GTA Online has just added a long-requested quality of life feature, and it needs to be the new standard for when GTA 6's launch.

GTA V has consistently ranked among the top 20 most-played games on the Steam Deck for at least two years, and it even remained in the

Grand Theft Auto Online has, in an eyebrow-raising move, been given an anti-cheat software named BattlEye over a decade after the game came out. As a consequence, it's now officially no longer compatible with the Steam Deck,

BattlEye Anti-Cheat was rolled out in yesterday's GTA 5 update. As the patch notes explain, it's possible to disable it in the Rockstar Games Launcher if you're just heading into Story Mode, as ultimately, it's there to try and protect online players from ...

Simply put, BattlEye aims to keep people in online games from doing things they're not supposed to. That's been an ongoing problem in GTA Online for many years, and a real challenge for Rockstar: Cheaters suck and GTAO is often a goat rodeo, but roleplaying servers enabled by mods are also a big part of what makes GTA Online so popular.

GTA Online has been given BattlEye anti-cheat software a decade after it initially launched on PC, and as a result, players can no longer play on their Steam Decks.

It appears that GTA 5 BattlEye anti-cheat has been added by Rockstar, as both the Steam backend and player reports indicate it's in-game.

The update in question and the use of BattlEye specifically was first noticed in the background changes catalogued from Steam before Rockstar Games put out its patch notes on the GTA Online support site.