Valorant’s Banwave Is An Excellent Source Of Salt


Vanguard bans 8,873 cheaters.

Riot Games has been taking quite a bit of heat lately regarding the whole “our anti-cheat requires kernel level security access,” so at the end of the day it might be reassuring to know that the software is in fact picking up cheaters and throwing them in the trash.

Phillip Koskinas is the head honcho behind Valorant’s anti-cheat software and he posted on Twitter today to announce that 8,873 cheaters have been given the old ban-erino.

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Koskinas has played coy with the members of a cheating community by posting their Discord conversation and confirming that yes, he is in fact present and watching.

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But no ban would be quite as entertaining without some input from the peanut gallery. I headed over to a couple of cheat forums to see how players were taking it and no surprise it wasn’t so great. A fair number of people who registered on a cheat forum and downloaded cheats and got banned are now claiming that they totally only did it in practice mode once to test it out, scout’s honor.

“I know Philip is seeing this. I hope he knows half of the people banned were just using the AHK scripts on practice map. Lost my hard-worked rank just because I was curious to see if AHK scripts are actually good in-game so I know how a cheater shoots like, and when should I report the actual hackers. You’re risking a lot banning the wrong audience dude.”

The cheating communities are losing their minds because much like Valorant’s bullet spray, nobody can quite pinpoint who is going to get shot and when. Koskinas refers to players as being “soul banned” which apparently goes into effect this week but nobody is entirely sure what that means.

Wonderful. Great job screwing the playerbase. My friend spends 200+ dollars (also who the fuck spends money in bets) and gets banned, so he’s gonna be charging back.

Now is as good of a time as any to set up that two factor authentication, given how reliably you can expect cheaters to start stealing accounts to get back into the game. For now though we can sit back and enjoy the tantrums of people getting banned, some of whom spent real money on cheat software or on Valorant itself, from a game still in beta.