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oh noooo, what am I gonna do if I cant play the game that typically involves me being chased by heavily armed end game players, screaming racial slurs at me for no good goddamn reason other than sociopathy?
I guess I'll just have to console myself with the thousand other games that run perfectly fine because their devs arent self absorbed fuckwads.
Much like people who craft their games with human hands aren't really serious about AI generated art.
Ok. I'll continue to play Elden ring, assassin's creed, hollow knight silk song, and all these other great games. There are so many good games to play, I'm good to skip rust.
Skill issue
The words of a man who made a game that is now irrelevant mean nothing to the ravenous Linux user.
Rust isn't serious about anti cheat though...
beat me to it
I love having rootkits on my pc to play a poorly coded and Un-optimized game!
Seems I correctly assessed that game as sketchy bullshit
It's been a cash-in on DayZ for what, 13 years now?
It's interesting how gamers are supposed to have a problem with people cheating in a video game, but not with their computer being compromised by bad actors.
True and usually hackers find a workaround.
If ring-0 access is the only way you can stop cheaters, your game must be poorly programmed.
Nah, cheating is just absurdly hard to stop. Even ring 0 anti cheat doesn't stop it entirely. At some point, I feel like the answer is similar to piracy, in that you must accept that there's going to be some amount of it, and then find a way to mitigate the damage. Because there are solutions to both of them that both go too far.
I think the way that CS does it is really the best one. Prevent the simple cheats, record games and let people handle the edge cases based on reports and suspicious activity.
While I agree that this is usually enough, you end up with the issue that with volume the process becomes bogged down to the point of inefficiency. The best bet is to implement this system with a much more robust server side cheat detection, and ideally not send occult information or recieve bad information from the clients to minimize the damage that can be done with a cheat.
I didn't know CS did this, but yeah, at a high level, that's how I'd address it, too. It's probably not a solution that scales super well due to the manual review required, and I know that game has a reputation of people still being annoyed by cheaters, but it might be the best we can do without being very invasive, like the ring 0 stuff.
Reminds me that DRM used to run Kernel Side until software side drm was the safest/less sketchy option.
Those who don't support them are not serious about software quality.
Well, I for one am serious about anti-cheat: if the company making the game makes it more important than the game itself, I make game not important for me
Then I have 'no plans' on ever giving them money for their shitty designed game
Oh, this is about that shitty survival game‽ I thought it was talking about the rust language. I was so very confused.
Games that have no plans for Linux are not serious about gamers.
Oh no, where will I go now to have 12 year olds tell me to kill myself while shouting racial slurs at my base.
This always screams of a person that thinks their views are the default views of reality. Really shows how self centered he is.
Thank you for your insight, Nude Bullying Simulator dev. Obviously you know about serious subjects.
I remember previous outbursts from facepunch. This has nothing to do with anti-cheat, they have been staunchly anti linux for some time now. They have floated the idea of removing linux support for garrys mod for years.
I bet there's some kind of kickback from Microsoft involved here. Maybe indirectly. Because the only reason I still have a Windows PC (just one left) is to play Fortnite with my kiddo. Every other PC and tablet is running Linux since October.
Unsurprising, Facepunch were hostile in the past to the idea, temporarily played around with the idea, and always will be ambivalent. Given the direction that Windows is heading, it would be a time to consider cultivating fans on different operating systems. As Microsoft is messing up in a huge way these days.
Let me tell you, the average Rust player doesnt care and Facepunch know it.
Without a doubt, as long as these players get their Rust fix, they couldn't care less about Linux or the state of Windows.
The irony of it all is the best cheats of which I won't discuss bypass all anticheat including theirs. Their concern is only for the low hanging fruit for appearance only.
Thats fair, I dont expect every game to open up to linux. I know Kernel AC can be easily bypassed but it still filters some cheaters and raises the barrier to entry. It also gives a lot of people peace of mind.
Oh no! Anyway.
Can't have Rust on Linux? Just do it in C/C++!
Let's use SDL3 + Rust and make the game Rust in The programming language Rust.
;)
If they're so confident about that stance they should remove their games from Valve's services.
Rust is a toxic shit hole. Wasn't going to bother anyways but now I'm REALLY not going to bother with it
I dropped about 50 hours into it trying to learn how to play. People just killed me and stole my shit the entire time. Zero helpful people.
Rust is still a thing?
I remember there was a script(server side) that disables EAC for Linux/proton and enables it for Windows, for some reason scripting is done in C# (native language). (BTW I never played rust but learned this from a friend)