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Respawn have killed Apex Legends’ Steam Deck support in the name of anti-cheat

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The Steam Deck is something of a talisman for gaming on Linux, its popularity and penguin-powered SteamOS having almost singlehandedly dragged it past MacOS as the second-most-used operating system among Steam users. Sadly, this also means the Valve handheld is the primary casualty when developers decide to stop bothering with Linux support, as Respawn Entertainment have decided to do for Apex Legends.

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Activision says it’s fixed an anti-cheat hack in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone

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Activision says it has “disabled a workaround for a detection system.” Modern Warfare III And Call of Duty: Warzone This resulted in legitimate players being banned by the Ricochet anti-cheat system. The company says the issue “affected a small number of legitimate player accounts” and all affected accounts have been restored. However, Zebleer, who runs … Read more

Throne and Liberty’s Steam Deck anti-cheat malady seems cured for now

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One blemish on Throne and Liberty’s barnstorming release – one day in and it’s so far up the Steam charts it’s only visible by telescope – has been some unexpected Steam Deck trouble. Despite the fantasy MMORPG having worked fine on the Deck in previous betas, a celebrating Amazon employee must have drunkenly nudged the ‘Break game on Linux’ lever at the office launch party, as reports began trickling in of handheld players being kicked from servers. The cause: Easy Anti-Cheat, Throne and Liberty’s hacker thwarter of choice, declaring an error.

Fortunately, as of right now (October 2nd), all seems well again – I’ve got Throne and Liberty running on a Steam Deck OLED as I type this, and can mosey around next to fellow online players without issues. A lot of them are turning into wolves. Most of them, in fact. Maybe too many.

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