“I can confirm that we plan on updating our EAC to support the Steam Deck in the future, but we can’t confirm a release date at this time,” a Behaviour Interactive rep tells The Verge. The original reply was less promising: “At this stage it’s a ‘maybe’ for us – we are still evaluating Proton as a whole and cannot yet commit to anything,” a rep told The Verge in October. “If it’s all working as intended, we do mean to enable Battleye anti-cheat support for Proton/Linux,” a Bohemia Interactive rep tells The Verge, saying that the team wants to test and make sure the change won’t cause issues. DayZ - Tentatively yesĭayZ was originally a maybe, but the answer is now basically a yes. “I’m checking with our devs right now and will get back to you with an answer asap,” a Pearl Abyss rep told The Verge on October 3rd. In November, Valve revealed that Ark had already gained support.

“Yes, we plan to update ARK settings to enable Battleye’s anti-cheat tweak for Steam Deck,” a Studio Wildcard rep told The Verge. Ark: Survival Evolved - Complete, November 2021 “We’re checking with the Respawn team on this and will get back to you as soon as we have an update,” a rep told The Verge on September 28th.

As we are still in Alpha, we are not ready to give a definitive yes or no at this time,” a spokesperson for developer The Fun Pimps tells The Verge. Initially, only four of them gave us a definite yes, but it seems we’ve got at least one more on the way. That’s changing this year, with both Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) and BattlEye confirming to The Verge that support is on the way, and Epic says it takes “just a few clicks.” Valve says BattlEye support is as easy as an email.īut will game developers let their games take advantage? Not necessarily! We reached out to every developer of every top EAC and BattlEye game on Steam. Many of them, anyhow! Some of the biggest games on Steam use anti-cheat software that doesn’t play nice with the Proton compatibility layer which lets Windows games work. Valve’s $400 Steam Deck gaming handheld runs Linux, but it can play Windows games too.

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