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This topic is discussed in the blog under section "Q: I've heard that Vanguard bricks keyboards?", so you can get some more context there. The tl;dr though is that we moved away from the widespread vulnerable driver blocking strategy about 4 years ago, and it was only during a limited period in launch.

I wrote 4.8 and 4.9 at first too, that was my "fix".

Hey there,

We've been actively tracking and actioning these groups at regular cadence, with hundreds of accounts being banned. This is a persistent group, and they have been willing to purchase a large amount of higher ranked accounts in order to circumvent the actions they receive.

Many of these accounts are stolen/compromised, causing collateral damage to the innocent account owners as well. We are working on multiple aspects of preventative technology for these sorts of behaviors (i.e. Vanguard for hardware bans that prevent these individuals from even entering game), but in the meanwhile, reporting these players does help them get to our eyes and out of game faster.

In regards to Vanguard information, we'll be looking to have a lot more detailed communications on that, as that time comes. This situation is not related to Vanguard at all, as it's not yet released. Happy to answer a few of the questions in the meanwhile though!

We're looking to make sure those programs can maintain functionality, assuming the existing scope and usage of the proper APIs are maintained.

We look to only ban people on malicious game-specific detections. Even if something may not be compatible with Vanguard, we wouldn't look to ban for this incompatibility. We're not going to make any assumptions going into League of Legends, and we'll make sure to give a testing leadup to make sure the actions we do are the intended ones that benefit players, not hurt them.

The Anti-Cheat team does actually individually review many escalations from Player Support, it's even been useful in this scenario to help narrow down what happened, and to get all the pla...

The issue was unrelated to Vanguard or any other Third Party Tool collisions. The affected accounts should be reinstated, and there were not any live accounts affected from this issue.

If there’s still a hold on any accounts that you think was not intended, writing into Player Support is the best route, it helped us triage the issue in this scenario.

Appreciate the patience!

Hey there,

There was an issue that affected some players accounts on PBE exclusively. Associated live accounts were not affected. The PBE accounts that were affected should be reinstated now.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused by this one, and thanks for everyone's testing on PBE!

Botting is always going to be against ToS and bannable, but we have to be careful at the cadence we ban as not to let the botters iterate faster. We still ban bots in all game modes, just some we need out of game faster than others.

We're looking to ban a whole swath of bots, though I can't be specific on the specific cadences for all game modes, besides us having a zero tolerance approach to bots in Ranked. I will also say, we do look to minimize the player impact of bots, which includes account selling/smurfing.

Let me know! I've been reading DMs here and on Reddit, so far so good, but looking to make sure we're on the mark.

Just profiles, I can identify the games pretty quick knowing them. I've been getting a lot of good submissions, it's been helpful

just for clarification - I am hoping it will be a rare scenario moving forward, not saying there isn't an issue now. We've just started rolling out improved action waves. If you can drop me some example bots you encounter in the upcoming days though, I'd be glad to take a look and make sure our systems will be hitting the mark.

I know I'm a little late here, so this may get buried, but I do understand the concerns - there shouldn't be bots in Ranked games regardless. We've started to increase our efforts on getting these out - feel free to DM me any examples you run across (which hopefully will be a quite rare scenario)

Could you provide me in DM your Ticket #? We don't ban on non-malicious usage of auto-clickers.

Hey everyone,

After review, gh0st has been unbanned. The account flagged a detection, however after we looked into it we saw an extremely rare unintended collision, and have reinstated their account. We've made immediate changes so that this won't happen with other players.

We routinely QA both our detections and accounts that have been banned (both through routine reviews and Player Support escalations), but unfortunately this was a situation where we weren't 100% precise, and gh0st was an unfair victim of rare circumstance. I apologize for the damage this may have caused, and I appreciate the patience from all the parties involved while we sorted this out.

ROC curves are secret, but our philosophy has always been precision first, recall second. Obviously the goal is both!

We make sure to try to have these systems in a good place. I work as the lead for the review team, so if we're not hitting the mark, that's on me. Would you mind DMing your friends name+tag (and preferably ticket #) so I can look into this?

I can't be too explicit on how the system works but it is based on multiple factors, not just a certain amount of games played with a cheater.

Hey there,

We're really targeting concerted boosting services here, where the results are pretty distinct. Precision is a massive priority in these actions.

If this case happens, please write into Player Support, they know of these issues and are well-equipped to to review cases and make sure innocent players can get back in game. If you know of any scenarios where a player was banned for intentionally feeding after being affected by one of these exploits within the past couple days, please let me know.

We're actively working on these issues. I understand the frustration on these issues, and I know it probably sounds like BS to everyone in the thread, but we've been making a lot of progress on a lot of these bugs.

I really wish I had the bandwidth to review all individual cases but we've been working on getting these players out of game. Please report any abusers, I know the turnaround might not be instant but we use this information to help come up with detection and fixes.