Valorant Undetected Cheats able to bypass Vanguard

To combat cheaters, Valorant uses a completely new anti-cheat program called Vanguard, which the developer Riot Games developed especially for the shooter. And that's what's being heavily criticized by the players right now. To address the concerns, the team now rewards finders of bugs and exploits with between 230 and about 92,000 euros.

Valorant divides its rewards into different categories and subcategories, all of which are rewarded to varying degrees. The exact payout is determined individually by the studio for each case. The focus is on errors that endanger the security or privacy of Valorant's players.

For an exploit to qualify for a payout, it must work with the latest version of Vanguard. In addition, you have to create a detailed report and may not report to any other party except Riot Games about the find.

Vanguard under fire

Valorant's anti-cheat program is not exactly popular with players. The reason is that Vanguard intervenes very deeply in your system and runs even when you do not play the multiplayer shooter at all.

In a Reddit post, user Shun-Pie, who claims to manage the network and servers of an accounting software developer, explains why the anti-cheat tool should be removed. Among other things, he considers it problematic that Vanguard has more rights on your PC than your admin account and also scans external hardware.

The team responds to such concerns in a new blog post in which they explain the functionality and philosophy behind the anti-cheat tool. So they say that security and privacy are a core aspect of Vanguard and detail the architecture of their toold a little more detail.