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fashion over-enthusiast @johnvarvatos , frontman for @gaxmamble , and head of anti-cheat @riotgames (briefly @amazongames )
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Good ol' "Cheater detected" red screen appeared for the first time on console! yeah that's right, Riot's Vanguard bans MnK abusers.
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Valorant "Soulbans" are live, so if you've cheated before, all your past, present, and future accounts will also be suspended. Some spirits will be released when the game is, allowing you to try once more on a new account, but this is the absolute limit of our mercy.
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located a VALORANT universe where there were 8873 less cheaters and moved us all into it, please be careful as your bones may've shifted during dimensional travel
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Cheater report feedback ("you recently reported...") is now back online. Please continue to use in-game reports to receive a subscription to hack facts.
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1600 VALORANT accounts just went missing and we're still geeked up off the ban juice
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@KaiiExe
Nope. Vanguard doesn't monitor your clipboard or your recycling bin.
We only take screenshots of the game window when you're in game, just like every other anti-cheat.
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Please picture me as a beautiful Mallard duck, just returned north for nesting season, and picture your harassing me to be unbanned as water sliding elegantly off my freshly preened, waterproof plumage.
Valorant beta cheaters sad, mad over bans persisting into final game:
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6) Don't DM random Rioters your sob stories. Their hearts still pump warm blood, and it breaks what's left of mine to explain that cheaters can cheat at the truth. You don't get innocent ears, you get mine, and they're filled with so much pitch, I can barely hear your screams.
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now accepting bitcoin, cardano, or mom's credit card
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This whole article is actually just an excerpt from my thesis, "A Comparative Analysis into the Average Cheater's Total Lack of Desire to Get Good."
Riot’s proprietary anti-cheat Vanguard is coming to League of Legends soon. Here's everything you need to know, straight from the Anti-Cheat team
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can you set an autoresponder on twitter dms? I want mine to read, "yes hello thank you for contacting the unban department, which member of your family installed cheats on your computer today?"
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We're seeing a lot of cheaters re-appearing on accounts that don't belong to them, and Vanguard preemptively locks these to avoid the damage.
These aren't "false bans," you just need to submit a ticket for recovery.
Also please enable MFA. PLEASE.
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3) While we released a third of the bans on launch, these were the lightest offenders with otherwise stellar track records. If you find yourself still unable to play the game, please do not panic, you are just experiencing what punishment feels like.
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So, if the summary of your League of Legends accounts can best be described as a clean "main" and a countably infinite number of cheating "throwaways," I've compiled a list of hobbies you'll want to look into with all the free time you're about to find yourself in possession of:
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@deadmonstors
Suspensions are currently game-specific, though this policy could change at any time, for any reason.
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In honor of Saint Valentine and everything he stood for:
We’re gonna be allocating boosting punishments to those that have gained significant VALORANT rating from duo queuing with a cheater.
♥️ Because it isn't true love if one of you has an aimbot ♥️
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vanguard 2 now on league of legends, cheating to be deprecated this patch
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1) A ban for cheating in VALORANT is intended to prevent a cheater from playing VALORANT. If you could just make another account, that wouldn’t really be a consequence, it’d just be an inconvenience.
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Riot's Vanguard team is actively seeking engineers to help cheaters cope with the realization that they might have to aim manually. Come join us!
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So, we're thinking on how to best impound the elo bus, and out of sheer curiosity, if someone is caught repeatedly queuing with cheaters for the majority of their VALORANT competitive wins (but not cheating themselves), which punishment do you think the most appropriate?
ban from competitive
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delete the account
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It's been 9 long years and the absolute ride of my life, but today marks what will be my last day at Riot Games.
Having a quick break before I announce the next project, but in the meantime, you can pass future gun buddy requests to
@ItsGamerDoc
or
@RiotK3o
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4) Some cheaters were inaccurately told they’d be unbanned by well-intentioned agents, but screenshotting this and expecting it to supersede anti-cheat policy will not suddenly result in your being able to play the game.
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@cheKKCS
@PlayVALORANT
@VALORANTar
One of your smurfs (begins with an A) was manually suspended by an overzealous agent for dunking in platinum, and the resulting hardware ban also hit your main. I've unbanned your accounts, sorry for the trouble.
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@Laughing_Mantis
The screenshot is only of the VALORANT window dimensions, just like every other anti-cheat.
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2) Hardware bans are deliberately opaque. Just like magic, you’re not meant to understand how the technology works, and just like all anti-cheat, it’ll still be circumvented eventually. There’s no need to speed that up by being loud about it.
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5) We will periodically unban additional sets of hardware based on the severity of the original offense and our confidence in the iterative Vanguard product, but we are not unbanning more at this time.
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@XIII_Vanitas
all suspensions pictured are for scripting tools, for which the ban duration is infinite
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so anyways, dming me about your valorant ban just gives me one more platform to ban you on
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our
#league10
anticheat event was handwritten cheater apologies in exchange for unbans, behold my new wallpaper
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Vanguard starts when the system does to prevent vulnerable drivers. It can be stopped to load them anyway, but without connectivity, Vanguard attests to this not having happened by simply still being there when a game is launched.
It's the "who loads first" problem.
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@_Amxn_khxn_
@PlayVALORANT
Imagine installing something called "Valorant Hack," and then writing an essay about it. Ban is accurate.
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@Astrex_Valorant
@johnvarvatos
@RiotVanguard
@0xNemi
@RiotK3o
You're getting the same answer, because you're trying the same lie.
I've reviewed your case, and it's beyond apparent that you attempted to run a cheat. Maybe stop submitting tickets and instead consider your account's sacrifice a free lesson in competitive ethics.
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Trout Fishing
Collecting Bottlecaps
Entomology
Jigsaw Puzzles
Competitive Walking
Phillumenism
Carving Soap
BMX
Higher Mathematics
Beekeeping
Zumba
Dota 2
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We're testing Vanguard on LoL PBE today.
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@RoiEXLab
just means the cheater attempted to bypass the "hardware banned' messaging and picked up a free ban for the trouble
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Lemme show you how I put the mustard on it.
Taking action to remove a large amount of cheaters from VALORANT permanently. Players who have submitted reports against these individuals will be notified if they are currently logged on. Thank you for helping keep VALORANT a safe and highly competitive gaming experience.
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We did a live version of "Here Comes Vi" for the
#LeagueOfLegends
anniversary. Only had a day to put it together,
@mjpaol
and
@FayeMata
really showed up to make it work. Crowd chants brought us home, thanks nerds.
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My dissertation on how we learned to stop scripting and love data science, featuring special guest
@mjpaol
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pulled out all the stops for this one, have a look and tell us what you think
#opensourcevanguard
We've heard your feedback about not knowing what the anti-cheat does, and our team has been working tirelessly to address it. We're excited to announce that today, we will be leveling the playing field for cheaters through the power of open source.
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@craterfall
decently. it's still possible for a determined cheater, but it's quite a time sink to completely defeat.
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@itsedaxe
no one here was banned for spamming with scroll wheel, these are all applications that dodge skillshots by reading client memory to determine when/where an ability has occurred
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@Reymaster370
@RiotK3o
Brother who among us hasn't gotten completely ripped and bought a cheat on mom's credit card? HWID bans from beta had a 90 day expiry by default, but the second offense will be indefinite.
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@roshan_itachi
@RiotVanguard
@PlayVALORANT
No issue here. You tried a cheat and then you got banned for cheating. Please rest easy knowing this is by design.
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@Necrit94
@CadenHouse
I certainly don't think kernel anti-cheat is necessitated in every genre, but free-to-play competitive games currently demand an extremely low time-to-detection, one we can't hope to achieve without attesting the security of the operating system.
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@Dinodogstudio
TPM 2.0 is required for Windows 11.
If you're switching to UEFI mode and the current OS drive doesn't support it, the current Windows installation can become unbootable.
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Quick read about how our anti-cheat is becoming sentient
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@ohhfonix
@RiotVanguard
Dude I don't even play this dead game, there aren't enough cheaters in it.
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One More Novella on Open Systems vs System Integrity:
We're in the business of trying to put games on a relatively insecure platform, and the more open a prospective system is, the more access we need to validate its defenses. (1/4)
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10k valorant points to the first person that provides proof of my existence
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achieved a personal fitness goal today when a trainer introduced himself with a, "never seen a human twig lift one of himself on each arm before."
never been negged, complemented, and upsold in the same sentence before.
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the
@johnvarvatos
boot branding is shaped vaguely like the
@RiotVanguard
logo, which I think legally means I can write these chelseas off as a business expense?
@0xNemi
@RiotK3o
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@Dinodogstudio
Vanguard blocks VMs, because it's trivial to manipulate a VM from the host, invisible to any anti-cheat within it.
Our allowlisting GFN is difficult, because the driver does not have connectivity at launch—a simple local check is far too beatable.
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@HornsOnHalos
haven't seen any legitimate "bricking" cases, but always happy to help, just let me know the ticket number.
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@Marrtth
@sionnick187
Can't give the method (and they'll eventually figure it out), but it's nothing that easy.
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@leftspace35
@AntiCheatPD
Anti-cheat has returned from court-mandated slumber, here to serve until our souls give out.
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Sleep was invented by sanofi-aventis to sell more ambien. Wake up.
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@atlas_steel
@LoLDev
We haven't found any cases of Vanguard bricking PCs, but happy to dig into this. Can I get your roommate's support ticket number?
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@eGirlOnlyFan
this is just scripts, but we're now serving bans for lobby reveal. thank you for your patronage.
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LoL Scripting almost always results in early-onset ban syndrome (EOBS), the symptoms of which include: hand tremors, dry mouth, hypertension/hypotension (alternating), ageusia, retroperistalsis, and eventually, the complete inability to access your LoL account.
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@baranatli34
@Astrex_Valorant
@johnvarvatos
@RiotVanguard
@0xNemi
@RiotK3o
I too, am a sentient anti-cheat machine, disgustingly fabricated from owl bones, cleanly powered by background radiation, and explictly tasked to detect your lies.
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little known origin story for you, I once left a lucrative career in rock and roll to ban nerds from video games
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anticheat by how many hotdogs I think they could eat:
@mjpaol
12+ texas tommy
@mirageopenguins
10 easy
@0xNemi
9 if EMT on standby
@InveEnvy
6 no bun
@0xGradius
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@leeto
3 maybe 4?
@arkem
2 with vegemite
@nickeverdox
1 and his body rejects it
@realFawadKhan
0 hotdogs (forbidden)
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really enjoyed my interview with
@RKRigney
, especially being included amongst titans like
@arkem
and
@ClintByfron
.
maybe give it a read over lunch.
Helldivers 2 got review-bombed by players complaining about their anti-cheat, so I reached out to anti-cheat leaders from Riot Games, Roblox, and Fortnite to get their take.
Are players over-reacting to kernel-level anti-cheat drivers?
Full story:
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the real cheats were the friends we made along the way
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finally managed to install vanguard on my bones
Introducing for Fall/Winter 2021 - Riot Vanguard tracksuits.
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@gtamanmanman
@ItsGamerDoc
in this example, you still wouldn't be deserving of the rank you achieved, and I'd operate under the assumption that any player actioned for these circumstances would feign ignorance
"I genuinely thought they were precognitive" - everyone, probably
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@pablovigara
It isn't exclusively based on hardware, but we've taken this into consideration.
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you ever wake up on the back of an ambien walrus but throw down enough espresso to return your body to linear time?
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@ophirr33
it will be several months to let things settle, but yes, we plan to do a big ol' anti-cheat retrospective.
this is not the last you've heard of us.
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@mapperize
@Dinodogstudio
Vanguard can't and doesn't enable TPM for you, the user must do it in BIOS.
We have a case where a player switched to UEFI mode when prompted, but the OS drive didn't support it.
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So, we're stuck in this middle ground where, you COULD mess with your operating system, but we have to make ourselves responsible for knowing about it (and not letting you play when you do). It's a massive tradeoff, but a necessary one for competitive PC gaming today. (4/4)
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Never been less confident in existing, so I think we can say the thought experiment failed. As a contingency, let's do 10k valorant points to the first person that can increment EIP by 1.
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quitting anti-cheat to focus on my art
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@baranatli34
@Astrex_Valorant
@johnvarvatos
@RiotVanguard
@0xNemi
@RiotK3o
Accurately banned for testing a public aimbot back in May, your hwid ban expires in 39 days.
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my any% games industry speedrun was stealing
@InveEnvy
's gunz codebase to pay for a math degree
My tried-and-tested way to get into games industry is to simply spend your time in college failing classes playing League of Legends and obscure 12 game poker mixes on Bitcoin sites, use the skills to bust cheaters in poker, and then use those skills to bust cheaters in League
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It's the same thing when we're talking about why we can't support Linux. The distributions have become bespoke and so freely customizable, we have no real viable way to attest to the security of its kernel. The whole operating system itself could be the cheat. (2/4)
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