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Riot Games talk Vanguard anti-cheat for League of Legends and why it's a no for Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This also applies to Valorant. I know a lot of people look down on both games, but it's still unfortunate for Linux to lose access to such a popular game.

I thought this part was particularly interesting:

Half of anti-cheat is making sure the environment hasn't been tampered with, and this is extremely hard on Linux by design. Any backdoors we leave open for it are ones [cheat] developers will immediately leverage for cheats

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, they haven't deployed the anticheat yet I think

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I see. Haven't been following this story that closely tbh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

League just doesn't have that many 'traditional' cheaters and the game lends itself to server-side AC way more than most. The cheaters in League are more often win-traders at high elos and smurfs in low elos. Also lots of feeding and trolling. So I have no idea why they are adding Vanguard, a good reason to stop playing the game though.