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)
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…
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.
Does it require a rootkit or process running as root on Linux, because if it does in not fucking installing it.
It says “popular version of Linux”. What the heck it means?
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.
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?
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.
