Speaking to VG247 at Evo 2024, 2XKO tech lead Tony Cannon has confirmed that Riot Game's upcoming fighting game will feature Vanguard, the company's own kernel-level anti-cheat software. Tony stated the following, "A lot of the cheats we see in fighting games are either about reading inputs, reading game state, or injecting inputs. They involve modiyfing the game binary in some way.
Vanguard is really good at that, right? It's a kernel-level anti-cheat, so it can detect and prevent a lot of those things happening." Vanguard was first implimented into Riot games with Valorant back in 2020, back has since been implimented into League of Legends with hopes that its addition would help tackle the game's ongoing cheating and botting problems. However, such software has proven controversial among a portion of the players, due in part to the fundamental intrusiveness of kernel-level software.
For those who don't know, in basic terms software running at the kernel-level has the highest level of access to your system, which means your PC's operating system. This potentially opens you up to various privacy issues. Technical issues have been known to occur too.
During the rollout of Vanguard in League of Legends, users with older versions of Windows or specific configurations ran into problems. Some even reported that it stopped their computer from booting , though Riot itself stated it could not confirm any such cases . From this you should see where much of the concern stems from.
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