Easy Anti Cheat 'Couldn't start the game' i have been playing games with easy anticheat for a couple years now and this is the first time this has ever append to me. I have followed all of ZigZag3143's advice about this on another guys question but i just need help for this.
Valve Anti-Cheat bans more than 90 thousand Steam accounts By:Nedim Hadzic - CJ. Published: 14:52, 20 July 2018. Steam planning on new Game Festival in October. From the Steam KB. Important: All VAC bans are permanent - Valve has a zero-tolerance policy for cheating and will not lift VAC bans under any circumstances. Also, Any third-party modification to a game designed to give one player an advantage over another is classified as a cheat or hack and will trigger a VAC ban.
To be fair, Steam numbers indicate that at least 10,000 cheaters get banned daily from Valve's digital distribution platform but they seem to have turned up the heat even further. This is basically providing in a day what you needed a week to get done.
The sudden nature of Valve's move has prompted many to speculate that the company's algorithms were updated to recognise previously undetectable cheat methods, which would indeed make sense. Well, either that or Steam's leadership took their sweet time to be certain.
The sheer scope of Steam's digital offer means that VAC had plenty of games to cover, although it doesn't take a psychic to assume participation by the usual in-house suspects like Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2. We can't forget third-party games either, with Call of Duty perhaps being the prime example of Steam's third-party heavyweights.
We're sure there are plenty more games targeted though but it's not like we discriminate when it comes to cheaters - we hate them all the same.
As these things usually go, reddit has responded as well by opening a subreddit dubbed , which isn't dedicated to porn but the banned cheaters. Many players are recognising old, ahem, acquaintances. Others are simply taking pleasure in the fact that many of these Steam accounts have some serious bling in their inventory, with one account having tens of thousands of dollars.
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Incidentally, in what are more coincidental than correlated news, Niantic have tightened up their Pokemon GO as well, introducing a three strike policy with an appeal period. Obviously, not even Pokemon are exempt from people looking to ignore the rules and just end up first, however they would justify it in their heads.
Some really good news for PC gamers everywhere, as it seems one small battle against invasive anti-cheat has been won.
Recently, DOOM Eternal gained the brand new Denuvo Anti-Cheat tech, which is not to be confused with their usual DRM tech. This addition entirely broke it in the Steam Play Proton compatibility later for Linux and enraged the wider PC community for being added after the game was already released. Just take a look at how the user reviews went on Steam…
On Reddit, id Software made a post to explain their plans for updating DOOM Eternal after the backlash. In the post they explained that the anti-cheat will be removed from the game in the next update. They also said that if/when they try again in future, at minimum they 'must consider' that it will have the ability to play single-player without it.
Going even further than that, Michail Greshishchev, the Product Owner at Denuvo claims that Denuvo Anti-Cheat will actually support Proton in future releases. They mentioned this over on Valve's Proton GitHub issue tracker:
Denuvo Anti-Cheat will have Proton support out-of-the-box for releases beyond DOOM: Eternal. Feel free to @ me directly with feedback once you had a chance to try it. I'm happy access is restored for you guys.
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It's not entirely clear if they mean it will work with online play, or just auto detect Proton to disable it for single-player parts of games. If they clear that up, we will let you know. Either way, it's good to see because Linux gaming is starting to have more attention paid to it.
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DOOM Eternal can be found on Steam.