Update: 31/10/23 - The situation now appears to be fixed.
Farlight 84 is a hero-shooter battle royale from Farlight Games that currently has a Steam Deck Playable rating but it appears with the latest update, it's causing bans to happen like we saw previously with Apex Legends.
There's numerous posts filling up the Steam forum about issues with the latest update, and bans due to Easy Anti-Cheat certainly aren't the only complaint but if you were planning on playing some more Farlight 84 it's likely you're going to want to hold off on that until the situation is sorted.
Trying it myself today on desktop (Kubuntu 23.10) it didn't work at all. Loading the game just resulted in a black screen and then it eventually quit to my Steam Library, which I've also seen reported by others for some time. So even if you're not banned, you might not be able to play right now anyway. Testing on Steam Deck and it did work for me…but for how long?
I've reached out to Farlight Games to see if they will provide any statement or information on what's happening.
Farlight 84 is quite popular, with it regularly seeing somewhere around 15,000 to 17,000 players on at a time each day. So it would be good to see this issue solved promptly. If it doesn't get fixed, hopefully Valve will then remove the Playable Steam Deck rating before it causes other issues.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I'm lucky that the games I play don't deal with it, but from what I've seen I would have a very hard time trusting the "support" from EAC. It seems like I see this often from different games.Now that I think about it, I don't believe I have ever played a game that used anti-cheat. Just not into multiplayer, I guess.
Hopefully the issue will get resolved, like the Apex Legends ones have been so far.
Haven't heard of this happening with any other EAC proton enabled games. Just those 2 now.
Mountain Man Oct 26, 2023
Kimyrielle Oct 26, 2023
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1928420/discussions/0/3844430784749033195/?ctp=3#c3880473533199704609
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1928420/discussions/0/3880473533197371129/
So some people bought Farlight 84, Steam duly ran Easy Cheat Detector libraries in the userspace or within the game, and people got banned from (just) Farlight 84 from a bit o' library testiness? Or all multiplayer Steam games? Or...Steam entire?
Why are likes like this?
Why when typing does it appear that I have opened Notepad (1992?) Or, you know, FairBBS 3.01?
!3 month graph showing player count dropping from 17k to under 6k
Feels like there's something else going on this, some publisher pressure maybe? Or maybe they're playerbase, while high, was static, and this is a move to (successfully) drive them away and attract "new blood"?
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