Please consider not switching anti-cheats. (Linux User)

[Doomguy]

As a Linux desktop user that is really enjoying this game, all I ask is for consideration to keep using the current anti-cheat or switch to something with Linux support like Battle-eye. I bought this game knowing one day I will no longer be able to play it, but you did great work and myself and many other Linux users would love to be included in the future of this game.

[Malthar]

the anti cheat swap is for official servers only, community servers will remain as normal

[Clocks]

Game deciding features like an anti cheat shouldn't be decided by 2% market share OS

[Serenity]

Will refunds be given after this change?

[Malthar]

Originally posted by Serenity:

Will refunds be given after this change?

probably not since community servers will still work fine for linux players

[Doomguy]

Originally posted by Clocks:

Game deciding features like an anti cheat shouldn't be decided by 2% market share OS

I understand your point of view, however, I'm just asking for consideration. With more and more people playing games on a steam deck as well, It's not unreasonable as a developer to consider making a game work though a compatibility layer. Battle-eye is also an effective anti cheat that also works on Linux, and being an ex-windows face-it level 10 player on csgo, I don't feel face-it anti-cheat is all that great either.

[GroovyHobo]

Originally posted by Clocks:

Game deciding features like an anti cheat shouldn't be decided by 2% market share OS

Steam Deck... and many devs are making their game Deck compatible. Linux is here to stay for now. Not to mention MacOS finally coming out with a possible competitor to proton, gaming becoming as platform agnostic as possible needs to be the future.

[Todd Clorox]

this game seems perfect to play on the toilet with a Steam Deck - but I don't want to be a second class citizen just because I'm taking a #2

[Moldi Stromboly]

Same deal here.. not only is it important to remove Faceit for linux/compatibility reasons, but its also basically a rootkit/spyware beyond most anticheat solutions. Until they make a statement about sticking with EAC and maintaining proton compatibility I won't be buying this one.

[Frostea]

Switch to battleye? You mean the garbage that the hacker infested tarkov uses?

[ArznikAaron]

Was going to buy this until I found out about the switch... no Steam Deck support no buy. This would have been an awesome game for Steam Deck to run smoothly. GG saved me some money.

[Buckets Keebler]

Originally posted by Malthar:

the anti cheat swap is for official servers only, community servers will remain as normal

Except many community servers will have progression disabled

[Roku]

yeah this is right

[Fixer]

Yeah, please don't start using FaceIT. EasyAntiCheat is fine enough, and you don't have to install root level access spyware

[Frostea]

Originally posted by Fixer:

Yeah, please don't start using FaceIT. EasyAntiCheat is fine enough, and you don't have to install root level access spyware

After seeing the tarkov cheating video, I’m convinced that shooters absolutely need insane ring 0 anticheats to stop it at this point.

If everyone was a decent human being we wouldn’t be having this problem. But it is what it is.

[Fixer]

The best anticheat that doesn't require privacy intrusive software is a votekicking system and server admins
We really shouldn't have to give away such privileges so casually just not to have to deal with cheaters in video games