VALORANT Anti-cheat Fall 2021 Update: Riot Games, developers of the famous FPS game “VALORANT”, announces the update in the Anti-cheat system. VALORANT Episode 3 Act III will come up with the updated Anti-cheat system which will prohibit hackers in the game. Let’s take a look at everything about upcoming changes in Anti-cheat.
Our reigning, defending Anti-cheat Analyst @RiotK3o is back to cover competitive integrity, the state of cheating today, and the future of Vanguard. Read the full report: https://t.co/0l3mkA3Hnv pic.twitter.com/kP9mE0MaEp
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Riot Games posted, “Our biggest projects during VALORANT Episode 3 (so far) came from maintaining competitive integrity, both on ladder and esports, and staying ahead of the curve in the “arms race” of cheat versus anti-cheat.”
EPISODE 2 REPORT
90-day penalty for “bussing”
As long-term cheating became increasingly unviable, cheaters created disruption in the competitive ecosystem in new ways. Boosters deliberately queued with cheaters, while cheating, in order to get “bussed” to the higher ranks. This was addressed throughout the year by automated actions. We focused on accuracy above all for these actioning waves, and we want to increase their cadence in the future (more on that below). Now on to Episode 3 happenings…
VALORANT Anti-cheat Fall 2021 Update: Riot Games announces new Anti-cheat for VALORANT, it will be available with Episode 3 update
STATE OF CHEATING TODAY
Combating cheating is not a “set it and forget it” solution like an advanced anti-cheat or some sentient AI – it’s a continual arms race. We could write a thesis on this whole subject (maybe a video would be more entertaining?), but we’ll sum it up briefly. There’s been an increased popularity in hardware cheats. These are cheats that depend on an external piece of hardware to run functionally, intended to try to bypass both protections and detections implemented by the team. Cheat developers have also instituted other novel ideas, such as machine learning algorithms.
As of today, report rates are at an all-time low.
Yes, there are still cheaters in VALORANT, and they will, in some manner, always exist. However, we’ve invested a great deal of time, both through operational and technical advancements, to make sure that cheating is at a sustainably low level, and most importantly, that cheating is never a viable way to long term competitive success in VALORANT. We have to strike the balance between keeping games as safe as possible, while also ensuring that the arms race with cheaters is at a pace we’re always ahead in.
ACT III AND EPISODE 4
What are we doing next? Little surprise here, but we’ll continue to iterate on the best version of Vanguard with an emphasis on keeping cheaters out of the ecosystem for good. This includes us benefiting from the newest advancements in cybersecurity as a whole, most noticeably, utilizing security upgrades in operating systems that enable us to better identify and prevent cheaters.
Additional improvements in the Riot ecosystem are also going to help us ensure the integrity of our games. Account security improvements will not only reduce the player pain of a stolen account, but it’ll help us to fight a growing trend of cheaters who look to buy high-level accounts, as they want to grief the top-level players that they’re pretending to be. Third-party tools are our main focus, but we have spent time in other forms of game integrity violation like boosting through account sharing and win trading, and we will continue to explore where we can create the most impact in maintaining VALORANT as the most competitive tactical shooter in the world.
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