Valorant Kicks Anti-Cheater Crusade Into High Gear Following Cheating Spike After “Riot’s holiday code freeze”

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Valorant Kicks Anti-Cheater Crusade Into High Gear Following Cheating Spike After “Riot’s holiday code freeze”

Coming across hackers and cheaters in multiplayer games is quite common nowadays. They can completely ruin the gaming experience, especially if it is a competitive video game such as Valorant. Riot Games has been trying its best to take down cheaters, however, there has been a spike in the number of cheaters recently.

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The number of hackers was increased in Valorant due to Riot’s holiday code freeze (Image via Riot Games)

Riot Games has developed its own anti-cheat system called “Vanguard,” which is able to detect cheating at the kernel level of a player’s computer. The head director of Vanguard recently gave fans an update about what steps the team is making in order to reduce the number of cheaters after the holiday code freeze at Riot Games.

Riot Games is determined to reduce the number of cheaters in Valorant

In an article posted on X, the head director of Riot Games’ anti-cheat Vanguard, Phillip Koskinas, addressed the increase in the number of cheaters in Valorant. Koskinas shared a graph that reveals that there was a sharp increase in the number of cheaters in Valorant in almost every region over the past two months. It was because of Riot’s holiday code freeze, so the developers were working at reduced capacity.

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Koskinas has confirmed that things are now back on track and the team now aims to bring down the percentage of ranked games with a cheater back down below 1% globally. Currently, Brazil is the region that is affected the most by hackers, Koskinas explained why.

He explained that most cheaters in this region were using something called “pixelbot” that allowed them to improve their aim. Koskinas assured that they are as easy to detect as they are to install, so players in Brazil will not have to deal with this problem anymore.

Phillip Koskinas admits that Riot Games can’t permanently put an end to hackers

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Cheaters will eventually find other ways to fool Riot’s Vanguard (Image via Riot Games)

Koskinas claims that Riot Games is working hard to tone down the number of hackers in Valorant, but he admitted that Vanguard can only keep a determined cheater out for a little while as they eventually find their way back in.

Yes, there’s no way to completely get rid of cheaters, but Koskinas says that Riot Games will never stop and will “encourage every single cheater to kick rocks.” He also revealed that in 2024 an average cheater was only able to complete 6 games before getting suspended, so it’s clear that Riot Games is making some progress.

But what happens if you get in a match with a cheater before he completes 6 six games? Fortunately, Riot Games has come up with a solution for this. Koskinas said that in Act 2, every ban will be accompanied by a “Ranked Rollback,“ which means that Riot will restore the RR lost to all players who were affected by a cheater in a ranked game.

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