Vanguard Anti-Cheat runs amok on Valorant players

On Monday night, reports started to fly in of Valorant players being kicked from matches all over the world. An error with the ever-controversial Vanguard Anti-Cheat software seems to be the culprit, and this isn’t the first time.

The issue was happening so frequently that many games were ruined, with teams suddenly finding themselves outnumbered and losing their lead. Users in the ranked playlist were especially aggrieved, disconnecting and reconnecting every few minutes doesn’t exactly make things easy.

In the wake of this incident, Phillip Koskinas, who is an Anticheat Data Engineer at Riot Games, took to Twitter to report that Valorant had banned 8873 cheaters. The response to his post was a mixture of grateful gamers and then those who were concerned that many players may have been wrongfully punished.

Valorant servers are down on May 12 for a new patch at the following times:

NA/BR/LATAM – Queues down @ 4:30am PT, back up at 10:00am PT

KR – Queues down @ 12:00pm PT, back up at 5:30pm PT

EU – Queues down @ 6:30pm PT, back up at 12:00am PT (May 13)

This update is scheduled to include a series of fixes, additions and changes, as well as hopefully resolving the problems with Vanguard.