Riot Games talk Vanguard anti-cheat for League of Legends and why it's a no for Linux

https://sopuli.xyz/post/11465143

Riot Games talk Vanguard anti-cheat for League of Legends and why it's a no for Linux - Sopuli

This also applies to Valorant. I know a lot of people look down on both games, but it’s still unfortunate for Linux to lose access to such a popular game. I thought this part was particularly interesting: > Half of anti-cheat is making sure the environment hasn’t been tampered with, and this is extremely hard on Linux by design. Any backdoors we leave open for it are ones [cheat] developers will immediately leverage for cheats

“They’d find our backdoors T_T”

Oh noooooo! /s

To be fair, I think the backdoors they’re referring to would be ones meant to allow Linux users to play.

But with Riot being owned by a Chinese company, I suspect there are plenty of backdoors to go around.

Yeah, you’re right. It just sounds kinda bad to call them “our backdoors”. It’s not inaccurate, but still sounds kinda sus