Riot's anti-cheat "does not in any way brick PCs," though Valorant cheaters say otherwise

Valorant developer Riot was facing backlash after an apparent joke about turning cheaters' hardware into paperweights went haywire, but the company is now clarifying its Vanguard anti-cheat won't actually transform your PC into a sack of sprouted potatoes. "Congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight," the official Riot Twitter account responded on May 21 to a cheaters' report that Vanguard now makes a ton of Valorant cheating firmware useless. Understandably, many Valorant players &nd