Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite
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it's just one checkbox in your fudging EAC. Why can so many windows only multiplayer games be played with EAC under Linux but not Fortnät?
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It is literally impossible for a game having kernel access not to be malware.
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That's true on Windows too, people just accept it there more often since they don't know better
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I hate that the solution for them is to try to lock down users' own machines rather than trying to secure their own servers with server side anticheat
Goes against the whole philosophy of never trusting the clientside
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No amount of clientside anticheat software can stop that either though, anything running on the clientside can be faked/manipulated with enough effort
Also you could argue someone could simply plug in another device that takes a video input and can simulate a keyboard and mouse
On the server side, you could check for abnormalities in a person's stats, for example if they get >90% headshots, if they're getting a lot of kills outside a weapon's normal range, amount of time aiming at enemies through walls that they shouldn't be able to see etc etc
Then, once someone is suspicious enough, flag it up to a human moderator who can watch them and verify
Not saying there shouldn't be any clientside anticheat at all but at the point of the anticheat putting itsself in kernel space it's gone too far
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Hackers will always find a way. Bad players always try to appear better than they are. Welcome to humanity.
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