{"id":909570,"date":"2025-12-25T18:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2xko-will-use-vanguard-anti-cheat-interview-tony-cannon"},"modified":"2025-12-25T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:55:17","slug":"riots-fighting-game-2xko-will-use-vanguard-anti-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/riots-fighting-game-2xko-will-use-vanguard-anti-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot&#8217;s fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/riots-fighting-game-2xko-will-use-vanguard-anti-cheat.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to VG247 at Evo 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/2kxo\">2XKO<\/a> tech lead Tony Cannon has confirmed that Riot Game&#8217;s upcoming fighting game will feature Vanguard, the company&#8217;s own kernel-level anti-cheat software. <\/p>\n<p>Tony stated the following, &#8220;A lot of the cheats we see in fighting games are either about reading inputs, reading game state, or injecting inputs. They involve modifying the game binary in some way. Vanguard is really good at that, right? It&#8217;s a kernel-level anti-cheat, so it can detect and prevent a lot of those things happening.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Vanguard was first implemented into Riot games with Valorant back in 2020, back has since been implemented into League of Legends with hopes that its addition would help tackle the game&#8217;s ongoing cheating and botting problems. However, such software has proven controversial among a portion of the players, due in part to the fundamental intrusiveness of kernel-level software. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2xko-will-use-vanguard-anti-cheat-interview-tony-cannon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2xko-will-use-vanguard-anti-cheat-interview-tony-cannon\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to VG247 at Evo 2024, 2XKO tech lead Tony Cannon has confirmed that Riot Game&#8217;s upcoming fighting game will feature Vanguard, the company&#8217;s own kernel-level anti-cheat software. Tony stated the following, &#8220;A lot of the cheats we see in fighting games are either about reading inputs, reading game state, or injecting inputs. They involve modifying the game binary in some way. Vanguard is really good at that, right? It&#8217;s a kernel-level anti-cheat, so it can detect and prevent a lot of those things happening.&#8221; Vanguard was first implemented into Riot games with Valorant back in 2020, back has since been implemented into League of Legends with hopes that its addition would help tackle the game&#8217;s ongoing cheating and botting problems. 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