BattleBit Remastered, the $15 indie FPS that became an instant bestseller on Steam last month, will continue to support Steam Deck after the scheduled anti-cheat update arrives The BattleBit team made the Discord The news was announced during a developer livestream and later confirmed by the server moderators (noticed by Steam Deck HQ).

This made BattleBit a rarity on the platform: many multiplayer games that should be playable on Steam Deck are not, due to the fact that the associated anti-cheat software is not compatible with Valve's Windows apps running on the Linux-based Deck BattleBit has been deemed "unsupported" because it is incompatible with Proton, the tool Valve uses to run Windows apps on the Linux-based Deck; BattleBit uses a version of Easy Anti-Cheat that works with Proton and has thus far worked on Deck.

When the developers announced that they would soon move to FaceIT, the anti-cheat software preferred by CS:GO players for unofficial matches and generally incompatible with Linux, players worried that it would spell the end of handheld BattleBit. Instead, BattleBit will use "a new version of FaceIT that supports Linux," the game's Discord moderators said. They also said that BattleBit will be the first game to support this Linux-friendly version of FaceIT.

BattleBit moderators have banned thousands of players for cheating and harmful behavior through both manual and automated processes in the last month. Given the game's small team and explosive popularity, it makes sense that they would want to automate the process as much as possible.

Lead developer SgtOkiDoki suggests that FaceIT is a better fit for BattleBit than Easy Anti-Cheat. Thankfully, this does not mean leaving Steam Deck players behind.