EAC is being enforced, for those on Linux, follow the EAC guide here:

[quadraturesurfer@lemmy.world]

Additionally, edit your sc-launch.sh and comment out: EOS_USE_ANTICHEATCLIENTNULL=1

[cybervseas@lemmy.world]

This is great timing I’m getting ready to abandon my Windows VM and move entirely to Linux. Will have to take a look and see if I can get SC up and running. Even running within a VM took some fiddling to pass EAC…

[dmmacniel@feddit.org]

The LUG is an amazing group!

Is this new that EAC is now active as in a response to those whelming amounts of cheaters?

[quadraturesurfer@lemmy.world]

Edit: Yes, EAC being forced seems to be new as of a few hours ago.

There's also been some talk among the devs about the situation that CarbonPixel has compiled here:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/mass-kill-hack/8112124

[dmmacniel@feddit.org]

Thanks for keeping us informed!

[agent_karyo@lemmy.world]

IMO the tone of the post is not very productive, it almost has a "volunteer PR" feel to it.

[ryannathans@aussie.zone]

VR users gonna hate this lol

[nailbar@sopuli.xyz]

I was ripping my hair out until I re-read the instructions for a third time

[quadraturesurfer@lemmy.world]

They do. They were talking about it in-game when I hopped on.

Hopefully this only needs to be forced during Free Flys, since there's a cost associated with getting your account banned at other times. But with how bad the cheating appeared to get recently they might just leave it on.

[nailbar@sopuli.xyz]

SC works in Linux even with EAC. The LUG script works wonders.