An additional hurdle for Steam Deck and Linux

You may have heard that PUBG will be free for a few days or even forever, which is great news for those of you who didn't want or couldn't afford the game before. But like every good thing, it also has a bad side. Because free often attracts cheaters and when they start doing more serious damage to you, users back off. Of course, no game developer wants this, so they build anti-cheat systems into online games, which again have their bad features. In the case of PUBG, two groups will be in a bad mood - Steam Deck users and Linux users. What is it about?

If you're a more serious gamer, you probably know that PUBG uses an anti-cheat mechanism called BattlEye, and this year the game's own Zakynthos system was added. The latter does indeed make the defense against cheating more effective, but since it works at the level of the system kernel, it can cause problems in Linux and consequently also on Steam Deck.  Considering that PUBG is the third most popular game on Steam, this is not really good news, because the Linux game will not be available in Proton due to the absence of anti-cheat mechanisms. At least until BattleEye and EasyAnti-cheat support Linux. This can take time... ▪

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