Here's a bit of interesting news to end the week with, BattlEye have said they are working with Valve to get their anti-cheat working with Steam Play/Proton.
The curious thing here, is that I did speak to BattlEye back in March where they told me they would only be able to support native Linux games. In my email to BattlEye I did mention our previous chat, but it seems the below quote is the standard line they're giving out on this.
Inspired by this Reddit post, I did my own digging and contacted them again to verify the information. To my surprise, within minutes they replied to me to say "Currently we do not officially support Wine, but we are working with Valve to add support for Proton (SteamPlay) on Steam.".
I have to wonder if this started after my previous article, perhaps it got some people talking? Good to see some positivity on this though, in future it could mean titles like PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS will become playable on Linux with Steam Play.
I've said numerous times now that multiplayer titles will be a pain point for Steam Play but perhaps not for much longer. There's a lot more games that use it and no doubt more will in future, so the idea of BattlEye working in Steam Play is obviously quite exciting to expand Linux gaming even further.
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Finally some good news again! Awesome.
C'mon Epic/EAC... it's your turn now!
C'mon Epic/EAC... it's your turn now!
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This is really good news! Linux gaming is starting to look more and more almost as good and unproblematic as gaming on windows :D Viva la revolution!
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I also wrote to them yesterday and received this reply :)
Dear András,
Unfortunately, we can currently only support Linux if the respective game natively does so.
Currently we do not officially support Wine, but we are working with Valve to add support for Proton (SteamPlay) on Steam.
Your BattlEye Support Team
Dear András,
Unfortunately, we can currently only support Linux if the respective game natively does so.
Currently we do not officially support Wine, but we are working with Valve to add support for Proton (SteamPlay) on Steam.
Your BattlEye Support Team
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I wouldn't be surprised if they *only* support steam games in Proton and not generic wine.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they *only* support steam games in Proton and not generic wine.
I think this is the scenario with the biggest chance.
There surely will not be something like an open source "EAC/Battleye" within wine.
And surely, Valve has to pay them.
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Think the upcoming Google Stadia is forcing devs to work on Linux alternatives now. I could see how this would be a good test for them on that front.
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It could also mean that some proprietary bits from BattleEye/EAC might be added to Proton in order to make it work with games using these anti cheat systems.
Sounds far-fetched? What if it's that - or nothing... :S:
Sounds far-fetched? What if it's that - or nothing... :S:
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ElectricPrism May 10, 2019
Great. I will dial up my expectations a little in anticipation.
As a purely Linux Gamer, friendly behavior towards our platform should always be recognized, praised and rewarded.
Bad behavior, insults on the other hand will get my backhand and I'll caution the economic dangers of having a isolated player-base.
Lots of good content, Only Tux Get My Bux and I got money to spend, so keep shoveling Linux content on to my doorstep bby.
As a purely Linux Gamer, friendly behavior towards our platform should always be recognized, praised and rewarded.
Bad behavior, insults on the other hand will get my backhand and I'll caution the economic dangers of having a isolated player-base.
Lots of good content, Only Tux Get My Bux and I got money to spend, so keep shoveling Linux content on to my doorstep bby.
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Who would have say that PUBG may be able to finally leave my wishlist?
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I think that an anti cheat software will require a very specific proton version, and because of that, some games will need a legacy version.
I don't know, but to me, this will open a big door to cheaters.
I don't know, but to me, this will open a big door to cheaters.
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Hopefully R6S will work this time (besides uplay). This is the kind of news that I would prefer to know only when it's released, so I wouldn't be anxious about it (or frustated if won't work).
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Think the upcoming Google Stadia is forcing devs to work on Linux alternatives now. I could see how this would be a good test for them on that front.I'd expect that Stadia won't allow execution of user supplied code, so there'll be no need of anti-cheat software to limit what such programs can do.
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TheRiddick May 11, 2019
excellent,
I look forward to the day I can play ARMA3 multiplayer (almost all servers are battleye)
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I look forward to the day I can play ARMA3 multiplayer (almost all servers are battleye)
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gradyvuckovic May 11, 2019
If you go through all the borked/bronze games in the top 100 on ProtonDB, most of them are not working due to EAC and BattlEye. So this is excellent news, if this is fixed up, then I wouldn't be surprised if we get 80% of games rated as Gold or higher. At that point, we have more games available on Linux than we know what to do with!
Huge Thankyou to Valve! This wouldn't be happening without them so big big thankyou to them!
Huge Thankyou to Valve! This wouldn't be happening without them so big big thankyou to them!
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Great news for Linux gaming. While native apps would be ideal, this at least gives people options. If not for one game not working in wine (or having a native Linux version) I would have removed windows from my primary rig years ago. For now I simply have to be happy running a Linux only laptop and hope a Linux only desktop is on the horizon.
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I wonder who was the initiator.. Valve or BattleEye? If Valve, then would mean they are putting quite a lot of effort into Steam Play. Interesting...
That means, cheaters will run the game purposely through Linux, which means more people on Linux, so.. Yay?
I think that an anti cheat software will require a very specific proton version, and because of that, some games will need a legacy version.
I don't know, but to me, this will open a big door to cheaters.
That means, cheaters will run the game purposely through Linux, which means more people on Linux, so.. Yay?
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I wonder who was the initiator.. Valve or BattleEye? If Valve, then would mean they are putting quite a lot of effort into Steam Play. Interesting...
I think that an anti cheat software will require a very specific proton version, and because of that, some games will need a legacy version.
I don't know, but to me, this will open a big door to cheaters.
That means, cheaters will run the game purposely through Linux, which means more people on Linux, so.. Yay?
Sounds like a worse scenario to me.
If we get a bigger marketshare beacause of cheaters, this will harm us a lot.
The companies will see, that supporting Linux is expensive and makes more problems (cheaters) - they will just stop it. Experiment was negative, so lets forget about Linux will be the answer....
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I wonder who was the initiator.. Valve or BattleEye? If Valve, then would mean they are putting quite a lot of effort into Steam Play. Interesting...
I think that an anti cheat software will require a very specific proton version, and because of that, some games will need a legacy version.
I don't know, but to me, this will open a big door to cheaters.
That means, cheaters will run the game purposely through Linux, which means more people on Linux, so.. Yay?
Sounds like a worse scenario to me.
If we get a bigger marketshare beacause of cheaters, this will harm us a lot.
The companies will see, that supporting Linux is expensive and makes more problems (cheaters) - they will just stop it. Experiment was negative, so lets forget about Linux will be the answer....
What companies? This only affects Steam Play, not native Linux versions. So in worse case scenario, BattleEye will stop their Steam Play support and we would end up in the situation we are now. No biggie.
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