>riot's vanguard has the ability to brick your devices that you own>normalfags are defending it because "muh cheaters"
based tbqh senpai
>>108877821>install malware>it bricks your pcThey deserve it for being retarded. Besides, if normalfags had their way they would literally behead cheaters.
“I agree to have my pc bricked if i cheat in your game because my penis is small”>cheat in game>pc bricked>”NOOOOOO THIS IS UNFAIR”
>>108877821blocking firmware doesnt equal bricking itwhy are you spamming this. do you work at riot?
>>108878086seriously poor reading comprehension and low iq behavior to think blocking hardware is the same as intentionally bricking it
>>108877821>openly gloating on social media rather than denying and claiming it wasn't their software causing the problemThat's gonna hurt them pretty bad in court.
It doesn't brick it. It just flags it and tells Windows that it's not a legitimate SSD which causes windows to block it from being initialized. You can simply reinstall the OS to use it again.
>>108878383That's what the definition of bricking is.
>>108878400The PC works fine.
>>108877821any of this shit being accepted by anyone with a computer is part of why everything sucks and it's getting worse, video games are not worth this shit
>>108877821>playing riotslop in the first placeyou deserve much worse
>>108878112chinese company
who in their right fucking mind would install chinese malware willingly?
>>108877821>playing riot goyslop>using windowsyour fault brainlet
>>108878400softbrick maybe
>>108877821And the best part? It doesn't stop a single cheater ever. There are more bots on league now than ever in its history.
>>108878400In my experience a brick is not recoverable. Like >>108878668 said
I will be fine Also I think someone should sue them. Just because
>>108878405>>108878383Would you do that to someone's computer in front of them after telling them you were installing a video game, and expect them to be okay with it, yes or no?No retarded "tecnikaly, " arguments.
>>108877821how is it bricking if the computer and cheating device both remain perfectly functional?
>installing remotely-controlled malware on your main machineasked for it
Installing malware to install malware to cheat is probably not a great career choice in the first place. I guess this is the chinese mentality.>>108879477
>>108877821>installs malware on device>device gets bricked because you used another piece of malware to interact with the main malware or because the main malware decided to brick the device because fuck you>NOOOO MY DEVICE HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME?play retard games win retard prizes
>>108877821unfathomably based riot. they have the best anticheat systempic is out of context, nothing was bricked, just hardware cheats being detected and blockedfuck cheaters
I don't even feel slightly bad for the people who have their shit bricked by this, because they are cheaters. I wouldn't install this software on my computer regardless of whether I cheat or not, though. I'm not a retard.
>>108877821If true, this is absolutely lawsuit worthyFor the record, cheaters should all kill themselves for all I care. But permanently breaking a user's device? That's got to be breaking some law
>>108877821What do those words mean?
>>108877821there are "people" who are angry that this shit doesn't work on Linux
>>108879845Gamers install anti-cheat software which detects specialized "cheat hardware" and disables it by rewriting its firmware
>>108879898What the actual fuck? This is genuinely insane. As far as I know, shipping software that bricks your users' hardware is illegal. I hope they get at least sued into oblivion, but let's be honest here *taps graph*
good thing false positives aren't real
>>108877821Stay mad chinkjeet
>>108877821How are they "bricking" it? Are they fucking with the filesystem so you have to reformat the disk? All of this seems like a petty way to try and stop "cheaters" in some slopware game. >>108878383Can't you just tell windows it's fine to initialize? Or pop it out and format the partitions on another machine before throwing it back in?
>>108880200i think it just prevents windows from loading the drivercorrect me if I'm wrong I'm not a cheating expert
>>108879932>shipping software that bricks your users' hardware is illegalnot really. nintendo also bricked hacked switch.
>>108880339That's "Nintendo's" device. This is the equivalent of someone just sending you a virus that bricks a piece of hardware they hold no intellectual property rights over.
>>108880361not in the usa. there is no software liability.
in my day a bricked computer meant one that was irreparably fucked on the bios levelthat's probably the next stage of anticheat
>>108880424There is tho. You can't intentionally brick a customer's hardware because you don't like it. You go to jail for spreading viruses like that.
>>108879932they clicked yes on the "I thereby let riot brick my cheating hardware" agreement
>>108879826>>108879932>>108878112>>108879002its completely legal to brick a DMA card, DMCA Section 1201 (Anti‑Circumvention), Riot are allowed to deploy countermeasures to protect their IP.
This isn't bricking, it's preventing the device from working on systems where the game is installed. Don't like it? reinstall the OS and don't install league.
>>108877821i wish theyd start doing stuff like that. cheating in fps games is so rampant and nothing is done to mitigate it. valorant is probably nowhere near as bad as cs. cs was actually unplayable last i checked. there was a point i was checking games to see who got vac/overwatched in them and it was like a third of games. that was at a point it wasnt even bad too. it got to a point where someone would just spinbot every other game because someone was owning them. shit was so stupid.
yeah the pc doesnt brick, just the cheating device. its like when nintendo did firmware updates on wii to block action replay and freeloader discs. instead of working they crash your system or just say disc read error.
>>108877821You people cannot read for shit and are low IQ.It can only brick DEDICATED CHEATING HARDWARE that has DEDICATED HARDWARE ID's.
>>108880481the hardware is not damaged, you just have to reset its software.
>>108880481>retard injects malware into game to cheat via hardware>game injects malware into cheat hardware so retard has to reset itI don't see anything illegal here, the people cheating agreed to Riot's TOS lol.
>>108880684it's not even bricking the hardware, it's corrupt the software state of the sdd, forcing you to reset it (and losing the data). it doesn't not work with an HDD.
>>108880673>>108880704>>108880725I read this as the case when I heard about this.Everyone is talking about shit being bricked because to the normie a broken windows install or even just a PC not booting for any stupid fixable reason is a brick.
>>108880725it's not corrupting the state of the ssd, it's corrupting the DMA cheating hardware the cheater has plugged in to an ssd slot
>>108878400No, bricking means your device is now functionally the equivalent of a brick.
>>108880716>agreed to Riot's TOS lol.There is a reason we have this saint of a man trying to defend ourselves against the scam of TOS
>>108877821No more cheating. Game honestly. Be honourable.
>wild controversy>look inside>it's just thirdies shitting themselves because their cheat hardware gets mitigated
>>108880937>what's that, goy? you cheat with third-party software instead of buying our completely legit 500 eurobucks p2w package? to the gulag with you!
>>108880673>removing features>>>>more profit?
>>108880673Difference is the wii didn't effectively wipe the AC disc. All it had to do was recognize the hardware id and lock out/ban. The overreach of affecting client-side hardware for "good" reasons also implies the use of the same overreach for malicious purposes as well no matter how much you want to believe it might never happen. The problem is that there is no way to protect against this potentially being used on normal storage either intentionally or by false positives. This is besides the legal issues of affecting hardware you don't legally own, or are the manufacturer of (firmware updates). All around, I'm glad I never played this game.
>>108881167this but unironically
fuck cheaters but also the second they brick a single innocent persons computer on accident they're fucked. Too risky to do thisimo.
>>108877821we're living in the timeline where LoL won instead of HoN...riot should be in S2's place
>>108880704>the hardware is not damaged, you just have to reset its software.curious argumentif somebody mildly inconvenienced some big company by making their service unavailable until they restarted it they would be torn 25 new buttholes in court
>>108877821If a company causes economic damage to a person (ie: you have to pay someone to fix the damage if you aren't skilled enough to do it yourself) then the company should be forced into bankruptcy, no ifs and no buts.
>>108877821i am a windows patriot(the american operating system)i wasn't phased by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandaland i wont be phased by thisriot is a private companyso mind your own biz linux commie
>>108881505yes but in this case they are disabling an attacking device. this is self defense.
>>108881505>if something completely different happenedNobody's going to bat for cheat hardware, javier.
>>108881610>>108881611I see riot defense force is already out in droves
>>108881635we hate cheaters
they can only brick the dma card and even then you can probably reinstall the firmware on it anyway
Genuine question. Is Riot Vanguard ACTUALLY malware or no? Without trolling me please answer the question in-depth.
>>108877821saw that, what an abysmal list of commentsgoycattle will always be goycattlebut speaking of cheats why does this even exist? why don't they just charge $15 for prime like cs2 does, it just werks
>>108881635Cry more that you play shitty games and had to reinstall firmware on your cheat card, pablo.
>>108881648no, it's justiceware
im fucked arent i? i downloaded teamfight tactics a while back because its the only riot game i actually like.
>>108881535oy oy, that's very antiDEMOCRATIC of you
>>108877821This is what happens when you let third worlders use European technology.
>buying a fucking $6000 DMA deviceholy fucking niggerballsI know the cheatfags will be all out on muddying the water by screeching about how they got falsely banned and bricked but god damn nigger how man wrong choices did you make in your life>playing valorant>installing vanguard>buying a $6000 piece of shit hardware that STILL gets caught>crying and coping about it
>>108877821>kernel anti-cheat games already filtered out by having Secure Boot turned off
>>108877821>go to public library>cheat at valorant using library pc>riot bricks the librarys computer to spite me>now homeless BIPOCs cant access a PC anymore>I go home and play actual good games on my non bricked PClol lmaotoo bad this story is fake, i wish i could make riot unwittingly pwn niggers
>>108882842Anyway, all it would take is one politician to get his taxpayer funded gaming PC bricked, then riot is in court for destruction of government property, maybe even for terrorism or something. just because corpos are allowed to abuse normies and redditors doesnt mean they can abuse everybody. some people out there actually have rights.
>>108878383>You can simply *upgrade the OS and have actual control over your computer.ftfy
>>108882842>>108882900Since when do libraries have DMA cheat devices in them?
Well, that escalated quickly.https://x.com/riotgames/status/2057879738350444726
