A few days ago, VALORANT – the tactical shooter from Riot Games – officially entered its wide testing phase, with many famous streamers like Shroud, Summit1g, and Pokimane starting to stream the game. VALORANT has quickly become a hot topic in the gaming community right now, with everyone having their own opinions on the future and development direction of this game.
There has been a longstanding tradition in the esports community that FPS games are the most vulnerable targets for hackers. Popular games among Vietnamese gamers like PUBG, Crossfire, and CS:GO, as well as international titles like Apex Legends and Fortnite, have previously struggled with hacking and cheating issues.
And a new game like VALORANT is not exempt from this whirlwind, as the first cheating case in the game was discovered just hours ago.
Fortunately, this case was handled quickly, and this is recorded as the first hacker in VALORANT to have their account banned. However, according to representatives from Riot Games’ anti-cheat team, the number of players using cheating software in VALORANT is increasing, and a “purge” of hackers is likely to happen in the coming days.
Riot Arkem, a programmer and head of anti-cheat at Riot Games: “Well, this is unfortunate, but today we had to ban the first cheater (and it seems there will be more account bans happening in the coming days). I had hoped to have more time to prepare before this battle began, but we have already started the fight against cheating, and we are ready.”
While it’s disappointing, the emergence of cheating in VALORANT is perhaps unavoidable. Riot Games likely anticipated this, which is why they established an anti-cheat team specifically for this game. We hope that the future of VALORANT will not be overshadowed by cheaters, as has happened with PUBG or previously with Apex Legends.