Even with Easy Anti-Cheat, the risk of cheating is simply too big for Epic to support it on Valve’s handheld.
Anyone hoping to play Fortnite on the Steam Deck in the coming months got some bad news yesterday from Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games. As PC Gamer reports, Sweeney was asked on Twitter if there are plans to update Fortnite to make it compatible with anti-cheat solutions on Linux, thus allowing the game to run natively on Valve’s gaming handheld. Sweeney replied, “Fortnite no, but there’s a big effort underway to maximize Easy Anti Cheat compatibility with Steam Deck.” It’s surprising for Epic to decide against porting Fortnite to a new platform, but when pushed for further detail Sweeney explained, “We don’t have confidence that we’d be able to combat cheating at scale under a wide array of kernel configurations including custom ones.
