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Devs Announce FaceIT Anticheat for BattleBit will be compatible with Linux, Steam Deck (i.postimg.cc)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1543761

Got this from a post on the alien site. From previous discussion on Lemmy it sounded like Linux users had good things to say about this game but were discouraged about the upcoming FaceIt implementation such that they wouldn't be able to join anticheat enabled matches. Those users and Linux gamers on the fence would probably appreciate hearing this news.

With this announcement on the dev team's community Discord, it appears Linux users will NOT lose access to matches with anticheat.

Source: https://discord.com/channels/303681520202285057/345616096470237186/1129780379218358282
(BattleBit Remastered official Discord server)

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[EN|CN] PoM (Moderator shield) Today at 16:23 Just announced on [Stage Channel] there will be a new version of FaceIT that supports Linux!!! (Popular version of Linux and SteamDeck will be supported) And different than the CSGO version. BBR will be the first game to be using that version (A more casual version)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does it require a rootkit or process running as root on Linux, because if it does in not fucking installing it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

For me this even smells like "kernel module that has to be loaded". I highly doubt this is even worth trying. There are already only a few Linux gamers. How many of them will switch distribution just for a game?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Probably not cause it has to run over wine. But well devs are crazy nowadays

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It says "popular version of Linux". What the heck it means?

[–] priapus 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost certainly means they will only actively support one distro. But of course, all distros can run the same software, it just may need to be packaged manually by distro maintainers. Most proprietary software only officially supports Ubuntu. Even Steam only officially supports Ubuntu outside of SteamOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My best guess would have been that they mean Ubuntu, since thats what companies usually use in tutorials/develop for. But since they also want to include the steam deck, they must also mean arch. With Arch and Debian (probably) covered, im not too worried about compatibility.

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

To me it sounds like that will mean most of them, they just don't want to commit to saying all because there will always be another distro they missed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking through their Discord it seems there hasn't been any details yet regarding how this is going to work if this indeed is real. I highly doubt Faceit would want to vastly weaken their effectiveness on Linux in the same way EAC and Battleye do by running it as a user process. Even if just speculation, that would mean a kernel module that would need secure boot enabled (though even that is not required for the windows variant in battlebit) with a signed kernel and so on and would only work for specific distros?

[–] jayandp 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the statement above and other comments, it's a new FaceIt product sometimes described as "lite", which gives me the impression it is a Usermode anti-cheat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, looking at the weekly recap stream where they actually talked about it, it is indeed a new anti cheat like you mention that (according to their own statement) is still more effective than "what they have now" (that being eac). https://youtu.be/nIay2Aq2ars?t=702 Apparently they want to do a stream again with the team from Faceit talking about it in more detail.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Big if true cuz I was about to buy it til I read some stuff about them implementing anti cheat that wouldn't work on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Very happy to hear this. I've been really enjoying the game but expected my time in the game to have an expiration date. Hope they follow through and the game can maintain a decent player base.

[–] priapus 5 points 1 year ago

That is amazing if true! I contacted faceit quite recently to ask if they were considering Linux support at all, and they replied saying that they were not aware of any plans to support it. Super happy to hear this because I have been loving Battlebit for months now. Maybe one day we'll be able to play FaceIT cs on Linux!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Freaking good. I wasn’t buying this due to their previous stance. I’ll watch for a while, but I’d feel a lot better about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Happy with such announcement. In either case, I would have continued to play it via Community servers either way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dang it, I got especially excited because I thought FaceIt was finally going to support anti cheat/their client on Linux for CSGO, too. Glad to see that BBR is getting some love, but c'mon, FaceIt...

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

So if it would require kernel module how the heck would they do for snap/flatpak users would it ask everytime for root password at launch? They didn't said anything other than it will be supported.

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

Lets fucking goooo!!!!

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

Absolute W
The game totally needs anti cheat software, but it was a shame Linux players were gonna get culled by it.