When Epic Video games introduced its Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) service would be officially supported on the Steam Deck, the corporate mentioned it was doable to “activate anti-cheat help for Linux by way of Wine or Proton with only a few clicks”. Sadly, in line with a developer of Warhammer: Vermintide 2, this seemingly isn’t the case.
In a Steam discussion thread (by way of GamingOnLinux), Fatshark employees member Hedge revealed that there are in reality two variations of EAC: EOS (Epic On-line Companies) and non-EOS. Hedge says this presents an issue for some builders who need their video games to run on the Steam Deck, as a result of “most video games traditionally use Non-EOS EAC. It’s the one Vermintide 2 makes use of as effectively. Epic solely added Proton help for the EOS model of EAC. Subsequently, so as to implement Proton help for Vermintide 2, an enormous quantity of remodeling of the EAC implementation can be required”.
Lifeless by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive previously alluded to this issue again in October, resulting in considerations that it and different fashionable Steam video games could not work on the Steam Deck at launch (if in any respect). Worse nonetheless, BattlEye, one other fashionable third-party anti-cheat service, can be creating points for video games like DayZ, which may not work on the Steam Deck.
Nonetheless, this isn’t the Finish Occasions for Vermintide 2 or non-EOS EAC recreation help on Steam Deck. Hedge says that Fatshark remains to be wanting into porting the sport to the newer EAC SDK, however any official help will in the end come all the way down to “how a lot heavy lifting is concerned in migrating from the EAC we have now to the EOS EAC variant”.
Whereas it’d be a horrible disgrace if these compatibility points couldn’t be resolved earlier than the Steam Deck’s Februrary launch date, recent reports point out that loads of video games ought to nonetheless run nice on Valve’s moveable gaming PC. That mentioned, you would possibly discover the upcoming Ayaneo Subsequent higher fits your on-the-go gaming wants when you’re searching for one thing with minimal fuss.