BattlEye anti-cheat confirms Steam Deck support

Epic Games declared yesterday that Simple Anti-Cheat now has indigenous help for Linux and MacOS, and also works with Wine and Proton, the compatibility layers employed to operate Home windows plans on Linux. The simple outcome is that any recreation using Effortless Anti-Cheat, like Apex Legends, Day by Daylight, and Halo, must operate just fantastic on the Steam Deck at launch.

Not to be outdone, BattlEye introduced now that it much too will operate on Steam Deck software out of the gate.

“BattlEye has presented indigenous Linux and Mac aid for a lengthy time and we can announce that we will also assistance the upcoming Steam Deck (Proton),” BattlEye tweeted. “This will be done on an decide-in foundation with sport builders picking out no matter whether they want to make it possible for it or not.”

This is crucial. As we defined in August, anti-cheat software program for numerous on the net video games has struggled with Proton, and if the anti-cheat doesn’t run then neither will any game that depends on it. BattlEye compatibility opens the door to a quantity of pretty preferred on the internet game titles on the Steam Deck, like Ark: Survival Advanced, Arma 3, Destiny 2, Fortnite, PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Survarium.

I’m not entirely very clear what currently being “accomplished on an choose-in foundation” means—I suggest, I know what “opt-in foundation” indicates, I just really don’t have an understanding of why a developer would not want their recreation to assist BattlEye and therefore not operate on Steam Deck. I have emailed Battleeye for clarification.