Ah, and not being able to play the game I bought for 40 fucking dollars is of course fine then.

yes, but i think it’s total bullshit aksing Proton user to buy the game and then $15 worth of DLC. I’d be pissed if I were forced to do that.

So, your solution is to completely deny access to the game for all Linux users, even those who’ve already purchased it? Total bullshit.

“It’s way harder to get our malware to work on Linux” is more or less what I took away from that.

I’m an idiot and even I can smell the bullshit coming off of this post.

Last I checked every cheat website I ever saw/got advertised/etc were selling windows executables with the swipe of a credit card.

This cry of “Linux is for cheaters!” is just the gaming equivalent of “Wont someone think of the children?!”. a stupid slogan used by assholes to push their opinion/agenda in defiance of facts and reality.

It took many re-reads to realize this is about the game Rust running on Linux, not the language Rust running on Linux

Oh, I mean, that makes sense.

I was in the FacePunch forums since before Garry’s Mod was sold for money.

Garry is a giant asshole troll, and also rather bad at coding.

One neat side effect of him nuking the old forums was that it removed all the documentation of him…

• Banning people who solved coding problems that he couldn’t.

• Intentionally breaking widely used addons and game modes, purely out of spite, because he thought they were stupid, or didn’t like some particular creators or users of them.

• Writing documentation that was wrong, people telling him it was documented wrong, then banning the people who told him that, then fixing the code and documentation using the suggestions they gave.

etc etc…

EAC works on Linux, btw.

https://linuxvox.com/blog/easy-anti-cheat-linux/

It uh, it has since 2022.

https://boilingsteam.com/enabling-eac-support-on-linux-now-easier/index.html

Halo Master Chief Edition, Halo Infinite, Hunt Showdown, Squad, New World…

All these work on linux, with EAC.

https://areweanticheatyet.com/?search=&sortOrder=&sortBy=status

Some devs are just worse at their jobs, and get very defensive, accusatory, blustery about it.

Others are willing to put in the effort and work with the support EAC provides to them, for specifically this purpose, instead of making up bullshit, insulting other dev teams, and saying that, apparently, none of these (or other) games are ‘serious about anti-cheat’.

Funny, let’s see how this looks after the the GabeCube drops and hopefully with a similar impact as the Steam Deck. I keep my popcorn ready

Cheaters who are serious use DMA cheats or fast AI classification on the video output. An external machine runs the cheat software and takes the input from your mouse. It connects to the PC running the game over USB where it pretends to be a mouse. It can adjust your mouse input on the fly to hit targets based on target solutions generated by the cheating PC. It can even read map and location data and display them on the original screen with some additional hardware.

The whole setup costs about as much as a midrange gaming PC though.

Nothing runs on the machine and it is completely undetectable to local anticheat. They could maybe catch people by VOD watching or by analyzing their mouse movement on the server-side… but local anticheat only catches cheaters on a budget.

The LiNuX pLaYeRs ChEaT excuse. It’s bullspit, and they know it. That’s because they can’t spy on Linux players very easily unless someone makes an OPSEC mistake.

Obligatory fuck Gary Newman