BattlEye will also support Steam Deck with its anti-cheat software

Anti-cheat software BattlEye, known for games such as PUBG, Fortnite, Escape From Tarkov and Rainbow Six: Siege, will also support the Steam Deck. Easy Anti Cheat, another software for that, was also tacked on.

BattleEye does sign up that individual developers using their software must also explicitly give the green light for operation on the Steam Deck. SteamOS, which will run the Steam Deck, is Linux-based and while BattlEye already has native Linux support, Windows games on the Steam Deck will run with the Proton compatibility layer. Compatibility still has to come for that and BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat have now promised that.

Valve’s Steam Deck will be a Nintendo Switch-esque handheld running on SteamOS. The handheld will have to be able to play as many Steam games as possible via Proton. According to ProtonDB, 16,290 games run on Linux through Proton to a greater or lesser extent. The first copies of the Steam Deck will ship in December.