Earlier this week, Riot Games deployed a patch for League of Legends which introduced new anti-cheat software to curb “scripters, botters and cheaters.” Unfortunately, players reported issues with the popular MOBA after the update, saying that the new anti-cheat program was blocking their PCs. Riot Games has responded to the dilemma by claiming that everything is working as intended.
On April 30, Riot Games announced this Patch 14.9 would hit League of Legends on the 1st of May. In addition to some balance changes and bug fixes, the new update also implemented Vanguard, the studio’s proprietary anti-cheat software. Already used in Riot Games’ tactical hero shooter AppreciationVanguard should clear queues from people trying to exploit it League of Legends by setting traps in a “Cat and mouse game“, as the studio explained in a very detailed blog post about the program. That’s all well and good, but immediately after its release, some people took to social media sites like Reddit and X/Twitter to complain about the problems they’d encountered.
Special, League of Legends player reported this immediately after updating the game to the new version vanguard in the backend, Their PCs were bricked up. You would either get stuck in infinite boot loops or supposedly were forced to delete drivers. Strange. However, the issue appears to be due to a compatibility issue with Windows 11 as noted by IGN, Riot Games said in a long post on the game’s subreddit
“At this time, we have not confirmed any cases of Vanguard blocking anyone’s hardware, but we would encourage anyone experiencing issues to do so Contact player support so we can take a look at it and help,” wrote a Riot Games community manager League of Legends Official subreddit. “We have individually resolved some of the key threads you may have seen so far from users claiming this with their machines and confirmed that Vanguard was not the cause of the issues they were experiencing.”
Riot Games stated that “less than 0.03% of players have reported issues with Vanguard,” and while the company says Vanguard is not the cause of the issues it identified, it also provided some troubleshooting tips for people who have problems after the update.
League of Legends Streamer and professional gamer Nick “LS” De Cesare seemingly managed to get one of his PCs working again, although he had to take additional steps to do so – such as removing the battery. Unfortunately he has another PC with him League of Legends The facade installed on it is still brick at the time of writing.
My city Riot Games has reached out for comment.
In other League of Legends News – because this is ridiculous and I feel like it needs to be talked about –A professional player was suspended and fined nearly $7,000 in late April for humping a stuffed teddy bear during a live stream. What on earth is going on?