Mar 03, 2022 16:00:00

May be banned when trying to play 'Destiny 2' on Steam Deck

Valve, which operates the game sales platform Steam, released the gaming PC '

Steam Deck ' equipped with the Linux-based Steam OS on February 25, 2022. Steam Deck is a dream machine that allows you to play PC games anytime, anywhere, but if you try to play Activision's popular online action RPG ' Destiny 2 ' on Steam Deck, you may be subject to a game account suspension (BAN). It turned out to be.

Bungie rejects Steam Deck's Linux, threatens to ban Destiny 2 players there --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/22957294/bungie-destiny-2-steam-deck-game-ban

Wario64 , who has posted game-related sales information on Twitter, discovered that playing Destiny 2 on Steam Deck could result in a ban. According to Wario64, the official Destiny 2 help page has an additional section on how it works with Steam Deck: 'Destiny 2 only works in Windows environments, and Linux environments such as Steam Deck are not supported.' Not only is it written, but if you try to force this Destiny 2 to work in a Linux environment, it will be subject to BAN.

Destiny 2 is not supported for Steam Deck or any system utilizing Steam Play's Proton unless Windows is installed and running.
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Players attempting to bypass Destiny 2 incompatibility will be met with a game ban https://t.co/3XKW4Kwfjl pic.twitter.com/wKRYtSsCx1
— Wario64 (@ Wario64) March 1, 2022

The IT news site The Verge interviewed Bungie, the game studio that developed Destiny 2 in October 2021, saying, 'Destiny 2 works on both home video games and PCs.' Destiny 2 uses the anti-cheat system BattlEye and is also enabled on Steam Deck. ”“ Destiny 2 can also be run on Linux. ”

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Steam is developing an open source compatible software ' Proton ' that allows games for Windows to be played on Linux, and will adopt BattlEye in November 2021 ' Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord ' and ' ARK: Survival '. It has been announced that Evolved now works fine on Proton. However, at the time of writing, the official Destiny 2 help page states that 'Destiny 2 is not compatible with the Proton environment.'

Similarly, it has been announced that Epic Games' popular battle royale game ' Fort Knight ' will not be compatible with Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, explained why it wasn't supported: 'It's very difficult to service because of the various incompatible configurations,' and using cheat tools on Linux with custom kernels. It is explained that it is difficult to prevent cheating such as.

With regard to anti-cheat on the Linux platform supporting custom kernels and the threat model to a game of Fortnite's size, YES THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT!
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) February 7, 2022