Adam Rezich

Still cranking away on this engine/editor/game. I have a vision that I will see through to the end, wherever that ends up being.

@Dwasint @riotgames Yeah but I don't have a $6000 cheat card

@rezich @riotgames Do you not have an SSD? Those are DMA's. Do you have a GPU? Thats a DMA, standalone sound cards, standalone wifi cards are both dma devices and are pretty common, recording cards are dma

Well, that escalated quickly. There’s been a wave of claims by cheaters about Vanguard “bricking” their PCs, so let’s clear that up: Vanguard does not damage hardware or disable your devices. The photo we posted is a picture of cheat hardware devices that are sold explicitly for cheating in VALORANT (not normal PCs or PC components). Through our latest updates, Vanguard now makes those devices worthless for VAL, but does not in any way brick PCs or PC components or PC software. Our latest update enforces standard platform security features, like the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), on accounts identified as using Direct Memory Access (DMA) cheating devices. These protections are already part of modern systems and when enabled, they block DMA cheat devices (such as those shown in the photo) from accessing memory in downstream applications, like our games. If a cheat setup continues attempting to cheat after those protections are enabled, the system may generate hardware faults or instability. This is expected behavior under IOMMU when attempts are made to read protected memory. Disabling IOMMU allows the cheat device to function again, but IOMMU will still be required to play our games. This means the cheat device won’t work with our games, but your PC isn’t “bricked.” We would not, and cannot, impact your PC’s functionality in any other fashion. This functionality only applies to systems attempting to use DMA cheat devices, and players who are not using DMA-based cheat setups are not affected. We’ll keep investing in anti-cheat to protect competitive integrity, and we’ll keep being as transparent as possible about how those systems work.

@Dwasint @riotgames Why do you have a DMA device bro

@rezich @riotgames it would be fine, as from everything I've gathered they are just raising the security level of windows IOMMU which is preventing the DMA cards from activating because its trying to read out of its scope, somethnig regular DMA devices don't do.

@JackofDecks @St_Rev Gloves of yellow, that's an evil fellow; Gloves of white, that dude's alright.

@rezich @St_Rev The yellow gloved one is secretly the demonic one the Squirrel of Screws in hidding.

worth noting that the Wabbit, terrible as he is, is perhaps the most benevolent avatar of Trickster

@LTsarcasm @MrSatosan1 @Jarebea89675150 @riotgames The perfect smokescreen tbh

@MrSatosan1 @rezich @Jarebea89675150 @riotgames And everyone trusts a random reddit post to be 100.00% honest?

@kinjalkishor @ArkhamDreamer Dude what are you talking about? The first non-Epic Unreal Engine game (Deus Ex iirc) was released the same year as American McGee's Alice. Commercial game engines were not a thing back then like they are today, everyone was still figuring this stuff out.

@ArkhamDreamer And they made those games cursing the extremely limited idTech3 engine and wishing they had used Unreal Engine.

Did you know American McGee's Alice ran on the Quake 3 engine? Most people associate id Tech 3 with fast-paced first person shooters, and that's mostly what it was built for. But a handful of devs took it in wildly different directions. Here are some examples 🧵

I want my son to have better job opportunities than the ones I had. And I don't want him to have to compete with self-serving ethnocentric cabals that we now have as a direct result of decades of immigration “loophole” abuse, and widespread rhetoric against his (and my) ethnicity.

It's almost impossible to view these people as anything other than insecure downwardly-mobile losers afraid of competition from more talented immigrants.

@TYR45274711 @riotgames You are speaking to an account with quite a bit more seniority than you sir

@rezich @riotgames You are a bot "Adam"

@Jarebea89675150 @riotgames If I was retarded enough to buy a $6000 piece of cheating hardware? Why not?

@rezich @riotgames Would you say based if it uninstalled and wouldn't let you reinstall Dota? x.com/LHuxlux/status…

@riotgames Dota player, League hater here: This is all 100% based and everyone crying about it is a little baby.

Does Vanguard physically damage hardware? No. Does this impact hardware or software in any ways unrelated to Riot’s games? No. The IOMMU security protection does not impact hardware, and would only impact the ability of players using DMA cheat devices to play our games. Are normal players affected? Players not using DMA cheat hardware are unaffected. Why target DMA cheats? DMA-based cheats are among the most sophisticated forms of cheating because they attempt to bypass traditional software detection by accessing memory directly through external hardware. I’m affected by this. How do I fix it? To continue cheating in other titles with this device, you may simply disable IOMMU in BIOS in the same place that you enabled it. Of course, you still won’t be able to play our games with these cheat devices enabled. Why did Riot joke about “bricking” PCs? We didn’t. The “paperweight” comment was about VALORANT cheat devices that no longer work in VALORANT. No hardware is being damaged and no other functionalities are impacted.

The actual reason mastercard and card providers don't allow pornography (including furry hentai) is because 100% of the time when someone's husband or kid gets caught paying for furry hentai on the statement, they say they were hacked and issue a chargeback

@VitoComedy I think it's pretty funny that “Pride” is just another IP now apparently.

I need a playset of the gay lotus

@SwiftOnSecurity Why is she getting shorter

i challenge anyone who listens to music for 6+ hours a day to quit for a week to: 1) realize it's an addiction 2) realize how much better your thoughts become

very cool that this is clearly a book that would exist in a cyberpunk future novel

@enbismwnplgt @TafferKing451 Completely forgot about the directors cut version. But apparently you can patch it into the remake! Gonna have to try that next playthrough for sure

@rezich @TafferKing451 the remake did not have the commentary. it was in the developer's cut of the original gamespot.com/reviews/the-ch…

I miss when games did commentary modes. I learned a *lot* of my level/game design sense from Valve designers banging their heads against the wall for why their levels/systems weren't working, and how to tune for each and every moment of a level.

@enbismwnplgt @TafferKing451 Nah they must've added that in the remake, pretty sure it wasn't in the original?

@rezich @TafferKing451 off the top of my head, the first Chronicles of Riddick game did too

@litbeep @TafferKing451 Ah, I never played the remaster. Still can't think of any other examples though (unfortunately!)

@rezich @TafferKing451 BioShock

Profoundly incredible post, everyone should read it—few will, but for those who do, it will resonate.