Valorant Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Jaywearspants

Arkem, I see a lot of folks fear mongering about how this is "unprecedented" access to give for an anti-cheat. Can you speak to this at all? I find it hard to believe that this level of access (ring 0) isn't utilized by Battleye or EAC. I understand your driver is loaded on startup and that's what allows it to detect things those can't - but my understanding is those more or less all operate with the same level of permissions as Vanguard. I'm in favor of this and just trying to best understand it.

Originally posted by HappyBunchaTrees

"I'm sorry you feel that way"

What a cop-out, I'd rather deal with the odd cheater inside a reactionary based anti-cheat than this horseshit right here. Are you trying to tell me all Riot employees have this installed on their work PCs? I bet there's an employee version of Vanguard that doesn't open your machine so you guys can protect your assets while putting the rest of us at risk.

Originally posted by Davban

Nah, all my friends run 200+ fps rigs but keep everything on low for optimal frame rates.

Originally posted by Germanspartan15

Great, I appreciate the quick support.

This kind of info needs to be in the installer or on the download page. Crazy that I had to put in so much effort to get this information.

I’m sure a lot of players would feel more comfortable with an official response on this matter. Please consider it.

Thanks!

Originally posted by WarpathII

Any word on a fix for the reports about negative performance in other games? I experienced this quite a bit myself over the weekend after installing and it's flat our ruining other games for me. I can't see people keeping this installed if these issued don't get addressed pretty quickly

Originally posted by BucePla

for some reason I am unable to uninstall this Vanguard program. I went through all the steps given on the support page, and nothing has removed this program. I am given a message to terminate the program, but it never goes away. Wtf ... is this

Originally posted by NippleSnipplez

Riot Arkem, a lot of people have been saying that this driver on startup should be toggleable for when the game is not running. How do you feel about this? Is it possible we could get this?

Originally posted by Marleysan

For those concerned having basically a rootkit running on kernel level of my laptop all the time like me, can we have a "bandage" solution like a toggle option on the launcher of valorant?

By that I mean having the vanguard anticheat turned off by default on windows startup, and when, only when I decide that it is time to play valorant I fire up my valorant launcher that tells me "hey look the vanguard anticheat system is off you need a system restart to turn it on JUST FOR THIS NEXT STARTUP". So I restart my computer knowing that this time the vanguard anticheat WILL actually start on boot and I play my couple of games and I'm all good (not really but still). Afterwards when I'm finished I close off valorant, and I reboot my pc knowing that during the following startup the anticheat will not be starting again.

I know I will still have a backdoor open on my computer during all the time I'm playing valorant and when the pc remains on after playing but at least I'm in...

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Originally posted by GIJared

Hello! Really enjoying the game. I have a question I was considering making a thread about, but here you are!

Does the extra 20% apply to purchased valorant points only, or does it take into account the purchased valorant points AND the bonus points?

For example, if I spend $99 in the beta, I get 9500+ 1500 bonus valorant points, for a total of 11,000.

If it includes the bonus points, I expect to receive 13,200 valorant points when the game launches. However, if it only applies to the 'purchased' points, we're looking at 11,400. This is a difference of 1800 valorant points. This is significant, as that's 1-2 high tier skins.

My bad math skills tell me the valorant point bonus is ~15% at $99, ~13% at $49, ~10% at $34, ~8% at $19, ~6% at $9, and 0% at $5. If the policy only applies to purchased points, by spending more in the beta, you're in a way rewarded less(5% extra vs a full 20%).

Just trying to understand how this works so I can make...

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Originally posted by Germanspartan15

Please provide an official writeup on how to totally remove both the game and the anti-cheat for players who wish to do so. Nobody should have to use an outside resource to figure out how to get rid of software that comes with the game and runs behind the scenes without knowing.

Please also include this information SOMEWHERE in the installation or on the official website, because it’s RIDICULOUS that I only found out about this several days after originally playing.

This all seems incredibly shady, and the fact that there is no official response other than a comment strikes me as odd, especially for an established company like Riot.

Originally posted by ThePlaybook_

Correct me if I'm wrong here but I think that the opposite of this (late kill shot packet is seen as valid by the server) that you get kill trading which people consider frustrating in other games, right?

Originally posted by TSM_Final

Any chance you could give some insight into your thought process for the monetization of the game? What were your priorities, challenges you faced, etc. Would love to learn from a veteran!

Originally posted by 30mofwebsurfing

Yea, I would be very surprised if they don't tap into the whales. I used to play a "mostly" single player mobile star wars game that let you join guilds but they we're really that big of a thing. The top 10 guilds were almost exclusively Arab run or own or entirely comprised of, the amount of money dumped into a freak single player mobile mmo blew my f**king mind. I also hope they have Arab server on launch because it's taken 4 years for overwatch to get theirs (it's rumored to drop tomorrow, and is currently used on the ptr).

Originally posted by Anon49

Do you interpolate between ticks when latency compensating? Or is tick resolution enough with 128?

Originally posted by vooffle

Will Riot Direct be used to imrpove connections to gane servers in other Riot titles, such as League of Legends?