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Throne and Liberty’s Steam Deck anti-cheat malady seems cured for nowWell that was a scary few hours, huh
Well that was a scary few hours, huh
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Fortunately, as of right now (October 2nd), all seems well again – I’ve got Throne and Liberty running on aSteam Deck OLEDas I type this, and can mosey around next to fellow online players without issues. A lot of them are turning into wolves. Most of them, in fact. Maybe too many.
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No-one seems to have been outright banned as a result of attempting to play on a Steam Deck, so this could be considered a happy ending. Definitely more so than other recent cases we’ve seen where anti-cheat has proven a stumbling block to portable compatibility:Wuthering Waveswas only briefly playable on the Deck before an update blocked it off again, and despite how the BattlEye anti-cheat software can easily be made compatible with SteamOS, its addition toGTA Onlinelast month involved Rockstar just…choosing not to? I guess? And the less said aboutFortnite, the better.
Throne and Liberty, at least, is now having an easier time of it. I’m prodigiously bad at guessing how games will fare in Valve’s Steam Deck Verified ranking system, but if I were to simply ignore that and speculate anyway, I’d go for ‘Playable’: some of the UI text is absolutely microscopic on the 7in screen, but it controls fine, and typically runs above 30fps on Low settings. I’d swap FSR upscaling from Balanced to Quality mode, though, just to make character models look less like they’re disintegrating into sand when they move.
