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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.
All it takes is one click in the EAC SDK to support Valve's Proton. (⁠┛⁠◉⁠Д⁠◉⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.

Can we please not belittle the mentally disadvantaged by comparing them to Tim Sweeny?

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

At this point, they've invested more in not supporting Linux. This is after Linux decided to support Fortnite instead.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry what is EAC?

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Easy Anti-Cheat, the anti-cheat that's literally owned by Epic Games.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you kind sir :)

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

It's just Tim Slimy being an absolute jackass

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

You surely need many dev to accomplish this horrendous task..

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is a poor excuse, they actively don’t support Linux: rocket league had a Linux version, which was dropped and now Linux players can’t play it

[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 2 points 9 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.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] uis@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

BattleEye is supported by proton

[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How? It is kernel-level. There is no windows kernel in proton.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

EAC and BattleEye both run a userspace anticheat when used through Proton