Steam Deck is coming soon for the official shipping of Fortnite on the 26th of this month, but a piece of news may disappoint players who want to play Fortnite on this "Steam handheld", and Epic President Tim Sweeney said that Epic will not update The Fortnite with a Steam Deck-compatible patch.
While Fortnite isn't landing on Steam, steam Deck is essentially a small Linux PC that theoretically works on the Epic Game Store. In terms of game runtime, Steam Deck uses an open source compatible layer of software called "Proton" to get Windows games to run on Linux systems.
Not long ago, Valve also announced that games using Epic's anti-cheat software "Easy Anti-Cheat" can run on Steam Deck, as long as the game is officially willing to update the relevant compatible patches for the game. Valve also guarantees that adding relevant compatible patches is a simple process that does not require complex updates.
Recently, some netizens asked Tim Sweeney whether Epic would update Fortnite and its anti-cheat software "Easy Anti-Cheat" so that it can be compatible with "Proton"? Tim Sweeney said: "Fortnite won't, but we're working to maximize easy Anti-Cheat compatibility with Steam. ”
As for the reasons for the lack of support, he explains: "We didn't have the confidence to be able to crack down on fraud on a large scale in a variety of kernel configurations, including custom configurations. ”
For Tim Sweeney's explanation, some netizens questioned: As the president of Epic, so it means that you don't have confidence in your own products? Tim Sweeney responded, "Given that the Linux platform supports custom kernels, the difficulty of anti-cheating, and the threat posed to a game of Fortnite's size, that's true. ”