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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only thing stopping Fortnite from running on Linux is the anticheat. The anticheat it uses it made by Epic, and has a specific option for WINE compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly it actually uses two separate anti-cheat, and the second one not made by Epic doesn't have Linux or Wine support.

But it's still a weak excuse that they could just make a Linux version without that redundant second anti-cheat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Unless they changed it, the other one is Battle eye which also has Linux support