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: GuestEAC have not paused it.Quoting: CorbenFinally some good news again! Awesome.
C'mon Epic/EAC... it's your turn now!
You are aware that EAC's devs mysteriously 'paused' their linux support efforts just the other day right?
Apparently it's just Epic trying to mess with Valve in whatever way they can, damned be who else they piss off in the process.
We have to say it honestly: Without Valve, Linux and games would never have worked out. That's why other people take Linux seriously as a gaming platform. FeelsGoodMan.
Quoting: Whitewolfe80Quoting: EhvisI wouldn't be surprised if they *only* support steam games in Proton and not generic wine.
Well its not really an issue as the patches proton are sent upstream so no reason why wine wont just run out the box like proton but yeah if you have an issue it wont be supported. Why i guess brings people on to I dont use steam because DRM etc etc personally I admire the mindset it's just not one i share.
I meant that it will be made in such a way that it can't work in a generic Wine. After all, the purpose of the thing is to see everything that happens. That's simply not going to be possible with generic Wine. Well, maybe if they interface with a root level module on the native side.
Comandante Ñoñardo May 12, 2019
Quoting: EhvisI wouldn't be surprised if they *only* support steam games in Proton and not generic wine.
It makes sense if Valve pay for to have support on SteamPlay/Proton. And I guess it will be for specific whitelisted games using an specific Proton version.
jeffsturm4nn May 12, 2019
Kimyrielle May 12, 2019
Quoting: iiariIf this is accomplished, it will also likely allow Planetside 2 to work, which would be very exciting...
Oh damn is that still around i thought the servers died for that a while back cool to see its still online had a bunch a fun with that game few years back.
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