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He did mistype. We made fun of him for it. It's 14.8 and 14.9 :)
I wrote 4.8 and 4.9 at first too, that was my "fix".
He did mistype. We made fun of him for it. It's 14.8 and 14.9 :)
I wrote 4.8 and 4.9 at first too, that was my "fix".
What will happen, if anything to chat punishments? Any changes?
Vanguard isn't concerned about chat stuff. Any changes to how chat punishments work would be another team.
It was a lot more, but they (we) stopped playing it as soon as they announced Vanguard, fearing the ban or just not agreeing with their decision.
It wasn't. We made this decision almost a year before we ever even told yall we were bringing Vanguard to League.
It doesn't feel good for Linux players but theres just sadly not enough users there for League for us to try to make that work :(.
Will this also apply to tft?
Vanguard runs at the League Client level, so PC TFT will be Vanguarded.
Mobile TFT doesn't require Vanguard.
You should focus on premades of scripters, scripter gets banned sooner or later, but their premades end up high above their real elo and its nightmare to have them in team.
There're some mechanisms in place that will punish people who are obviously boosting their account by grouping with someone Vanguard identifies as cheating :)
So, if I already have Vanguard because I also play VALORANT, am I going to have to do another install of Vanguard for LoL? Or is the Vanguard endpoint the same for both VALORANT and LoL?
Nah, if you have it for VAL you have it for League. :)
I upvote for the funny read.
Hopefully this actually curves the issue and doesn't create a false positive.
We do talk about false positives a bit in there but if there ever is, we'll obviously fix it, and ideally also tell you about it if it does happen. The threshold for triggering a false positive reversal is extremely low because we never want to take that risk of being unsure. We want to be as transparent as possible so that Vanguard and the team behind it has your trust and maintains it.
We're also about to be a lot more active in engaging with people claiming that they are a "false positive". We generally review almost all the ones that we see across various platforms when we can and the vast majority are either sadly not telling the truth, or simply just compromised accounts.
Even if I used PC for non Vanguard things, wouldn’t it still boot aslong as those applications and hooks are closed and not running? Or would I still need to restart etc
Yeah the article says it better than I would, so I'll just quote the bit that speaks directly to this.
Why is it always on?
Vanguard is not really "running all the time." The driver loads at boot, but nothing is making calls to it, and there's no network connectivity until you run one of Riot's games. It's literally just sitting there (menacingly), so that it can attest to the fact that nothing's happened between Windows loading and the game starting that would break the operating system.
When you launch League, the Vanguard client contacts the driver to confirm that it thinks everything is 100%, and if so, you receive a valid anti-cheat session and may connect to the game server. Instructions from the client then start enabling features within the driver to watch for things that might tamper with the signed League process and prevent them. You can always disable the driver whenever you'd like-you'll just need a fr...
Read moreRead moreQ: What if I'm having technical issues with Vanguard?
These days, Vanguard suffers from a lot of attribution bias, and the majority of bugs we see actually come from external sources that are difficult to lock down. One of the largest perpetrators recently has been the distribution of pirated software that toggles a registry option ("DevOverrideEnable") and allows "different" versions of key Windows files to be loaded into all running processes. Now, we can't say exactly what your intentions would be for doing something like this (wink), but what we can say is that Vanguard doesn't like when corrupted windows files are loaded into VALORANT—we use a great many of them to do tampering checks ourselves. We'd also recommend that you be careful what you turn off windows defender for, because it's doing what it says on the tin (defending windows).
Anyways, issues can arise, but please submit a ticket. We'll get you sorted.
I might have ...
There'll be a modal going out in 14.8 (currently on PBE fwiw) that will check your PC to let you know if it's ready for Vanguard. If you get an alert that something isn't right, there's troubleshooting steps and a player support link that can help you get things set up in time for launch, which is currently planned for 14.9.
Thanks for your service Packman. Waka Waka
I'm sorry, did you mistype 14.8 and 14.9 or am I having a stroke?
He did mistype. We made fun of him for it. It's 14.8 and 14.9 :)
So how do you disable Vanguard when you boot up your computer for non-League purposes? Is there an option to easily do it now?
Yeah you can just right click it in your system tray and select Exit Vanguard. It'll warn you that if you want to play a game that requires Vanguard you'll have to restart your PC - you just click "Ok" on that prompt and it's off.
I am still very sceptical about this and will not update the game for a few weeks to see how it will work out and what experience will other players have.
Honestly pretty based and understandable.
Hope to see you back after the dust settles
Please tell me I don't have to upgrade to Win 11
Nope you won't have to upgrade to Win 11!
The popup to help make sure you're ready for Vanguard will go live with 14.8 so you'll be able to double check and ensure you're good for 14.9.
With its device fingerprinting, Vanguard also gives us a renewed opportunity to sink teeth into boosting, smurfing, and account compromise. We'll be able to revoke rewards boosters didn't deserve, get smurfs to their proper rating faster, and maybe even invalidate "unfair" premades. Ranked statistics won't be as poisoned by scripters, facilitating easier balancing of high risk-and-reward champions, and games ruined by cheaters can eventually be "undone," returning LP to those affected.
This kinda huge
This is something we're very excited to leverage as it helps the overall ecosystem even beyond reduced cheating
1/10 master+ games having scripters in them is crazy
Even I was a little skeptical about the "dire need" for it until I heard that number internally. The second we heard it from the anti cheat team we were like "Okay that goes in the article" lol
I am still very sceptical about this and will not update the game for a few weeks to see how it will work out and what experience will other players have.
That sounds like a very reasonable take
Whoever wrote this should get a raise. Really funny to read.
Phillip is one of a kind :)
I'm glad you're having a good time! I also find the game lately to be the most fun I've had since S4 when I started. (and yes I'm going to just ignore the whole 13 accounts thing...)
Oh God, seeing Riot in front of your name is terrifying. For those who missed the ama five years ago, I met Norak very early in leagues life when he was a cheeky little Aussie kid. Now he's just a cheeky little Aussie dude. To answer your question, Peter Jackson. 🍿
I'm sure I'm taking the bait here, but can't help it...
Peter Jackson, the film director, is your favourite Australian?