Anti-cheat engine

[Auftragsmoerder]

Dear Devs,

can you please delete that atrocity of an anti-cheat engine (is the name even fair as you take no measurements against actual cheaters?) so i can finally buy the game? Pretty please? Heck i might even buy it twice...

[Serg]

why is it stopping you?

[Peter]

Originally posted by Serg:

why is it stopping you?

He's probably on Linux.

[DonThaIll]

There's a subforum specifically for this topic, and you chose the wrong one.

[Majorita]

Originally posted by Peter:

Originally posted by Serg:

why is it stopping you?

He's probably on Linux.

Actually... Helldivers 2 has run on Linux since day 1...

[Gaz]

Originally posted by Peter:

Originally posted by Serg:

why is it stopping you?

He's probably on Linux.

yes, lets remove the anticheat from the game for the tiny amount of people on linux.

What i'm sure the devs are saying lol

[Majorita]

Originally posted by Gaz:

Originally posted by Peter:

He's probably on Linux.

yes, lets remove the anticheat from the game for the tiny amount of people on linux.

What i'm sure the devs are saying lol

Linux is not the issue!

Actually from what I've read so far Helldivers 2 has been a much better experience on Linux than on Windows...

I myself haven't crashed once, have had no performance issues, and the anticheat seems to work fine with Proton - which if you happen to be concerned about security just goes into its own little wine prefix which will ABSOLUTELY be irrevocably nuked if I were to uninstall and it has no way of avoiding that.

[Doko]

I suggest not removing the anti cheat, but instead replacing it with one that doesn't stupidly cripple the CPU nearly half the time in the background.

Removing anti cheat entirely isn't in the dev's cards, and I wouldn't want them to remove it anyway (those who cheat in online games honestly need a trip to the mental ward).

[Gaz]

Originally posted by Gaz:

Originally posted by Peter:

He's probably on Linux.

yes, lets remove the anticheat from the game for the tiny amount of people on linux.

What i'm sure the devs are saying lol

I'm not saying it is the issue. i was pointing out the ridiculousness of that as a reason for asking for it to be removed, if it had been.

if the anti cheat didnt work on linux, they would not have abandoned it. they'd have abandoned linux.

[Gaz]

Originally posted by Doko:

I suggest not removing the anti cheat, but instead replacing it with one that doesn't stupidly cripple the CPU nearly half the time in the background.

Removing anti cheat entirely isn't in the dev's cards, and I wouldn't want them to remove it anyway (those who cheat in online games honestly need a trip to the mental ward).

show me proof its doing that.

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by Gaz:

Originally posted by Doko:

I suggest not removing the anti cheat, but instead replacing it with one that doesn't stupidly cripple the CPU nearly half the time in the background.

Removing anti cheat entirely isn't in the dev's cards, and I wouldn't want them to remove it anyway (those who cheat in online games honestly need a trip to the mental ward).

show me proof its doing that.

For all we know having an anti-cheat is a contractual requirement set by Sony, since this is a live service game with Microtransactions and big corp generally does not like the idea of missing out on money.

We don't KNOW if the devs themselves care that much, although I'm sure they do like additional revenue too.

EDIT: Sorry Gaz, I misread your comment.

The game as a whole is CPU heavy, not (just) the anti-cheat

[Doko]

Originally posted by Hobbes:

Originally posted by Gaz:

show me proof its doing that.

For all we know having an anti-cheat is a contractual requirement set by Sony, since this is a live service game with Microtransactions and big corp generally does not like the idea of missing out on money.

We don't KNOW if the devs themselves care that much, although I'm sure they do like additional revenue too.


The game as a whole is CPU heavy, not (just) the anti-cheat

Sony was also the originator for Denuvo as well, but don't tell Gaz that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard

[Auftragsmoerder]

Originally posted by DonThaIll:

There's a subforum specifically for this topic, and you chose the wrong one.

I was not aware, my apologies. I assume too late to fix, if some mod wants to move this, sure, feel free to.

Edit: yes there is in fact a huge sub-forum, i feel a little humbled now. Unlucky for me, the search engine is limited on one sub-forum per default.

Originally posted by Peter:

Originally posted by Serg:

why is it stopping you?

He's probably on Linux.

The opposite is true, as i heard linux is free to play without the anti-security-engine being THIS anti security.

Originally posted by Hobbes:

For all we know having an anti-cheat is a contractual requirement set by Sony

Is it required to have this specific one tho? Still, this is news to me, thanks for sharing.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Peter:

Originally posted by Serg:

why is it stopping you?

He's probably on Linux.

I'm just going to follow up on this, the chief complaint I see in forums is anti cheats prevent use on Linux as virtual machines are often flagged, such as Seige.

it was purely conjecture, relax.