League of Legends likely unplayable on Linux / Steam Deck soon due to Vanguard anti-cheat
League of Legends likely unplayable on Linux / Steam Deck soon due to Vanguard anti-cheat
A day we expected to come but now Riot Games have formally announced that their Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat is coming to League of Legends, and so it will make it unplayable on Linux.
W for linux
59How is that a win? I, among many other people, am now forced to use windows to play my favorite game. I am not going to stop playing so the only choice is to stop using Linux.
-3@Chadus_Maximus @_Sprite Personally I go the opposite way... If a game stops working on Linux, I stop playing it... There are too many enjoyable games in the world to stick to just one 😅
15Pretty sure it was a joke cause league bad haha. I stopped playing when it stopped working on my system. I hate myself but not enough to install windows just to play league
1I, among many other people, am now forced to use windows to play my favorite game. I am not going to stop playing so the only choice is to stop using Linux.
the game sucks RN.
League players are such a special breed. "I don't enjoy this game but I refuse to stop playing and will willingly switch to an entirely different operating system so I can continue to not have fun."
You do know that you're allowed to just not keep playing, right?
1Because fuck Tencent
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Why tf would this need a client-side anti-cheat!?!?!?
It is useless in this game!
I get it in VALORANT. It is hard to detect cheats when mechanical skill is part of who wins but a topdown moba doesn't have any of that!
Correct me if I am wrong but I think this sucks.
27There are cheats to be had in a moba, mostly aimbots for skillshots and auto minion farming etc. However, those should be hella easy to detect on a server level and fuck this anti cheat system
21At least in Dota 2, macros can give huge advantages. For example, cycling through every meepo to start a poof and blinking takes ~10 inputs in a precise order with an extremely tight timing window. Very mechanically demanding. A macro can execute it perfectly with a single button press instantly. Similar with Invokers Invoke ability for sequenced combos of specific spells.
I honestly have no idea if an equivalently demanding sequence of inputs exists in LoL.
14You think anticheat will stop this? lol
My keyboard has macros. No PC software required except to create/modify.
With little effort you can also turn a raspberry pi into a programmable input device. There are also HDMI to USB dongles that capture video if you need to capture/process frames. I own one.
All Riot is doing is making the cheats (if they even exist for LoL) stealthier.
This has nothing to do with cheating. They got tired of support requests coming in. If that wasn’t the case they would have had a solution for Steam Deck/Linux users to go with the announcement.
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it's intrusive anti-cheat-software operating on a system level where it could be a viable attack vector. thats what sucks.
what also sucks: this will make one of the most played games in existence unplayable on linux. and only so riot looks like taking a problem serious, that is probably much smaller than people think.
other than that: mobas absolutely require mechanical skills, that cheats could assist you with. there impact might not be as obvious as an incredible high hesdshot rate, but being able to consistently last hit creeps will give an ever increasing advantage over your opponent, canceling certain animations will increase the damge you are able to dish out over a given time frame and seeing the trajectory projectiles will follow makes them easier to dodge.
hell just supplying more information than the standard ui can be a huge advantage: knowing what your opponets buy, or invest there leve ups in all the time, displaying their cooldowns and stuff like that.
4League cheats basically play the game for you. Although cheats that tell you if someone is on the bush, tracks every timer for you, shows possible jungler positions etc. are very powerful; the egregious ones that people more often complain about CS for you, auto target skillshots, kite and even flashes/moves away from dangerous abilities.
So yeah, league cheats have come a long way.
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Hopefully we can still get some traction going against Vanguard, Windows users haven't been the greatest fans of the system on Valorant, maybe with enough voices riot will think twice about it? We still have a few possible outs though, Vanguard is not gonna be enabled on the macOS version, so either we can convince riot that Linux is as big of a platform as macOS or we can hope for Darling to get to the point where we can play games with it.
23Anyone sane played league of legends on steamdeck when there is dota?
17League of Legends is way more accessible than Dota.
13Not anymore
14If you happen to enjoy spending your time listening to your so-called team mates actively trying to force a surrender vote because your bot lane got one less minion kill on the first wave than the other team's mid laner.
11Both have the same amount of toxicity, so whatever
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Anyone sane played league of legends?
/s
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Maybe now i will get a life
15If I recall correctly this was announced years ago, I remember that it was one of the reasons that made me stop playing. That and the constant aggravation at the breakage that happened whenever they updated their client.
9I quit that game a few months ago. Maybe I should go take it for a last spin before I have to give it up for good. And also maybe open up my 200 ish loot boxes that I never bothered opening
8New season just dropped 😈
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The real shame here is that TFT uses the LoL client and so we can't play TFT now either. LoL could disappear tomorrow and I will miss going back to TFT for a few weeks every once in a while.
4Feature not a bug
3They're fully owned by Tencent, so not a big surprise. I quit LoL years ago
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