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We have improvements coming for systems like yours in the next patch. Personally I saw my i9 framerate go from about 220 to 280 (and others with better OC characteristics were getting above 300, YMMV).

I wouldn't say that Fortnite is necessarily a more demanding game, Valorant's networking and movement model is very demanding (in part due to the high number of updates per second the server sends).

It would be a nice long term goal to increase the usage of additional cores but going from 2 or 3 cores heavily utilized to an arbitrary number isn't as simple as a configuration change. Concurrency issues are some of the trickiest problems in all of programming and so work needs to be spread across cores very carefully to prevent subtle bugs from appearing.

On the other hand we think there's still a bunch more performance improvements that we can get into the game and we're hoping to deliver some this patch but we are also hoping to continue to improve in the futu...

No update yet sorry!

We have some regions coming online early next month but that doesn't include OCE. I think OCE is in the next batch though!

Not to use a cliche, but it works on my machine :(

I've tested the latest 15.5.2 and 15.1.0 releases with no issues.

I'll take another look though

The hitboxes always exist on the server even when they don't exist on the client and since shooting is server authoritative ("server sided") then the game will always know whether you hit or not.

I've tried to make the fog of war system as light on map authoring requirements as possible and so far the only real restriction is that in some situations geometry needs to be tagged as "transparent to fog of war" to avoid bugs. This doesn't happen very often though and in general map designers don't need to think about fog of war at all.

This is what I'm planning for this patch, we'll see how it goes. I hope we don't need to block all the features of AHK.

We're not interested in your browsing habits.

It's important to know though that almost every program on your computer can record your input or read your open webpages. This is because it doesn't take any special permissions to do so (not even admin access in many cases).

If this is something that you're worried about I recommend being extra careful about the software you install.

Thanks!

It's exactly like you say, very similar to threat modeling in infosec :)

Can't commit to any specific feature list yet, but they sound like features that would be possible once we have the core replay system

You got me!

Sometimes! Recently I wrote an article about the Fog of War system which is less about security and more just software engineering: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-valorants-fog-war

Hopefully we'll have more talks about the data analytics side of anti-cheat in the coming year.

So far we're happy with the performance of Vanguard

I'd like us to have a report feedback system so that you can know that your reports led to action. Not sure when we'll get to build it though.

If the game's not running you won't get banned for anything. The part that runs at boot doesn't store anything or report back to our servers so we have no ability to detect any cheats if you're not playing.

Yeah we've talked about it, kill cam would be a great learning tool. Integrating a Replay system would unlock a bunch of cool things (e.g. kill cam, better observing tools for esports, sweet sweet frag videos) so rest assured it's on the backlog. I just can't give you a timeline right now.

G'day friend, just wanted to correct this: we won't have Replays at launch (sorry!). Definitely going to be there at some point soon tm, and not 7 years past launch like League! We see the same use cases etc that y'all do and we're excited to see what the community will do with it... once it comes out ☺️

We're not going to mass ban AHK users.

No bans for AHK unless we detect that they're using blatantly cheaty scripts (e.g. pixelbot or recoil helpers).

If we decided that AHK had to stop completely we would try to prevent AHK from working with the game and then warn people that circumventing the protection would mean a ban.

For now I'm working on making AHK a less good tool for cheating without stopping it outright.

I'm willing to take more steps in the future if this first approach doesn't get it done.

I have something coming for this in the next patch, it won't be a perfect solution but it'll be a start.

Sorry about this one, y'all! This should be fixed in the next patch coming real soon.

Upcoming patch has some incremental improvements with respect to damage feedback and health status. It's easy for these sorts of effects to slip into annoying/distracting territory, especially in a competitive game, so we'll keep tweaking until we find the best balance.

There's still a way to do it in the current version, unfortunately. Let's not go into details.

That said, it's fully fixed in the upcoming patch this week.