VALORANT’s VAN 84 error has taken down servers and locked players out of game – Destructoid

There’s nothing worse than jumping on your PC to play a game of VALORANT just to find that the servers are down, but thanks to the VAN 84 error that is plaguing Riot’s FPS, that’s what’s happening.

The error is appearing whenever you try to boot up the game, greeting you with a screen that reads: “Connection error. VALORANT has encountered a connection error. Please relaunch the client to reconnect.” Unfortunately, even if you close down the client and try again, you’ll be met with the same problem.

Even worse, it’s not clear what’s causing this issue right now, as Riot has yet to comment on it to confirm that they’re aware of it or working on a fix. Speculation is running rife that it could be linked to VALORANT‘s Vanguard anti-cheat system, but this is unconfirmed.

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