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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.
All it takes is one click in the EAC SDK to support Valve's Proton. (⁠┛⁠◉⁠Д⁠◉⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.

Can we please not belittle the mentally disadvantaged by comparing them to Tim Sweeny?

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

At this point, they've invested more in not supporting Linux. This is after Linux decided to support Fortnite instead.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry what is EAC?

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Easy Anti-Cheat, the anti-cheat that's literally owned by Epic Games.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you kind sir :)

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It's just Tim Slimy being an absolute jackass

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fortnite uses both EAC and BattleEye, so it really isn't that easy to integrate with their custom solution. Also, they have to test it to make sure no bugs are introduced. Afterall, it's a multi-billion USD game.

But as we know, they really don't care, so even if it was only a day of development time, they wouldn't do it.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

BattlEye also supports Valve Proton. ◉⁠_◉
That's as easy as messaging BattlEye to enable it.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know enough about integrating multiple invasive anti-cheats in a single game, but it's quite likely they have some custom glue.

The more important part is testing. No one wants to enable something without testing and they don't care to do any work.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I highly doubt they'll find any bugs even if they did test it. Even if there were bugs, most likely Valve + the community would be the one's patching it.

Epic doesn't want to try because they have a stick very deep up their ass.

[–] uis@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BattlEye is kernel rootkit and is not supported by proton. Guess why.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BattleEye is supported by proton

[–] uis@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How? It is kernel-level. There is no windows kernel in proton.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

EAC and BattleEye both run a userspace anticheat when used through Proton

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

You surely need many dev to accomplish this horrendous task..