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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is BattleEye supported on linux? Id like to switch but remember people saying support for BE is not that great, and im mostly arma and dayz player...

[–] vreraan 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the ones I've tried yes, it depends on the developers, for example Fortnite is not supported on Linux because they deliberately made it incompatible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't Fortnite use EAC instead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It uses both, and switches between the two

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can find only mentions of EAC.

[–] vreraan 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also apex legends and Rust use it, EAC it's not the reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

P1: "They are using malware anti-cheat that does not support Linux"

P2: "No, they choose to not support Linux"

Me: "Aren't they use anti-cheat that do support Linux?"

P2: "It's not the reason"

[–] vreraan 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fortnite uses or used both, both battleeye and EAC support Linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

DayZ and ARMA 3 both work. ARMA 2 does not though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it can be considered malware unless its doing something malicious that you don't expect. I don't want or need it on my system, but people who want to play these multiplayer games have a valid use-case and can make that decision themselves.

Of course, you may have just intended to snarky and I'm just being tedious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is literal rootkit, what do you mean nt a malware?

but people who want to play these multiplayer games have a valid use-case and can make that decision themselves.

They can't in most of cases. For them it's either installing or not playing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Check your game on protondb.com to see if it runs well on linux