Submitted 4 months ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
Roblox was broken on Deck and linux by the addition of a new anti-cheat. The way the Sober app gets around the anti-cheat is by instead running the android app. This apparently has some significant performance improvements over the usual PC app as well, with people reporting up to twice the performance on the same hardware.
I know people are pretty dismissive of roblox (myself included), but it’s hugely popular and it’s always good to have the option.
Just logged in for the first time in years and this was recommended. fuckin grooming simulator Image
Ah yes now we can get omegle but in roblox
I was hoping it would be a wrapper so could be used for other games like minecraft, but seems customized to Roblox and closed source.
There’s already a similar project for Minecraft- mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It’s the best way to run the worst minecraft on linux!
I hate that my friends play bedrock.
Would WayDroid qualify as what you’re looking for?
but seems customized to Roblox and closed source You don’t have to give multiple reasons for one to avoid Roblox
If they do block this then it was never about anti-cheat.
Did everyone play drunk before?
It can be very fun with friends, so it’s cool to not need to dualboot to be able to play
I know people are pretty dismissive of roblox (myself included), but it’s hugely popular and it’s always good to have the option.
Yeah I mean, to be honest I scrolled past this post/headline and was like “meh, I’d rather just play Wobbly Life”…
…but then I saw this post again and thought… damn actually this is a pretty huge win for the Steam Deck.
Even if the person buying the Steam Deck doesn’t give a shit about being able to play Roblox… if they have a kid who likes to play video games… then there is actually a really high chance this adds a huge amount of value to the Steam Deck, and for a non-zero amount of kids playing Roblox on their parent’s Steam Deck might be their first introduction to Linux… which is exactly the kind of longterm community building linux gaming needs if we ever hope to make linux gaming a mainstream thing.
Thanks for posting about this! I’ll have to give it a shot when I can
AceSLS@ani.social 4 months ago
Afaik, it wasn’t broken. The Roblox devs put in extra work to block Linux users from playing because according to them “the majority of cheaters are on Linux”. Who knows if that’s true
_Sprite@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The majority of roblox cheaters don’t even know what a cmd prompt is
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 months ago
I doubt that’s true. Linux is barely 2% of the overall gaming market. 4% if you include general desktop users. I do not believe for a second that a tiny fraction of 2% who play roblox are “mostly” cheaters.
What’s more likely is they’re Windows users who are running a VM to circumvent the anticheat, and the Officers are too lazy to pay their devs to come up with a viable anticheat that doesn’t exclude people.