So that's some great news for gamers on Linux! A group of players in the r/smite discord made a big impact on this change

SMITE will now run on Linux systems – Special thanks to the SMITE community for helping with this. This change to the Linux support status was mentioned officially in the release notes, where they said:

No performance issues anywhere that I could see and no kicking due to anti-cheat. Titan Forge Games and Hi-Rez Studios have updated their popular MOBA game SMITE, and with it an improvement to allow it to now work on Linux with Easy Anti-Cheat.Īfter playing a couple of games myself today, I can confirm it is working very nicely on my Fedora KDE 38 desktop. It does not have 'Full controller support' as advertised on Steam, only Partial. Seems this is a problem even on Windows going back years. So you can use touch screen, emulated mouse input or hold the STEAM button to activate mouse cursor. The entire menu / lobby and god selection seems to not work with gamepad controls. However, they only work correctly in battles. Update 14/06/23: after some more testing, one thing I have found on Steam Deck is that you can use the built-in gamepad controls.

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