This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn’t take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully… even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope…
Does the anti-cheat break the game on Linux? Not buying the game. I don’t need that kind of crap in my life.
On Windows the cheating program it’s a simple exe that will get kernel access with a simple uac request.
Everyone, especially 12 years olds, are able to run it. (And maybe get malware/ransomware disguised as a cheating program)
None of the losers that need a cheating program to feel validated in online multiplayer games will have the skills to recompile the kernel in Linux to add support for that
None of the losers that need a cheating program to feel validated in online multiplayer games will have the skills to recompile the kernel in Linux to add support for that
aha! so you admit, IT’S POSSIBLE! Well aren’t we lucky we have microshoft who won’t let anyone recompile their colonels! shows you mr silly yunix!
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Developer of game ‘Rust’ talks about
anticheatrootkits on LinuxThis whole anticheat thing is so stupid. Remember when Sony got sued bigtime for including rootkits on their audio CDs? Why are game developers getting away with it no problem? Society is regressing and it’s frustrating to watch.
People are never interested in learning from history, they’d rather run face first into that wall.
The abusers typically.did read histor, saw what worked well, what didn’t, learned from that to become even better abusers.
This doesn’t only apply to games, it applies to politics, celebrities, religious clerks,you name it
People are never interested in learning from history, they’d rather run face first into that wall.
Just saw a comment in a topic about steam machines about “why do we even need to care about the past, its in the past, it doesnt matter anymore”
humanity is devolving to a state dumber than the chimp that scratches its ass, sniffs its finger, and falls off the log in shock at the smell.
The garbage took itself out.
If Valve’s expanding hardware lineup helps increase SteamOS adoption, they’ll change their tune.
Not a chance.
Overhaul your entire game stack || Blame Linux for being too small
Why would they need to overhaul their game stack? Rust would run just fine on Linux if they didn’t block it intentionally.
When I say they’re gamestack, I’m talking about their client and their backend services and their associated middleware.
Moving a game that is mostly client authoritative to server authoritative is a hell of a lot of work and requires serious rewrites to both the client and the server.
It also requires a lot more compute to handle the back end.
When you go from calculating everything on the front end and just sending the data back to the back end to sending actual controls to the back end and doing simulations, you need to rewrite a significant portion of everything.
It’s way cheaper and way faster just to write it in the client, and require the kernel/secured OS to police risky actions to the application.
The last couple of projects I looked at were probably 50% more man hours to make it server authoritative out of the box. Trying to come back and do it after the fact, It’s much, much higher.
I doubt that they will, given the fact that Linux is misrepresented a lot. They use Linux servers, so why not support Linux already?
I will be so happy when the era of client-side anticheat is over. I think it will happen eventually, especially now that Valve is releasing the new Steam Machine and has been so successful with Proton-based gaming lately.
Plus, Windows getting so much worse and the zero days and exploits of these kernel-level anticheats will put pressure on the devs to move away from them imo.
yea i think its a matter of time linux is very quickly becoming the operating system of enthusiasts not in spite of gaming but for gaming too. Some older games dont even run properly on windows
But for people with older pcs priced out of the market who are still very heavy gamers they will naturally trend toward debloated windows variants and linux, and with the speed linux has grown in even just the last year its pretty likely itll be more close in market share to macos sooner rather than later. and more of the people who leave windows go to linux vs mac based on stats available so its in some good standing right now.
i talk to many regular people about linux and many seem completely open to switch tbf these are more educated people in school though and one does programming but i think majority of people would be open to running something like a debian or ubuntu and even something more complex with the right applications to support daily usage
on the enthusiast note for example, if you want the best vr performance on your index or vive or other wired headsets your best performance will be running monado on linux using openvr translation, thats just reality, steamvr is pretty ass. And many alternative softwares for gaming like wivrn are completely free and available to everyone instead of charging for similar windows software, gamers use linux and they make sure its a relatively good experience
Isn’t the real issue the PCIe bus being undetectable-y intercept-able with devices that sit between the gpu and cpu?
correct that is where majority of cheats are, because as they dig deeper with anticheat backdoors it pushed people to take advantage of shit like injecting the data directly into the pcie bus untraceably, and the ways to catch that have all been unshockingly server side…
This is the Garry’s Mod dude?
I feel like the 0.01% is either a mistake or an exaggeration? Isn’t Linux something like 1-2% of the gamer base depending on how you measure it? Why would a Linux supported hard-core game be 100x less than that?
Its a clue in to why their argument is in bad faith.
Their game was never supported strongly enough to actually encourage people on linux to trust it.
No 0.01% was quite possibly the actual number at the time. What he didn’t tell is that by the time they stopped the Linux port it was in an abysmal state after months or years of neglect. Poor performance at best, up to outright not working, depending on your hardware.
one that would be poorly maintained by both us and EAC due to the low user base.
I’m sure I’ve been playing a lot of games with EAC, because it’s actually one of the few ones that support Linux.
If I’m not mistaken (judging entirely by the RAC popup/loading), from the games I’m playing, Hell Let Loose, Fellowship, Helldivers 2, I think even The Finals used it.
Hell Let Loose wasn’t working at first, because you have to check a checkbox and enable Linux support when building, which did take them a while.
So, unless I’m misremembering/confusing it with another anticheat, this is bullshit.
Also “unless you have an in-house anti-cheat team”
You made millions out of your player base. You can afford it. You’re just lazy.
yea thats one of the funniest parts like oh so your game that makes tons of money and has rampant cheating doesnt have any team dedicated to the issue? that explains a lot!
don’t play this shit
I’d imagine people on Linux who want to play Rust would be more than happy to shell out $15 and go through the little effort it is to download DLC so they can play on a Premium server when the other option is to shell out $140 for a Windows 11 license and go through the effort of installing that spyware trash to their PC.
On the other hand, Alistair clearly doesn’t want your money so maybe stop trying to give it to him.
i didnt plan to anyway lol and i dont think people should bother, rust is not a game worth the extra money or even worth the time in general… and its damn well not worth a windows install, and i say that as someone who alrdy has one just in case on my system, i wouldnt even choose to boot up windows to play rust…
Hardware level cheat detection has always been a losing game. I’m a professional in similar area (not games) but it’s fundamentally impossible to do when you dont control physical hardware, it’s stupid. The only way to detect cheaters is machine learning based behavior analysis, period.
TL;DR: skill issue
The only way to detect cheaters is machine learning based behavior analysis, period
Either the entire game industry is incompetent, or you’re wrong. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but the only way? No chance.
Entire game industry is incompetent as in “willfully not doing the best as long as it keeps selling, or not having resources to do it anyway”. I can believe that
Not sure what to believe here due to I haven’t gamed in years. What’s everyone take on this? Educate me.
TBF, you’d have to pay me to play most of these “anti-cheat” games anyhow.
BF6 is pretty great honestly
But I think you still would have to pay him if you want him playng BF6.
I can’t speak with 100% accuracy. I just have something that tells me so.
