Title: Easy Anti-Cheat feature available on Linux and Steam Deck
description: Valve, the parent company of Steam, is working on a new Linux-based handheld game console - Steam Deck.
Work on a modern device has been going on for a long time. It is worth adding that the company has worked hard to implement anti-cheat software on its devices to enable online multiplayer gaming. If the system does not have anti-cheat software associated with a specific game, the game cannot be played on that device. We learned that Easy Anti-Cheat was actually made available to computer game developers for free along with Epic Online Services' free cross-platform voice messaging service.
What is Easy Anti-Cheat?
Easy Anti-Cheat is an anti-cheat service developed in partnership with Epic to help game developers protect their titles from hacking or fraud.
The service also has the ability to detect new cheating techniques and provides full game protection. It uses a database to detect possible intrusion along with machine learning. It runs in the background and even lists accounts that use codes on the Epic Online Services Developer Portal.
We have found out that Easy Anti-Cheat will be available to developers of games for Linux and macOS.
These developers can now ship Linux PC games with support for Wine and Proton compatibility layers and activate anti-cheat support with a single click of a button through the Epic Online Services Developer Portal. Currently, Easy Anti-Cheat is available for free on all major PC platforms, which should help game developers run their games on more operating systems without worrying about cheaters and hackers.
keywords: Anti-Cheat, Linux, services, news
