A day we expected to come but now Riot Games have formally announced that their Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat is coming to League of Legends, and so it will make it unplayable on Linux. This is the same tech they use in VALORANT, which is also unplayable on Linux due to it.
This news was confirmed in their recent developer video below at about 12:43, mentioning it will happen in either late February or early March:
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Speaking on Reddit, one of their team mentioned "We'll get some more info about Linux for you all soon, it's not something i know the answer to off the top of my head and I want to make sure I talk with the team and get you the right info.", and in a previous comment they mentioned Vanguard won't be used in the macOS version.
However, a different Riot staff member seemed to make it clear Linux support won't be happening in reply to a user asking about playing it in Wine: "No unfortunately not. From a security point of view supporting WINE would be like having a bank vault at the top of Nakatomi Tower then installing a doggy door in it.".
Considering that to play it on Linux you need to run the Windows version through Wine, there's no way they're going to roll out Vanguard into the Windows client and just let Linux get off without it. So I fully expect it to become unplayable in the next couple of months.
Seems like it's time for League of Legends players on Linux to finally swap over to Valve's Dota 2, which has full Native Linux support.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quote"No unfortunately not. From a security point of view supporting WINE would be like having a bank vault at the top of Nakatomi Tower then installing a doggy door in it."Shyeah right, your anti-cheat is like a bank vault at the top of Nakatomi Tower. Also you walk on water and your shit doesn't stink. I'm sure it's been hacked six ways from Sunday, and here he is being all arrogant about it. What a douche.
Quoting: Purple Library GuyOK, this quote annoys me:
Quote"No unfortunately not. From a security point of view supporting WINE would be like having a bank vault at the top of Nakatomi Tower then installing a doggy door in it."Shyeah right, your anti-cheat is like a bank vault at the top of Nakatomi Tower. Also you walk on water and your shit doesn't stink. I'm sure it's been hacked six ways from Sunday, and here he is being all arrogant about it. What a douche.
Even if one were to claim that Linux were less secure - despite literally all of the high-value infrastructure everywhere using Linux... the vault at Nakatomi Plaza got breached. If he's going to go with plots from films he should have gone with Fort Knox: so radioactive that it's worthless.
Quoting: scaineI'll bet there are mechanics out there who walk past my car while I'm sitting at a set of lights and can critic all sorts of stuff I do with it - poor tire wear, dirty interior, crass stickers, slipping fan belt, revving too high whatever. I don't care. I'm not a car person. I don't give a single shit about the state of my car. But I care deeply about the tech I use.
i mean, i get the analogy. But people who neglect the maintenance of their car when it comes to lights (in winter) indicators / brakes & especially tires are just about as bad as drink drivers and rightfully are usually fined or sometimes even jailed.
Last edited by Lofty on 10 January 2024 at 7:24 pm UTC
QuoteFrom a security point of view supporting WINE would be like having a bank vault at the top of Nakatomi Tower then installing a doggy door in it.
QuoteVanguard will not be required for Mac.
Bunch of clowns over at Riot. At least Dota runs on Linux, unlike CS2.
To me, it's like IKEA demanding a copy of the keys to your house just to, you know, be able to check whether you're producing counterfeit furniture in the future - no-one would find that acceptable, but rootkits are somehow fine. I just don't understand
Quoting: LoftyQuoting: scaineI'll bet there are mechanics out there who walk past my car while I'm sitting at a set of lights and can critic all sorts of stuff I do with it - poor tire wear, dirty interior, crass stickers, slipping fan belt, revving too high whatever. I don't care. I'm not a car person. I don't give a single shit about the state of my car. But I care deeply about the tech I use.
i mean, i get the analogy. But people who neglect the maintenance of their car when it comes to lights (in winter) indicators / brakes & especially tires are just about as bad as drink drivers and rightfully are usually fined or sometimes even jailed.
Haha, yep, my tires are fine. It was just an analogy.
rustigsmed Jan 11
Quoting: CybolicI've said this since the Celine Dion rootkit fiasco: rootkits should not be legal and I don't understand how they still are.Come to that I'd be willing to bet there are laws in at least some countries that if you looked at them in that context you'd think, "Hang on, doesn't this actually break that law?" I mean, there's all these anti-hacker laws, many of them worded in a way their drafters didn't realize was so broad, or just defined weirdly, or both . . . this stuff probably falls afoul of some of them if you take the wording seriously, it's just most law enforcement pretend that's not what the law says because you can't go around putting rich corporations in jail for doing business, even if that business is crime.
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