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- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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.
- imnapr ( @imnapr@discuss.tchncs.de ) English32•1 month ago
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
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 10•1 month ago
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.
- cadekat ( @cadekat@pawb.social ) 6•1 month ago
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.
- jereme simpson ( @inferno69@mastodon.social ) 1•1 month ago
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.
- belated_frog_pants ( @belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) 8•1 month ago
Lol How is it cheating. Idiots
- noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month ago
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.
- MightyPirate™ 🏴☠️ ( @iThreepwood@social.vivaldi.net ) 2•1 month ago
@noodlejetski @belated_frog_pants How to screw your company over bad decisions 101
- sleepyTonia ( @sleepyTonia@programming.dev ) 8•1 month ago
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.
- exu ( @exu@feditown.com ) English8•1 month ago
PC = Microsoft™️ PC according to this article
- yuri ( @yuri@pawb.social ) 7•1 month ago
ah yes, “The Cheater’s OS” as us linux-heads like to call it
- CaptainBasculin ( @CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 month ago
Its protondb page shows “borked”.
- linkhidalgogato ( @linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 month ago
who the fuck is looking forward to some aggressively generic shooter filled with micro-transactions
- 🏳️🌈🜏Technomancer🜏🏳️🌈 ( @soundconjurer@mstdn.social ) 1•1 month ago
@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.