this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
347 points (98.1% liked)

Linux Gaming

26252 readers
63 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

Help:

Launchers/Game Library Managers:

General:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
monolalia@lemmy.world
347
Epic Games is hiring a Senior Game Security Engineer for their Anti-Cheat team to champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities while working on OS internals, reverse engineering, and protecting multiplayer (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
130 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

https://www.epicgames.com/site/careers/jobs/6019148004

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

VAC doesnt immediately ban when a cheat is detected, It delays the ban to make it harder for cheat makers to figure out what, when, how, and why it was detected.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And? It still detects the cheats and bans the users. And it does it without kernel-level anti-cheat.

The delay isn't a limitation, it's a design decision to prevent reverse engineering, as you've point out. Yet that didn't stop you from falsely alluding that it's not capable

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Why the fuck you going at me with both guns drawn when all I did was explain, factually and neutrally, about how VAC works and why you see bans happen in waves instead of in the moment?