This beta has been a whole clownfest.

If there's a game that ever needed stringent anticheat, it's Battlefield.

In 400+ hours of Helldivers 2 I have only had a handful of groups with people talking shit in voice or type chat. The co-op nature of the game probably helps with that.

Bold of you to assume anyone who has Valorant installed wants to play BF6

Doesn't matter I found bots and cheaters. Kernel level anticheat is nothing more than a security theater

Yep. There’s money to be made coding cheats. There’s absolutely no shortage of people willing to cheat and shit on other players. “giT gUd KiD, LeRn HoW tOo Aim!1!1!” I’ve got over 3k hours in BF2042 and easily the top 3-5 players give or take on either team are using some form of cheat, whether it be a Cronus or an actual software cheat, they’re obvious as hell. Like most fps games, they only keep the cheats to just enough of a minimum that they can delete cheat discussions from the forums and the community to lick the boot, “stfu hackusations!”

Just a reminder that Valorant is spyware

I'm confused. I thought the last mainline BF title was Battlefield 4? (And then after that came BF1, and then that failure BF2042.) Did they skip a number, or was Battlefield 5 just so fucking bad that I blanked it from my memory? I honestly can't tell. I haven't enjoyed a Battlefield game since Bad Company 2.

I will always prefer multiplayer games for the simple reason that single-player AI is stupid and predictable. Why does every enemy behave like every single other enemy in literally every game? Is it really *that* much more difficult to program enemies to behave in various, unpredictable ways? Until that day comes, I will always prefer my enemies to be human.

This is wrong. You can't run both at the same time but there's nothing stopping you from having valorant installed

Valorant’s anticheat always runs in the background, even when the game isn’t booted. There’s a reason people call the game spyware.

I believe you have to first close Vanguard and then you can get BF6 to launch. If you want to play Valorant again you have to fully restart your computer as there is no way to successfully relaunch Vanguard after closing it.

Some games do have different behaviors for different enemies, I can't really point to any one modern game off the top of my head. However, I do remember the first Half-Life touting that as a major feature and it being cool to experience back when that game first came out. I remember some enemies would throw your grenades back at you or fall back and regroup, some would just run straight at you, and others would attempt to sneak around and flank you.

Same here, I dropped League of Legends when they added it as a requirement. I can sorta deal with a kernel level anti-cheat if it only runs while the game is running, but an always on kernel level anti-cheat is a no go for me.

I do remember that but then for some reason Valve didn't make the AI as smart in Half-Life 2 as the first game. If you fought one combine soldier, you fought them all.

You're against server based Anti-Cheat too?

My hatred for other humans, especially in their online multiplayer behavior, faaaaar outweighs what you brought up.

I agree, and that's why we mute voice chat.

5 came out between 1 and 2042, yes it was pretty bad, from what i recall.