Valorant

Comment and let them know we need South African servers on their Riot Direct network, especially now with Valorant... who knows, worth a try for them to see it, and the more who do the better for them to notice us.

 
Shirou said:
Comment and let them know we need South African servers on their Riot Direct network, especially now with Valorant... who knows, worth a try for them to see it, and the more who do the better for them to notice us.

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From what I have seen in people trying to monitor the uptime it doesn't seem that the same servers or 'instances' are used to host both LoL and Valorant. However, the same authentication servers are used, but that isn't something you can decentralise.

We won't know anything during the lockdown periods, globally. People have campaigned since the early LoL days to have local servers and Riot simply deemed us non-viable which can be understood, though gamers would generally argue otherwise. Not even India has dedicated LoL servers, and they are a pretty big player base.

Don't bother until Q4 2020 Q1/2 2021. The game is still a closed beta, and they themselves said that their core target markets are those who will have early access. Now is the wrong time to get your hopes up high.

The game will come here. Activision, Blizzard and Valve have FPS success here even though Activation is struggling to keep their huge CoD lobbies active, and I don't even know how well RB6 is doing here at the moment.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
From what I have seen in people trying to monitor the uptime it doesn't seem that the same servers or 'instances' are used to host both LoL and Valorant. However, the same authentication servers are used, but that isn't something you can decentralise.

We won't know anything during the lockdown periods, globally. People have campaigned since the early LoL days to have local servers and Riot simply deemed us non-viable which can be understood, though gamers would generally argue otherwise. Not even India has dedicated LoL servers, and they are a pretty big player base.

Don't bother until Q4 2020 Q1/2 2021. The game is still a closed beta, and they themselves said that their core target markets are those who will have early access. Now is the wrong time to get your hopes up high.

The game will come here. Activision, Blizzard and Valve have FPS success here even though Activation is struggling to keep their huge CoD lobbies active, and I don't even know how well RB6 is doing here at the moment.
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We happily find Warzone lobbies until 02:00 easily when we call it a night so I don't know when they don't fill anymore and my friends played Siege until they couldn't find lobbies anymore which was 04:30 a month back.
 
Soul Assassin said:
We happily find Warzone lobbies until 02:00 easily when we call it a night so I don't know when they don't fill anymore and my friends played Siege until they couldn't find lobbies anymore which was 04:30 a month back.
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Then it is positive news.
 
I doubt Riot will bring official servers to SA

does anyone know if they will allow 3rd party hosting?
 
Soul Assassin said:
What's up with the anti cheat controversy I heard of?
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The anti cheat Riot is using for Valorant runs at kernel level (Ring 0). It has the highest level of admin permissions and starts when you boot up your PC and "activates" when you run the game.

The controversy around it is that it could potentially become a security vulnerability and that it would be able to send Riot data of what programs are running on your PC all the time.

One of the mods on their Reddit responded to it in more detail here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/fzxdl7/_/fn6yqbe
 
DYreX146 said:
The anti cheat Riot is using for Valorant runs at kernel level (Ring 0). It has the highest level of admin permissions and starts when you boot up your PC and "activates" when you run the game.

The controversy around it is that it could potentially become a security vulnerability and that it would be able to send Riot data of what programs are running on your PC all the time.

One of the mods on their Reddit responded to it in more detail here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/fzxdl7/_/fn6yqbe
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Reminds me of Starforce,and the shitstorm that caused
 

I also see Riot came out and said that they haven't banned anyone until now with the rank update.

www.dailyesports.gg

Valorant dev reveals Riot hadn't actually banned any cheaters

Valorant developer Arkem admits Riot's anti-cheat team made a mistake and hadn't banned players until after making a recent system overhaul.
www.dailyesports.gg www.dailyesports.gg

Valorant dev reveals Riot hadn’t actually banned any cheaters
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Amidst the release of the ranked mode in Valorant, Riot Games developer Paul “Riot Arkem” Chamberlain has revealed the security team didn’t implement “real bans” until recently. Rather, while migrating to a new ban system, a temporary solution of just removing cheaters’ beta access had been enabled.

What sparked the cheating conversation in Valorant

Since Valorant‘s reveal, Riot has boasted a state-of-the-art anti-cheat system, Vanguard. It is an immensely invasive program, supposedly capable of warding off highly developed cheaters. However, players are realizing Vanguard is more bark than bite. After being stream-sniped repeatedly by a group of cheaters, former Overwatch League player Daniel “dafran” Francesca called for help from Riot Games on Twitter, essentially saying cheating was making the game unplayable.

Dafran received messages from the cheaters saying they received a “cheater detected” alert but weren’t banned. The group was free to queue again with no repercussions.

Riot Games’ approach to bans

This story found its way to the Valorant Reddit page, where users asked if anything could be done about it. In response, Riot Arkem explained Riot’s security team made a grave mistake, as Valorant‘s anti-cheat has been undergoing a migration to a new and improved ban system. The beta system didn’t ban players. Instead, Riot revoked beta access to the cheater’s account. In theory, this means that cheaters could log in to another account with beta access and still cheat.

Arkem assured, however, that the team is implementing “real” bans now. Furthermore, the new ban system allows Riot to explore more “sophisticated” options such as hardware bans.
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Odd.
 
Congrats!

You now have access to the VALORANT closed beta and a new competitive stage to shine from.

First, double-check that you have VALORANT downloaded on the PC you plan to play on. If not, head to playVALORANT.com and hit the download button.

Sign in with your Riot account, restart your PC, log back in, and you’re ready to play VALORANT.

Follow us on our social channels below to stay connected. We’re excited to have you!

A quick note about the in-game Store. At full launch, we will give you all of your VALORANT Points back, with an additional 20% bonus as thanks for engaging with our work-in-progress Store. For example: if you buy 10000 VALORANT Points during the closed beta, you will have 12000 VALORANT Points at launch (this bonus applies even to the bundled bonus for purchasing larger amounts).
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Hmmmmm...
 
It's a good game, but I don't like it, maybe I'm too old for this game :oops:
 
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