I must admit - I am thoroughly shocked that not only are they doing it, but they’re actually going all the way to get their main game of Fortnite with upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat running on Linux too. Although, they’re going all-in with AI, and even mentioned the new app has been “vibe coded”.
I mean it’s Linux gaming support even if it is Epic but that AI comment, yeah…
Way to bury the lede: it’s “vibe coded”. 🤢
With pretty much all software being written by LLMs that should be everybody’s default assumption in 2026.
It’s worth including if it’s not vibbed, because that’s the minority now.
Hey, it’s “for her pleasure”, after all. 🤷🏼♂️
Lol they are going hard on social media comparing how they are faster than Steam, but the new launcher they are boasting about doesn’t even have feature parity with their own old launcher never mind feature parity with Steam.
2 weeks later: “Epic Games is filing for bankruptcy after blowing all its cash on vibe coding and a marketing campaign for its new launcher”
Even though I don’t use Epic Games/play games with anticheat, I’m pretty excited about this. If Fortnite finds success with an anticheat on Linux, there’s a good chance that other major players will follow suit. The #1 reason to not switch to Linux I have seen from gamers is that they can’t play multiplayer games that require anticheat, and a ton of them use Fortnite as an example.
