Vanguard discuss

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Vanguard is Riot Games’ new anticheat made for Valorant and was promised to be at least on the line with other aticheats if not superior. However, a redditor and beta tester found out that it is a kernel anticheat (which means it has admin’s access) and can be used for various things, including collecting data from its user. A youtube channel under the name SomeOrdinaryGamers made a video on this topic but the link was already posted and removed here. I hope we can get some responses from the dev team because Valorant is seriously a fun game and I don’t want to give up on this.

RiotArkem 5 years ago

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I replied a few dozen times in a thread on Sunday, here's a link to the most in depth comment I wrote: https://old.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/fzxdl7/anticheat_starts_upon_computer_boot/fn6yqbe/

RiotArkem 5 years ago

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Jaywearspants

Arkem, I see a lot of folks fear mongering about how this is "unprecedented" access to give for an anti-cheat. Can you speak to this at all? I find it hard to believe that this level of access (ring 0) isn't utilized by Battleye or EAC. I understand your driver is loaded on startup and that's what allows it to detect things those can't - but my understanding is those more or less all operate with the same level of permissions as Vanguard. I'm in favor of this and just trying to best understand it.

Many anti-cheat systems use kernel drivers, most of them don't talk about it as much as we do.

As far as I understand it both Battleye and EAC both use kernel drivers as part of their anti-cheat protection.

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