Rockstar Games’ servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

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The most confusing part about this is that people are still playing GTA Online. Why…?

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I’m still playing old school RuneScape.

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Nobody ever stops playing osrs, we just take breaks

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People enjoy video game, more news at 11

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something that perplexes me to this day

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Cash cow

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Hardcore normies.

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6 points

Because it keeps getting updates?

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80 points

Articles a joke since it doesn’t mention that the people pissed off are the linux players. Not the cheaters but the linux users.

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That’s why one never pisses off a Linux user.

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After having talked to some on the GTA V SCUD, so many think we are in support of the cheaters and are framing our frustration around us just wanting the cheaters back.

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There’s a patch for proton for Battleye. My understanding is that it’s really easy for developers to support Linux with it, but I think they’re using their own engine, so things may be harder. Regardless, that’s bullshit if they added something without considering Linux users.

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time for refunds.

Steam has refunded games that added anti-cheat that broke linux playability in the past iirc

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They have also denied refunds if a game is running in the background and you have 100 hours while editing a spreadsheet, so tread lightly

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Iam out of the loop. What kind of cheats are available in gta online? Edit: or what was available.

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Hackers like to glitch other users. Randomly turn into a toilet, have all of your ammunition disappear, suddenly fly into the air and die on impact. It made public servers unplayable. Friends only sessions were necessary

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The most common cheat is probably gaining money or experience, but there have always been pretty extensive mod menus for GTA Online with tools from invincibility to making your vehicles rainbow, to randomly causing other players to explode or setting hundreds of muggers on them.

In 2015ish, I used to cheat, other than getting rich, all I was interested in doing was making an indestructible chrome bus with smoke trails that I’d drive around picking up players in, to teleport us all to North Yankton and back like a tour guide.

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Thanks for the insight! Random chromebus with smoketrails sounds fun, thought.

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Aren’t there like cheat servers and non-cheat servers? Or is that a “gentleman’s agreement” that not everyone is playing fair with if you can’t fully block it because of mods etc?

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They didn’t enable linux support on the anticheat, so the game no longer runs on Linux/steam deck

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None, now.

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So what your saying is the cheaters are pissed off

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That is what they are suggesting but its the linux users who are pissed.

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Unpopular opinion…

Man, I wrote a whole WoT about this. Deleted it. Fuck the cheaters. I don’t know why it’s so hard to stop them. The kind of people that will DDoS a company for blocking them are the same ones that will cheat. No gold star for any honest players that DDoS, either. If there’s a server problem or a bad patch that prevents me from playing my first thought isn’t to DDoS the company and fuck up everyone else’s game in a fit of petty revenge too. That said, it’s sad that honest players are the only ones harmed after the cheat coders found their workaround so quickly.

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That’s not what this is about, the article is simply garbage. They are enforcing a kernel level anti-cheating system that is incompatible with Linux (where no third party gets kernel access, and rightly so). This locks out all Linux players, including Steam Deck.

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