A anti-cheat error caused CS: GO pro Mixwell to be kicked for cheating in Valorant, after he plugged his phone in! from r / VALORANT
The professional player Mixwell was able to experience for himself why the anti-cheat tool Vanguard from Riot Games' new shooter Valorant is so much criticized: The tool threw him out of the game because he was wanted to charge his cell phone on the PC.
You can watch the event in the video embedded above. In the bottom left you can see Mixwell connecting his cell phone to his PC before a notification of the anti-cheat tool appears in the game.
After this event, he contacted the developer of the multiplayer shooter on Twitter and asked his account but please unlock again. Mixwell also stated that he is not alone with this problem: LotharHS too Similar things are said to have happened.
Hello @RiotSupport
@PlayVALORANT I was playing on stream with my friends. I connected my usb charger to my phone and I got disconected by the anti-cheat, can you unlock me please. ? pic.twitter.com/kpUSlCiKB4– Oscar Cañellas (@Mixwell) April 16, 2020
What exactly happened?
There is currently something Disagreement on the reasons. Some players claim from the in-game message from Mixwell that Vanguard just crashed and therefore removed him from the game. Games that use other anti-cheat tools such as Battleye or Easy-Anti-Cheat would also react accordingly in such a case.
Riot in turn explains the Mixwell was not banned and he just flew out of the game because of a bug. This should affect all those users who already played the boot camp version of Valorant and are now trying to participate in the closed beta with this build.
Reddit user Shun-Pie, on the other hand, bases his own theory on this: He assumes that Vanguard has problems with the fact that his increased privileges do not apply to a smartphone that has its own operating system. Since it cannot deal with such a situation, this would have been can cause Vanguard to crash.
more on the subject
Valorant's anti-cheat program: why fans fear it
Unpopular anti-cheat program
Vanguard is highly controversial among players of the multiplayer shooter because it runs at the kernel level of your system. That means it starts before Windows and has more rights than your own admin account. It works accordingly, regardless of whether you are playing Valorant or not and cannot be ended.
Riot Games has now suspended a bounty on bugs and exploits in Vanguard to accommodate critics of the new anti-cheat solution. Anyone who finds problems that affect the security or privacy of users and can document them in detail will be rewarded with up to 90,000 euros.
