BattlEye To Support Valve's Steam Deck / Proton

[phoronix]

Phoronix: BattlEye To Support Valve's Steam Deck / Proton

Yesterday it was Epic Games confirming Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux and Wine/Proton ahead of the Steam Deck launch and today it's BattlEye confirming Proton / Steam Deck support...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BattlEye-Proton-Steam-Deck

[tildearrow]

Thanks Valve!

[cytomax55]

When are we actually going to be able to use this

[Danny3]

scanning of the player’s system

WTF is this ?
Why not scanning only game's files ?
Are they also uploading files from our system ?
This seems like garbage that I need to block as my privacy has higher priority than a stupid game.

[Sakuretsu]

It's been a surge of great news recently.

I'm very hyped now.

Thanks Valve!

Too bad it's opt-in though :<

If we have the right to choose whatever platform we want to use they also should have the right to choose the platforms they want to support.

Of course I'm going to criticize the developers if they choose to not support Linux for some reason, but it's their right to do so.

[simburde]

WTF is this ?
Why not scanning only game's files ?
Are they also uploading files from our system ?
This seems like garbage that I need to block as my privacy has higher priority than a stupid game.

Solution is simple: don't play any games with anti-cheat.

[yurikoles]

In case of opensource or free software drivers, it's much easier to implement cheats like wallhack, e.g. to make all walls (semi)-transparent.

[tildearrow]

WTF is this ?
Why not scanning only game's files ?
Are they also uploading files from our system ?
This seems like garbage that I need to block as my privacy has higher priority than a stupid game.

I totally agree, but why not run the game on a separate sandboxed Wine prefix in a way that Wine is not able to access files outside the prefix?

[pal666]

Why not scanning only game's files ?

they are scanning for cheats, which run on system, not in game files

Are they also uploading files from our system ?

steam runs games in container, i.e. it's not the whole system

[tildearrow]

Solution is simple: don't play any games with anti-cheat.

That would perfectly work, but it would require at least 95% of people (including Windows players) to abide in order for client-side anti-cheat to be abolished.