Removed character portrait from player’s minimap icon to better distinguish player icon; icon will receive additional color and polish in the future
Does this mean I won't be able to quickly look at the mini map and see where each agent is? Because right now it's very helpful to quickly glance up and be able to say, for example, "Saje, rotate."
We removed the portrait for your icon. Your teammates still have their character icons.
This was fixed in the patch but wasn't recorded in the notes, thats our bad. Cypher players can once again cage enemies without interaction issues. We'll update the notes.
Moo.
For all shotguns, moved the crosshair’s center dot by 1px to center it on the screen. The devs expect shotgun lethality to increase by 4,000% as a result
bucky + shorty confirmed best loadout
Confirmed.
We're aware. There's some networking issues that we're sorting out on our backend. They're unrelated to the most recent changes.
Things should be back to normal in the next few minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Well you've hit the nail on the head. Not having perfect security on what essentially a backdoor to potentially hundreds of millions of computers around the world is frankly a little terrifying given who's at the top of the Valorant totem poll.
Quoting what was said in another thread:
It depends how brazen they want to be. Small scale they could gather a whole heap of data. Like where do people look for their news and information would be really handy in prioritising propaganda efforts. Between Tik Tok monitoring phones and Riot monitoring PCs they can probably get a solid sample size for young westerners. On the other end of the spectrum, they could use it for distributed attacks (credential stuffing/DDOS) or to try and hide the origin on a more sophisticated attack (i.e. using compromised user credentials to exfiltrate data). They have administrator access to the machine, they can do with it whatever you could do with it.
Going really tinfoil hat here but it could make for a really secure onion router style network for secret coms. Assuming China doesn't trust TOR (which it shouldn't) they can't deny the inherent benefits of that style of routing. It's effectively untraceable and if it's machines and ports that they compromised it reduces their potential exposure even further. The Tl;Dr of onion routing is that messages you send get broken up and sent to multiple machines before reaching its target. Nothing is perfectly secure, but that is as close as we can really get. Let's say your computer is picked to be one of the middle stops for the data. Assuming you were running wireshark, and looking for data traveling through ports assigned to Valorant (or any other CCP program) you would likely only see a packet full of junk data coming from a random IP, going to a random IP. If there is any P2P data exchange in that game then it would be even harder to find.
/u/0xNemi could we get your thoughts? Are we crazy for having these concerns?
There's nothing I can say to help reduce your concerns. You've already made up your mind.
Ultimately, you get to choose what you run on your machine.
Because HWMonitor loads a driver that can be abused by third party applications to read and write physical memory, read and write MSRs, perform IO operations (privileged); all from usermode. It's unsafe to load anyways and they're blocking it because it can be potentially used by hackers to read and write memory for the game.
This is accurate.
u/RiotArkem where do we report false positives in regards to vanguard? it just flagged my MSI mysic light (for GPU RGB)
Unfortunately that's not a false positive, that driver has a serious security vulnerability that's commonly used by cheat developers to load their cheats.
I recommend looking to see if there's an update available from MSI or asking them for a fix.
How do you enable the system tray icon though?
Opened valorant to have it download the update but there's still no icon after reboot.
You can run "C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard\vgtray.exe" manually but I'm not sure why it isn't starting for you :(
/u/RiotArkem I'm unable to reinstall the game anymore because it says I need to install the required dependencies, but it won't let me install it. I don't know where else to go with this since I submitted a ticket a week ago and still haven't received a response. Do you have ant clue as to how I can fix this? Thanks 😊
Hopefully support gets back to you soon! (they've been really swamped this last week)
Sometimes this error is due to anti-virus blocking the new Vanguard version (because it hasn't been seen by many people yet), sometimes it's due to a software incompatibility (I know the messaging is bad, sorry). Other times it's a bug on our side.
When support gets back to you hopefully they can help you troubleshoot but if you don't hear from them let me know and if I get some time I'll try and help you out.
While installing and uninstalling is a benign thing, it seems like a repetitive time waste as well as repeated installs not being something i'm in the habit of doing. So that would be my justification.
The use case would be that it doesn't require the install/uninstall. That's (small, but still) a burden on a user to remember to uninstall or whether they did uninstall last time and if they need to restart. The interface could (hopefully) be as simple as a right click on the system tray icon, with a list item of the checked/unchecked variety, to see the status of "[✔️] Load Vanguard on next restart" or "[ ]Load Vanguard on next restart]." That saves time from checking add/remove programs or booting Valorant up.
This would also seem to be in line with what seems to be the intent of the change you've already described - to make Vanguard feel less intrusive and to give the user control. This would further respect a user's time and attention, as well as reduce the amount of cycling a user would put their hardware through (by eliminating reboots, unintentional or unneeded install/removals and related read-write cycles)
Just want to to finish with this note - your already described change is an awesome initiative and i'm happy to have it. I hope my feedback has been constructive and amicable. That is certainly my intent.
Edit: minor grammar edit
Thanks for elaborating!
Out of curiosity was it the pak encryption setting? UE4 dev here and would love to avoid the same issue from happening to my game.
It was from one of our custom in-house security tools (one we use for League of Legends too).
We currently do PAK encryption but only for some files. PAK encryption didn't kill performance during gameplay for us but it did dramatically increase load times and makes patching more awkward.
Hey there, sorry to be bothering. I'm not sure if you're the right person to be asking this but a lot of people (me included) have encountered a bug that prevents them from selecting a resolution. Whatever option the user chooses, the resolution will always bug out and the only fix is to disable the monitor driver in windows device manager. Is this issue being looked at? Can we expect this simple bug to be fixed by launch? Thanks for your time.
There are some display/resolution changes coming in the next game patch (today? tomorrow? something like that), hopefully that helps!
Would it be possible to have a 'do not start on next reboot' option as a middle-ground choice?
This is basically what the uninstall option does. Vanguard won't run on your computer until the next time you want to play. Vanguard is relatively small (approx 16MB) so it reinstalls quickly.
We can look into a "disable for next boot" option if you'd like though. Can you give me an example of the use case so I know how to prioritize the feature request?
Hi Arkem, sorry for replying to a week old comment but Vanguard blocks gdrv.sys on boot and I can't access my computer's fans anymore, which means things could get too hot. Everything was working fine up until today. Any idea how to stop this from happening?
If your worried I definitely recommend uninstalling Vanguard.
gdrv.sys is being used by cheat developers to load cheats and ransomware to take over computers which is why we block it.
The latest version of your fan control software should work without needing the gdrv.sys driver.
Any chance you can include a saved binary file for semi-replay data. Your timeline capability shown in client is similar to the functionality I'm talking about, just stored in a more easily indigestible format. I am a professional data scientist who happens to love this game. I will do literally all of the format and documentation for free if I know you would use it.
Let me know.
Stuff like that will hopefully exposed via our developer API. I also hope that we'll eventually build a full replay system too.