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.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: KernelMustang917Think 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.
TheRiddick May 11, 2019
I look forward to the day I can play ARMA3 multiplayer (almost all servers are battleye)
Last edited by TheRiddick on 11 May 2019 at 1:31 am UTC
gradyvuckovic May 11, 2019
Huge Thankyou to Valve! This wouldn't be happening without them so big big thankyou to them!
Quoting: fagnerlnI 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?
Quoting: RoosterI 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...
Quoting: fagnerlnI 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....
Last edited by einherjar on 11 May 2019 at 9:19 am UTC
Quoting: einherjarQuoting: RoosterI 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...
Quoting: fagnerlnI 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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