A day we expected to come but now Riot Games have formally announced that their Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat is coming to League of Legends, and so it will make it unplayable on Linux.
    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee
      78·
      10 months ago

      How is that a win? I, among many other people, am now forced to use windows to play my favorite game. I am not going to stop playing so the only choice is to stop using Linux.

  • wallmenis@lemmy.oneEnglish
    255·
    10 months ago

    Why tf would this need a client-side anti-cheat!?!?!?

    It is useless in this game!

    I get it in VALORANT. It is hard to detect cheats when mechanical skill is part of who wins but a topdown moba doesn’t have any of that!

    Correct me if I am wrong but I think this sucks.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
      181·
      10 months ago

      There are cheats to be had in a moba, mostly aimbots for skillshots and auto minion farming etc. However, those should be hella easy to detect on a server level and fuck this anti cheat system

    • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de
      3·
      10 months ago

      it’s intrusive anti-cheat-software operating on a system level where it could be a viable attack vector. thats what sucks.

      what also sucks: this will make one of the most played games in existence unplayable on linux. and only so riot looks like taking a problem serious, that is probably much smaller than people think.

      other than that: mobas absolutely require mechanical skills, that cheats could assist you with. there impact might not be as obvious as an incredible high hesdshot rate, but being able to consistently last hit creeps will give an ever increasing advantage over your opponent, canceling certain animations will increase the damge you are able to dish out over a given time frame and seeing the trajectory projectiles will follow makes them easier to dodge.

      hell just supplying more information than the standard ui can be a huge advantage: knowing what your opponets buy, or invest there leve ups in all the time, displaying their cooldowns and stuff like that.

    • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      League cheats basically play the game for you. Although cheats that tell you if someone is on the bush, tracks every timer for you, shows possible jungler positions etc. are very powerful; the egregious ones that people more often complain about CS for you, auto target skillshots, kite and even flashes/moves away from dangerous abilities.

      So yeah, league cheats have come a long way.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      10 months ago

      At least in Dota 2, macros can give huge advantages. For example, cycling through every meepo to start a poof and blinking takes ~10 inputs in a precise order with an extremely tight timing window. Very mechanically demanding. A macro can execute it perfectly with a single button press instantly. Similar with Invokers Invoke ability for sequenced combos of specific spells.

      I honestly have no idea if an equivalently demanding sequence of inputs exists in LoL.

  • Tzig@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    Hopefully we can still get some traction going against Vanguard, Windows users haven’t been the greatest fans of the system on Valorant, maybe with enough voices riot will think twice about it? We still have a few possible outs though, Vanguard is not gonna be enabled on the macOS version, so either we can convince riot that Linux is as big of a platform as macOS or we can hope for Darling to get to the point where we can play games with it.

  • demonsword@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 months ago

    If I recall correctly this was announced years ago, I remember that it was one of the reasons that made me stop playing. That and the constant aggravation at the breakage that happened whenever they updated their client.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 months ago

    I quit that game a few months ago. Maybe I should go take it for a last spin before I have to give it up for good. And also maybe open up my 200 ish loot boxes that I never bothered opening

  • Stillhart@lemm.ee
    4·
    10 months ago

    The real shame here is that TFT uses the LoL client and so we can’t play TFT now either. LoL could disappear tomorrow and I will miss going back to TFT for a few weeks every once in a while.