Riot Games talk Vanguard anti-cheat for League of Legends and why it's a no for Linux

3 years ago by Fubarberry to c/linux_gaming

While previously you've been able to play League of Legends on Linux, and there's some pretty die-hard fans using Wine to play it, that's set to end soon with Vanguard being introduced.

This also applies to Valorant. I know a lot of people look down on both games, but it's still unfortunate for Linux to lose access to such a popular game.

I thought this part was particularly interesting:

Half of anti-cheat is making sure the environment hasn't been tampered with, and this is extremely hard on Linux by design. Any backdoors we leave open for it are ones [cheat] developers will immediately leverage for cheats

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RenardDesMers 18 points 3 years ago

I enjoyed playing TFT but this whole thing made me ditch LoL altogether some months ago. And cheaters on LoL are so rare...

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Fubarberry 13 points 3 years ago

According to the original Riot post, 1 in 15 games has a cheater, and in some regions it's 1 in 5 games.

But valorant has the same kernel anticheat, and has rampant cheating. So I don't think the new anticheat will actually help.

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RenardDesMers 6 points 3 years ago

Depends also on their definition of cheater. If they count the mindless weak bots that keep playing just to farm currency in non ranked or if they only count serious cheats.

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bionicjoey -6 points 3 years ago

Tbf they're probably rare because of the rootkit anticheat right?

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RenardDesMers 10 points 3 years ago

No, they haven't deployed the anticheat yet I think

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