Sea of Thieves gets Easy Anti-Cheat - thankfully enabled for Steam Deck / Linux
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Sea of Thieves just got a big upgrade and with it Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is now online. Thankfully the developers have ensured it's enabled for Steam Deck / Linux players using Proton.

While I would still prefer no anti-cheat, this also means we probably won’t have to worry about a non-compatible anticheat getting added later.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Feels like client side anticheat is a perpetual game of cat and mouse either way. EGS certainly doesnt prevent cheaters from spoiling apex (impossible aim & recoils control, impossible aim snapping & prefiring on target location, impossible movement etc).

    Server side would be great but extremely costly in terms of performance from what little I understand.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      11·
      8 months ago

      I think VAC is the best. It will be interesting to see how VACnet develops with the AI boom now.

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Neat! I wasn’t aware of this. Has there been any press or indication of its efficacy so far?

        • warm@kbin.earth
          21·
          8 months ago

          Valve are very mouth shut about AC, which is for the best. They also have trust factor, which is a rating given to your account based on many factors across Steam, to try and predict if you are trustworthy, so it will match you with other trusted accounts.