Players are already getting banned from the Valorant closed console beta for utilizing mouse and keyboard. The Valorant console beta at present solely helps controllers, so anybody detected to be utilizing a mouse and keyboard through an adapter is getting mechanically banned, due to Riot Video games anti-cheat software program.
A video shared on X (previously Twitter) by a person named Anti-Cheat Police Department confirmed a console Valorant match abruptly finish, with a pink display showing stating {that a} cheater had been detected. This resulted within the match being canceled and the cheater being banned. In a Reddit comment, Valorant tech lead Marcus Reid confirmed that Valorant’s anti-cheat would detect anybody utilizing a XIM machine or the same machine and ban them.
Good ol’ “Cheater detected” pink display appeared for the primary time on console! yeah that is proper, Riot’s Vanguard bans MnK abusers. pic.twitter.com/z9cyuRI5LU
— Anti-Cheat Police Division 🕵️ (@AntiCheatPD) June 15, 2024
XIM is an adapter that permits you to plug in a mouse and keyboard to your console and have it acknowledged as a controller. Not solely does this permit gamers to make use of a mouse and keyboard in controller-only matchmaking, nevertheless it offers a further benefit since any goal help within the sport can even work on mouse and keyboard, because the sport thinks it is a controller. Naturally this results in many gamers utilizing the machine in controller-only lobbies on console to offer themselves a bonus, with cheaters operating rampant in lots of aggressive shooters on console.
The pinnacle of anti-cheat at Riot Video games Phillip Koskinas shared the video on X writing, “a happy first buyer.” Whereas the Valorant console beta has solely been stay for underneath every week, it appears as if its anti-cheat is already working as meant. The Valorant console beta is ongoing, however you’ll be able to nonetheless join an opportunity to play on Valorant’s official website.