pHr34kY comments on Epic Games is hiring a Senior Game Security Engineer for their Anti-Cheat team to champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities while working on OS internals, reverse engineering, and protecting multiplayer

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (11 children)

They already have it running and functional. It must still need more work because it's opt-in for developers, and they don't have the confidence to enable it on Fortnite.

I suspect it's getting attention now because Steam is showing decent numbers on Linux. Way better than when they first shelved the anti-cheat.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

and they don't have the confidence to enable it on Fortnite.

Tbh, I'm not convinced it's that. I think it's just Tim Swiney not being able to eat crow after bashing Linux for so long, especially after Valve has invested so much into Linux

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

Tim “steam is a monopoly and must be destroyed because of it”

Also Tim “windows being a monopoly is fine actually and we should do nothing to support alternatives”

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[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Tim Sweeney's opinions end where his financial interests begin, and Microsoft pays him a lot every month for Fortnite on Game Pass.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Then he cries about valve having a monopoly after he can't catch up.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Tim isn't anti-monopoly. He's just mad that it's someone else

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

If it's not a technical problem, Epic is taking cash under the table from NinMicroSony to keep their platforms relevant. That wouldn't surprise me either.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They've supported Linux for years through Unreal Engine, and the first thing they did when they bought EAC was give it Linux compatibility.

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[–] alfredon996@feddit.it 4 points 4 months ago

The first thing they did when they bought Rocket League was to remove Linux support, though

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

They are trialing it with Rocket League which they updated to use EAC without dropping linux support.

I just hope the Linux growth doesn't stagnate due to the insane PC market right now and the potentially DoA steam machine, otherwise alot of this development could go to waste.

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[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Iirc, they have 2 versions of epic anti cheat and the one used in fortnite doesn't have the Linux support.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

The kernal one doesn't support Linux but you imagine a Linux build would include the other one just like any other non-Windows build.

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