Helldivers 2 Anti-Cheat Change Breaks Mods but Keeps Steam Deck Compatibility

Helldivers 2 developer, Arrowhead, has simply introduced a considerable change to the sport’s anti-cheat techniques: A transfer away from GameGuard to Simple Anti-Cheat. The change will happen on October 20, and Arrowhead defined in a current Steam submit that the justification for the change away from GameGuard comes right down to cracking down on cheat mods and implementing extra safety instruments to “enhance recreation integrity safety.”

• Implementing extra safety measures to crack down on current cheat mods which were circulating.
• Transitioning from GameGuard to Simple Anti-Cheat immediately, October twentieth, with extra safety instruments in place to boost its effectiveness and enhance recreation integrity safety.

The studio explains within the submit that there was a notable improve within the variety of mods that have an effect on gameplay, together with pick-up charges, and “manipulate the warfare itself, breaking the unfolding story and dragging down harmless gamers with it.” As such, Arrowhead notes that the change to EAC will particularly influence and break mods that have an effect on different gamers’ gameplay. Nevertheless, it provides that “some non-malicious beauty mods might require updates from their particular person creators with the intention to maintain working.

The studio additionally provides that the change to EAC is not going to influence compatibility with the Valve Steam Deck and SteamOS, basically, although Helldivers 2 might be utilizing EAC’s kernel-level anti-cheat. There are additionally no new {hardware} necessities, like TPM or safe boot. Arrowhead didn’t instantly point out how account bans would work underneath the brand new anti-cheat implementation or if malicious mods would lead to account bans.