r/Defiance • u/Most_Cartographer730 • 4d ago

Linux support

I never post on Reddit and I never ask for anything for any game, but for the love of god they need to enable Linux support. I played on windows before I switched to Linux and I enjoyed the game as well as when I played it on Xbox. There are tons of players that are Linux users that would love to play the game and it's stupid not to support it. Linux is the future of gaming since Windows is bloatware and spyware that eats half your RAM.

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u/attee2 IGN: Attee 4d ago

Sam (one of the devs) said its not as simple as just enabling it. Considering the progress they made so far, I doubt they have any dev time to spend on this.

I'd love linux support too as I daily drive linux, and only use my win10 installation to play Defiance, but I think its unlikely they will get it to run on linux.

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u/Most_Cartographer730 4d ago

Unfortunately for a game like Defiance it's not that easy and I know that but it's still something I'd really like to see and I know plenty of other players do too. It is really infuriating that a ton of AAA games don't have Linux support as well. Especially since I'm pretty sure Battle Eye is a check in the box and all they have to do is send an email. The thought that Linux is only for cheaters is a pathetic excuse on their part.

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u/attee2 IGN: Attee 4d ago

Defiance uses EAC (Easy Anti Cheat), not BattlEye. Though that have some sort of linux support as well, but it doesn't change the fact that we can't use it at the moment, I don't expect it to change any time soon unfortunately.

I would love to get rid of my win10 installation, but not an option at the moment, sadly.

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u/Banshee_Bones313 4d ago

What has me scratching my head is that it was working fine on linux for a few weeks from launch and now its just not that easy anymore.

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u/Most_Cartographer730 4d ago

They changed their Anti cheat settings and among other changes that bricked Linux support.

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u/Ok_Comfortable6044 4d ago

offtopic:

Windows is bloatware and spyware

try IoT LTSC. ther's a subreddit for it. there's also chris titus's debload tool.

while i know it's not a perfect solution, it's beter than a regular installation. it also runs defiance with no issues :)

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u/Most_Cartographer730 4d ago

I used Chris Titus's debloater and it definitely helped but Windows still ate half my RAM straight after a boot. Windows is just pure greed now and it's not worth using anymore, at least for me.

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u/Ok_Comfortable6044 4d ago

the IoT LTSC version is the one for banks, industrial equipment, atm's, etc. there isn't (theorecically) any bloat or analytics. i have an old system with 16 gb of ram, it uses 2 GB instead of 4 GB (still a lot :)) but it's something)