• saintshenanigans@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    One of the biggest things stopping me is that my partner loves to play fortnite so i play it with them a lot, is there anything to allow you to play EAC games? Iirc epic said they don’t want to account for security across every Linux distro

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      9 months ago

      Basically the only road block I’ve seen is a lot of games using anti-cheat software just refuse to allow Linux. Some of it even has an option to allow it to run under proton and the devs don’t enable that option so it’s blocked. It’s basically them saying they don’t trust the Linux community not to cheat.

      Then you get into the root-kit anti-cheat stuff like valorant uses which wants to load before the os and then control and monitor everything the os does and what hardware is connected… I’ve stayed away from the invasive as fuck anti-cheat games for years even before my move to Linux, so nothing lost there.

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        9 months ago

        The Finals uses anti-cheat software and runs flawlessly on my machine. Such a shame these other developers won’t follow suit.

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      9 months ago

      is there anything to allow you to play EAC games?

      Steam has EAC available under Linux, you just install it just like it is its own game.

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        9 months ago

        The developer has to specifically allow it though. Epic themselves don’t let EAC for Fortnite run on Linux because they don’t trust it as much as the rootkit version that only runs Windows.

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          9 months ago

          The developer has to specifically allow it though.

          True. But then that becomes a vendor problem, and not a Linux problem.

          My point is that Linux went from 0% support for any game that uses EAS, to 100% support for any game that uses (and enables) EAS. There’s many more games that you can now play on Linux that you could not before.

          • Joe Cool@lemmy.ml
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            9 months ago

            It’s almost at the point where Wine can run more games than Windows. Most games from the Win98 to early WinXP era just run fine on Wine and don’t even show a title screen or glitch and flicker on Win10.

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      9 months ago

      Heroic Launcher makes Fall Guys work fine for me and it uses EAC. It looks like Fortnite doesn’t work with Heroic’s EAC implementation; however you can play it in a browser window through Xbox Game Pass (no sub required).