hard to say. Thus, EA and co. must also rely on AI and statistical methods here. The question is whether kernel-based systems are still useful at all. They have side effects. I would not install something like that on a Windows system. I'd rather read a book instead.

Heh, I don't really want to go into the details again about how to do it, but in addition to server side anti cheat, I'd say it's OK to let players get a little help, like if games included aim assist.
It just means better players in the lobby as long as it isn't game-breaking, and can be useful for matchmaking (for instance you are matched against someone stronger, but get a health and aim assist boost or something, and they get bragging rights/more XP/etc). So many non-invasive ways to address the problem, but as @kaktuspalme said, the crux may be that it's relatively easy to create an "anti cheat" system like this that works across many different games, while other approaches require specific consideration. And secondly, multiplayer games taking this issue seriously probably implement some kind of "defense in depth" strategy, using every tool at their disposal.

Quoting: PirolisiLol, when there is a discussion about anti cheats there are always the usual dudes talking about server sided anti cheats.... You simply don't know what you are talking about

There's more to what I suggest than server side AC. While I am certainly not an expert at multiplayer game development, are you? Would you mind pointing out the thing that I may have missed?
Of course, it is hard to prevent every kind of cheat (wallhack, auto aim, etc) short of server-side rendering, a lot can be done, and it's almost trivial to check for cheats that would alter game mechanics. While, of course, all of that make the server side more complex to develop.

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Woo, they fixed it: https://nitter.net/HaloSupport/status/1707796023194874102 [External Link]

I confirm this is working, at least for the exchange, I haven't tried online yet, but there's no reason why it wouldn't work.

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Quoting: Guest

So if they got Respawn to switch over to it, this would kill Apex Legends on Linux / Steam Deck too.

I am relieved that Jedi Survivor isnt multiplayer, I really dig the first iteration. Definitely will play the 2nd sometime.

Requiring anti cheat for single player games isn't above them, the Master Chief collection requires it for achievements, for instance (and it's currently broken).

Well, I guess Wine will start emulating kernel APIs sooner or later, which may also help cheaters 🤷

I still think client side anti cheat is not the way to go about these problems.

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Darn, this and Talos... Sequels are coming out but I haven't finished the originals yet 🥲

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