Vanguard hits new 'Bans-Per-Second' record
17 days ago
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- Vanguard team at Riot addresses a recent spike in cheaters in VALORANT, especially in Brazil, due to Riot's holiday break halting updates.
- Brazil saw a rise in 'pixelbot' cheats, simple screen-reading cheats that adjust aim, which are easy to detect but spread quickly.
- Other regions like Korea use national identity numbers for gaming, making bans more effective, while North America sees expensive DMA hardware cheats.
- Europe deals with kernel cheats using fraudulent certificates, and Turkey faces issues with PC cafes pre-installing cheats.
- Vanguard's ban systems include manual bans, behavior-based ML suspensions, and hardware bans, with a record ban velocity in January.
- New features like 'Ranked Rollback' will restore lost RR to players affected by cheaters, and improved notification systems for successful reports are coming.
- Cheat advertisements on TikTok are often scams, using pre-recorded footage or rebranded, already-detected cheats.
- Riot emphasizes continuous efforts to make cheating inconvenient and expensive, with a commitment to keeping the game fair.