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RIOT MOCKS VALORANT HACKERS, SAYS IT WILL BAN ANYONE WHO ‘RIDES THE CHEAT BUS ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELL’

The salt is oh-so-real.

Riot’s latest blogpost about Valorant reveals some of the lengths the developer is going to in order to combat cheaters. Even before the game was released, catching cheaters has been one of Riot’s major priorities – not unreasonably, given how widespread cheating can be in competitive shooters.

Most remarkably, for the online First Strike tournament, Riot reviewed every single player account because “we needed to know who every player was [...] We had to make the precedents and rules almost as we went, deciding what exactly constitutes a

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