Sea of Thieves just got a big upgrade and with it Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is now online. Thankfully the developers have ensured it's enabled for Steam Deck / Linux players using Proton.
Anti-cheat can be a big issue for Steam Deck / Linux gamers, often blocking games from working, but EAC does support Linux developers just need to enable that support. Speaking in a previous developer video announcing the change, they clearly said they would ensure it was enabled for Proton. In the release announcement they did say that EAC would be "updated outside of Sea of Thieves’ regular update schedule to keep in sync with cheat developers", so hopefully they keep ensuring it works in Proton.
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There's a lot of other improvements too including:
- Virtual Keyboard Support - Players summoning the Virtual Keyboard inside the game will now find that a range of new languages are supported: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Korean and Russian.
- Message of the Day - Players will now experience a Message of the Day when arriving in the front end menu, highlighting current Season features, upcoming content and other exciting news within the world of Sea of Thieves.
- Adventures Tab - The Adventures tab has been hidden from the Quick Menu for a more streamlined navigation experience.
- Report a Player - The in-game Report a Player tool has now been extended, providing players with easy access to a web-based route for making a more detailed report through the Sea of Thieves Support site.
Plus they also added a Pirate Emporium for various new cosmetic items, lots of bug fixes, UI improvements, performance and stability improvements and so on.
You can buy Sea of Thieves on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: KawnstantinWhy can't Bungie do this with Destiny 2?Because they simply don't want to.
TruckStopSantaClaus Mar 15
Quoting: redneckdrow...uh sure buddy, I guess soQuoting: TruckStopSantaClausWeird that Microsoft games have better Linux support than Roblox or Fortnight.
Huh, I thought that was a winged pig tweeting on my windowsill this morning.
Remind me to mail Satan a parka and snowshoes! He's gonna need 'em if the company that called us "Communists" and our kernel "cancer" keeps doing things like this.
Of course, there's always the risk of the triple-E from Microsoft. I realize they have different leadership today, but that same leadership keeps cheerfully destroying their own already-loathsome OS's usability.
Their decisions are less predictable than a map of R'lyeh.At least with the old Microsoft, you could figure out what their endgame was. They didn't try to make nice while planning Linux's destruction.
Back in the pre-steam deck days, I did not expect proton support to come to Halo: MCC at all, but nowadays it works fine.
Good for them, nice that they're helping me not use their operating system that I absolutely detest with every fibre of my being.
Last edited by pilk on 15 March 2024 at 8:09 pm UTC
rustybroomhandle Mar 16
I am hoping this extends to Vulkan support though, since studios like iD were all in on Vulkan.
Last edited by rustybroomhandle on 16 March 2024 at 9:25 am UTC
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