Simply in time for it to depend as GTA 5‘s eleventh birthday current of kinds, GTA On-line‘s lastly had anti-cheat software program added to its notoriously teleporting deity-heavy PC model.
How are issues going up to now? Effectively, very chill, until you are one of many gamers which have ended up locked out because of the platform you are utilizing, unable to hop again into Los Santos as a distraction from all of that chatter about GTA 6 doubtlessly catching a delay or not (as of proper now, the reply to that seems to be to be a tentative no).
As revealed within the patch notes for this newest replace to On-line, the precise anti-cheat software program that Rockstar’s added in is BattlEye, a reputation that’ll doubtless be acquainted to people who’ve performed Future 2, Fortnite, or PUBG. When you solely play story mode and do not fancy having to run it, Rockstar’s additionally added the choice disable the software program, which may ban offenders on a {hardware} stage (i.e, when you’re caught, your comnputer might be rendered unable to fireside up GTA On-line), for single participant.
The quick time period outcomes of this, other than some obvious FPS teething points that do not look to be common, has been what I can solely describe as a grinder or automotive meet fanatic’s moist dream. “So I performed full one hour [plus] in a public foyer with out taking ages to load in, [or to] step out and in of properties,” wrote one participant, “Nobody teleported me to Cayo/LSIA/their house. No lags. Nothing. Simply 27 guys creating mayhem in a public foyer. Even bought some enterprise product in [a] public [server] after ages. Felt good. I’m very pleased.”
So for now a minimum of, you may get pleasure from a little bit of a paradise on Earth, supplied you may keep away from the common griefers and that chgeaters do not discover a approach across the software program in double-quick time, as some gamers concern. Although, these utilizing the Steam Deck or Linux cannot acquire entry to that paradise, with BattlEye’s addition having locked them out of working GTA On-line, since Rockstar seems to be to not have gotten the sport on the listing of titles with BattlEye anti-cheat which are playable on Deck through Steam’s Proton compatibility instrument as of writing.
Pissed off gamers are submitting complaints to Rockstar’s buyer help within the hopes of convincing the developer to do one thing about this sooner or later down the road, so we’ll need to see if it finally ends up issuing an replace that permits GTA On-line to work on Deck as soon as extra.
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