{"id":67751,"date":"2024-09-19T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/vanguard-banned-3-6-million-cheaters-past-4-years"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:08:41","slug":"vanguard-banned-3-6-million-cheaters-past-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/vanguard-banned-3-6-million-cheaters-past-4-years","title":{"rendered":"Valorant Vanguard Has Banned Over 3.6 Million Cheaters In Past 4 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest report, Riot has unveiled that Valorant&#8217;s anti-cheat, Vanguard has banned over 3.6 million accounts till August 2024. The game released four years ago, so it means that a ban was issued every 37 seconds.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/explore-the-creative-journey-of-superpower-champions-anthem-with-riot-s-jonny-altepeter\">Explore The Creative Journey Of &#8216;Superpower&#8217; Champions Anthem With Riot&#8217;s Jonny Altepeter<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Riot added that this number doesn&#8217;t include other types of bans including botting, boosting, or intentionally queueing with cheater. You can check out the graph for number of bans given over time below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-figure\" contenteditable=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" contenteditable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/Ld16IZIJ6jerdm3JYQr3gFACkHmjjRT6qJq7hmxFExY\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzMy82NmVkMzE0OWI3MTljLWltYWdlNC5wbmc\" alt=\"Number of manual, hardware, and anti-cheat detection bans in Valorant since launch\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"false\">Number of manual, hardware, and anti-cheat detection bans in Valorant since launch. (Picture: Riot Games)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you can see in the graph above, the majority of the bans are Hardware bans and their numbers increased drastically in July 2022. This is the period when the digital copies of Windows 11 were launched and it became important to enable Secure Boot or TPM 2.0, so that could be one of the major reasons for the spike.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Even though the fight continues to grow in complexity, we&rsquo;re still keeping up with<\/em><br \/><em>our commitment of getting cheaters out of our games as quickly as we can<\/em>,&#8221; said Jose &ldquo;the3&rdquo; Chavez, Data Engineer from Riot&rsquo;s anti-cheat Vanguard team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest report, Riot has unveiled that Valorant&#8217;s anti-cheat, Vanguard has banned over 3.6 million accounts till August 2024. 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