Can’t we just call it what it is? It’s a Rootkit.
Part of me wants to fund the creation of a hardware level cheating device just to move past kernel level cheat.
It’s called DMA.
Helldivers 2 and easyanticheat also have kernel level anticheat, but remain playable on linux. They disable the kernel level bits on linux.
nooooo, whyyyy, i wanted to play it on the steam deck :(
You probably will be able to. It will likely run about as well as Elden Ring does, though. Either way, wait until you get confirmation from other Linux users that it actually does work on Linux. Or buy and refund if it doesn’t end up working.
The only solution to the anti-cheat problem I see is a Linux anti-cheat. Yes, devs can enable Linux support in EZ and whatever the other one is called. But those anti-cheats only work in Wine userspace. Pretty easy for cheat devs to get around, and get around those shitcunts do.
Edit: Another solution, though cringe would be an AI based anti-cheat that doesn’t need kernel level access to work effectivly.
They get around the Windows KLAC as well, so it doesn’t make sense to me for dev houses to require it. Cheaters, almost by definition, find a way to circumvent blocks, and I don’t think that justifies my being required to install a rootkit on my system.
