> be Riot
> 2014 anti-cheat team is 3 guys
> legacy system Packman barely works
> 2020 ship Vanguard, kernel-level, on boot
> internet calls it a Chinese rootkit
> ship it anyway
> ban 3.6M Valorant cheaters in 4 years
> one ban every 37 seconds
> 2024 force it onto League, 175K bans in months
> scripting drops below 1% for the first time in 4 years
> Elysium, Oasys, Zeitgeist all shut down
> May 22 2026 flip IOMMU on DMA rigs, they blue-screen mid-match
> tweet "congrats on your $6k paperweight"
a Tencent rootkit just bricked a $6,000 wallhack rig and the only people mad are the guys who bought one
Anti-Cheat Update 🔨
We caught a player who cheated and conducted DDoS attacks on Fortnite’s server, and took legal action. We banned them from Fortnite and they will never cheat or coordinate attacks again. Here's their message to the Fortnite community: