At least they're working on it as opposed to releasing a mess, or not supporting Linux at all.

Worked fine with linux in the last beta. Why disable it now?

Better efforts and communication than a lot of other developers

The title here is misleading. A game not being supported can be completely ok. The vast majority of games ran through Proton on Linux aren't and they typically work perfectly fine regardless.

As the announcement itself says, they have actively chosen to not enable the setting that would allow Linux, but is working to support it in the future, presumably to get it SteamDeck-verified for the real launch.

Wardogs? More like conflict coyotes amiright?

I appreciate the heads-up, though. I was planning on getting it for the beta, but I guess I will just keep waiting. My Steam library isn't hurting for other things to play, even within the genre.

This is fucking annoying. I’m tired of being treated like a second class citizen for choosing to not install spywareOS on my computer.

Fuck these companies. I’m refunding my wardogs purchase.

The previous beta was fine. First For Honor and now Wardogs. Fucking shameful.

This is because, while EasyAntiCheat was installed previously, it wasn't enforcing. So Linux clients could run because EAC wasn't kicking anybody.

In Early Access, EAC will be enforcing because it is one of the systems they want to test at scale.

As it stands now WARDOGS plans on adding EAC Linux support but it isn't ready for the playtest. So once EAC is enabled, without a valid Linux client, it will kick Linux users.

This is just more of a 'This is currently Beta/Early Access' thing than a 'WARDOGS hates Linux' thing.

I hope Liam plasters this on front page of GoL. Shame these motherfuckers.

Currently Steam page says:

Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
Easy Anti-Cheat

Did they add this recently?

Ah yes, the classic "it's not on Linux because all Linux users are dangerous criminals and I don't have kernel access." They're wrapping it in nicer packaging, but what else could "it's an anti-cheat issue," and "we're focusing on security ahead of that part of the player base" mean?

I assume this may be due to the nature of the closed beta being a focused load test on specific systems not a general playtest that the last one was. Removing Linux/Proton support may be a simple method of removing issues they aren't focused on tracking this weekend.