Things are looking brighter for Valve’s Steam Deck and its potential library of games. On Friday, the company announced titles that rely on Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software can now run on mobile devices. Valve says adding Steam Deck support to titles that use EAC is “a simple process”. Developers won’t need to update their SDK versions or make other time-consuming changes. With extra valve through the Proton for Linux compatibility layer late last year, the company said, “which means the two biggest anti-cheat services are now easily supported on Proton and the Steam Deck.” In practice, that means many of your favorite games will work with Valve’s handheld when it does. coming out next month.
Of course, Valve has one thing that makes it easy for developers to make sure their games run without issues on the Steam Deck, and something entirely separate for them to do the necessary work to ensure compatibility. Compatible. At the time, when Valve announced support for BattlEye in December, they said all developers had to do was contact the company to enable the software for their title. However, it remains unclear whether some of the most popular multiplayer games on Steam use BattlEye and EAC, including titles like Rainbow Six Siege and PUBG, will go live on the first day of the Steam Deck. Valve has tried to resolve some of those uncertainties with . This week, Valve added , 39 of which will run without problems on the device.
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