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    Riot zwingt Valorant-Spieler, ihre PC-Firmware zu aktualisieren, um weiterspielen zu können
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    Riot zwingt Valorant-Spieler, ihre PC-Firmware zu aktualisieren, um weiterspielen zu können

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    1. jd5547561 on

      It’s crazy that Riot is basically acting as a global IT department now. They found a flaw in how motherboards handle IOMMU and are now forcing everyone to patch their hardware or get locked out

    3. imaginary_num6er on

      Soon: Valorant finding fix for AMD Ryzen X3D chips melting on AsRock boards

    5. aedwards123 on

      I assume Riot will pay for a new motherboard/machine when their forced update goes wrong and bricks it.

    6. flare_the_goat on

      I uninstalled this game when I got absolutely flamed in like my 3rd game ever for not playing up to someone’s standards during the open beta, and have never looked back.

    7. fearswe on

      So they are forcing people to update firmware on motherboards to prevent something as niche as a hardware level cheat? Really? How many use custom hardware to load cheats into Valorant?

    9. GoogleIsAids on

      i’ll never understand why anyone would put a game on their machine that scrapes this much data.

    10. JDGumby on

      Note that this isn’t a security vulnerability that people have to worry about in the real world. It requires local access to your PC and added hardware to exploit.

      T’Hell with Riot and their rootkits.

    11. Sylvers on

      I downloaded Valorant to play with friends once before. Then its anti cheat tried to run permanently on my PC even when the game is off, or else if I close the anti cheat, I have to reboot the whole PC just to open the game.

      I uninstalled before I played a single game. Fuck this intrusive anti cheat. Your game is not that important.

      I don’t reboot for Windows updates. What makes you think I’ll reboot to play your video game?

    12. Tigeire on

      Why not just separate users with up to date patches away from the rest. Let the cheaters play against each other.

    13. FaZeSmasH on

      i love the valorant dev team, they genuinely do care about the playerbase and the game’s competitive integrity, unlike what valve has turned counter strike into, all the filthy gambling has ruined it.

    14. joman584 on

      Everyone here is talking about Riot doing this but call of duty also did it recently. I cant play Black Ops 7 without a bios update, which seems insane. Can’t even play single player because it’s always online cause Activision sucks donkey nuts for breakfast.

    15. grimace24 on

      This is the dumbest thing a gaming company has done. To force players to update their FW to play a game is crazy. Some users will have no idea how to even do this.

    16. Gazmanic on

      Good. This is how to handle cheaters, they need to be constantly countered or they will completely run amok. I don’t play valorant but I would take having to update my motherboard over having to deal with a shit ton of cheaters.

    17. dan1101 on

      I don’t know how BIOS would enable a cheat, but if patching the BIOS fixes the cheat, couldn’t the cheat developers just develop a BIOS patch that looks right but has a cheat inside? When code is in BIOS, cheat makers could just return fake results from any software query, which would always run at a lower privilege level than BIOS. Where does it end?

    18. Lonely-Agent-7479 on

      And they announce League Next too. Why does Riot want us to upgrade hardware right as GPU and RAM are skyrocketting ??

    19. wireless1980 on

      Like you are forced to update the OS or security patch to your phone.
      I don’t see the difference.

    20. TheB1G_Lebowski on

      What is this game, just a copy of CS:GO with a splash of other games mixed in?

    21. GlowstickConsumption on

      They could just stop being weirdos and use server-side anticheat.

      And reporting systems.

    22. _-Julian- on

      I stopped playing Riot games when I switched to Linux a year ago, im done with Microsoft’s bullshit and if Riot doesn’t want to support Linux thats on them. Shame cause they just released a new fighting game I would have played but oh well, ill just stick to Street Fighter 6.

    23. Holzkohlen on

      I’m still using a 1st gen AM4 board and the last BIOS update on the website is over a year old. If they mandate this for League too I’m screwed.

      So far the requirements for League have been a lot less strict though. I don’t even have secure boot enabled for instance.

    24. TargetTrick9763 on

      “Cheating is a problem in most major fps games!!” *fps gam dev does something to make it more difficult to cheat* “WTF man this is crazy we shouldn’t have to do all this to play a game”

      You’re right, we shouldn’t have to but here we are. Every game could be like counter strike and just use vac

    25. Wooshio on

      Keeping your shit up to date has been a normal thing in PC gaming forever, people just piss and moan about everything now.

    27. jorgebillabong on

      I like that the headline on reveal of what was happening changed from „Critical flaw in motherboard firmware allows cheats. Motherboard manufacturers pushed updates.“ to this headline.

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