Riot Games developers have provided innovations on Valorant 's anti-cheat system ' Vanguard ' . With the 2.01 patch of Valorant , many adjustments were brought to the game, such as new competition system update, map update and agent balancing. In order for the games to be healthier and the competitive environment to be fair, they need to be protected against cheaters in the best way, and at this point, the developers aim to prevent fraudulent accounts with their new regulation. The best anti-cheat, blocking system for Valorant as in all other Riot Games games is used. These measures taken against cheaters are very important in terms of presenting a fair environment to the players in the game. It is pleasing to see that the importance of this issue was emphasized and prevention efforts were carried out in the first major tournament organized for Valorant .
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The Vanguard anti-cheat system has two parts:
The kernel-mode driver is basically the protection of the client. It doesn't collect data about your PC or send anything to Riot: It looks at other drivers and if it detects a known vulnerability that could be used to compromise the anti-cheat client, it blocks it from running. If Vanguard's driver isn't booted with Windows, Valorant won't trust your PC and you won't be able to play. That's why you need to restart the PC after installing Vanguard.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local tournaments could not be provided, so we had to turn to online tournaments . We have once again understood the importance of the Vanguard anti-cheat system for online tournaments to be effective in terms of security .
It is very important to protect the games against cheaters in a fair environment and to show their own talents and win or lose something. Maintaining online tournaments and their security is not as easy as it seems. Therefore, the developers observed each participant individually, and after a certain standard was established, the first major First Strike tournament was completed in the safest way, since the rest is experience-based.
Fighting against cheaters in competitive mode is more difficult than in the First Strike tournament . In First Strike you have to scrutinize and monitor a certain audience, but this is not possible in a large audience area such as competitive mode . Despite this, thanks to the Vanguard system, which is developed and constantly renewed, the cheat rate in the games has a very low number. So much so that the number of players who use cheats is stated as 1%. This demonstrates the success of the Vanguard system . This rate, which seems to be acceptable, can be thought-provoking considering the large crowd.
In a competitive mode, if a cheat comes across your match, it can cause you to lose that match, which is what the developers are trying to prevent. The main effects can also affect you psychologically after the match is completed, an annoying defeat can cause your performance to drop for the next games. What we recommend is that when you encounter such a situation, you should take a break from the game for a while and head towards different areas where you can have fun. After your morale is restored, you can re-enter the game and continue your game as if nothing happened. In this way, your performance will be on point as usual and your victory will be inevitable.
With all that said, you should know that toxic behaviors such as cheaters, spoilers, in-game bullies, players exploiting certain vulnerabilities take place in almost every game. Riot Games is one of the rare companies that provides the best service by its teams in this regard, and you should have no doubt that you will provide the best measures and service in these issues in the future. We will provide information on our site when there is a development related to anti-cheat in future developments, continue to follow.
