Vermintide 2 is one of my last remaining blockers for moving to Linux

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Gameplay Feedback
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Is it at all possible to adjust anticheat to be more Linux friendly? I’ve been going through things I use and other potential blockers to get away from Microsoft’s increasingly user-hostile “features” and Vermintide is one of the last things that block me from saying sayonara to this more and more enshittified OS.

As best as I can tell, the game seems to run OK-ish via Proton, but runs into issues with EAC and the launcher using Edge WebView2. So you can sorta run the game, but have to host on Official Realm due to anticheat, or run Modded without mods (because mods require the launcher and it depends on Edge WebView2 to run)

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I am in the exact same situation.
It would really be nice to get this fixed.

I understand that Linux is a small market compared to Windows.
It is however getting larger and larger with the latest Hardware survey on Steam 2.08% which is lager than OSX at 1.31% !

Currently there is not that many players playing, in October 2023 there was around 10,000 playing which translates to ~200 potential Linux player.
Sales numbers would be better but I don’t have those.

I understand that there is some cost involved with updating easy anti cheat, but I would imagine it to be minimal compared to most of the content drops. Fatshark even has experience with the newer version from Darktide.

To me that sounds like it is worth some investment into the game, if I was in charge at Fat Shark I would consider getting this solved as part of one of the next content drops. That way they could combine some testing efforts, or they could simply do a quick upgrade and release it as a separate Linux beta, I would love to help play test.

I get that there is not a super BIG incentive for Fatshark to make playing on Linux more possible, but there is in my mind a good chance that it would be worth it for them.

As is it is now it plays fine in the modded realm, it is just not that easy to get your finds to play there, and this game really needs to be played with friends :slight_smile:

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
https://steamdb.info/app/552500/charts/

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Microsoft is pushing Recall again, re-upping thread.

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What makes this more frustrating is that I actually had this working before the big update a few months ago, to the point I confidently bought the Sienna Necromancer DLC. Sure, it took some proper working around (see ProtonDB for details), but we had a script we could run at launch to correct the issue in EAC, amongst other tweaks that could be made depending on individual symptoms. All of that no longer works, at all.

Darktide works beautifully, but Vermintide gets broken every time we find a fix! As this point it feel actively malicious. I get that it’s a small percentage of the population that wants this to run on Linux, but it’s got to be worth more officially looking into? As it stands every time V2 breaks I lose all interest in any FatShark content whatsoever. When V2 gets a workaround, I start buying again, it really is that simple! If you want my money to be spent in either game, fix V2!

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Turns out you can’t uninstall Recall after all. Fatshark, free us.

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I used Arch Linux for about half this year, but I had to buy an extra drive and now I just started using Windows 11 for gaming. Arch Linux I have set up with a great desktop environment and workstation for programming unique projects, but since I use an NVIDIA card (RTX 3080 Ti), the lack of open source drivers, my in-game performance was pretty bad compared to Windows in pretty much every instance. My same hardware runs games typically anywhere from 20 to 50% better and much more stable on Windows.

If you game regularly, I highly recommend trying to partition a drive to use Windows or even better, have a separate SSD with Windows. There’s ways to dual boot into Windows using Grub or as I prefer, System-D Boot. If you meet the criteria, at this point Windows 11 is a stable option if you prefer it to 7 or 10. There’s also tiling window managers for Windows. It’s almost purely just for gaming now for me.

“Gaming on Loonix is ready” meme still happens to hold up for me sadly. I couldn’t replicate the performance of gaming on Windows for all but a small handful of games which were created to run natively on Linux which had equal to, or better performance on Linux. I don’t have a single game that better on Linux via Proton GE/Wine, even using custom Kernals for gaming, with the most tweaked and refined compatibility layers.

As cool as Linux is for open-source software, and some cutting edge stuff, with full optimization and control over your OS, due to the gaming market being tailored to Consoles, and Windows (especially NVidia with fully closed source drivers), it’s just simpler to have both Windows and Linux for me.

As it was, I was using multiple bootable instances of Arch Linux with custom kernels and experimenting with desktop environments, and with several terabytes of space it’s no major issue, and now Windows 11 is just another bootable thing in my boot menu with it’s own 2TB drive to put games on.

Again, being all in on Linux is a nice idea, but if you also enjoy tinkering with Linux like me, then you’re probably already having several kernals or desktop environments set up, and if you can afford and have the space to insert an extra SSD into your PC, then it’s well worth it to have Windows, even if it’s exclusively to run games that don’t play nice on Linux.

At some point, I’ll have to make a custom built PC with an AMD GPU and CPU combo, and then as I’ve seen from other Linux users, I’ll get much better performance from games, but still, as you’ve seen, Anti-Cheats kill so many games, and I’m looking forward to playing Vermintide 2 again. CS2 wtihout hackers is only possible right now with Kernal-level anti-cheats through 3rd party matchmaking which only supports Windows.

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Recall continues being a dumpster fire. Penguins needed.

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Windows wants our credit card numbers. Please save us.

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This is the year of Linux on desktop!

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+1 for Fatshark updating EAC. Got a Steam Deck, bummed that I can’t play my favorite game because of this :sob:

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Yeah, the Steam Deck is getting popular. I’m holding out hope for Linux at some point. I’d probably spend a lot more time on my Linux distros Vermintide 2 ran on them. I thought I was burnt out on it, but I just started having fun on it with randos playing ordinary campaign mode. There’s something fun about slaughtering a tide of rats and barbarians as a holy knight or nercenary, a fanatical witch hunter, or a bearded singing dwarf who fights for hearth and home. Those three keep me coming back to bash rats and grab a beer while playing with randos who dare not use a mic due to the cursed in-game voice chat that makes my studio mic sound like I got it from the dollar store. I still enjoy a chatty player from time to time.

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Last I looked at VT2 on the deck it said the anticheat was incompatible. Has this changed at all?

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That is still the case. You can use workarounds to make it playable single player, or you can host (just not join others)

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Windows Update is still malware. Fatshark, release us.