I hate cheaters. I think they should be banned from every single multiplayer game, or restricted to a pool of only other cheaters. With that said, no one has the right to disable your hardware remotely, especially over a piece of entertainment software. Use Linux, refuse kernel-level malware...

CLICKBAIT Why does the article name itself that when it shows a tweet from valorant of them clarifying that they are NOT bricking your PCs???

I don't like kernel level anti cheats, but I'm happy the people who decided to run Valorant with DMA cheats now have an expensive paperweight (the cheat device, not their pc).

They even say you can still use the cheat hardware on other games if you disable IOMMU on your motherboard, but you cant on valorant.

Slightly confusing wording, but I believe they arent bricking any hardware, just stopping it from working for cheating on their game.

Riot already clarified it's not bricking hardware. They just posted a picture of dedicated cheat/DMA hardware, that's useless now, because it cannot be used for Valorant.

this is malware, i dont even care if its to stop cheaters.

Yeah your game is so important that you get to destroy people's hardware? Shit should be illegal.

Shouldn't that be insanely illegal? This is literally malware. Even if someone is outright hacking into your servers, you can't just hack back and ruin their system. There's a reason the legal side is not supposed to resort to illegal actions, the fuck.

People say they won't switch to linux because it can't play every game.

Meanwhile games that don't run on linux do shit like this.

Reckless behavior. Don’t trust a game company to exercise this extreme level of control over a device that you are supposed to own.

Just say no to kernel anti-cheat.

While I am in favor of removal of cheaters from pretty much every online space, I'm not in favor of any company having that kind of power. Only I should be able to brick my devices.

This should spook the hell of anyone still playing anything that relies on that. Imagine have that kind of malware running in your system, with kernel-level priviledges, that could simply fuck up your hardware if it thinks you might be cheating.

They sound quite smug now, let's see when it inevitably triggers on someone's legitimate hardware.

The ability to detect the firmware necessary for the cheats comes after collaboration between Riot and various motherboard manufacturers such as MSI, ASRock, and ASUS.

"Our games are so important that we need your help to break devices that your customers plug in to your products"

RIP the false positives. o7

Note: don't play Riot Games games.

What dummies. Even if you are cheating, violating a TOS doesn't give them the right to violate the law.

So they have been handed some Oday exploits by mainboard manufacturers and are actively exploiting it and somehow I have to like it.

God I hate modern IT.

What a terribly written article.

So it's bricking an external piece of cheating hardware and not users' actual PCs, or...?

Vanguard, has received an update that is allegedly altering system firmware to remove the ability of the user to access certain hardware associated with cheating.

No. No. absolutely not. You are not allowed to alter my system firmware. Absolutely not.

Don't worry, it'll only go off if it thinks you're cheating.

Congrats to the devs! They won the scumbag race against cheaters. Hope they‘re proud.

Just another reason to boycott such software.

I would rather have cheaters in my games personally x)

I can't speak to false positives but it would target an external gpu or other device connected for the purpose of cheating. The user can just disable iommu in bios and still use their cheating hardware outside of vanguard protected games.

On one side, I love how it breaks cheaters hardware, should not have cheated… eh?

On the other side, worried that it might and will break non-cheaters hardware sooner or later.