1y ago

Sea of Thieves gets Easy Anti-Cheat - thankfully enabled for Steam Deck / Linux

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While I would still prefer no anti-cheat, this also means we probably won't have to worry about a non-compatible anticheat getting added later.

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1y ago

Sea of Thieves gets Easy Anti-Cheat - thankfully enabled for Steam Deck / Linux

www.gamingonlinux.com /2024/03/sea-of-thieves-gets-easy-anti-cheat-thankfully-enabled-for-steam-deck-linux/

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1y ago

Sea of Thieves gets Easy Anti-Cheat - thankfully enabled for Steam Deck / Linux

www.gamingonlinux.com /2024/03/sea-of-thieves-gets-easy-anti-cheat-thankfully-enabled-for-steam-deck-linux/

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1y ago

Sea of Thieves gets Easy Anti-Cheat - thankfully enabled for Steam Deck / Linux

www.gamingonlinux.com /2024/03/sea-of-thieves-gets-easy-anti-cheat-thankfully-enabled-for-steam-deck-linux/

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Anti-cheats are only small hurdles for cheaters and invasive software for regular consumers.
- That is why they keep getting more and more invasive. When they run at kernel level all the time, like Vanguard, it's almost impossible to prevent detection and they can then ban you at a literal hardware level based on your motherboard & CPU identifiers.
  You still encounter cheaters every once in a while because they don't immediately ban them, as that would give hints as to what exactly was detected and when.
  
  Literally makes no difference, its cat and mouse. Still rampant cheating on Valorant. BattlEye, EAC all the same.
  Prevention has proven pointless. In my opinion the best way to combat cheaters is machine learning, non-intrusive and can get increasingly effective.
While I would still prefer no anti-cheat
I'm curious, why's that? For me, cheaters are extremely detrimental to enjoying online games.
- Yeah sorry, I should have explained better. I think anticheat has a valid place in multiplayer experiences, but I think most games should offer anti-cheat free experiences for solo play or playing with friends.
  Sea of Thieves has friend only modes, so I would like to see those remain anti-cheat free where people have the option to use mods/etc if they want.
  
  That's true, though notably even the solo and friends-only options in SoT are still entirely online and share their progression with the main online mode. I agree that it would be cool to have a modding-friendly option that's completely separate.
  
  I wish user controlled servers were more of a thing so individuals in charge could kick out suspected cheaters.
  
  Feels like client side anticheat is a perpetual game of cat and mouse either way. EGS certainly doesnt prevent cheaters from spoiling apex (impossible aim & recoils control, impossible aim snapping & prefiring on target location, impossible movement etc).
  Server side would be great but extremely costly in terms of performance from what little I understand.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sea of Thieves just got a big upgrade and with it Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is now online.
Thankfully the developers have ensured it's enabled for Steam Deck / Linux players using Proton.
Anti-cheat can be a big issue for Steam Deck / Linux gamers, often blocking games from working, but EAC does support Linux developers just need to enable that support.
Speaking in a previous developer video announcing the change, they clearly said they would ensure it was enabled for Proton.
Virtual Keyboard Support - Players summoning the Virtual Keyboard inside the game will now find that a range of new languages are supported: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Korean and Russian.
Message of the Day - Players will now experience a Message of the Day when arriving in the front end menu, highlighting current Season features, upcoming content and other exciting news within the world of Sea of Thieves.
The original article contains 281 words, the summary contains 151 words. Saved 46%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Better than paying for some random company to slap some unknown solution onto your game and pretending the problem is solved.

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