The latest plea for official Proton support started on Reddit, where Scout339v2 shared their screenshot of Rust running “on a server with EAC disabled to show that the game already works perfectly on Linux.” Disabling Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is the key factor here, and part of a broader conversation where Facepunch and its Linux/Proton userbase don’t see eye-to-eye.
While it’s true Rust runs on Proton, you can’t join official servers, and most unofficial servers, with EAC disabled. Facepunch considered changing its stance in 2022 when the Steam Deck launched, but didn’t end up introducing official Proton support. COO Alistair McFarlane said at the time that Linux is “safer for cheat developers,” and that trying to support EAC on another platform could reduce the team’s ability to support Windows.
Seems I correctly assessed that game as sketchy bullshit
It’s been a cash-in on DayZ for what, 13 years now?
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.
;)
Game Developers who don’t want to support Linux are not serious about developing games but getting more dollars for each dollar spent so an imaginary Stock Exchange line can go up.
Rust developer opens mouth. Inserts foot.
Oh no, where will I go now to have 12 year olds tell me to kill myself while shouting racial slurs at my base.
Skill issue
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.
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
Much like people who craft their games with human hands aren’t really serious about AI generated art.
Rust is still a thing?
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.
Oh no! Anyway.
If you’re willing to spend some money on cheating there’s no way to prevent people from just aimbotting based on video output and feeding it as USB mouse commands. These anti-cheat systems are just shit solutions compared to server-side culling, superhuman reflex detection and report/review systems with premium servers and bans. Just give people in-game currency for correctly agreeing with the consensus and some people will go nuts on it for less than $1 per hour of in-game items.
Anti-cheat systems basically fuck with the kernel so if a game has it there’s a case for not playing it.
This always screams of a person that thinks their views are the default views of reality. Really shows how self centered he is.
