Well, that escalated quickly.
There’s been a wave of claims by cheaters about Vanguard “bricking” their PCs, so let’s clear that up: Vanguard does not damage hardware or disable your devices.
The photo we posted is a picture of cheat hardware devices that are sold explicitly for cheating in VALORANT (not normal PCs or PC components). Through our latest updates, Vanguard now makes those devices worthless for VAL, but does not in any way brick PCs or PC components or PC software.
Our latest update enforces standard platform security features, like the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), on accounts identified as using Direct Memory Access (DMA) cheating devices. These protections are already part of modern systems and when enabled, they block DMA cheat devices (such as those shown in the photo) from accessing memory in downstream applications, like our games.
If a cheat setup continues attempting to cheat after those protections are enabled, the system may generate hardware faults or instability. This is expected behavior under IOMMU when attempts are made to read protected memory.
Disabling IOMMU allows the cheat device to function again, but IOMMU will still be required to play our games. This means the cheat device won’t work with our games, but your PC isn’t “bricked.” We would not, and cannot, impact your PC’s functionality in any other fashion.
This functionality only applies to systems attempting to use DMA cheat devices, and players who are not using DMA-based cheat setups are not affected.
We’ll keep investing in anti-cheat to protect competitive integrity, and we’ll keep being as transparent as possible about how those systems work.
Exactly. It will be separate realm for those, who wants to experience all of the wipe related stuff - starting from scratch with everybody, progress through it.
Seasons will have unique modifiers, like no flea, or open flea, or friendly scavs, or scav war etc. Lore based seasons, unique seasonal quests and so on.
Also your seasonal character will have RPG style perks and debuffs selection before you will go in the season (you can make it really hardcore for you personally with some good bonuses).
This is only the part of seasonal character feature. We want to make it interesting.
More info will come later.
I think it’s a little odd because this animation would make more sense if it was a transition from low-ready to ADS.
Because the little bob implies the PMC/scav is pocketing the buttstock in the shoulder, when in normal point shooting you’re supposed to already have the buttstock pocketed
If you ask me, I think this is a neat animation but for the wrong trigger, they should add an actual low ready stance like they talked about
Should be imo:
Low Ready to Point Shooting = new animation
Low Ready to ADS = new animation
Point shooting to ADS = old animation, unchanged
The guy that REVIEWED 1.0 Tarkov for IGN, actually played 2 Raids in PVP. First Raid being the Tutorial and then died on his second run on Inter, calling it Cheater-Infected. Quote: "sweaty pvp player" @nikgeneburn@bstategames@tarkov@TieGuyTravis