• Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    Fortnite uses both EAC and BattleEye, so it really isn’t that easy to integrate with their custom solution. Also, they have to test it to make sure no bugs are introduced. Afterall, it’s a multi-billion USD game.

    But as we know, they really don’t care, so even if it was only a day of development time, they wouldn’t do it.

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      11 months ago

      BattlEye also supports Valve Proton. ◉⁠_◉
      That’s as easy as messaging BattlEye to enable it.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t know enough about integrating multiple invasive anti-cheats in a single game, but it’s quite likely they have some custom glue.

        The more important part is testing. No one wants to enable something without testing and they don’t care to do any work.

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          11 months ago

          I highly doubt they’ll find any bugs even if they did test it. Even if there were bugs, most likely Valve + the community would be the one’s patching it.

          Epic doesn’t want to try because they have a stick very deep up their ass.

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            11 months ago

            Just as a heads up, while they did drop the Linux client, unless it’s been changed very recently you can just use the Windows version through Proton/WINE and play that way.

            Which isn’t an excuse for what they’ve done, I only mention it in case you or someone else didn’t already know.

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        11 months ago

        BattlEye is kernel rootkit and is not supported by proton. Guess why.