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League of Legends Homepage
Company blog · leagueoflegends.com/news/devgamesprogramming
League of Legends Homepage is the company blog at leagueoflegends.com, writing about games and programming. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Vanguard X League of Legends”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Riot's League of Legends developer news posts, mainly on the Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat and its rollout. HN links them to explain how the anti-cheat works and what it does and does not collect.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Vanguard X League of Legends3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-11
- /dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-24
- How the anti-cheat is anti-cheating so far2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-27
What Hacker News says?
I've always appreciated the forthrightness League of Legends deployed here (talking about introducing a kernel driver for anti-cheat: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-au/news/dev/dev-null-anti... ): > This isn’t giving us any surveillance capability we didn’t already have. If we cared about grandma’s secret recipe for the perfect Christmas casserole, we’d find no issue in obtaining it strictly from user-mode and t…
Comment linking /en-au/news/dev/dev-null-anti-cheat-kernel-driver/
on “Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages”Submitted Disabling /all chat in matchmade queues as a story · 84 points
HN discussion> I'd love to see more curiosity from developers Developers spent millions on Anti-Cheat. It's why entire products like EasyAntiCheat and BattleEye exists. Valve spent a LOT of time and effort on VACNet, a server side machine learning based Anti-Cheat primarily trained only on CS:GO verdicts and it was awful still. Developers know the common methods used by cheaters. That includes exploiting known vulnerable kernel…
Comment linking /en-us/news/dev/dev-null-anti-cheat-kernel-driver/
on “Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages”Submitted /dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver (2020) as a story · 53 points
HN discussionRiot games use theirs (Vanguard) to improve detection of cheating software. basically the idea is by being on from the moment the computer is booted up it can validate the environment better. Here's a recent blog post by riot detailing their recent deployment of the system for league of legends, the biggest online multiplayer game in the world https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/news/dev/dev-vanguard-... towards t…
Comment linking /en-gb/news/dev/dev-vanguard-x-lol-retrospective/
on “Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages”Submitted How the anti-cheat is anti-cheating so far as a story · 3 points
HN discussionZileas is a pretty smart dude, and they've been working on this for a while. I can't find the post I was talking about, but this one hints at the adjustments: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=12029 "This bonus is calculated from a bunch of research we did on hundreds of thousands of game results to figure out how much of an advantage being in a team is. We do some behind the scenes adjustments…
Comment linking /board/showthread.php?t=16705
on “Starcraft II launches July 27”Submitted Riot Games: Blue Essence and Account XP Update as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOK, we've changed to that from https://leagueoflegends.com/news/dev/dev-null-anti-cheat-ker... . Thanks!
Comment linking /news/dev/dev-null-anti-cheat-kernel-driver/
on “Anti-cheat kernel driver”Submitted Vanguard X League of Legends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne thing to note is that Microsoft is planning some kind of kernel anti tampering system in future that hopefully will give us user level anti cheats that actually work. Though some will very likely see this as some kind of "we don't control our computers anymore" move. https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard-... > “On Demand” Vanguard > "As was foretold, a future will eventually arrive where we…
Comment linking /en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard-x-lol-retrospective/
on “How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers”Submitted Anticheat in League of Legends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYour points are covered by League's blog post that goes into the underlying reasoning: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-au/news/dev/dev-vanguard-...
Comment linking /en-au/news/dev/dev-vanguard-x-lol/
on “Vanguard just went live and LoL players are claiming it's bricking their PCs”Submitted /Dev: Vanguard X LoL – League of Legends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLeague of Legends is a really fun DoTA based game that I've been playing recently. http://www.leagueoflegends.com/
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on “Valve releases Alien Swarm, a free Source top-down co-op shooter, on Monday”Submitted /dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of Game Design Anti-Patterns as a story · 2 points
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