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solving anti-cheat would basically seal the Dingus
The way I solve anti-cheat is by never playing games that require it.
i want to play dayz tho
DayZ runs fine on Linux though
Just play something else. There's literally hundreds of thousands of games out there that require no anti-cheat.
no thanks I'm good
oh okay. yw. gg.
Weird you gotta spew blatant lies and misinformation just to service corpo dick.
Plenty of multiplayer games and MMOs are playable on linux. and they prove you don't need invasive, spyware level access for anticheat.
The majority of multiplayer games do not require kernel level anticheat. I play almost exclusively multiplayer games I just don't play the dumb mainstream ones like fortnite or destiny
Kernel ac is pretty much the only one that doesn't work. The vast majority of other anti cheats work perfectly fine under proton.
Like I said I play almost exclusively multiplayer games on Linux if that wasn't clear, the only ones that don't work are things like valorant, destiny, fortnite that are using kernel ac
No, plenty of multiplayer games dont have anti cheat systems on the client side lol.
You're going to get dogpiled because you're generalizing and people are calling you out for that. All your edits and bluster, when you could go back and just say you like a specific subset of games that are made by devs that are just lazy/shitty. Voila, maybe then everyone would stop replying with the same comment!
Or, ya know, just keep digging that hole. It's funny either way.
Has an uninformed, awful take, that belittles someone else... then cries the victim when people call him out. Nice
If you need to clarify something to someone in a reply... Also add your clarification as an edit instead of "Edit: OMG read my reply to that other guy".
Might save your inbox from the... ~3 replies that you apparently can't handle.
Sidenote: I'd hate to play multiplayer games with someone so fragile.
What? You can play multiplayer games np lol. It's just shitters like riot games, tarkov, GTA, and those other corpo fucks you can't play on because they want to harvest your info.
I'm about to delete my comment cause you're the third person now to respond with basically the same thing and I'm tried of clarifying myself. So just go read my reply to the first person who said something similar to what you did.
I am just replying to annoy you. ily
If the anti-cheat is client-side, that's a solved problem, thanks to avoidance.
Enabling anticheat means the user must sacrifice many of their core freedoms just to play a video game. And in principle anticheat will never fully prevent cheating short of pointing a camera at the user and watch them the whole time they are playing.
I hope Linux community can push back. This whole thing is idiotic and harms the consumers.
Lots of games support anti-cheat in Linux. It's critical to note that anti-cheat in general is not the issue.
Kernel-level anti-cheat however is. It's a massive security issue and something that everyone, including Windows users, should roundly reject.
No, all client side anti cheats are bad and won't work. The user space ones are still privacy risks and most importantly is absolutely useless against someone who is determined to cheat.
What I don't get is "easy anti cheat" seemed to work fine for elden ring (provided you created an empty file when SotE dropped and you didn't have it). I have seen next to zero cheating in my experiences. Although I do realize souls type multiplayer is very different than competitive FPSs.
cheating absolutely ruins a lot of my favorite fps games. many of them are unplayable unless you have some well moderated private server to play on
extremely so. yes good talk thank you