Every Riot game requires Secure Boot for Vanguard to work. So does Tarkov and a lot of other games. It’s not unique to those two.
And what the fuck would they want with your computer anyways? Are you afraid they’re gonna steal the porn you stored on it? Secure Boot is literally a few checks on boot and the anti-cheat simply verifies these checks. There’s nothing nefarious here, this is a lot less invasive than Riot Vanguard.
They are using this to leverage their way into control over your system. They are trying to become the iOS of PC’s, where you can’t install or run anything Microsoft didn’t collect protection money on.
EA Gets hacked and all the extra info they have been storing on me goes right to the hackers. It’s also a huge back door they could sell to shady 3 letter agencies.
They could easily identify the worst hackers just based on the game play data without needing to actually confirm that they have cheats installed.
Snapping between spread out people to get a half dozen head shots in a quarter second? Hacking.
Locking on to someone behind a wall? Hacking.
Hacks that nullify recoil? They should be able to tell by unrealistically precise counter movements.
Sure, games can occasionally have network issues that result in these kinds of things but if someone does it regularly then it isn’t a networking thing.
Secure Boot isn’t going to do shit about console players running what’s functionally aim assist with cronus zens or xims. They could catch the hardware hackers in the same way you mentioned, but they just don’t do shit.
The problem with this detection method is that you occasionally run into honest players catching bans for being legitimately too good at the game. While rare, there are some players who are accurate enough with their tracking that even professional players would assume they’re cheating, and end up getting banned because the developers decided nobody should ever be that good at the game.
This ends up putting a skill ceiling on a game, which is uhhealthy for a competitive game.
Plenty of people have been banned for false positives for the current anticheat methods due to corrupted files and whatnot, so I’d rather that a few ‘too good for reality’ players were banned instead.
This isn’t about greed, it’s about the game being riddled with hackers to the point people are leaving.
Yet no other game requires secure boot and plenty of them don’t require kernel level access either. Many of those games have no such cheating problem.
It’s a cop-out because they aren’t good at their jobs and instead want to gobble up more and more access to your computer instead.
Every Riot game requires Secure Boot for Vanguard to work. So does Tarkov and a lot of other games. It’s not unique to those two.
And what the fuck would they want with your computer anyways? Are you afraid they’re gonna steal the porn you stored on it? Secure Boot is literally a few checks on boot and the anti-cheat simply verifies these checks. There’s nothing nefarious here, this is a lot less invasive than Riot Vanguard.
They are using this to leverage their way into control over your system. They are trying to become the iOS of PC’s, where you can’t install or run anything Microsoft didn’t collect protection money on.
You sound like you follow QAnon…
EA Gets hacked and all the extra info they have been storing on me goes right to the hackers. It’s also a huge back door they could sell to shady 3 letter agencies.
Valid concerns, but Secure Boot does not influence that outcome. The root access is the most egregious thing here, not Secure Boot.
They could easily identify the worst hackers just based on the game play data without needing to actually confirm that they have cheats installed.
Snapping between spread out people to get a half dozen head shots in a quarter second? Hacking.
Locking on to someone behind a wall? Hacking.
Hacks that nullify recoil? They should be able to tell by unrealistically precise counter movements.
Sure, games can occasionally have network issues that result in these kinds of things but if someone does it regularly then it isn’t a networking thing.
Secure Boot isn’t going to do shit about console players running what’s functionally aim assist with cronus zens or xims. They could catch the hardware hackers in the same way you mentioned, but they just don’t do shit.
The problem with this detection method is that you occasionally run into honest players catching bans for being legitimately too good at the game. While rare, there are some players who are accurate enough with their tracking that even professional players would assume they’re cheating, and end up getting banned because the developers decided nobody should ever be that good at the game.
This ends up putting a skill ceiling on a game, which is uhhealthy for a competitive game.
Plenty of people have been banned for false positives for the current anticheat methods due to corrupted files and whatnot, so I’d rather that a few ‘too good for reality’ players were banned instead.
Moderators that actually go trough reports helps quite a lot you know.