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Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat' (www.pcgamer.com)
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The latest plea for official Proton support started on Reddit, where Scout339v2 shared their screenshot of Rust running "on a server with EAC disabled to show that the game already works perfectly on Linux." Disabling Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is the key factor here, and part of a broader conversation where Facepunch and its Linux/Proton userbase don't see eye-to-eye.

While it's true Rust runs on Proton, you can't join official servers, and most unofficial servers, with EAC disabled. Facepunch considered changing its stance in 2022 when the Steam Deck launched, but didn't end up introducing official Proton support. COO Alistair McFarlane said at the time that Linux is "safer for cheat developers," and that trying to support EAC on another platform could reduce the team's ability to support Windows.

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[-] DigDoug@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago

If ring-0 access is the only way you can stop cheaters, your game must be poorly programmed.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

Nah, cheating is just absurdly hard to stop. Even ring 0 anti cheat doesn't stop it entirely. At some point, I feel like the answer is similar to piracy, in that you must accept that there's going to be some amount of it, and then find a way to mitigate the damage. Because there are solutions to both of them that both go too far.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can use analytics to detect cheating effectively. Companies don't do this because it hurts their bottom line (stopping cheaters). Companies pay lip service to cheating and play stupid games of cat and mouse.

Cheaters should not be banned, they should be forced to play against other cheaters. If you are so inhuman that you are the living embodiment of "got gud" then you get to play with cheaters.

Everyone is happy except for the cheaters and that one got gud guy. Waiting for the first brave company to implement this.

You could argue this would hurt competitive gameplay but it is obvious it is already hurt and the other answers (giving complete control of your OS) are a non-starter for me.

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reminds me that DRM used to run Kernel Side until software side drm was the safest/less sketchy option.

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