Things are trying brighter for Valve’s Steam Deck and its potential sport library. On Friday, the corporate introduced titles that rely on Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software program can now run on the transportable. Valve mentioned including Steam Deck help to titles that make the most of EAC is “a simple process.” Developers gained’t have to replace their SDK model or make different time-consuming modifications. With Valve including BattlEye help by way of its Proton compatibility layer for Linux late final 12 months, the corporate mentioned, “this means the two largest anti-cheat services are now easily supported on Proton and Steam Deck.” In observe, that ought to imply extra of your favourite video games will work with Valve’s handheld when it launches subsequent month.
Of course, it’s one factor for Valve to make it simple for builders to make sure their video games run with out problem on Steam Deck and a totally separate factor for them to do the required work to make sure compatibility. To that time, when Valve introduced BattlEye help in December, it mentioned all builders needed to do was contact the corporate to allow the software program for his or her title. And but it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not a number of the hottest multiplayer video games on Steam that make the most of BattlEye and EAC, together with titles like Rainbow Six Siege and PUBG, will work on day one in all Steam Deck’s availability. Valve has tried to deal with a few of that uncertainty with its not too long ago introduced Deck Verified program. This week, Valve added 67 titles to the database, 39 of which ought to run with out problem on the gadget.