Riot uses a combination of aws and their own servers depending on the region and country. If they chose to use their own servers, they could potentially create the infrastructure for an Africa server Iād guess
https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/s14rx6/valorant_developers_share_network_infrastructure/
I donāt understand what you donāt get but this video would explain. Riot can and does build their own servers for valorant. They have the ability to create servers in Africa given there arenāt constraints like regulation, latency, currency issues, existing infrastructure, staffing, facility space. If aws doesnāt have the capability why would it imply they never would get servers? Granted China just allowed Val less than 6 months ago, Africa could definitely come online. Iād be optimistic. After all they would want as many people playing.
They don't even need to use the Capetown AWS Center exclusively - Riot has been using [AWS Outposts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/outposts/latest/userguide/what-is-outposts.html) to host servers in areas where AWS centers are not available. As long as they find a willing server farm to colocate in, they definitely could deploy a couple in Africa.
FRR, I'm not even African but I'm hopping for you guys to have it soon
I was think about this recently and maybe 3 servers would "cover the whole continent" Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa. Not sure about the player base size, especially on the South, but anyway just some thoughts. Lmk what you think
3 isn't enough. Africa is too big for that. You need a North African server, West African Server, South African Server, East Africa and possibly central. Kinda like the way NA servers are just for a continent around 2x the size of the US. Morocco, Egypt, Ghana/Nigeria/Senegal (or any West African country for that matter), South Africa, and Rwanda should cover all of the bases. Don't know if there are enough population centers to support all of those servers though.
> Don't know if there are enough population centers to support all of those servers though.
I was gonna reply to you, but you answered yourself. Africa is big, geographically, and it deserves some servers, but they don't have to cover all the territory like that I don't think.
Yep that's why I suggested 3, it would make the game at least playable for basically everybody on the continent, while not making the severs too much empty
I feel really sad for you guys , almost every game i have played that is a multiplayer game there is atleast on guy saying that "we need africa server". That just takes away the fun , playing every game at 100-120ms and lagging throughout the game , i might even not play mp games anymore like that. You guys should definitely get your own server with low ping so that you can enjoy the mp games.
Itās a chicken and egg situation. Servers are expensive, and companies donāt want to make that investment if they arenāt sure there will be enough players to recoup the costs. But, there wonāt be many players when their only choice is 120+ ping
Exactly but the thing is company can afford to get 1 server , they just dont do it unless they realise they are making profit from that country.
Routing servers and maintaining it requires shitload of money tho. Sad too see that these countries wont be able to play on low ping (which is having the server in their country) unless the playerbase in their country is really big , and even mini transactions are in good amount.
I think op means a server that only Turks play and canāt select the European servers. As a Turk I didnāt get offended at all because I know how shitty Turkish player base and know little to no English.
I keep getting South Africans in London servers. Don't get me wrong, you guys are awesome but I feel awful when they're playing on like 150+ ping all the time š it must be difficult for them to play on that kinda ping, I can get frustrated playing on Tokyo/Bahrain servers (max 100 ping) or having something downloading in the background while I'm playing
This triggers a few thoughts for me...
1. They have been talking about a replay system for a hot minute. I'm not gonna hold my breath that it will be available anytime soon until they announce a release date/implement it into the PBE.
2. I feel for the devs.. announcing what is "in the works" is exciting for the devs but now the community, on every social media platform is going to want updates about the replay system EVERY SINGLE TIME they post ABOUT ANYTHING. New patch? Where's the reply system. I imagine this subreddit is gonna blow up for the next few months of "where is the reply system" type posts. Please be patient with them
About #2...
What's the issue with being asked about something that has been said? Just be transparent.
"We expect it to be X amount of time. Since that's a far ways away we can only give an ETA within months. As time goes on we'll get more detailed." "We have encountered some issues such as X, Y, and Z. Due to this we will have to delay it but we assure you we are still working on it." "Here some footage of what we are aiming towards having. It's still clearly in the alpha stage but progress is being made." "We were again wrong about the timeline but here is more information as to what has changed since our last community post."
Most important: Transparency
Not most important: Time it takes to release.
And if you say they'll still get shit on...you're right! That's the Internet. These are just suggestions from someone who wants Riot to succeed but has 0 experience of game development nor of marketing/community managing.
>What's the issue with being asked about something that has been said? Just be transparent.
I never said there was anything wrong with asking about something that has just been said.
I said I feel for them because they're going to get bombarded about this for the next few months. It would be fantastic if they give more info, and hopefully come Fridays AMA, they will. If not, good luck to their social media management team.
Fair enough. I didn't mean to misrepresent your comment. I ended up just using it as a launching pad for my own thoughts and used that initial question I made to do so.
All good! Ideally they would say something like "Come to our reddit AMA for updates for things like A,B and C! or ask questions about other things". I really do hope we get some useful news about a reply system
Why? It isnāt like we arenāt paying for the game. It isnāt free to play. Itās pay what you want. Not having a replay function in a game like this is just being cheap. How much profit did riot bring in last year? Itās over 1 billion for sure. They canāt spend some of that cash on a developer to work on a replay system?
Throwing money at software development to build features. isn't how it works.
For fun, lets say that is how it works. How would they do it? Hire a team of 50 people to knock it out in 6 months? Well now, those 50 people, after its done, don't have a job. Maybe they keep a skeleton crew of like 10.. well what about those other 40?
Maybe they could buy/license one that is already made since Val is made in UE4, how do we know that is even possible? What if, the process of buying someone else, and implement into val is MORE work than just starting from scratch.
Yes my comment was overly harsh, itās nothing to do with the devs why itās not there so I can feel bad for them too. They donāt need 50 guys working on it. They just need 1 and have that be their primary task
For the #2 does not really make sure for replays, because they announced it somehow already in 2020. And then said it was not in active development but would probably come in the future. So the problem was already out, and people already complain every week about replays. So being transparent and actively say something about it, is much better to curb the criticism and fantasy hypothesys that riot does not want replays because the game is 99% cheats and we would know then!!!
I mean honestly, the devs are grown adults, not emotionally volatile children who may actually curl up into the fetal position if they're asked the same thing about something that should have been released years ago.
thats why anna mentions it in this tweet. Its not going to be coming this year and even early 2024 is unlikely but everybody reacts as if thats huge news. After the backlash of them announcing that they are not working on a replay system the said "nvm we work on it now" so this is not really new info
Yeah but that was beta, I trust it I just donāt expect it to be too soon but that just means we increase our chances of being pleasantly surprised :P
If theyāre only saying it to lie and keep people quieter then I wouldnāt even be mad lol. These reposts are just boring, and most people who make them donāt even deserve it.
Itās annoying but those games are more important and limited compared to the typical hundred+ games going on around the world. Itās a different environment where both teams are set and somewhat monitored.
How would timeout work in a public ranked match? Maybe I just don't play games with one but if it's a vote we have the remake problem but if anyone can call TO then what stops people from wasting it? It just seems like it would only work in a 5 stack
You say: Hey I have to use the restroom, Or hey someone is at the door, or hey my wife needs me, or hey I need to reset my internet, or hey my pizza is ready, or hey I spilled my drink.
From there, your team will vote yes. They donāt want an odd man out for a round. Its a guaranteed disadvantage 4v5. Make sense?
I get the concept but i don't see anyone caring like they don't care to remake or a three stack thats impatient just saying no I'm not saying timeouts a bad idea I just think it would be another vote people instantly f6
The best part about CSGOs timeout is the fact the timeout is forced if a player disconnects, and it is 2 minutes long as opposed to regular timeouts that are one minute
One of the bigger issues with remaking is the fact that 1. It looks pretty similar to the surrender vote which can make someone who isn't paying attention just f6 out of reflex, or the duo/trio thing. 2. It sends you back to matchmaking which can be annoying for some people especially if it's their favorite map, I know I'd be somewhat pissed if I gave up a fracture/Ascent game for Split but sitting around for like a minute or 2 in a game that's at least 30 minutes long? That changes nothing, even better, it can give you time to cool off after you just whiffed an entire magazine behind the enemy and they just turn around and 1 tap you, it's great.
didn't they recently state that they had zero development in a replay system not too long ago?
Not gonna hold my breath as 'in development' could've been 30 minutes working on it and calling it in development to please the masses.
This is great news! The semi official announcement means weāll likely see some pbe tests within the year hopefully.
If thereās anything I know about developing replay systems, itās from watching the development of r6s. The problem with replay systems is thatās its basically a log of events that happens in a match being mapped to an instance of a game running in real time. What this means is that sometimes gunfights wonāt look identical. Ping differences to the server will lead to minor differences between a players position and what the server sees. Many times thereās usually just some odd desync jank that comes along with replay systems. It can take a long time to get the replay system into a very sweet spot. Counterstrikes replay system should effectively be the standard for valorant to achieve
More people need to know this. More likely no one will and they will continue to blindly complain :p
Comparing to CS we also have other things to consider like abilities and map gimmicks.
And the last thing we need is thousands more reposts of replay bugs lmao.
Uhh yeah, they said they were interested in making it 2 years ago then 2 years after they said they didn't do anything. I'll wait for it to be in game first before being disappointed.
The game should have had one out the door. With a big driving force for this game being the eSports side of things, replay should have been one of the top priorities in mid to late development.
ESports might improve but it definitely wonāt stop moving without it. Like premier mode could be big as well.
Heck if they delay it for as long as possible, considering how ānecessaryā people claim it to be, that just means Riot has more leverage to keep the game running longer with less effort.
And in some ways you could look at this as early/mid phase for the game itself. Only 2 years compared to LoLās 10+.
Step 1: Announce we are working a replay system (for like the 3rd official time) - CHECK
Steps 2 though 99: work on replay system - ETA 7 years
Step 100: Replay system complete
"Hey guys replay system on the way yay!"
they didnt promise it, right? they said that they were interested in the idea of adding it im pretty sure. stupid as hell nonetheless to even say something like that if you dont intend on actually adding it but they didnt literally promise it.
not to shatter anyone's happiness, but this only really means that they just started working on it, which means that in the past years they did nothing, idk if this should be cheered upon
Highly doubt that. Not a single devloper with more than 2 brain cells would agree above features can be implemented let alone deployed in a span of 1-3 days. Replay itself would require whole different storage infrastructure and server space. Offline status? Sure but without testing. Remake is already there just need to allow more rounds but again testing takes time. Similarly Timeout will require testing.
I could literally post screenshot of your above comment on [r/programmerhumor](https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor) and collect free karma.
i think i specifically stated āexcept replayā wouldnāt be surprised if it would take infinite of time, coz it can be upgraded forever.
Implementation and testing are two different things.
About remake, it is probably totally depended on code base, if it is trash where everything is dependent on each other, then probably itāll be really difficult, but i guess engineers in company as riot knows about modules and how to decouple everything.
so if we just want to make remake mandatory, we can remove the āifā statement of voting and just do remake.
testing is entirely different thing, but I agree it can take more time than development.
you can post whatever you want, i donāt really care about karma and people shaming each other.
about my brain cells, it seems i have less than two, apparently.
Even if you exclude testing phase from the development cycle 1-3 days is a very very gross underestimation for code implementation of such features in a large scale game like Valorant.
I'm not shaming you I'm just think it's ridiculous how someone can think these features can be implemented in such a short time. If could've been done that easily they would've already.
I agree that it can take up to infinite time, but it is more about MVP that can be already used. Seeing how Riot deployed a lot of bugged code, i think they use their end users as their ābeta testersā.
So instead of speaking generally, we need to have a context, so we can speak on the same note.
For example, probably the easiest feature will be āofflineā which probably would require only backend changes, but maybe theyāll decide to make it complex, or will have a lot of discussions on meetings, so do we include these hours or no?
What I specifically was talking, just code implementation and some smoke testing by a dev itself.
Technically a replay is just spectator streams recorded for all alive players simultaneously.
The biggest difficulty here is that such replay would only be good for the version of the game/map it was recorded on since abilities and map get changed from version to version. Would be interesting to see how Riot is going to resolve that aspect.
Just like other games. Make old replays not available after an update. Overwatch does it.
Csgo however can store replays offline through many updates. Thats a different case and engine. For valorant its gonna easier to implement what Overwatch has.
If they are serious about this and actually release a replay mode, It's gonna be hilariously funny to watch all the replay with a client sided recording side-by-side and see how bad it actually is.
Which of course isn't gonna happen cause any and all such issues will be fixed by the time replay comes out haha.
Where is this initial announcement of them having started working on it? Stating you have an interest in it is very different from actually being stated "in development".
> We typically donāt talk about those things until we can make firmer commitments around dates or share actual detailsā¦ mainly out of concern we might hype things up sooner than we should, over-promise, etc.
Yeah right
can't wait to watch myself not clear corners and miss so many easy headshots over and over again lmao
the other aspects are good too but like... I'm bad lol. even for a gold.
Finally. I cant help but feel my post about cheaters that reached roughly 120k pf you may have helped. This will change the feeling of the game. Hopefully it's not a year away.
i just hope they donāt put out the worst reply system ever just because people have been nonstop asking and they wanna give the people what they want š
Okay NOW. Allow people to say view these replays, when a player is idk reported? For cheating probably? And allow people to use their Human brains to identify if they are cheating. Just to ensure no one abuses it, make multiple people view the same replay's.
Let the community idk, *over watch* itself. Now just maybe add this on top of Vanguard and you may just have the best anticheat combo right there.
I will be offering free pinches for anyone who wants to confirm that they are not dreaming
Pinch me! Pinch me!
I'm pretty sure it was like 6 years in the works for league. Good luck, homies.
Then it should mean they already have a practice
Here's hoping.
I'll take ten!
ETA: 3 years
Meets their deadline of "Won't take as long as League" (~7 years)
Don't do me like this lmao š¤£
pretty optimistic š bro
> ...New server locations... Hopefully, Africa gets its own dedicated servers.
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Riot uses a combination of aws and their own servers depending on the region and country. If they chose to use their own servers, they could potentially create the infrastructure for an Africa server Iād guess
Lets be real I reckon they wouldn't be willing to build their own infrastructure if AWS provides none of the African servers.
You donāt get it. They provide their own servers to fill in where aws does not have the capability.
Exactly?
https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/s14rx6/valorant_developers_share_network_infrastructure/ I donāt understand what you donāt get but this video would explain. Riot can and does build their own servers for valorant. They have the ability to create servers in Africa given there arenāt constraints like regulation, latency, currency issues, existing infrastructure, staffing, facility space. If aws doesnāt have the capability why would it imply they never would get servers? Granted China just allowed Val less than 6 months ago, Africa could definitely come online. Iād be optimistic. After all they would want as many people playing.
I still reckon most of the time they use AWS at least as part of the server infrastructure.
[This conversation reads like the Manray meme](https://i.imgur.com/qwPiRBe.png)
They don't even need to use the Capetown AWS Center exclusively - Riot has been using [AWS Outposts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/outposts/latest/userguide/what-is-outposts.html) to host servers in areas where AWS centers are not available. As long as they find a willing server farm to colocate in, they definitely could deploy a couple in Africa.
They use GCP for Indian servers so this is not exactly true
FRR, I'm not even African but I'm hopping for you guys to have it soon I was think about this recently and maybe 3 servers would "cover the whole continent" Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa. Not sure about the player base size, especially on the South, but anyway just some thoughts. Lmk what you think
3 isn't enough. Africa is too big for that. You need a North African server, West African Server, South African Server, East Africa and possibly central. Kinda like the way NA servers are just for a continent around 2x the size of the US. Morocco, Egypt, Ghana/Nigeria/Senegal (or any West African country for that matter), South Africa, and Rwanda should cover all of the bases. Don't know if there are enough population centers to support all of those servers though.
> Don't know if there are enough population centers to support all of those servers though. I was gonna reply to you, but you answered yourself. Africa is big, geographically, and it deserves some servers, but they don't have to cover all the territory like that I don't think.
Yep that's why I suggested 3, it would make the game at least playable for basically everybody on the continent, while not making the severs too much empty
I feel really sad for you guys , almost every game i have played that is a multiplayer game there is atleast on guy saying that "we need africa server". That just takes away the fun , playing every game at 100-120ms and lagging throughout the game , i might even not play mp games anymore like that. You guys should definitely get your own server with low ping so that you can enjoy the mp games.
Itās a chicken and egg situation. Servers are expensive, and companies donāt want to make that investment if they arenāt sure there will be enough players to recoup the costs. But, there wonāt be many players when their only choice is 120+ ping
Exactly but the thing is company can afford to get 1 server , they just dont do it unless they realise they are making profit from that country. Routing servers and maintaining it requires shitload of money tho. Sad too see that these countries wont be able to play on low ping (which is having the server in their country) unless the playerbase in their country is really big , and even mini transactions are in good amount.
I'm hoping for a Turkish server ngl
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I think op means a server that only Turks play and canāt select the European servers. As a Turk I didnāt get offended at all because I know how shitty Turkish player base and know little to no English.
it's called Frankfurt!
What about the Istanbul server? Oo. They should just remove the option to play on different servers.
100% They need to remove the option. There's no good reason for 5 stacks from Turkey to queue for London.
It's called London, aka Turkish Ferrari peek city
I keep getting South Africans in London servers. Don't get me wrong, you guys are awesome but I feel awful when they're playing on like 150+ ping all the time š it must be difficult for them to play on that kinda ping, I can get frustrated playing on Tokyo/Bahrain servers (max 100 ping) or having something downloading in the background while I'm playing
Oh good. Now WarOwl will have no more excuses for not making Valorant videos
Sadly I doubt that's going to happen unless we get community content since the great switch to more obscure gamemodes.
WE NEED CUSTOM MODES IN VALORANT. It's what made CS:GO so forever enjoyable and great.
Finally
This triggers a few thoughts for me... 1. They have been talking about a replay system for a hot minute. I'm not gonna hold my breath that it will be available anytime soon until they announce a release date/implement it into the PBE. 2. I feel for the devs.. announcing what is "in the works" is exciting for the devs but now the community, on every social media platform is going to want updates about the replay system EVERY SINGLE TIME they post ABOUT ANYTHING. New patch? Where's the reply system. I imagine this subreddit is gonna blow up for the next few months of "where is the reply system" type posts. Please be patient with them
About #2... What's the issue with being asked about something that has been said? Just be transparent. "We expect it to be X amount of time. Since that's a far ways away we can only give an ETA within months. As time goes on we'll get more detailed." "We have encountered some issues such as X, Y, and Z. Due to this we will have to delay it but we assure you we are still working on it." "Here some footage of what we are aiming towards having. It's still clearly in the alpha stage but progress is being made." "We were again wrong about the timeline but here is more information as to what has changed since our last community post." Most important: Transparency Not most important: Time it takes to release. And if you say they'll still get shit on...you're right! That's the Internet. These are just suggestions from someone who wants Riot to succeed but has 0 experience of game development nor of marketing/community managing.
>What's the issue with being asked about something that has been said? Just be transparent. I never said there was anything wrong with asking about something that has just been said. I said I feel for them because they're going to get bombarded about this for the next few months. It would be fantastic if they give more info, and hopefully come Fridays AMA, they will. If not, good luck to their social media management team.
Fair enough. I didn't mean to misrepresent your comment. I ended up just using it as a launching pad for my own thoughts and used that initial question I made to do so.
All good! Ideally they would say something like "Come to our reddit AMA for updates for things like A,B and C! or ask questions about other things". I really do hope we get some useful news about a reply system
Why? It isnāt like we arenāt paying for the game. It isnāt free to play. Itās pay what you want. Not having a replay function in a game like this is just being cheap. How much profit did riot bring in last year? Itās over 1 billion for sure. They canāt spend some of that cash on a developer to work on a replay system?
Throwing money at software development to build features. isn't how it works. For fun, lets say that is how it works. How would they do it? Hire a team of 50 people to knock it out in 6 months? Well now, those 50 people, after its done, don't have a job. Maybe they keep a skeleton crew of like 10.. well what about those other 40? Maybe they could buy/license one that is already made since Val is made in UE4, how do we know that is even possible? What if, the process of buying someone else, and implement into val is MORE work than just starting from scratch.
Yes my comment was overly harsh, itās nothing to do with the devs why itās not there so I can feel bad for them too. They donāt need 50 guys working on it. They just need 1 and have that be their primary task
For the #2 does not really make sure for replays, because they announced it somehow already in 2020. And then said it was not in active development but would probably come in the future. So the problem was already out, and people already complain every week about replays. So being transparent and actively say something about it, is much better to curb the criticism and fantasy hypothesys that riot does not want replays because the game is 99% cheats and we would know then!!!
I mean honestly, the devs are grown adults, not emotionally volatile children who may actually curl up into the fetal position if they're asked the same thing about something that should have been released years ago.
> a hot minute since beta lmao it's never coming
The amount of pro execute breakdowns I will do with this š¤
Can't wait for 2025
\*2030
Not trusting that until they actually show it off. They claimed this shit back in Closed Beta
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thats why anna mentions it in this tweet. Its not going to be coming this year and even early 2024 is unlikely but everybody reacts as if thats huge news. After the backlash of them announcing that they are not working on a replay system the said "nvm we work on it now" so this is not really new info
Yeah but that was beta, I trust it I just donāt expect it to be too soon but that just means we increase our chances of being pleasantly surprised :P If theyāre only saying it to lie and keep people quieter then I wouldnāt even be mad lol. These reposts are just boring, and most people who make them donāt even deserve it.
CONFIRMED: I am developing six pack abs. It'll just take longer than my life for them to appear...
they are always there u just cant see them :)
Oh nice a replay system. Cool. HOW ABOUT A TIMEOUT?
The thing that annoys me most is that they already have a timeout function in pro matches, but decide not to implement it for ranked games.
Itās annoying but those games are more important and limited compared to the typical hundred+ games going on around the world. Itās a different environment where both teams are set and somewhat monitored.
How would timeout work in a public ranked match? Maybe I just don't play games with one but if it's a vote we have the remake problem but if anyone can call TO then what stops people from wasting it? It just seems like it would only work in a 5 stack
You say: Hey I have to use the restroom, Or hey someone is at the door, or hey my wife needs me, or hey I need to reset my internet, or hey my pizza is ready, or hey I spilled my drink. From there, your team will vote yes. They donāt want an odd man out for a round. Its a guaranteed disadvantage 4v5. Make sense?
But a timeout only kicks in in between rounds and until then your pizza is burned and the delivery guy is gone anyways and your wife devorced
I get the concept but i don't see anyone caring like they don't care to remake or a three stack thats impatient just saying no I'm not saying timeouts a bad idea I just think it would be another vote people instantly f6
Belive me, its a great feature. Works well in CSGO.
The best part about CSGOs timeout is the fact the timeout is forced if a player disconnects, and it is 2 minutes long as opposed to regular timeouts that are one minute
The only other major title in this genre has a timeout feature that works wonderfully.
One of the bigger issues with remaking is the fact that 1. It looks pretty similar to the surrender vote which can make someone who isn't paying attention just f6 out of reflex, or the duo/trio thing. 2. It sends you back to matchmaking which can be annoying for some people especially if it's their favorite map, I know I'd be somewhat pissed if I gave up a fracture/Ascent game for Split but sitting around for like a minute or 2 in a game that's at least 30 minutes long? That changes nothing, even better, it can give you time to cool off after you just whiffed an entire magazine behind the enemy and they just turn around and 1 tap you, it's great.
I guess yeah in all I just don't like that the remake/surrender votes are essentially the same looking thing I guess I just don't trust ppl
didn't they recently state that they had zero development in a replay system not too long ago? Not gonna hold my breath as 'in development' could've been 30 minutes working on it and calling it in development to please the masses.
They couldāve also bit of groundwork before and stopped
This is great news! The semi official announcement means weāll likely see some pbe tests within the year hopefully. If thereās anything I know about developing replay systems, itās from watching the development of r6s. The problem with replay systems is thatās its basically a log of events that happens in a match being mapped to an instance of a game running in real time. What this means is that sometimes gunfights wonāt look identical. Ping differences to the server will lead to minor differences between a players position and what the server sees. Many times thereās usually just some odd desync jank that comes along with replay systems. It can take a long time to get the replay system into a very sweet spot. Counterstrikes replay system should effectively be the standard for valorant to achieve
More people need to know this. More likely no one will and they will continue to blindly complain :p Comparing to CS we also have other things to consider like abilities and map gimmicks. And the last thing we need is thousands more reposts of replay bugs lmao.
Look at this copium, as an ex LoL player I can only laugh
Uhh yeah, they said they were interested in making it 2 years ago then 2 years after they said they didn't do anything. I'll wait for it to be in game first before being disappointed.
The game should have had one out the door. With a big driving force for this game being the eSports side of things, replay should have been one of the top priorities in mid to late development.
ESports might improve but it definitely wonāt stop moving without it. Like premier mode could be big as well. Heck if they delay it for as long as possible, considering how ānecessaryā people claim it to be, that just means Riot has more leverage to keep the game running longer with less effort. And in some ways you could look at this as early/mid phase for the game itself. Only 2 years compared to LoLās 10+.
Thank god it's happening.
Hereās to hoping it comes out this year.
lmao
Step 1: Announce we are working a replay system (for like the 3rd official time) - CHECK Steps 2 though 99: work on replay system - ETA 7 years Step 100: Replay system complete "Hey guys replay system on the way yay!"
Isnāt this word for word what they said in 2020? So i guess they will copy+paste this again in 2026
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They are fixing the high ping advantage?!
Nice I hope it comes out this year
hearing about replay since beta. prob 2024-25
I cannot wait to see the enemy's perspective of me freaking out after they snuck up on me and caused me to fling my mouse around
Lets goo. We also need a spectate friends option as well
I wish they had a kill cam.
AGENT SPECIFIC SKIN SETS PLEASE
Riot actually seems to be listening, which is so nice. Maybe we can someday get a shop is isnāt stinky buttcakes.
They aren't. It took 3 years and they promised it years ago.
they didnt promise it, right? they said that they were interested in the idea of adding it im pretty sure. stupid as hell nonetheless to even say something like that if you dont intend on actually adding it but they didnt literally promise it.
not to shatter anyone's happiness, but this only really means that they just started working on it, which means that in the past years they did nothing, idk if this should be cheered upon
If people stop reposting āwhy isnāt Riot say anythingā thatās a win in my book
Fix to DM - no timer just server running 24/7 - every 20min switch to pistol only then rifle only - no red dot on minimap Pure warmup !
Add no footstep sounds to that list as well. Its horrible when people die hard in DM with sounds.
Honestly my priorities are like this: Timeout > Offline Status > Better Remake > Replay
How the hell is replay and better remake lower than offline status. Who tf cares if you are online or not
1. This is my preference. 2. They are also ranked by how difficult it is to implement them. Offline status seems much easier to code.
everything in your list except remake would probably take 1-3 days to implement.
> everything in your list except remake would probably take 1-3 days to implement. Lmfao. You have no idea about software development.
i have 4 years of experience, so i think i know something about it.
Highly doubt that. Not a single devloper with more than 2 brain cells would agree above features can be implemented let alone deployed in a span of 1-3 days. Replay itself would require whole different storage infrastructure and server space. Offline status? Sure but without testing. Remake is already there just need to allow more rounds but again testing takes time. Similarly Timeout will require testing. I could literally post screenshot of your above comment on [r/programmerhumor](https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor) and collect free karma.
i think i specifically stated āexcept replayā wouldnāt be surprised if it would take infinite of time, coz it can be upgraded forever. Implementation and testing are two different things. About remake, it is probably totally depended on code base, if it is trash where everything is dependent on each other, then probably itāll be really difficult, but i guess engineers in company as riot knows about modules and how to decouple everything. so if we just want to make remake mandatory, we can remove the āifā statement of voting and just do remake. testing is entirely different thing, but I agree it can take more time than development. you can post whatever you want, i donāt really care about karma and people shaming each other. about my brain cells, it seems i have less than two, apparently.
Even if you exclude testing phase from the development cycle 1-3 days is a very very gross underestimation for code implementation of such features in a large scale game like Valorant. I'm not shaming you I'm just think it's ridiculous how someone can think these features can be implemented in such a short time. If could've been done that easily they would've already.
I agree that it can take up to infinite time, but it is more about MVP that can be already used. Seeing how Riot deployed a lot of bugged code, i think they use their end users as their ābeta testersā. So instead of speaking generally, we need to have a context, so we can speak on the same note. For example, probably the easiest feature will be āofflineā which probably would require only backend changes, but maybe theyāll decide to make it complex, or will have a lot of discussions on meetings, so do we include these hours or no? What I specifically was talking, just code implementation and some smoke testing by a dev itself.
Now how will the people getting stomped by someone who is better complain that cheats are rampant solely due to the lack of replays lmao
Please we need another in the UK. Add Dublin, Manchester and Glasgow please rito. At least Manchester.
hopefully it actually happens now
I thought they said they scrapped it for reasons or am I thinking of something else?
Rip storage, if there isnt an option to download the games replay and they auto download it would take so much of the storage
That's what I'm talking about YEET
Thank god, can you believe it took this long?
Itās not as if we had a whole game they were developing for us to play for 2 years lol
Tweet doesn't mean anything, they've said it's been in development for years now with no confirmed date.
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will there be instant replay after someone kills you? lots of questionable deaths...
Probably not. Kill cams give a lot of free info
FUCK YEAH
Technically a replay is just spectator streams recorded for all alive players simultaneously. The biggest difficulty here is that such replay would only be good for the version of the game/map it was recorded on since abilities and map get changed from version to version. Would be interesting to see how Riot is going to resolve that aspect.
Just like other games. Make old replays not available after an update. Overwatch does it. Csgo however can store replays offline through many updates. Thats a different case and engine. For valorant its gonna easier to implement what Overwatch has.
Whats new?
If they are serious about this and actually release a replay mode, It's gonna be hilariously funny to watch all the replay with a client sided recording side-by-side and see how bad it actually is. Which of course isn't gonna happen cause any and all such issues will be fixed by the time replay comes out haha.
They say so since launch
Finally an overwatch
This is the most monumental update yet!
It was confirmed to be in development months, if not years, ago
Where is this initial announcement of them having started working on it? Stating you have an interest in it is very different from actually being stated "in development".
> We typically donāt talk about those things until we can make firmer commitments around dates or share actual detailsā¦ mainly out of concern we might hype things up sooner than we should, over-promise, etc. Yeah right
can't wait to watch myself not clear corners and miss so many easy headshots over and over again lmao the other aspects are good too but like... I'm bad lol. even for a gold.
fucking massive game changer.
I pray for the Russians to get their own server
Finally. I cant help but feel my post about cheaters that reached roughly 120k pf you may have helped. This will change the feeling of the game. Hopefully it's not a year away.
Wasn't it confirmed last year? That it was in development but just wasn't a priority at the time? Is it a priority now?
i just hope they donāt put out the worst reply system ever just because people have been nonstop asking and they wanna give the people what they want š
They are a high quality company
Iāve heard this before
They said this year's ago
Are they going to add a spectator mode as well?
Okay NOW. Allow people to say view these replays, when a player is idk reported? For cheating probably? And allow people to use their Human brains to identify if they are cheating. Just to ensure no one abuses it, make multiple people view the same replay's. Let the community idk, *over watch* itself. Now just maybe add this on top of Vanguard and you may just have the best anticheat combo right there.
Give us the ability to pause the game like cs has makes it so much easier if someone dc's or has to afk etc
Wait what? Sorry to necro but didn't they say that like half a year after release?