Valve could neverI gained so much respect for Riot over this, maybe I should play more Valo and less cheater-infested CS
is Riot suicidalnevermind that this shit is surely illegal, they are one fucky-upsie away from bricking random people PCs and getting an entire Tyrannosaurus worth of unlubed phallic plastic up their nether literally how can you ever coincive that "bricking other people's PC because you cheated at a videogame" is ever going to hold up in court
>>739396376retard
>>739396376the PCs are fine, they just need to enable some kinda software trigger if they wanna continue to cheat, which they can't, cause if they do the anticheat won't let them, and i think they only have to reboot without that or reinstall the OS, either way, fuck cheaters, this is the only way to stamp em out
>>739396376They're already damage controlling for that tweet a couple hours ago. Or I just checked, they made TWO of them explaining how "we cant actually brick PC's" while in the exact same tweet saying they can brick PCsThey really want their tiny little asian CCP asses stretched by a umbrella it seems
if you think that cheaters don't deserve to have their PCs bricked you're not a real gamer anyways
>>739395781valve will never do this because they don't have to answer to shareholders and no sane developer wants to spend 8 hours a day working on spyware
Riot is like total opposite of Valve, they hate linux and your right privacy.
The people playing this shit and allowing rootkits on their PCs deserve to be treated like subhumans, because they are.
>>739395781I'm far too employed to understand this image. Whu happuh.
>>739395781cheaters in complete meltdown mode over this LOLOLOLOOLL
>>739398247riot's valorant kernel anticheat soft-bricked some hardware cheating devices that these cheater subhumans pay for to circumvent kernel anticheats and aimbot/wh on valorant>>739398178you know every intel CPU is a rootkit for israel anyway right? at least this way u get less cheaters
I don't get it. Those are graphics cards. Why would their anti chest fuck with your graphics card?
>>739398318I'm just happy that anyone playing Valorant is having a bad day.
>>739398398they're having the opposite of a bad day with cheaters actually being banned unlike in CS dumbass
>>739398381the anti chest broke the graphite cardsreddit told me
>>739398381>>739398465they're not graphics cards they're Direct Memory Access (DMA) cards expensive way to bypass kernel anticheat w hardware
>>739398381They aren't graphics cards. They are chinese gamesharks.
>>739396376The entire personal computing market is a closed ecosystem and you agreed to all of the terms. You don't own your PC while running other peoples software.
>>739398625>You don't own your PC/thread
>>739395781...or you could just ban all Chinese and Taiwanese IPs, Riot. Cut out the middleman so to speak.
>>739398625And that is why I pirate everything.
Just remember that whenever you feel like your life is worthless. You will NEVER be as much of a CCP bootlicker as this guyhttps://x.com/k1rallik/status/2057898384279711944
>>739398746he's right and this is how you handle cheater subhumans in pvp gamesscorched earth
>>739396376China is untouchable.
>>739398746>Canadian (chinese colony) bootlicking the CCPI pretend to be surprised now right?
>>739395781valve wont either, they are focused on serverside anticheat only.
>>739396376>bricking other people's PC because you cheated at a videogame>because you cheated at a videogameplease explain to me why the fuck not. if you cheat you ruin other people's games. you don't just ruin Riot's product. you literally steal my time. just because you phrase it like "oh it's just a game games are for kids" you are coping hard. get fucked.
Maybe you should stop reposting the same faggot ass Twitter screenshot every five minutes.
>>739399020which is why CS is filled with cheaters, even faceit
>>739395781>>739396376>>739399401If Vanguard ever got breeched in anyway you'd have hackers capable of bricking any computer its installed on ontop of being able to collective massive amounts of dataI'm surprised people just dont think about how actually fucking horrible that possibility is especially when company breeches have MASSIVELY ramping up in the past year in fact it wasnt too long ago when an anon specifically brought up possible malicious actors at riot abusing this type of shit by accessing people information
What is this and why should I care?>>739399549This
>>739396376>>739395781qrd
>Riot can """""""brick cheaters""""""""" PCHoly fucking shit. That's it? Only PC illiterate neo zoomoids will believe this shit LMAOOP is probably underage or Riot shill
>>739400417read nigga >>739398318
>>739396473Riot devs are American, idiot. No pun intended.
>>739400315they only brick the cheat device.Don't have a cheat device installed? You're good.Don't be a cheating fucking chinky NIGGER and you won't get hurt!
>>739396376>this shit is surely illegalthere is no legal/illegal in corporations, they can do what ever they want and you wont do shit about it
>>739400315nothing is bricked you dumb fucking faggot, go back to cheating in cod
>>739395781>>739396376how many more thread are you discord/twitter faggots going to make on this WITHOUT context to just farm engagement on an anonymous image board???? are you retarded? does it give you dopamine? idgi.
>>739401852first time posting about it for me tho
>>739400315something tells me there's a big difference between the usual leaked customer data and snooping around people's PCs unless you're referring to something else
>>739395781
>>739401732As this anon stated so clearly >>739398516, these are chink gamesharks and gamesharks are explicitly legal. One of Shitendo’s only losses in court was over the legality of gameshark, and if you read the opinion you’ll see the reason is it creates no permanent work - just like this does. Cheaters will burn in hell, but I don’t think this will (or should) hold up in court and Riot should get assfucked by the judge.
>>739403138Works on my machine
>>739403519what wont hold up in court? not allowing people to play a game with a dma card installed??
>>739403519Nothing gets bricked it just won't work while vanguard is on the system. Uninstall the game and you can continue using it.
>>739400315>installing rootkits from evil corporations while they are hiring corrupt and incompetent jeets en masseWHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
>>739400840Don't actively remind people of one of the worst bands to ever exist
>riot trash marketing threadbuy an ad
If you people are so high and mighty, then say something to Riot in Twitter like this:>I hope you get ass raped by a supreme court judge because what you're doing is illegal!Don't tell me you people are cowards.
delete riot "games" threads on sight
cheaters inherently have a victim mindset that deludes them into justifying cheating in the first place, that's why they're fucking retarded and can't be reasoned with and should be culled from the normal population. Both digitally, which is what Valve does btw with their Trust Factor system, and culled irl preferably with a bullet to the head, which is what I would do if I was voted for your president of this United States
>>739403639>Yes Your Honor I broke their property because I don’t want them to use it>>Well then. Bend over.>>739403679In that case Riot is fine, the tweet suggested they were actually bricking devices.
>>739403679>it's not malware it just breaks your hardware until you remove itDo riotfags really?
>>739403820choke on your own shit riot marketer nigger
>>739403941dumb frogposter
>>739404063if riot hq exploded it would only bring positives to the gaming industry
>>739403931>In that case Riot is fine, the tweet suggested they were actually bricking devices.That's how cry bullies work they lie and play victim. But no, nothing is permanently bricked the computer and cheat card will work again fine....as long as they uninstall the riot game they tried to cheat on.
>>739403927ok i'll vote for youfirst victim: Phillip Koskinas, Director of Anti-Cheat, Riot Games
>>739403679uninstalling the game is not enough.
How does a bricked system uninstall software though
>>739404216how does a system bricked
>>739404182man, i miss gunz, sadly I’m too old to play it and do things like butterfly
>>739404131same can be said for practically every western game studio at this point. even "indies" are obviously bought out and pozzed by the satan worshipping kikes at this point
>>739404216You remove the cheat card so windows boots again then uninstall the riot game. Now you are back up and running and the cheat card and computer still works for whatever else game you want to ruin.
>>739404259>sadly I’m too old to play itcould always ask phillip for some "assistance"
>>739404131>>739404265BASED
>>739396376why would it be illegal? you chose to install kernel level software and then broke their tos and did something you are not supposed to do with the software installed, and got fucked. people have their pcs fucked everyday by whatever random shit their os messes up. your case would just be one nobody but cheaters empathize with
>>739404534ToS is not the law.
>>739395781Riot are about to get absolutely fucked over this.Blocking the device is fine, the fact it fucks with the device when vanguard is removed from the PC is where they messed up.There is also a ton of well known issues of them causing a ton of EFI and hardware issues, previously this was chalked up as an unfortunate mistake but now that they are openly boasting about intentionally doing it they are going to get shat on.You will see this being swept under the rug as much as possible by riot with them settling multiple legal suits against them with out of court payments.
So the entire point of this PC component thing (what even is it?) was to get past Vanguard to cheat in Valorant? It's the very reason why it had a 6k pricetag?
>>739405070nothing will happen and cheaters will continue getting fucked
>>739405105the purpose if it is to bypass it, yes. but the technology can be used for other things too.its probably that expensive because its custom made and whoever makes those can set the price high.
>>739405070Riot fucked up bigly
>>739405070>yes your honor i bought a dodgy device from chang on the internet with the intention to be malicious with itI'm sure that will go well for them.
>>739405282nintendo tried to sue gamesharks that are specifically made to cheat in games in a similar way and they got raped.
>>739405105Yeah it flags itself as an essential driver that windows needs to run (it doesn't but windows thinks it does) so it can hide from the kernal anti-cheat. It probably was designed for a Riot game specifically but this can be used to defeat any kernal level anti-cheat and the rich cheaters who buy this thing are probably preparing for a future of more games using the same anti-cheat tactics.
>>739395781kernel level anti-cheat will be illegal in the big 2027
>>739405369nintendo tried to stop gamesharks from existing riot is not.
>>739405443lol
>>739405443They won't need it because you'll have to have government ID to log into your own computer.
>>739403927you're a cat and can NOT be president
>>739405443you won't be able to run software that isn't triple-signed by microsoft, the government and the ADL in 2027
>>739398441>they're having the opposite of a bad dayyou're mentally ill
>>739396592One hack away from bricking EVERY pc.Moron.
>>739405138Denial won't change a thing, paying out cheaters and other people that had devices damaged is extremely cheap compared to amount of publicity they are getting for this.>>739405282Well yes, a persons opinion of cheating is irrelevant. If you were to purchase expensive golf clubs which gave you an unfair advantage and took them to a tournament where the officials destroyed them in front of you they are still directly liable for damage to personal property. In this example the tournament gets the reputation of being "tough on cheaters" for the relatively cheap cost of the replacement cost of the damaged clubs.>>739405105The component registers itself as a hardware device which gives it a lot of privileges, including read/write access to the kernel level. the '$6000' price tag is bullshit. Real cost for these devices is $200-$1000.
>>739400315kek the retarded anon in the chaincomment that never heard of Genshin antishit being used to fool antivirusThis game is 6 year old already
>>739405612you are a fucking idiot.
>>739395781as much i hate cheatersriot's completely blind of the border of malwareglad i dont play any of their bullshit nor their 'anticheat'
>>739405731The cheat card is never actually bricked so the destroyed golf club analogy doesn't work.
>>739405731That analogy is shit for a variety of reasons.>the dma device isn't actually destroyed>the expensive golf clubs would be magic clubs that always get you a hole in one
I miss when cheaters were some third worlder kid downloading an aimbot and not some degenerate loser dropping hundreds to thousands of dollars on it.
>>739405731PR wise this is an unmitigated disaster so far.They had to make extra tweets explaining themselves that didnt get a quarter of the exposure of the original, the head anti cheat guy started sperging on twitter, all the riot "partners" and affiliates are running damage control while actual humans are shitting on them hard.And it once again pushed the fact that kernel level anti cheat is way too extreme to the front.
>>739406193>the head anti cheat guy started sperging on twitterhe does this all the timeone thing the "old guard" like valve and blizzard does right is that they shut the fuck up about their anticheatthe players don't need to know, they will misinterpret everything you say
>>739405907It is a largely simplified analogy to cover a variety of instances. Riot have historically intentionally pushed junk firmware onto detected devices leading them to an unrecoverable state, they have also done similar with people using publicly vulnerable motherboards to exploit EFI loading, some of these motherboards could be recovered through qflash and similar utilities but others lacked that functionality and were bricked.I haven't personally looked into this recent change passed the HVCI flag changes but knowing their past efforts I doubt they've changed unless they've fired half their dev team.
>>739406193link all these tweetsI've only seen the follow up of them clearing the retardation in the air
>>739406336I'll repeat it again for you. The cheaters PC or cheat card is never bricked. Nothing is destroyed.
>>739406416so, just their spyware doing their spyware thing?with a chink image and vagueposting they made the worst ever pr for that thing lol
>>739406507The tweet was mocking cheaters who spent a lot of money to cheat in riot games only for it to be a paperweight. They are free to continue using the PC and cheat card for something else though.
It's funny seeing people claim Riot is going to be sued for this. I live in a place with some of the strongest consumer protection laws around and trying to sue for this is the legal equivalent of putting a loaded shotgun in your mouth.
>>739406582the problem was i think, their anticheat is already notorious for invasive kernel level integration and dont really work nonethelesswith that 6k price tag they mentioned for some reason (which is the number the media PR team pulled out of their ass)with all that already bad reputation people just assumed that it might be doing something destructive or something, which is a huge logical leap but also the 'mocking' tweet was retarded by itself
>>739406416This is PR cover.I have been reversing and claiming exploit bounties from riot in my free time since 2023, I have literally captured their malicious payloads in my VM along with encountering a few other malicious things we had to whitelist in the anti-rootkit dev team I am a part of.For my own amusement heres some recent work I did, I reported an EFI loader exploit chain I made to reverse Vanguard, Ricochet and EAC. Vanguard just sigged the loader, Ricochet did nothing, EAC detected entirely and doubled the normal bounty
>>739406193Riot also does this shit. Remember when Arcane came out and the retards said that Viktor's original design sucked which pissed off all the original players and then they said that Viktor also wasn't gay which pissed off all the new fans who were fujos. So Tencent had to send out an executive to correct the record and mollify the fans. Everyone in that whole company has main character syndrome.
>>739406824>which is the number the media PR team pulled out of their ass5 seconds on google for the "heino v2" can get you to the seller's site where it's listed at $5800
>>739406948>Everyone in that whole company has main character syndrome.what can you expect from the company that hired that "zed"?
>brickedif you can just reinstall windows it's not bricked, it's very inconvenient but it's not bricking hardware
>>739407073Kek. Oh dear.
>>739406954people really buy that shit?
>>739407192couldn't say, but the number wasn't pulled out of anyone's ass. that's also most likely pre-tip.
>>739407239maybe they tried to find the most expensive thing and then rounded the number upwards for maximum dramatic effect or somethingi stand corrected
>>739407192I doubt people would buy one for a game like this. But for a game like pokemon if the switch 2 doesn't get hacked? Definitely
>>739403138A friend of mine couldn't play Nightreign no matter what until they reinstalled windows, all because of vanguard lmao
>>739407192I read an article from a guy that investigated the cheat scene/had inside access a few years ago. There's a disgusting amount of money being thrown around for cheats. Like, people blow most of their paycheck on it.
>>739405612Try to not speedread 4chan champ
>>739395781I refuse to believe so many people are organically being dense in the exact fucking same way about people's concerns over this. It reeks of coordination.
are these heino whatever cards the ones that allowed to execute cheats on a second PC?
