Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

According to Mutahar:

1. The Anti Cheat has already been bypassed by a free cheat menu on Windows.

2. He's fairly sure he has figured out some kind of way to temporarily bypass (as in, it'll probably get caught in a few weeks) the linux block by some kind of custom virtualization method (requiring only one GPU) that he says he may explain in detail at some point.

In general, he's done with playing GTO.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eMSagozpKPs&pp=ygUSbXV0YWhhciBndGEgb25saW5l

But yeah, obligatory reminder for BattleEye and EasyAntiCheat games that refuse to allow linux play:

All these game devs have to do is flip a switch, click a few options in their developer portals, to allow BattleEye or EAC to work on linux, through Proton.

And its been that way for 3 years, since 2021.

There is literally no reason for games that use these services to not work on linux, the devs just don't fucking care.

If I played any Rockstar games, I'd be unhappy with their new anti-cheat too, since it needlessly blocks linux, but this isn't the way this should be protested. If anything, this probably validates their decision.

The way this should be protested is to just stop playing. Stop giving them money. Stop boosting their month active user numbers that they can flaunt to investors. Hit them financially, since it's the only hit they really care about. There's a sea of other high-quality games you can play instead.

The fact that it’s a top 10 seller on steam deck for years and they just fucked over everyone on Linux, they deserve it. We all paid them and they completely screwed all of us. I feel so cheated. I only run Linux and I have a steam deck. I left a bad review on steam and I contacted their support from all my rockstar accounts, but it’s not enough. Battleye is compatible with Linux, they just had to send an email, but rockstar keeps lying that it’s not compatible.

Can't release a sequel or single player update in a decade - can impose cheat engines. Something about a surprised pikachu when they get flak

Stop making every fucking game and open world mmo wanna be. Bring back single player with couch co op or make private lobby setups so we don’t have to fuck with every douche who wants to make everyone else’s life as sad as their own. I’m a big GYA fan but have refused to buy for this specific reason. Have almost given in repeatedly but just go watch some YouTube’s on it and it reminds me not to contribute to this shit every time.

Articles a joke since it doesn't mention that the people pissed off are the linux players. Not the cheaters but the linux users.

Couldn't we avoid all this by giving players the option to host and moderate their own servers?

Don't buy games with invasive user-side anti-cheats that hamper performance, and demand refunds on any game that adds it after purchase.

I don't understand why this is so hard for people. If everyone gave a shit, we could end this. But instead, people would rather just complain while still forking over the money to these companies.

There are so many good indie games without this kind of bullshit. We have better choices.

I bought Red Dead Redemption for myself and three friends, super excited about the game, the lore. I had never spent that much money on a game.

We all played through the single player tutorial, and finally into the open world. We meet up and begin exploring and trying to complete quests when suddenly one of us just ... drops dead.

Then another is hit by a meteor and caught on fire?

I am thrown up into the sky.

An alien ship?! Appears and messes with us for a while. I try begging in pub chat for the hacker to please leave us so we can play, which seems to goad them further. This continued for an hour.

A quick look around the internet told us that this was par for the course for RDR and GTA and Rockstar couldn't/wouldn't do anything about it.

We ended up refunding all the games through steam. Sad times.

This is actually really effective as a form of protest. From a business perspective, Rockstar probably won't roll anticheat back, but future companies will assess it as part of the risk when looking to add AC

That's disgusting! Where do those criminals gather, so I could go an express my utter disappointment to them directly?

Sounds like it's working

I'm not going to condone this, but also.... haha.

The most confusing part about this is that people are still playing GTA Online. Why...?

Good.

I really hope they don't find a way to blame the linux community for this. Even if we hate kernel level anti cheat, I think most of us were happy with the refund from Valve lol

I don't play these games or really any game that needs anti cheat. What's the controversy? I assume the anti cheat is awful?

I'm conflicted here

On one hand, I play GTA Online, and the amount of hackers is getting out of hand. Most are chill, some are extremely annoying and blow up everyone in the lobby with 800 million explosions a second. In this case, I'm annoyed that I can't play it and glad there's anti cheat.

On the other hand, I didn't realize that BattlEye would prevent Linux users from playing entirely. I'm not a Linux user (yet) myself, but that really sucks. Also, rockstar is extremely predatory with the shark cards (it was worse with Red Dead Online!) so they do kinda deserve it as some form of karma for being terrible

Edit: EAC -> BattlEye

At least you can turn it off in singleplayer and still use your mods there. That's a pretty important consideration imho.

How do those community servers for RP work? Do they require mods? Do they still work?

Iam out of the loop. What kind of cheats are available in gta online? Edit: or what was available.

As someone who is pretty old and is a crap gamer - well firstly I only play single player so I guess it wouldn't effect me. But what's the problem with anti cheat? Aside from it being code you don't want on your machine. I dunno, I don't get why people cheat. Isn't it a better feeling when you just play and get good?

Edit - I'm not defending rockstar btw. Don't know the politics here. In fact last game I enjoyed was vice city on the PS2. I'm trying to hey caught up on everything I missed. But yeah, what's the problem with anti cheat?

As it should be. Rockstar Games deserves nothing less.

Rockstar makes such weird choices considering how passionate their fans are.

I'll just play it on Xbox 360...or PS3...or PS4....or Xbox one....or PS5...or Xbox S/X...or Windows...wait is this Skyrim or GTA?

i never liked the online to begin with so, x

At one point I had been playing GTA V online pretty consistently when I had a cheater start targeting me. It was pretty frustrating and after 30 minutes of that I gave up and closed down for the day. I shifted my attention to other games after that. I definitely get that they want to stop cheaters - cheaters ruin the fun for others. It's a shame that the new anti cheat has made it so that Steam Deck players are stuck unable to play online.

Unpopular opinion...

Man, I wrote a whole WoT about this. Deleted it. Fuck the cheaters. I don't know why it's so hard to stop them. The kind of people that will DDoS a company for blocking them are the same ones that will cheat. No gold star for any honest players that DDoS, either. If there's a server problem or a bad patch that prevents me from playing my first thought isn't to DDoS the company and fuck up everyone else's game in a fit of petty revenge too. That said, it's sad that honest players are the only ones harmed after the cheat coders found their workaround so quickly.

So a bunch of assholes who like to ruin everyone else's fun are mad because they can't be script kiddie cheaters anymore. So instead they found another way to run everyone else's fun. Cool.

there is no reason you have to run intrusive anticheat just to play your favorite multiplayer game it can stop hackers but you will force people on the most trash os ever windows i love valves approach to vac but people say its not that good

So what your saying is the cheaters are pissed off

Since when TF did everyone decide cheating is fine and anti cheat is bad?!?

They're kinda proving rockstar's point, I am fairly sure the venn diagram of "protesters" (ddosers) and cheaters is more or less a circle

Imagine being such a butthurt little pussy that you DDoS a video game because you’re not allowed to cheat it or play it.

Outside of the political spectrum, I cannot imagine a more pathetic type of person.

Bitchy cheaters throwing a hissy that they can't keep creating an unfair advantage for themselves in an online environment. I hope their mothers take away their internet connection for the month.