So much for my Steam Machine plans.
Welp, enjoy your rootkits and privacy violations.
15 years ago, any developer who wanted to install low-level malware on your system would have been rightfully laughed out of the room.
It really shows how tech illiterate the modern user is.
The last “serious about anticheat” game was hacked on release day. On Windows. With kernel-level AC.
Fuck off with your lies.
I mean if you run on an operating system, you’re not really serious about anti cheat. You should require all of your players to buy your own hardware that is sealed in a titanium box. They should have to give a blood sample before each session, and they should have to be completely surrounded by webcams the entire time. Better yet, have them report to their nearest prison’s solitary confinement wing for a 100% monitored play session.
Let’s get actually serious about anti cheat.
If the game Rust is what is keeping you away from being on Linux it might be best you never go to Linux. Just save us all the future headache, thanks.
Dude should ask Linux players how they can actually play games with EAC and Battleye if that box is turned on, then they’ll realize that none of the cheaters use Linux (if any at all). Most, if not all of them, use Windows with specialized scripts.
… Rust still exists? As in, the murder-hobo-survival game that was early access like, 10-15 years ago?
I thought they were talking about the programming language.
It’s been polished a lot since then (they update every month), but yeah, it’s still around and it’s fun. Sucks that Alistair has this take tho.
Why hasn’t the amazing economy propelling AI industry fixed cheating yet?
My suspicion says that Valve use AI in VAC these days. I have no proof of anything but in my opinion it would be the smart thing to do. And something major happened in TF2 a few months ago where they finally managed to ban the rampant bot cheaters. Could be AI or it could just be Valve finally taking the problem seriously.
They made TF2 good? I might reinstall it on my PC.
Third rate game’s developer says people who already have EAC working on proton are “not serious” uh…
The headline confused me for a second. I was like, aren’t they adding more and more rust to the kernel?
Same, I had to double check the article lol. Rust next to the word developer was a sort of short-sighted phrasing.
RUST is a game, Rust is the programming thing. Maybe we need to normalize that in posting articles lol
Arc Raiders was just deck verified
I’ll buy it for Linux now.
And nothing of value was lost.
We have Rust at home.
There is a personal element to this, somehow. The developer’s relationship with Linux took a weird turn at one point and there’s been a will-they-won’t-they tension ever since.
There are so many alternatives to these sort of games now. I am not sure it’s a good idea to just give your players the middle finger like that.
Every single one of them is also better than Rust. Ark, Conan Exiles, that new Dune game, Palworld…
Games shouldn’t be serious about anti-cheat.
Games should be serious about anticheat, it just shouldn’t require a rootkit into the players computer
Singleplayer games*
Edit: include non-competitive multiplayer too
