Skip to content

How do I play Helldivers 2 multiplayer using Bazzite Linux? nGuard anti-cheat is the issue? #3053

@RicardoEscobar

Description

@RicardoEscobar

Describe the bug

Explained on this video: https://youtu.be/xAqy22eAE9g
I installed Helldivers 2, even though the game runs normally, I'm unable to join online games.
I think is some issue with the anti cheat software beiong incompatible with the OS.

What did you expect to happen?

Be able to play online with other prople not just solo mode.

Output of rpm-ostree status

bazzite@192:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:878c4561c9cbbc888202a7af48818117edfc7493c13fa788c0ca9b0c30858c5d
                  Version: 42.20250809 (2025-08-10T02:03:44Z)

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:86cfdc35deaa4b7fb896c4552300f5d7a096558d0218f678d3278877740dd684
                  Version: 42.20250804 (2025-08-04T05:24:44Z)

Hardware

💻 System

User: bazzite@192

Operating System: Bazzite (based on Fedora Atomic)

Kernel: Linux 6.15.9-106.bazzite.fc42.x86_64

Uptime: 2 hours, 2 minutes

🖥 CPU

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D — 16 cores @ 5.27 GHz

🎮 GPU

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (dedicated)

AMD Radeon Graphics (integrated)

💾 RAM

60.47 GiB total

9.63 GiB in use (16%)

🗄 Storage

1.86 TiB total (btrfs, read-only)

483.34 GiB in use (25%)

📺 Monitors

3840×2160 @ 60 Hz (scaled to 2560×1440) — 32", HDR, external

1080×1920 @ 144 Hz — 25", external

1920×1080 @ 60 Hz — 21", external

2560×1440 @ 240 Hz — 27", HDR, external (primary)

🖥 Desktop Environment

KDE Plasma 6.4.3

KWin (Wayland)

⌨ Terminal

bash 5.2.37

Ptyxis 48.5

📦 Installed Packages

2,680 (rpm)

55 (flatpak)

55 (brew)

Extra information or context

The gamne was installed normally, It took some time to begin the first time, but it seems to work, it also showed me some nGuard website on startup.

https://gameguardfaq.nprotect.com/eng/con_13.html
https://gameguardfaq.nprotect.com/eng/con_01_1.html

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    bugSomething isn't working

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions