The controversial anti-cheat tool Vanguard has now struck a streamer while playing Valorant. He was in a Swiftplay match with other players when he got banned. The curious thing: The ban happened right in the headquarters of developer Riot.
After the affected JimmyJamTV managed to get his first kill in a Swiftplay match in Valorant, an error message suddenly appeared on his screen. The player was banned in Valorant after spending only ten minutes in the game.
His teammates were at the same table and suddenly received a flashing red warning that a cheater had been detected in their match. Therefore, the match had to be immediately cancelled.
What did he do? The streamer is not aware of any wrongdoing. He does not understand why he was banned and how such a thing could even happen.
The video recorded by one of the teammates unfortunately only shows the situation after the ban. It is therefore not directly apparent whether the streamer really dared to cheat in the offices of Riot:
How are other streamers reacting? His teammates are full of schadenfreude and burst into loud laughter. Some whip out their phones and record the situation. However, no one can really understand why the streamer was banned.
Did the streamer get his account back? As it turns out, the anti-cheat tool actually struck wrongly. The streamer’s account was unlocked after about an hour, and he was able to participate in matches in Valorant again.
Other Valorant streamers were not so lucky and are permanently banned:
Vanguard also runs outside of Valorant
The Vanguard tool was already criticized at its release. The corresponding driver is started as soon as you boot your computer and looks for cheat programs in the background. Valorant does not even need to be started for this.
It is not possible to start Valorant without the corresponding Vanguard tool. The player community feels that the anti-cheat program goes too far because the tool even has admin rights and can therefore access the deepest corners of the system.
Another point is that Vanguard is very error-prone. A Counter-Strike pro wanted to take a look at the beta of the team shooter, but was banned because the anti-cheat tool recognized his connected phone as a cheat program.
It is to be assumed that a similar situation occurred in the present case and that Vanguard recognized some program on JimmyJam’s PC as cheat software.
A professional player was banned for life in another case for mocking the impairment of an opponent:
Valorant: 22-year-old ruins his pro career in 27 seconds on Twitch – Riot bans him for life
