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developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linux (lemmy.zip)
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This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn't take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully...... even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope....

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because they historically didn't work on Linux. Looking at shooters from 2018:

  • CoD BLOPS 4 - didn't work on Linux; it started working in 2022
  • Battlefield V - doesn't work on Linux
  • Far Cry 5 - unreliable according to ProtonDB

But taking it further, they're the gamer-iest games, so if you're playing one of these titles there's a high chance you're playing a lot of games, probably with friends, and each one your friend group picks up is another chance for Linux support to be poor, meaning that you're going to miss out. Obviously that doesn't apply to everyone, but it's absolutely going to reduce the number of people using Linux to play. With the Steam Deck now, this trend won't be as prevalent, especially for stuff played with controllers, but I bet you'll still see the phenomenon with AAA, multiplayer titles design for KB+M.

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