It’s only currently planned for PC, with no controller or console plans yet — and Mountaintop won’t necessarily allow Steam Deck to join. “Steam Deck is a concern as a cheating vector, and I think our anti-cheat systems may block it right now,” Mountaintop CEO and cofounder Nate Mitchell tells me.
Bro when is gaming gonna get over this idea that the ONLY way to block cheaters is with some kernel level spyware. Its fucking ridiculous dog
It’s because of corporate greed. Anticheat is basically totally achievable on the server side, but that requires much more computing power. The idea of client side anticheat is to reduce infrastructure cost.
Eh, it’s also much easier to slap a client-side detector on because you can use generic detection methods. When you’re doing it server-side, you have to rely a lot on statistical analysis and it’s all game specific.
In the end you can, of course, reduce it all to not shelling out money, but there is some nuance too.
This whole anti-cheat is ridiculous and dangerous. We shouldn’t be using anti-cheat to scan the kernel for cheating. If people are able to manipulate the kernel to cheat on video games well guess what… The terrorists have won. We should just give into their demands.
Oh no. a game I haven’t heard of isn’t going to play nicely on the deck, I guess I’ll go back to my mountain of compatible games…
Sounds like it has forced multiplayer components always /yuck
It’s literally a multiplayer competitive shooter. That’s the game.
I don’t even have a steam deck, and this would make me never play the game, much less pay for it
PC = Microsoft™️ PC according to this article
I’m sorry, what game? This just looks like a 5$ bin indie™ (They got 30M$ in funding through investments) Unreal Engine 4 shooter. The fact that there’s no controller support or console ports planned says more than enough. What’s newsworthy about their use of a crappy anti-cheat? Not like most in here were ever going to even think about it. It’s a freemium GAAS shooter with an almost inevitably a small player base which will be all but dead a few months after coming out. I know I’m being mean and their people have been working on this game for years now, but come on.
ah yes, “The Cheater’s OS” as us linux-heads like to call it
Lol How is it cheating. Idiots
they didn’t say using Steam Deck per se is cheating, but that it’s a cheating vector, i.e. it’s (according to them) easier to use cheats on it than on Windows PCs.
@noodlejetski @belated_frog_pants How to screw your company over bad decisions 101
Its protondb page shows “borked”.
who the fuck is looking forward to some aggressively generic shooter filled with micro-transactions
@mr_MADAFAKA , I guess thier developers have some bad spaghetti code and can’t debug it enough to work on anything else. And if you were to get it to work, you’d outclass their developers and thus could cheat.
Lmao, wtf is this?! When I tried the test it loaded up battleeye…
That said it’s a shame. It’s a very unique way to make a TAC shooter. After 5 or so matches you start to realize the potential for some galaxy brain sized strats and play styles. But man does exhaust your brain trying to keep up with it all in the heat of the moment.
Edit: I wonder if the upcoming NTSYNC to the Linux kernel will affect if these kernel level anticheats are compatible?
