Valorant has wielded the banhammer and kicked a lot of cheaters out of the game. How they did it is unclear, but the cheaters seem quite annoyed.
How many cheaters were caught? In a tweet, Riot employee Phillip Koskinas cheerfully announced:
I discovered a parallel universe with 8,873 fewer cheaters and moved us there. Please be careful, as your bones may have been shifted during the dimension shift.
In this humorous way, the good man wanted to explain that over 8,000 cheaters have been kicked out of the game. Furthermore, this is just the beginning; many more cheaters will soon face their just punishment.
How exactly the bans work and whether they are hardware bans that are difficult to circumvent, he did not want to disclose for security reasons. However, it would likely just be a matter of time before the cheaters found a way to return.
Cheaters are angry about the ban
This is how the cheaters reacted: So far, it seems that the cheaters have not found a way to return to the game easily. Because it is not easy to get a key for the Valorant beta.
To do this, you still likely have to watch hours of Twitch streams of Valorant. And then there is still a good chance that the ban will still be in effect and everything was for nothing.
This annoys many cheaters and according to Kotaku, they are currently complaining and whining actively in relevant cheating forums. There have even been so many threads with offended cheaters that other cheaters admonished them:
Please stop the panic, guys… Honestly, it’s not worth the time and effort to spam this forum with several threads that can be summarized as “OH NO! I got banned, help!”
However, many cheaters still do not see their hard lot and bitterly complain:
- I spent sooo much money on this crap and now I’m getting banned? WTF?!?
- GG Riot! I didn’t even cheat in real games, only 5 minutes in practice mode!
- People got banned just for running the cheat in practice mode for 2 minutes. I believe the ban was precisely set in those 2 minutes. Isn’t there a grace period?
Even other cheaters have no understanding: Many players whine that they never really intended to cheat. They just wanted to try the cheats in practice mode. But here too, other cheaters contradict them:
Lmao, what’s up with all these “I only cheated in practice mode” posts? You cheated, you got caught. Good job Riot. If Vanguard is always running, why do you think cheating in practice mode doesn’t count?
The success against cheaters is based on the particularly strict anti-cheat software Vanguard, which is used in Valorant. The tool operates at the kernel level of your system and cannot be stopped when you want to play Valorant. This annoys many players, but apparently it is truly effective against cheaters.
