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Usually it’s not for multiplayer games. I’m surprised Roblox’s anti-cheat is fine running on Wine since Roblox has been dealing with cheaters (injecting LUA scripts into the client/server, known as level 4/7 exploits) for over a decade.



They mostly solved cheating with good netcode design ala Source Engine


Absolutely none of the problems mentioned in this article have anything to do with Roblox being an online game.


Let’s just say this would have been (and is) a problem for competitive games like Fortnite, Valorant and Apex Legends - at least until Epic releases the Linux Easy Anti Cheat to third party developers https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/game/guides/os/


Linux Easy Anti Cheat already exists. Games like Rust and 7 Days to Die do this fine on Linux.

The issue is those developers aren't releasing a Linux native version of the game that can use the native anti-cheat. And getting a Windows version of anti-cheat working through Wine is harder. Games like Valorant and Apex will never release a Linux native version




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