Valorant Is Struggling With Cheaters

Vanguard, Valorant's anti cheat is one of the strongest out there. For the majority of the time since the game's release, it was impossible to cheat. There are cases for sure, but they always got banned before even finishing a few games. Although, this has come to change.

Valorant Ex Pro Calls For A Change

Valorant retired professional player and current streamer mixwell shared his opinion and experiences with Valorant ranked.

He started off the tweet by saying that the game is in a VERY bad state when it comes to cheaters. Implying that there are many to the point the game is not playable anymore. 

He then followed it up saying "I really hope we can change this for the better because it will become another CS where you can't play in ingame ranked mode and enjoy it. Even in 5 stack we get cheaters, absolute disaster." 

Mixwell is not trying to be negative, rather he is sharing his experience with the game and is calling for something to change so that Valorant does not become an another Counter Strike situation, where it's cheater infested.

The head of anti cheat development for Riot quoted mixwell's tweet asking for specific examples. While devs have agreed previously that there is an increased number of cheaters, they had many ways to combat that and so far, it seems like Riot is doing a good job. 

ItsGamerDoc asked for Riot IDs to look at, so that he can evaluate how true is the statement "Valorant is unplayable due to cheaters" as he does not see it the same way. Yes, there are more cheaters now, but Riot will keep doing what it takes to combat them. 

Someone replied to ItsGamerDoc with a Riot ID, saying that this is a cheater he encountered in a game. The developer took upon his word and checked the given Riot ID and he verified that it was indeed a cheater. 

Although he noted "He would have been banned if I hadn't interfered" and said that any lost RR will be refunded with the new RR Refund system.