While previously you've been able to play League of Legends on Linux, and there's some pretty die-hard fans using Wine to play it, that's set to end soon with Vanguard being introduced.

This also applies to Valorant. I know a lot of people look down on both games, but it’s still unfortunate for Linux to lose access to such a popular game.

I thought this part was particularly interesting:

Half of anti-cheat is making sure the environment hasn’t been tampered with, and this is extremely hard on Linux by design. Any backdoors we leave open for it are ones [cheat] developers will immediately leverage for cheats

  • bionicjoey
    17·
    6 months ago

    Tbf they’re probably rare because of the rootkit anticheat right?

    • RenardDesMers
      110·
      6 months ago

      No, they haven’t deployed the anticheat yet I think

      • bionicjoey
        30·
        6 months ago

        Oh, I see. Haven’t been following this story that closely tbh.

        • warm
          110·
          6 months ago

          League just doesn’t have that many ‘traditional’ cheaters and the game lends itself to server-side AC way more than most. The cheaters in League are more often win-traders at high elos and smurfs in low elos. Also lots of feeding and trolling. So I have no idea why they are adding Vanguard, a good reason to stop playing the game though.