After heavy criticism, Riot Games has updated the anti-cheat system/program for Valorant. As such, the latest version of Vanguard introduces a tray icon and notifications pop-ups. These new additions, according to the team, will make it easier to disable Vanguard when you’re not playing the game.
As the team noted, turning off Vanguard puts your machine in an untrusted mode. Thus, you won’t be able to play Valorant until you reboot your system. You can also completely uninstall Vanguard, however, Valorant will re-install it the next time you launch it.
It’s also worth noting that Vanguard may block certain incompatible or vulnerable software from running on your machine. If this happens, you’ll see a notification pop up window. Clicking on the notification will give you more information on what exactly was blocked. Moreover, players can opt-out – and allow their programs to run – by simply disabling Vanguard.
Lastly, Riot Games claimed that it has released Vanguard because it takes competitive integrity seriously. According to the team, this also one of the reasons why other games do not require such programs. Additionally, the team shared the following message, claiming that Vanguard is safe to use.
“We’ve developed both the client and the driver of Riot Vanguard in-house, with both game safety and personal computer safety being a priority. We’ve made this commitment through extensive testing and by reviewing the product both internally and with external security reviews by industry experts.
Our commitment to safety includes our commitment to your privacy. Riot Vanguard was made with Riot Games’ dedication to data privacy specifically in mind, and we worked with our legal and compliance teams to ensure it adheres to regional data privacy laws. Specifics on what data we use and collect are available here.”
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this has to be the most boring generic game i have ever played !! its even worse than overwatch
you have to lower your expectations in 13 years the only game released by Riot (no) Games was a copy/paste dota with lore and characters from other games (arthas, veigar/vivi ff9 .. ) and now after 13 years we get overwatch copy/paste wait another 13 years and maybe they’ll manage to create something original ..
Those animations and animated “powers” are just for kids or 40yr old weebo virgins
season 1 league has nothing to do with season 10 league and season 10 league has nothing to do with either wc3 dota or dota 2.
yes i want to but i just need a solid team
yes
Valorant sucks
“We’re currently comprising the security of your system. If you don’t care, click the ‘I’m a sheep’ button to proceed”
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it’s super disheartening to see people willingly accept this kind of overreach on your system, all so you can play a videogame. even more so to see fans of the game discount concerns from security researchers and system administrators as “jumping on the hate train” – if someone who makes their living on the security of computer systems, maybe you should listen to them when they say installing 0-ring kernel drivers for a videogame is a bad idea.
serverside anti-cheat would be harder to break and wouldn’t open up an attack vector on the client’s computer, but that’s more expensive so they won’t do it.
which fps has a server side anti cheat as you suggest which actually works ?
fps is the most vulnerable genre when it comes to hacks. everytime one hack gets patched another 3 spawn
Do you trust them enough to install the game in the first place even if the anti-cheat were non-existent?
Because if you don’t trust them then you shouldn’t install anything from them anyway on your PC since there’s already enough possibilities for a malicious program to wreak havoc without even having admin rights. This includes pretty much all personal data you have stored on your PC. Having access to ring 0 isn’t necessary for most of that.
CS:GO is frankly a better game.
it is but its optimized like crap due to Source 1
CS GO scales like crap on most of the CPU’s and has draw calls issues causing stutter even on i9 9900k
cs:go runs older ver of source its using the CPU wrong 2 core at 100% LOL and it causing stutter even on i9 9900k
industry just responds to the community. if making non swj made money then youd have those games too