Easy Anti-Cheat

Easy Anti-Cheat, often abbreviated to EAC within the gaming community, is a piece of anti-cheat software that can be implemented into a videogame to prevent users from making unwanted adjustments to game files, memory, code etc. It is operated by Epic Games

Announcement
Cloud Imperium announced that they decided to use EAC as Star Citizen's main anti-cheat software through a Spectrum post on November 5, 2021. It was planned to be implemented with the release of Alpha 3.15.1, a patch that also included content for the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo 2951 (IAE).

Possible issues
Implementing EAC into the game, especially since the community has been able to freely tinker with the game up until now, can have its issues. Since the first versions of the game, people have been creating their own content out of the game using their own modifications. Some of these were made in order to benefit the community in a legitimate way. Examples of these were localization mods for players that don't speak English, control extensions such as Voice Attack or GameGlass, screenshotting tools such as Reshade (which was eventually whitelisted), or mods that allow Linux users to run the game.

Testing and implementation
Game builds using EAC were thoroughly tested in PTU phases, both on ETF and public waves before the planned launch of 3.15.1. However, due to -insert reasons here- and little time left, it was decided to temporarily drop EAC from the build. 3.15.1 was then launched to the LIVE branch shortly before the start of the IAE event, without EAC, but the testing phases for it were still ongoing on the PTU branches.

It wasn't until December 12 that EAC was ready for deployment on the LIVE branch. A small patch for 3.15.1 was deployed noting that EAC is now enabled. The current patch notes were updated.

Known to work

 * Reshade v4.9.1 (requires renaming of reshade dxgi.dll to d3d11.dll)
 * Voice Attack (1.8.4 64-bit)
 * Joystick Gremlin version 13.3, Thrustmaster’s T.A.R.G.E.T.
 * Track IR and Tobii v1.39.12028.0
 * OpenTrack (2021.1.3)
 * GameGlass (Latest Version 0.44.6.0)

Known to not work

 * Devreorder
 * Localization tools not working
 * Linux/Wine/DXVK/Sandboxie Plus do not work currently
 * LED lighting (LEDKeeper2)
 * EVGA Precision X1 may have issues
 * VorpX