ANTI-CHEAT UPDATE // WINTER 2023
Hello, it’s Matt “K3o” Paoletti on behalf of the VALORANT Anti-Cheat team, here to give the latest update on VALORANT's efforts to keep cheaters out of your games. As always our team is dedicated to maintaining competitive integrity, across both the Competitive queue and esports. This also includes winning the so-called “arms race” of cheat versus anti-cheat, which we’ll cover below. SUMMARY: Despite increasingly sophisticated attempts by cheaters to bypass Vanguard, our overall ban numbers have remained stable. The chart below shows VALORANT player ID bans by type: hardware, manual, and when caught by our automated system detection. Repeat offenders, those using multiple accounts to cheat on the same machine, remain the majority of bans. We’re continually working on ways to keep these cheaters permanently out of our ecosystem. You may have come across content on social media, advertising or live-streaming “undetectable cheats” for VALORANT, boasting their ability to remain undetected
ANTI-CHEAT UPDATE // WINTER 2023 ANTI-CHEAT UPDATE // WINTER 2023 The latest look on our efforts to keep cheaters out of your games. Dev Matt “K3o” Paoletti 2023-12-11T16:00:00.000Z Hello, it’s Matt “K3o” Paoletti on behalf of the VALORANT Anti-Cheat team, here to give the latest update on VALORANT's efforts to keep cheaters out of your games. As always our team is dedicated to maintaining competitive integrity, across both the Competitive queue and esports. This also includes winning the so-called “arms race” of cheat versus anti-cheat, which we’ll cover below. SUMMARY: Bans have been stable,
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