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Vanguard just went live and LoL players are already claiming it's bricking their PCs

dotesports.com Vanguard just went live and LoL players are already claiming it's bricking their PCs

The anti-Vanguard uproar from the League community has been very swift and very loud.

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One of my favourite games to have kernel level anticheat is Helldivers 2, and I think it's definitely caused a few issues for me.
- Helldivers 2 works on Linux even with the anti cheat unlike Valorant so there must be some differences there.
  
  Riot's Vanguard is the only one that needs to start with boot, and always run in the background. Others can initialize and close when the game is done, IIRC. Which is why they can work with proton/wine.
  
  Vanguard is always running? More reason for me to never go back to League I guess.
  
  DotA is freedom, you can do crazy fun builds
  
  HOTS is the better game but DOTA has mod tools
  
  Supposedly it falls back to usermode anticheat on linux. That's what I heard but there wasn't a source, so could be BS.
- It's really sad that they chose to implement it. I would've loved to play Helldivers 2 but I just refuse to allow them that level of access to my device, especially for a game that isn't even competitive.
  
  That's where I'm at with the game.
  
  Like yeah it looks fun, I'm not willingly installing malware. Especially after the apex legends debacle.
  
  Thankfully on linux we have tools to heavily limit it's access such as firejail. It doesn't just get unrestricted root access
  
  Their explanation for it makes sense though. They were running into the problem that a player could cheat and progress their games faster, etc. Since HD2 is essentially a MASSIVE, single DnD campaign that every player is a part of, those cheaters would break the campaign progress and ruin it for every single other player.
  
  They also include shortcuts to install and uninstall only the anticheat. So you can remove it immediately once you finish playing.
  
  I'm curious, where are those shortcuts?
  
  If you go to it's steam install folder: Hell Divers 2 -> tools -> GGSetup.exe and gguninst.exe
  
  Good to know, thanks!
  
  That's that I don't get
  You can run the uninstaller without admin privileges so why doesn't the game only have nguard running while the game is
  Makes no sense to me

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