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Vanguard just went live and LoL players are already claiming it's bricking their PCs (dotesports.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The first time I installed Vanguard, for the Valorant beta, it decided to disable my mouse and keyboard on each boot.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    This is why I absolutely refuse to install Valorant (and now LoL) - I could somewhat understand if an anticheat refused to boot up the game in question if something triggered it, but it going massively outside of its scope and wantonly disabling or killing other processes is just nuts to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair, if they were typical RBG mouse and keyboard, and you used the brands software to change their settings, it blocked that software. Those programs were absolute dog shit in terms of security. I have no idea if it forced them to make better software, or Riot just started to allow them. Regardless it's all pointless because Vanguard has been defeated. Imagine making ring 0 anticheat that loads on boot, and it still isn't good enough, fucking LoL pun intended.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Both had optional software, and I only used the keyboard. The software didn't have to be running for either to work, it was only to configure it and then it wrote the configuration to onboard memory. It was the generic mouse and keyboard input drivers provided by Windows that was blocked and it affected a pretty significant number of users.

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