BattleBit Remastered won’t leave Steam Deck players behind when its anti-cheat update arrives

BattleBit Remastered, the $15 indie FPS that grew to become an immediate finest vendor on Steam final month, will proceed to help the Steam Deck after its deliberate anti-cheat replace arrives. The BattleBit crew introduced the information throughout a dwell dev stream held on Discord, and was later confirmed by a moderator on the server (as observed by Steam Deck HQ).

This makes BattleBit a rarity on the platform: many multiplayer video games that will in any other case be playable on a Steam Deck have been deemed “unsupported” on account of their related anti-cheat software program being incompatible with Proton, the instrument Valve makes use of to run Home windows apps on the Linux-based Deck. BattleBit has been purposeful on Deck to this point as a result of it makes use of a model of Straightforward Anti-Cheat that works with Proton.

When the devs introduced that it’d quickly transfer over to FaceIT, an anti-cheat software program favored by CS:GO gamers for unofficial matches that isn’t sometimes Linux-compatible, gamers feared it’d spell the tip for handheld BattleBit. As a substitute, BattleBit will use a “new model of FaceIT that helps Linux,” in line with a moderator within the sport’s Discord. In addition they say BattleBit would be the first sport to help this Linux-friendly model of FaceIT.

BattleBit’s moderators have spent the final month banning gamers by the 1000’s for dishonest and toxicity by means of each handbook and automated processes, usually to the delight of gamers when huge ban waves are introduced on everybody’s screens directly. Contemplating the sport’s small crew and its explosive reputation, it is smart that they’d need to automate the method as a lot as potential.