For anyone hoping to play Delta Force on Desktop Linux, the developer Team Jade has given a pretty clear no. That's despite it working on Steam Deck due to the anti-cheat they've used.
Much like a few other games including the recent Steam launch of Infinity Nikki, it's using Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE), which developers can activate some sort of device whitelist to allow the Steam Deck with SteamOS.
Writing on Reddit in reply to a user question about Linux, the Game Director Shadow Guo, answered:
We appreciate the love from Linux users, but unfortunately support for Linux Desktop is not part of our agenda in the future. Without a Windows PC, you can still enjoy Delta Force on mobile and Google Play Games on PC, thank you again for the support!
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Pictured - Delta Force, Steam
Anti-cheat is going to be a messy situation for Linux gaming for some time.
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legluondunet 13 hours ago
I never heard of this game before, will not miss me.
For the moment I'm not affected by games that use anti-cheat not compatible with Linux because I play mainly standalone games, not multiplayer.
But now that that Valve has Proton, what are the excuses to this devs to not make their games compatibles? There are already anti-cheat solution compatible with Proton, why they do not use them?
For the moment I'm not affected by games that use anti-cheat not compatible with Linux because I play mainly standalone games, not multiplayer.
But now that that Valve has Proton, what are the excuses to this devs to not make their games compatibles? There are already anti-cheat solution compatible with Proton, why they do not use them?
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Tuxee 12 hours ago
Should I care? According to the ratings it seems to be a pretty mediocre title.
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Ehvis 12 hours ago
Should I care? According to the ratings it seems to be a pretty mediocre title.
As a game? You can decide for yourself. As a data point? Yes.
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The consumer in me says "bummer" and pretends to ignore an issue that may become prevalent: the platform split Deck/Desktop that may hurt far more than we realize at first.
The hacker in me says "how hard is to fake a whitelisted device to the routine asking for it?".
The hacker in me says "how hard is to fake a whitelisted device to the routine asking for it?".
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CatKiller 10 hours ago
We appreciate the love from Linux users, but unfortunately support for Linux Desktop is not part of our agenda in the future.
They really ought to twig at some point that the desktop Linux market is twice as large as the Deck market. Making things for the Deck but not other Linux is just silly.
In this specific case, though, their "ask me anything" had lots of questions but only one real answer. Which got downvoted to oblivion. So I don't think things are going well for them in general.
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scaine 4 hours ago
I tend to just blacklist the dev or publisher page on Steam when I see this kind of attitude. No hard feelings, it's just a better use of my time not to see them in future.
But I wonder if the Devs/Publishers realise that the door is getting closed so permanently. It would be interesting if Valve shared numbers with Devs/Publishers on how many accounts have them blocked.
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But I wonder if the Devs/Publishers realise that the door is getting closed so permanently. It would be interesting if Valve shared numbers with Devs/Publishers on how many accounts have them blocked.
Last edited by scaine on 29 Apr 2025 at 5:08 pm UTC
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Caldathras 3 hours ago
@scaine
I tend to just blacklist the dev or publisher page on Steam when I see this kind of attitude.Good idea. How do you go about blacklisting a developer/publisher? I've never done that before.
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scaine 57 minutes ago
@Caldathras:
It's a pain these days, tbh, and it's creator-dependent sadly. Used to be, you could browse to a game, click on the developer or publisher link, and that would take you to their "creator page", and then you could just "Ignore" them, which would include any future titles.
These days, clicking on those links seems to take to you a list of their games instead, which is a bit of a pain. BUT, you can still go to certain pages manually.
For example, the publisher "505 Games" has this "publisher page" here:
https://store.steampowered.com/pub/505games
However, for that to work, the developer or publisher needs to have created their page. And since Valve seems to have retired creator pages (original link here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/creator_homepage), I'm not sure it's always going to be possible to ignore at the creator level.
Which is a pain. Ha ha - maybe Valve DID report to creators that their pages were being ignored, which of course hurts future sales, so Valve agreed to hide them?
Because why address a source of discontent, when you can just put a plaster over and pretend it doesn't hurt? /s
Good idea. How do you go about blacklisting a developer/publisher? I've never done that before.
It's a pain these days, tbh, and it's creator-dependent sadly. Used to be, you could browse to a game, click on the developer or publisher link, and that would take you to their "creator page", and then you could just "Ignore" them, which would include any future titles.
These days, clicking on those links seems to take to you a list of their games instead, which is a bit of a pain. BUT, you can still go to certain pages manually.
For example, the publisher "505 Games" has this "publisher page" here:
https://store.steampowered.com/pub/505games
However, for that to work, the developer or publisher needs to have created their page. And since Valve seems to have retired creator pages (original link here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/creator_homepage), I'm not sure it's always going to be possible to ignore at the creator level.
Which is a pain. Ha ha - maybe Valve DID report to creators that their pages were being ignored, which of course hurts future sales, so Valve agreed to hide them?
Because why address a source of discontent, when you can just put a plaster over and pretend it doesn't hurt? /s
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