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Anti-cheat stops Mecha BREAK running on Desktop Linux but works on Steam Deck
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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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How does it know you're on the deck? I gave a gut feeling that that should be easily bypassable.
Maybe the Hardware? Easiest identifier for the deck would be the same hardware in any deck.
The question is whether the publisher will then press the brakes and generally deactivate linux support in the event of a bypass.
But how is it checking the hardware, I have more permissions than the game on my machine, I can very easily make it believe it's running in a Deck unless it tries to use specific instructions that my hardware doesn't have (which I highly doubt)
Well, valve and AMD have worked together on this. Apart from that, steam is a DRM platform and there is a lot of tracking going on all the time (also during login) and in games. I don't know what the rights look like anymore, because there was a change at steam once, but steam itself should still have root/system rights somehow. In other words, it wouldn't be a problem that anti-cheat solutions could act outside of their prefix. Maybe valve is trying to get publishers to support them with a platform they can trust. (Of course i could be complete wrong)
Gameindustry. Good stuff against tracking.