According to Paul Chamberlain, Riot’s anti-cheat lead for Valorant, the new hotfix removes the ability for the software to block “most” drivers. Valorant’s anti-cheat will still block certain “egregious” drivers, but for most drivers it will now simply not allow Valorant to run instead of blocking the driver entirely.
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Chamberlain says that this will be Riot’s policy going forward. The anti-cheat team will prioritize non-blocking solutions for security issues instead of blocking options. As is now evident, blocking certain drivers can have serious ramifications on a Valorant player’s computer. Ramifications that show how serious of a privacy issue Valorant’s anti-cheat can create.
To Riot’s credit, it seems to understand how much trust it’s asking Valorant players to extend to it. It also understands that this is an example of how that trust has been bruised. Riot’s immediate response and the pullback of the control that Valorant’s anti-cheat had to block drivers shows a step in the right direction. “We will prefer a non-invasive solution if one exists,” says Chamberlain, but Riot’s may never regain that trust.
Valorant is currently in closed beta with plans to launch summer 2020 on PC.
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