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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Now if only they could more clearly communicate when games are playable offline.

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[–] sp3tr4l 105 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

However, it's only being forced for kernel-level anti-cheat. If it's only client-side or server-side, it's optional, but Valve say "we generally think that any game that makes use of anti-cheat technology would benefit from letting players know".

I will always love Valve for their ability to use corpospeak against corpos.

Your game has anti-cheat?

Wonderful!

I'm sure that always only results in an improved experience for all gamers, lets let them all know!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

How does vac play into all of this then ...

Edit: I was talking about them labeling vac games as being anti cheat... And wondering if they were going to pull some double standard... I didn't know they label them already and still don't know if they do...

[–] sp3tr4l 38 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

VAC is not kernel level, because surprise you don't actually need kernel level to do anti cheat well.

VAC games would just get the standard AC message banner, not the scary yellow kernel level warning banner.

... I am pretty sure VAC games have indicated on their store page that they use VAC for well over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

you don't actually need kernel level to do anti cheat well.

I'm sure you're right, but VAC is one of the worst examples for that... I think whatever Blizzard does with Overwatch 2 is a better example.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

It doesn't run at the kernel level?