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Now that theSteam Deckhas gainedEasy Anti-Cheat(EAC) andBattlEyecompatibility, the way is clear for more of Steam’s most-played multiplayer games to achieve full it-just-works-ability with Valve’s handheld. In theory, anyway. Developers still need to enable their respective anti-cheat tech to work with Proton, the compatibility layer that permits Windows games to run on SteamOS. That raises the question: who will?
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Others remain up in the air. A rep for Hi-Rez Studios, developers of potential Steam Deck recruitsPaladinsandSmite, relayed that “We don’t currently have a timeline available but hope to provide such support in the near future”, whileDayZ’sBohemia Interactive literally responded “At this stage it’s a ‘maybe’ for us.”
“We are still evaluating Proton as a whole and cannot yet commit to anything,” they added.
As various Valve staff have suggested, including in Katharine’sSteam Deck interview, the end goal is to get every game on Steam playable on the Steam Deck. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that different kinds of games face different kinds of challenges in getting there, though with a couple of months before the Steam Deck’s launch (and in all likelihood, several more before all reserved units are delivered), there’s still time.
According to some who received Steam Deck dev kits, significant additional development time may not be required at all. Valve designer Lawrence Yang’sTwitteris a good source for seeing (usually indie) games already running on the handheld, including arather brilliant glimpseof flight sim X-Plane 12.
