BattleBit Remastered is dominating Steam because there's no catch: it's just a lot of game for $15

tangelo@kbin.social to PC Gaming@kbin.social – 52 points – BattleBit Remastered is dominating Steam because there's no catch: it's just a lot of game for $15
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One of the best new multiplayer games of 2023 has no microtransactions.

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For anyone playing it on Steam Deck, the devs are going to be adding Face It Anti Cheat which is incompatible with linux devices. And for anyone who needs virtualization for work and other activities, Face It Anti Cheat forces you to turn it off from bios before playing the game.

Man, I don't use linux or a steam deck, but that seems like a poor choice in the long run. Seems like more people are using linux for gaming all the time.

They said that cheating is way more important to battle than the 1% of gamers on Linux. I can see the point. Epic doesn't exactly stop it. It's only a matter of time that cheaters get rampant IMO.

I believe that Linux players just can't join official servers and they plan to have community servers eventually.

There are already community servers, but at present you don't earn XP on them. I believe they've said that eventually they will change this, but I don't know the timeline. As long as they get it done before adding Faceit, I think it'd be a perfectly fine compromise.

Wow, I haven't had this visceral of a "fuck you" reaction to something since Tencent's anticheat came out.

I use Linux, but cheating in multiplayer competitive games just destroys games. I can see where they're coming from.

I mean, stuff like this isn't a fantastic solution, but there really isn't much of a fantastic solution.

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Maybe it'd be possible to sell some sort of glorified USB dongle that a wide range of games could use that has a trusted computer inside and then stream sensitive data to it and have it only expose data to the host computer if it's necessary for the player to see it. That won't help with, say, aimbotting, but it could deal with "see through walls" hacks and the like. And you could implement some anti-cheat checking stuff on the dongle that you can't easily do remotely for stuff like aimbots, like get access to all mouse movements and such.

That could also be cross-platform. Have someone like Valve sell it.

Yeah, I was going to pick it up, until I saw that.

For official servers, they've said custom servers will use easy anti cheat so should still work on steam deck.

It's only if they opt in and also only if you're ok with not being able to save or keep your progress.

Too bad. I was interesting into the game, but then this is a nogo. Thank you for the warning.