Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton

[Josh | @:<]

News Article [www.gamingonlinux.com]
Fall Guys should soon support Linux and Mac via Wine and Proton.

Today, Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Games / Epic Online Services has officially announced a full expansion for Linux including native builds and Wine + Proton. This is big for Linux Gaming and the Steam Deck.

For those who don't own, Epic Games owns Easy Anti-Cheat and earlier this year they made it free for all developers making Windows games. Today this has been expanded to fully support developers doing native Linux games (and macOS too).

Not only that, this is the big one we've been waiting for — they've also expanded Easy Anti-Cheat support officially for the Wine and Steam Play Proton compatibility layers.

Originally posted by quote:

Earlier this year, Easy Anti-Cheat for Windows games was made available to all developers, for free. Today, we extend support to Linux and Mac for developers who maintain full native builds of their games for these platforms.

To make it easy for developers to ship their games across PC platforms, support for the Wine and Proton compatibility layers on Linux is included. Starting with the latest SDK release, developers can activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal.

Sadly it's not an automatic thing for Wine and Proton, as developers do need to actively go and do those "few clicks" but it's a huge step. Hopefully many developers will go and do it, since it sounds like very little effort on their part. Considering just how many of the most popular games use Easy Anti-Cheat, this is the start of something massive.

Have a favourite Windows game that doesn't work on Linux currently with Proton or Wine? Looks like it's time to politely ask them to hook it up.

[Pierogo]

+1, pretty please Mediatonic

[pb]

Yes please, the kids have waited for so long...

[Arley Antes]

+1 Finally! Is this because of the Steam Deck maybe? I don't know, I don't care, I just want this game. Hello devs, my name is Fry and I'm telling you: shut up and take my money. Let's go!!

[McConha]

+1, Mediatonic, we are back.

[yate]

+1

[Mine18]

Linux Support! woo!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrHoboSquadron]

+1. I bought the game way before EAC was implemented. Please do this.

[76561199209221041]

xd

[nando0]

+2 (me and my son!!)

[RandomTask]

+1 would be great!

[Rykudoo]

+1

[Title Card]

+1

[Kintah]

At this point I'll just assume that they don't care

[Mine18]

Originally posted by Kintah:

At this point I'll just assume that they don't care

Why is that? It's only been 24 hours, if not less. Just give them some time.

[Ethanol]

+1, please. I'd love to play Fall Guys on Deck.