Some really good news for PC gamers everywhere, as it seems one small battle against invasive anti-cheat has been won.
Recently, DOOM Eternal gained the brand new Denuvo Anti-Cheat tech, which is not to be confused with their usual DRM tech. This addition entirely broke it in the Steam Play Proton compatibility later for Linux and enraged the wider PC community for being added after the game was already released. Just take a look at how the user reviews went on Steam…
On Reddit, id Software made a post to explain their plans for updating DOOM Eternal after the backlash. In the post they explained that the anti-cheat will be removed from the game in the next update. They also said that if/when they try again in future, at minimum they "must consider" that it will have the ability to play single-player without it.
Going even further than that, Michail Greshishchev, the Product Owner at Denuvo claims that Denuvo Anti-Cheat will actually support Proton in future releases. They mentioned this over on Valve's Proton GitHub issue tracker:
Denuvo Anti-Cheat will have Proton support out-of-the-box for releases beyond DOOM: Eternal. Feel free to @ me directly with feedback once you had a chance to try it. I'm happy access is restored for you guys.
It's not entirely clear if they mean it will work with online play, or just auto detect Proton to disable it for single-player parts of games. If they clear that up, we will let you know. Either way, it's good to see because Linux gaming is starting to have more attention paid to it.
DOOM Eternal can be found on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I mean, a kernel-level anti-cheat is still essentially a rootkit, whether it supports Proton or not, but it is nice to see that we are noticed.
I wish these will support Proton in the future, I would like to play some competitive FPS with my friends while sticking to Linux.
Last edited by andy155 on 21 May 2020 at 9:41 am UTC
Quoting: keanThese programs are basically useless, I gave up on Rust and PUBG, because it was still full of cheaters.Feels to me like the point of those "anticheats" is not to get rid of cheaters at all... I wonder what their real purpose could be 🤔
I wish these will support Proton in the future, I would like to play some competitive FPS with my friends while sticking to Linux.
I think that anticheat should be AI based on server side, with help from user report.
But IMO is valid new ideas of anticheat, even more intrusive approach if it's optional (only for multiplayer) and if they are transparent in what they are doing, because cheaters destroys the experience from others players.
I hope that more devs look at Linux as a viable platform.
Just a question: how a kernel level anticheat can run on Proton? Isn't this safer than run on Windows itself?
gradyvuckovic May 21, 2020
I'm kinda expecting that Denuvo AntiCheat will detect that it's running in Proton, then inform the user they need to download and install something separately, not 'in Wine' but to their actual PC, perhaps a kernel level Linux anticheat system that does the same job, detecting the game's process (running in Wine) and detecting any tampering.
If that's how it works, it will be interesting to see how many Linux gamers are OK with installing it.
rustybroomhandle May 21, 2020
Quoting: andy155The game is junk anyway compared to Doom 2016and why is that?
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May 21, 2020
Quoting: rkfgQuoting: keanThese programs are basically useless, I gave up on Rust and PUBG, because it was still full of cheaters.Feels to me like the point of those "anticheats" is not to get rid of cheaters at all... I wonder what their real purpose could be 🤔
I wish these will support Proton in the future, I would like to play some competitive FPS with my friends while sticking to Linux.
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