Cool! Still a bug ridden mess full of cheaters with devs who are lazy bigots and refuse to make female characters because "women can't handle war"?
Cool! Skipping it still!
‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks
Submitted 10 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestubbs/2025/08/31/escape-from-tarkov-coming-to-steam-imminently/
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Envy@fedia.io 8 hours ago
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I heard that game has a really bad problem with cheaters. Addressing that seems like it would take precedence over getting the game on Steam. You only get one shot to make a first impression and all.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
The cheating problem is off the charts. There was a really good video of someone who investigated how bad it was, and found that about 50% of players were using wallhacks.
I played it for a couple months. The gunplay was pretty impressive, but the cheaters made it incredibly frustrating, and after seeing that video, I uninstalled and never looked back.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
*50% of raids had at least A player using wall hacks.
SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
The game is very fun and the loop is quite addictive, but PvE is probably the best thing that has happened to it in a long time. The AI needs minor tweaking, but not playing against other people and cheaters is so great. Being able to play with friends makes it fun.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The game has had major cheating issues since Covid started. There only so much they can do when the game is build on over a decade of shit code.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Is there a modern popular shooter that doesn’t have a cheating problem? And if so, what are they doing differently?
threeonefour@piefed.ca 9 hours ago
I've also heard it doesn't run on Linux, ironically due to it's kernel level anti-cheat.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
There isnt actually a way to make functional anticheat as long as its playable on your own device. Its pointless to try and a waste of money. The only way is banning offenders and premium/custom matchmaking.
tal@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
kagis
I haven’t played it, but it sounds like it doesn’t have a replay system, which apparently has exacerbated finding cheaters.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
It doesn’t, and that’s one of the reasons I only play offline with mods rather than online.
killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
does the game just run off a downloadable exe? or is it on epic or something
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
They have their own launcher.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
If you like the idea there is a PvE mode which is fine. But the AI has its own cheats and there are all the other issues mentioned in this thread.
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Personally I’ll avoid sending any Western money to the Russian economy that I can. BSG has been able to weasel out of political controversy thus far…but it’s a milsim, the devs are probably more pro-Russia than not, they’re just smart enough to keep their mouths shut and keep accepting Western patronage.
warm@kbin.earth 7 hours ago
The main dev is pro-russia.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
BSG still means Beets and Bears to me
blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Doesn’t mean it’s going to work on linux
tal@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
facebook.com/groups/…/1842637456471565/
Sounds like PvE works, but not PvP.
This guy claims that he got it working in PvP, at least at one point:
old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/…/tarkov_on_linux/
Ran fine for me with Proton Easy Anti-Cheat when added to Steam. This was a few patches ago now though. Whenever Streets came out.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 8 minutes ago
Yuck