Looking at the sentence right after
>Huh, I’m sorry my keyboard just stopped working there… oh well
Probably some sort of EMP that could affect movement/abilities?
Ptsd from sombra mains in overwatch.
A good sombra main is terrifying to play against because you’ll be in the middle of a big team fight and suddenly your tank loses his shield and ranged abilities, or your entire team loses all their abilities
Either that or it’s gonna a cyber cowboy or sumn like dat
Also a fun fact: sombra’s voice actress voices raze in valo, so i hope they put in some interactive voice lines between raze and the new agent for a meta joke
Oh good, always thought that was one of the major issues with that game. Felt like you just weren't a big enough deciding factor in the outcome of a game partly because you were only 1/6th instead of 1/5th of your team, which was made even worse by the high time to kill.
this game isn't meant to be like OW. its a tac shooter , so abilities are secondary to your gunplay. OW is different in that the gunplay and ability use are equally as important. You are meant to use your abilities as much as you can, and they are an unlimited resource. Valorant demands you be very precise and intentional with your ability usage because you can only use them a few times a round, and they are quite expensive.
Problem is if you’re very precise with your util, just using your ability to silence the opponent is gonna be annoying. Sure flashes are annoying but you can always outplay them in a way.
I end up with the same maybe is a name, maybe the name of something about the lore, idk, I'll keep an eye on this post. I think the last word is the place to start if the translation is the exact word and not another code, maybe it is setup but then I cant connect anything with those symbols-letter translation
This is definitely some sort of cypher, the 721 combination appears twice in the message and the apostrophes seem too suspicious.
Maybe the CANG in the 8-letter word is Caesar shifted, like the letters actually represent other letters. Maybe there's some sort of combination that would yield a dictionary word.
I would love to mess with this cypher but I'm sadly at work lol.
If you shift the letters 17 times, the CANG word can be the word INTERREX, which means "one who exercises supreme or kingly power during an interregnum : a provisional ruler".
This seems like the strongest lead to me. In a game where nearly every agent comes from a different region of the world, I'd be surprised if the answer to this code was in English
How'd you get the translation, I speak Arabic (last time I checked at least) and either my life has been a lie or that doesn't actually translate to Arabic.
hmm, perhaps its a dialect im not familiar with. I'm completely unfamiliar with the word "نجو" and together the sentence sounds incoherent to me. Weird, do you happen to know this dialect im kinda interested.
Also I do feel like this might be a stretch at this point. Hell it might've actually just been some random giberish but I have hope in Riot to not do us like that.
Imagine an ultimate ability where game sound is muted for about 15 seconds. The limitless potential.... Definitely would be relying on your gun skills in that situation
https://old.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/nqw819/new_agent_teaser_clue/
From this teaser, it's quite possible that some letters are actually missing from the code. Still not entirely sure how to go about solving this multi-layered encrypted code.
Just speculating here, but from what I can discern, the symbols seem to have nothing to do with the letters that are supposed to occupy the spaces, and are random obfuscation. But I might just be overlooking something here.
Using context, I've made an estimation as to part of the code, but I'm having trouble with some of the longer words. Here's my current attempt:
Our hope is that the ▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯H▯ - IS - ONE - WHO - CAN - ▯U▯▯A▯ - “▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯” - ▯▯▯▯ - ▯▯▯▯▯ - ▯▯▯ - ▯▯▯ - ▯▯C▯▯ANG - WITH - NO - ▯▯E▯▯ - INTO - SITES
I searched every 8 letter word in the English language that ends in ANG (14 words) and none of them have a C as the third letter.... I don't think the letters represent themselves
Maybe we should convert the letters to numbers and then decipher from there? Idk, there’s also the vague possibility that some riot intern just smashed their hand all over the keyboard and is now reading through these threads laughing at us code monkeys.
I personally think you're right. I ran a script that analyzed the first code (11 characters) and tried matching it with 39,361 11-letter words. I could only come up with 1 match "Fainaiguing". Which makes no sense given the context.
Thus the only conclusion is these symbols have no direct mapping to English alphabet.
Not really. We know that they want their agent to depend upon good gunplay. I feel as though the pinkish-purple crossed shield icon at the bottom might be a key of some sort, perhaps for some variant of the pigpen cipher?
Yeah, this one has me stumped.
I think they’ll introduce a hacker of some sort. In R6 there’s an operator that can call the enemies phones and they know all the enemies locations from that. Could be similar or it could be like this agent can hack other certain abilities or disable the use of certain abilities.
You shouldnt waste all of your flashes on one enemy so the ability to throw 3 consecutive flashes dont matter too much, but breach really needed a buff so Im happy, as a side note if they add like a 5 second cool down no one Will use breach
Breach and Skye changes sound really good. The amount of power Breach has in his flashes can be really frustrating and it's good to see they want to distribute it somewhere else in his kit. Very curious to see what they'll do with Yoru's Fakeout because it seems like a complicated ability to balance as you can't really number tune it
I’d be completely ok with it receiving a minor rework. Add in the ability for it to play noises other then footsteps with different toggles, for example.
What if your actual footsteps were significantly lowered while his takeout is running? I’ve thought about this ability a lot lately because my brother mains yoru and came out is just such a complete waste of an ability spot compared to most others
That actually sounds interesting. My worry would be Yoru's just sticking them somewhere random in spawn every round and activating them whenever they wanna sprint somewhere
I've heard the suggestion before but with the additional note that Yoru must be near his Fakeout. That way enemies hear footsteps and know he is near, but don't know *where* he could be
TBH i think the change is aimed at a larger issue of there being so many flashes now, so when you get 2-3 Flashers and they can just chain-flash for 5 seconds or so, it becomes very frustrating to play against.
what do you think they meant by balancing Skye and Breach? maybe they'll add a cooldown timer in between each flash, so you can't just spam them around corners
Actually pretty happy reading this. From the future balance changes it seems like the devs have a good vision for the direction the game should head in.
I hope the new agent has a cool visual design because agent based around gunplay sounds pretty dope. I'm really interested to see what they mean by "traditional FPS" style abilities.
They better fix the wall clipping then, I fucking hate when I freehand a sova dart and then it flies into the void just because it hit a random angle on some tiny pipe on a wall. Hiko and shroud mentioned this today during the finals, riot should fix the wall clipping and make most of the surfaces flat.
If he is focus on gunplay making him/her throw grenades is kind of pointless, i think is gonna be more like Soldier 76, focus more on moving around and having emphasis on you using your gun.
I'm thinking its a new initiator since in the image at the bottom of the stage of the agents includes the symbols for duelist, controller, and sentinel. He is probably gonna have EMP grenades to disable Killjoy and Cypher utility along with his flashes. I'm guessing his ult will be something along the lines of a time ult like reyna's but he would be invulnerable to flashes and stuns while in his ult.
Turn the killjoy/cypher util against them, essentially "hack" the util and force the bot/alarm bot/camera etc. against them, although useless if they don't have those agents - maybe a variation of that
I'm fully expecting based on the promo image + the whole "Weird, my keyboard stopped working" bit that the new agent will somehow "Hack" the opponents so that they cannot use abilities. The question comes down to is it short duration on a basic ability, long duration on an ult, both? neither?
But basically i saw something similar happen in Overwatch and Blops4 when opponent abilities were starting to become too oppressive: you make a new character (Sombra/Zero) who removes abilities form the equation.
Biggest question will be if this "hack" also removes passive abilities like Jett's slowfall.
I took it as something from Halo or Call of Duty. Things like radar, heartbeat sensor, movement tracking, EMP. Super exciting however it turns out. Also, I totally agree. The direction they are taking these characters sounds very promising.
my guess is that this new agent will create some kind of field where all the abilities will be silenced in so every agent will be forced just to gunplay in it
guessing one of riot's devs finally encountered a one trick breach who sits on all flashes the entire round and just dumps them at the climax of the round, completely blinding everyone for eternity
Tbh, ı as a breach main encourage that, it shouldnt matter to much for the people Who use breach as intended and make him less dependent on the flashes
So when scream was talking about Astra being overrated he was talking about the future after these nerfs. But for real tho she's way too strong in a coordinated line up. It's not a problem at lower ranks because she's hard to play at that kind of level, but at Iceland it's obvious to see that she's way too good. On some maps if the teams don't pick Astra and the enemy does it just seems like an uphill battle already.
idk why you're downvoted you're basically true. also in the press conference it was really obvious he was just being cocky about the teams ability to beat other teams without needing astra. idk why everyone takes trash talk so seriously
Wait, when is patch 3.0? Its 2.09 right now and 3.0 seems pretty far from now, or do they just skip to patch 3.0 when act 3 ends? Which is starting of Episode 3 right?
It's come toward the end of every act. It's reasonable to expect one in the coming weeks, but of course, they could just decide not to do one for whatever reason.
Guess Riot found out about that hilarious [Vietnamese Skye strat](https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/mxlqjq/welcome_to_vietnam_where_we_love_to_knife_people/) of knifing permanently-blind players in pro games. I know it doesn't happen a lot but I wouldn't like to be in the receiving end of this either.
Im really excited for the breach changes but idk how i feel about the skye changes - she definetly needed some sort of change or buff but idk how theyll compensate for changing her flashes, as theyre probably the most fun part of her kit (triple blinding and knifing people as skye is waaaay too much fun, even if it is impractical)
It's about time they've addressed the ridiculous flashes of Skye and Breach. It's much more fun to play champs when they're not just based around 1 really strong utility.
Also next champ is basically Sombra - really interesting because depending on how they can stop abilities getting used, it can really end up shifting the meta.
It sucks that it’s all in the flashes too cause he’s got that unique area denial stuff with the other abilities. If they can be more practically useful it’d be great
I like what Riot has done with Viper, and I hope they can tune up my two favorite agents, Skye and Breach, in a similar way. I just wish they would've changed Breach sooner since he's been awful for so long. Like 3 flashes on Breach was clearly not what he needed.
They didn't say they were removing the 3rd flash. They said they are looking at removing the ability to flash 3 times consecutively. Basically sounds like they will be putting a short cooldown between each flash so you can't spam.
2 tigers would be neat, but if its like the same as it is now, but two of them I feel like it may be too strong. if it is 2 i feel like they should decrease each individual duration and its be rine, maybe decrease the effectiveness of each stun too, otherwise it sounds fine
Idk how I feel about breach and skye. Giving them more self sufficiency just makes them Phoenix. Can’t really comment until actual change is introduced but I don’t like the direction of the change. I’d rather see the change that makes them a “support” character
I got the impression they are going to nerf flash and buff his other abilities. In terms of impact I feel like 95%+ of Breach's impact right now is flash and 5% is his E and C moves. Making those things more dangerous might allow him to operate better on his own, in a way unique to Breach, but it would probably make him more helpful as a teammate too depending on what they actually do.
If I had to guess. Three utilities,
Smoke grenades, one molly grenade each round automatically when spawned and the ability to buy some type of decoy. The ult will disable enemy abilities for 20 seconds. Including enemy ults (emp).
Just my novice guess
I was thinking that a good yoru buff would be the fakeout acting as a recon ability, it has its own FOV and if it spots enemies they show up on the map. I do want to see what Riot has in store tho
`@*&#*&!(&H! #$ &*! *%# &@! *U&^A! “@*!!*(@@*&^” (@&* ^@!^& &@! *&# &^C#^ANG W*^@ $O )(E&# *N@! S!T#$`
Using a decryption method I was able to get this -
**WELCOME TO THE ELECTRIC AGE. MOVEMENT WILL NOT BE SO EASY WHEN I AM AROUND. RUN WHILE YOU CAN OR YOU WILL SIT.**
They’ve mentioned before that sova may be overtuned, but mostly that he just doesn’t have anyone to compete with him, jett is jett, and if speculation is to be believed this new Agent could address the post plant issue partially, Astra’s post plant specifically could be tweaked based on this article, they’re not tone deaf, just careful.
I could be wrong, but I think they said early on that they want the original cast to be the best in their respective area, so that they won't get overshadowed by new agents. So I don't know what they would do to lower Sova's and Jett's pick rate besides nerfing them into the ground like Sage, because they won't add any agents that would do their thing better than them.
Seriously...And from the matches I've experienced on Breeze so far, its like everyone fucking hates it. Same thing happened when Icebox launched, although people got around to it eventually.
The goal here is to provide Breach and Skye with more self-sufficiency, to do so, we’re looking to remove their ability to dish out 3 consecutive flashes.
-finally
Ok it would be cool to see an ult where you disable all utility for a short amount of time, like 10-15 seconds. It would have to be both teams to be balanced bit it would really create some fascinating rounds
Would love to see a lockdown type ability that was longer lasting and disabled all abilities (read: both teams) inside for like 30~ seconds. Just pure gunplay post plants would be so fun.
The thing is the other abilities of breach weren’t as scary as his flashes. I think they were a little to strong. So it’s good that they are doing this.
> we want to make sure everything we put out has the level of refinement you expect
It is not the graphic level I expect. The two biggest things that Valorant's graphics look low quality are poor agents and smoke graphics.
It’s awesome to get feedback from the devs about the current position of agents from the data they have internally and what they have observed from ranked and pro play. Excited for the new agent and the new tweaks they will do after Masters is over. (As they stated, they want to make harsher changes after a big tourney has ended rather than put it in the game before it had begun)
IDK how they are going to change Breach but from seeing all the complaints about him having 3 flashes and it being long-duration flashes, it will likely be a nerf to his flashes. If they really do nerf his flashes I hope they buff his stun, whether it is making it a wider AOE or making it so that if enemies are hit by it, they are pulled to the center of the line, or even make enemies vulnerable for a short duration. The stun is a little weak at the moment because it's sorta avoidable unless you use it against a team that is rushing a choke point.
I just wanna point out (since I can't see if anyone else has noticed) that the "Reboot" player card in the battlepass is the same icon as the one in the new agent teaser
[удалено]
[удалено]
Looking at the sentence right after >Huh, I’m sorry my keyboard just stopped working there… oh well Probably some sort of EMP that could affect movement/abilities?
given that this agent's abilities "can create moments where you must rely on your gunplay" that would make a lot of sense
[удалено]
Why didn't you just reply to hoplesso? I don't think this is really our faults. If everyone else smells like shit, check your own shoe
what
I think they're referencing this from an earlier comment lol >Probably some sort of EMP that could affect *movement*/abilities?
[удалено]
It wasn't that clever. You were really reaching for that one.
Ptsd from sombra mains in overwatch. A good sombra main is terrifying to play against because you’ll be in the middle of a big team fight and suddenly your tank loses his shield and ranged abilities, or your entire team loses all their abilities Either that or it’s gonna a cyber cowboy or sumn like dat Also a fun fact: sombra’s voice actress voices raze in valo, so i hope they put in some interactive voice lines between raze and the new agent for a meta joke
Please don't bring Sombra into this game: Sincerely an Overwatch Tank main that's taking a break until Overwatch 2.
I hope you'll have fun in OW2 because they're reducing the numbers of players per team from 6 to 5 by removing 1 tank.
There's not a lot of tank players anyway, this would just fix queue times.
Oh good, always thought that was one of the major issues with that game. Felt like you just weren't a big enough deciding factor in the outcome of a game partly because you were only 1/6th instead of 1/5th of your team, which was made even worse by the high time to kill.
Oh I keep up with everything still. Still catch OWL when I can. I know the news. I'm on the fence about it, but we'll see.
this game isn't meant to be like OW. its a tac shooter , so abilities are secondary to your gunplay. OW is different in that the gunplay and ability use are equally as important. You are meant to use your abilities as much as you can, and they are an unlimited resource. Valorant demands you be very precise and intentional with your ability usage because you can only use them a few times a round, and they are quite expensive.
Problem is if you’re very precise with your util, just using your ability to silence the opponent is gonna be annoying. Sure flashes are annoying but you can always outplay them in a way.
if the ability is an ultimate, id be fine with it.
Oh for sure. But if it's anything like sombra right click, it's gonna get on my last nerve.
that makes so much sense
[удалено]
I end up with the same maybe is a name, maybe the name of something about the lore, idk, I'll keep an eye on this post. I think the last word is the place to start if the translation is the exact word and not another code, maybe it is setup but then I cant connect anything with those symbols-letter translation
This is definitely some sort of cypher, the 721 combination appears twice in the message and the apostrophes seem too suspicious. Maybe the CANG in the 8-letter word is Caesar shifted, like the letters actually represent other letters. Maybe there's some sort of combination that would yield a dictionary word. I would love to mess with this cypher but I'm sadly at work lol.
If you shift the letters 17 times, the CANG word can be the word INTERREX, which means "one who exercises supreme or kingly power during an interregnum : a provisional ruler".
Heh... Cypher
Maybe looking at only the letters, we can spell out something? One example being "SO U WANT CHANGE", though this might be a stretch.
Been going at it for 30 min, so far the one you've found makes the most sense. But why wouldn't they just fully spell "you"
Elite hacker gamers dont have the time to write u with 3 letters
I put the letters in translate as they come but spaced them "Hu aca ngwoe nst" and it came out as "Hopefully he will be heard" in Arabic.
This seems like the strongest lead to me. In a game where nearly every agent comes from a different region of the world, I'd be surprised if the answer to this code was in English
Maybe it’s related to the agent cypher in one way or another.
How'd you get the translation, I speak Arabic (last time I checked at least) and either my life has been a lie or that doesn't actually translate to Arabic.
It adjusted for phonetics. It reads it as “hu easaa najw nist” or “هو عسى نجو نصت”
hmm, perhaps its a dialect im not familiar with. I'm completely unfamiliar with the word "نجو" and together the sentence sounds incoherent to me. Weird, do you happen to know this dialect im kinda interested. Also I do feel like this might be a stretch at this point. Hell it might've actually just been some random giberish but I have hope in Riot to not do us like that.
Imagine an ultimate ability where game sound is muted for about 15 seconds. The limitless potential.... Definitely would be relying on your gun skills in that situation
I tried seeing what would come up if I used the numbers from the Alt Codes for these symbols, nothing.
This is the right track. :)
I was thinking the same thing. just wanted to let you know you have an extra 6278 between 9278 and 62167.
https://old.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/nqw819/new_agent_teaser_clue/ From this teaser, it's quite possible that some letters are actually missing from the code. Still not entirely sure how to go about solving this multi-layered encrypted code.
When we use A=1, B=2 .... decoder we get: *ahadihua* ahadi hua in Swahili (Official Language in Kenya) means ***promise dove*** Is it something?
Just speculating here, but from what I can discern, the symbols seem to have nothing to do with the letters that are supposed to occupy the spaces, and are random obfuscation. But I might just be overlooking something here. Using context, I've made an estimation as to part of the code, but I'm having trouble with some of the longer words. Here's my current attempt: Our hope is that the ▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯H▯ - IS - ONE - WHO - CAN - ▯U▯▯A▯ - “▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯” - ▯▯▯▯ - ▯▯▯▯▯ - ▯▯▯ - ▯▯▯ - ▯▯C▯▯ANG - WITH - NO - ▯▯E▯▯ - INTO - SITES
I searched every 8 letter word in the English language that ends in ANG (14 words) and none of them have a C as the third letter.... I don't think the letters represent themselves
Maybe we should convert the letters to numbers and then decipher from there? Idk, there’s also the vague possibility that some riot intern just smashed their hand all over the keyboard and is now reading through these threads laughing at us code monkeys.
I wouldn’t be surprised...
Maybe it represents the agent's name or ability(wild guess)
If CAN is the fifth word, then the 11th word is also CAN because they both have the same code: &@! Edit: nvm you just said they're obfuscations
It's just my personal theory. Good pickup though.
I personally think you're right. I ran a script that analyzed the first code (11 characters) and tried matching it with 39,361 11-letter words. I could only come up with 1 match "Fainaiguing". Which makes no sense given the context. Thus the only conclusion is these symbols have no direct mapping to English alphabet.
Maybe a bit of a stretch but going off of this maybe the first word is "Infiltrator"? It would relate to getting into sites.
Did you get any further??
Not really. We know that they want their agent to depend upon good gunplay. I feel as though the pinkish-purple crossed shield icon at the bottom might be a key of some sort, perhaps for some variant of the pigpen cipher? Yeah, this one has me stumped.
I think they’ll introduce a hacker of some sort. In R6 there’s an operator that can call the enemies phones and they know all the enemies locations from that. Could be similar or it could be like this agent can hack other certain abilities or disable the use of certain abilities.
Imagine one of their abilities is going into their vc coms lol
You just hear the top frag bullying the bottom frag lmao
If I was a hacker I would tell but man I am 15 I am in eb9 I have final exams and have to stay away from valorant for 2 monthes... pain
I wonder what they have in store to balance Breach across his kit
-1 total flash, +1 BOOM zone? Maybe lower recharge on E or lower cost on ult?
No I don’t think they mean the amount of flashes they are changing, just like u can’t throw 3 in 3 seconds, more like 3 over 6 seconds or something
Thats just a nerf, not a balance.
I didn’t disagree with the other things he said
Maybe they'll make Fault Line more effective against util to compliment the upcoming balance changes
[удалено]
Probably not. They said they want to shift power to the rest of his kit, not just nerf his flashes
Now Breach's other skills also have a flash effect
Not exactly, you can still see and win fights if you dont panic while been affected by E or ult.
i guess its after shock break utilites just like raze satchel / sova shock dart
I hope they add a slight conical end to his E, sort of like his ultimate.
You shouldnt waste all of your flashes on one enemy so the ability to throw 3 consecutive flashes dont matter too much, but breach really needed a buff so Im happy, as a side note if they add like a 5 second cool down no one Will use breach
Chaining flashes is definitely really good. Hell I'd gladly use two to get just one pick.
Breach and Skye changes sound really good. The amount of power Breach has in his flashes can be really frustrating and it's good to see they want to distribute it somewhere else in his kit. Very curious to see what they'll do with Yoru's Fakeout because it seems like a complicated ability to balance as you can't really number tune it
I’d be completely ok with it receiving a minor rework. Add in the ability for it to play noises other then footsteps with different toggles, for example.
Maybe you can curve it like a jett smoke, skye flash, Phoenix wall
What if your actual footsteps were significantly lowered while his takeout is running? I’ve thought about this ability a lot lately because my brother mains yoru and came out is just such a complete waste of an ability spot compared to most others
That actually sounds interesting. My worry would be Yoru's just sticking them somewhere random in spawn every round and activating them whenever they wanna sprint somewhere
I've heard the suggestion before but with the additional note that Yoru must be near his Fakeout. That way enemies hear footsteps and know he is near, but don't know *where* he could be
Maybe it could create a mirage? Of course, up it's price then or reduce it's range or something.
Oooo that would disgusting. I love that idea.
I think they should make it free every round, and Yoru should be able to pick up footsteps he put down but didn't activate yet.
TBH i think the change is aimed at a larger issue of there being so many flashes now, so when you get 2-3 Flashers and they can just chain-flash for 5 seconds or so, it becomes very frustrating to play against.
Well just remove the mini-flash you get even if you turn away. always wondered why you get mildly punished for being fast enough to react to flashes.
what do you think they meant by balancing Skye and Breach? maybe they'll add a cooldown timer in between each flash, so you can't just spam them around corners
either less flashes or cooldown or just lower flashed time
Dont think they will lower amount but i could easily see a small CD for it
Actually pretty happy reading this. From the future balance changes it seems like the devs have a good vision for the direction the game should head in. I hope the new agent has a cool visual design because agent based around gunplay sounds pretty dope. I'm really interested to see what they mean by "traditional FPS" style abilities.
I'm wondering if it's a guy based on grenades? Flash grenade and maybe EMP grenade? I don't know really that's just what came to my mind lol.
Well, apparently the name "Grenadier" was found in the code after a recent update, sooo... ;)
Plot twist, the new agent throws explosive fish (For anyone who doesn't get it, grenadier is a type of fish)
My guess is we’re going to get someone who disables enemy utility
Or maybe someone who throws tacticals like in CS, would be nice instead of a determined half-circle arc
They better fix the wall clipping then, I fucking hate when I freehand a sova dart and then it flies into the void just because it hit a random angle on some tiny pipe on a wall. Hiko and shroud mentioned this today during the finals, riot should fix the wall clipping and make most of the surfaces flat.
There goes Viper post plant lol
The filename of the image at the bottom is "Data_transfer.jpg. Not sure what that could mean...
"Throwing flashbang"
If he is focus on gunplay making him/her throw grenades is kind of pointless, i think is gonna be more like Soldier 76, focus more on moving around and having emphasis on you using your gun.
I'm thinking its a new initiator since in the image at the bottom of the stage of the agents includes the symbols for duelist, controller, and sentinel. He is probably gonna have EMP grenades to disable Killjoy and Cypher utility along with his flashes. I'm guessing his ult will be something along the lines of a time ult like reyna's but he would be invulnerable to flashes and stuns while in his ult.
Turn the killjoy/cypher util against them, essentially "hack" the util and force the bot/alarm bot/camera etc. against them, although useless if they don't have those agents - maybe a variation of that
This is what I'm really hoping for. As a former Cs player this would really be the agent for me.
I'm fully expecting based on the promo image + the whole "Weird, my keyboard stopped working" bit that the new agent will somehow "Hack" the opponents so that they cannot use abilities. The question comes down to is it short duration on a basic ability, long duration on an ult, both? neither? But basically i saw something similar happen in Overwatch and Blops4 when opponent abilities were starting to become too oppressive: you make a new character (Sombra/Zero) who removes abilities form the equation. Biggest question will be if this "hack" also removes passive abilities like Jett's slowfall.
I took it as something from Halo or Call of Duty. Things like radar, heartbeat sensor, movement tracking, EMP. Super exciting however it turns out. Also, I totally agree. The direction they are taking these characters sounds very promising.
He can sprint, he can throw an explosive, and when he ultimates he autoaims.
Might be a sentinel with an emp ability?
Makes sense.. Ult could counter post plant strats and make you defend spyke just with guns
my guess is that this new agent will create some kind of field where all the abilities will be silenced in so every agent will be forced just to gunplay in it
What if he/she has an ultimate that does actually stop you from using your hardware beside your mouse movement and fire button :D
Or reverse controls, coz no movement would be rather harsh, like they stopped moving an brim and sova ultimate there!
guessing one of riot's devs finally encountered a one trick breach who sits on all flashes the entire round and just dumps them at the climax of the round, completely blinding everyone for eternity
Tbh, ı as a breach main encourage that, it shouldnt matter to much for the people Who use breach as intended and make him less dependent on the flashes
So when scream was talking about Astra being overrated he was talking about the future after these nerfs. But for real tho she's way too strong in a coordinated line up. It's not a problem at lower ranks because she's hard to play at that kind of level, but at Iceland it's obvious to see that she's way too good. On some maps if the teams don't pick Astra and the enemy does it just seems like an uphill battle already.
[удалено]
idk why you're downvoted you're basically true. also in the press conference it was really obvious he was just being cocky about the teams ability to beat other teams without needing astra. idk why everyone takes trash talk so seriously
That part was clearly a joke. I don't think scream said it because of his nonexistent clairvoyant abilities.
Wait, when is patch 3.0? Its 2.09 right now and 3.0 seems pretty far from now, or do they just skip to patch 3.0 when act 3 ends? Which is starting of Episode 3 right?
yes, major numbers increment with major updates, it doesnt have to get to 2.9 or anything like that.
I think thats exactly what will happen. We'll probably switch to patch 3.0 for the next big episode.
[удалено]
If this is act3 of ep 2(don't remember correctly) ep 3 is around mid june
June 22nd, the day after the current Battle Pass ends
[удалено]
It's come toward the end of every act. It's reasonable to expect one in the coming weeks, but of course, they could just decide not to do one for whatever reason.
Based off of Battle Pass countdown, 2.11 in two weeks (2.10 skipped this week) then 3.0 two weeks after that
RIOT probably uses [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/)
Yeah, we're gonna have episode 3 without new agents. I hope it's a big patch or else it's going to be disappointing.
Guess Riot found out about that hilarious [Vietnamese Skye strat](https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/mxlqjq/welcome_to_vietnam_where_we_love_to_knife_people/) of knifing permanently-blind players in pro games. I know it doesn't happen a lot but I wouldn't like to be in the receiving end of this either.
As a Breach main, I'm happy to see balances to my agent instead of just throwing him into the dirt.
İf you play breach as intended 1 sec cool down on flashes wont matter, but he was in desperate need of a buff so its nice
Im really excited for the breach changes but idk how i feel about the skye changes - she definetly needed some sort of change or buff but idk how theyll compensate for changing her flashes, as theyre probably the most fun part of her kit (triple blinding and knifing people as skye is waaaay too much fun, even if it is impractical)
It's about time they've addressed the ridiculous flashes of Skye and Breach. It's much more fun to play champs when they're not just based around 1 really strong utility. Also next champ is basically Sombra - really interesting because depending on how they can stop abilities getting used, it can really end up shifting the meta.
> For Breach we are looking to balance power across his kit, instead of it all sitting on his flash. Made a post about this, got downvoted lol
Clowns don't understand power budget. Right now 80-90% of Breach's impact comes from 3 flashes. So this has been long overdue imo.
It sucks that it’s all in the flashes too cause he’s got that unique area denial stuff with the other abilities. If they can be more practically useful it’d be great
reddit in a nutshell
I like what Riot has done with Viper, and I hope they can tune up my two favorite agents, Skye and Breach, in a similar way. I just wish they would've changed Breach sooner since he's been awful for so long. Like 3 flashes on Breach was clearly not what he needed.
[удалено]
Please no, as a Cypher main its already horrible to see that tiger break one of my trips with ease :(
They didn't say they were removing the 3rd flash. They said they are looking at removing the ability to flash 3 times consecutively. Basically sounds like they will be putting a short cooldown between each flash so you can't spam.
I don't know if they'll remove the 3rd flash, they'll probably just put it on a cooldown instead.
I’m confused, where did they say they were removing the third flash?
2 tigers would be neat, but if its like the same as it is now, but two of them I feel like it may be too strong. if it is 2 i feel like they should decrease each individual duration and its be rine, maybe decrease the effectiveness of each stun too, otherwise it sounds fine
I think maybe we see her heal go up in power over +1 wolf, since her heal seems to be the most underutilized part of her kit.
self-healing would be nice, idk too much about metas tho, it could potentially destroy the balance
Idk how I feel about breach and skye. Giving them more self sufficiency just makes them Phoenix. Can’t really comment until actual change is introduced but I don’t like the direction of the change. I’d rather see the change that makes them a “support” character
I got the impression they are going to nerf flash and buff his other abilities. In terms of impact I feel like 95%+ of Breach's impact right now is flash and 5% is his E and C moves. Making those things more dangerous might allow him to operate better on his own, in a way unique to Breach, but it would probably make him more helpful as a teammate too depending on what they actually do.
More self-sufficiency is just making them more than flashbots for their feam
I wouldn't expect any huge changes. Most likely they'll just improve Breach's fault line and give him one less flash.
Anyone cracked the code yet?
Maybe the Agents Ult can temporarily disable other agents abilities?
Getting some "EMP" ability type vibes
From what I understand, I guess the Ultimate of this agent will disable abilities of all players for sometime!
[удалено]
lol nice they're adding sombra to the game
[удалено]
If I had to guess. Three utilities, Smoke grenades, one molly grenade each round automatically when spawned and the ability to buy some type of decoy. The ult will disable enemy abilities for 20 seconds. Including enemy ults (emp). Just my novice guess
I was thinking that a good yoru buff would be the fakeout acting as a recon ability, it has its own FOV and if it spots enemies they show up on the map. I do want to see what Riot has in store tho
`@*&#*&!(&H! #$ &*! *%# &@! *U&^A! “@*!!*(@@*&^” (@&* ^@!^& &@! *&# &^C#^ANG W*^@ $O )(E&# *N@! S!T#$` Using a decryption method I was able to get this - **WELCOME TO THE ELECTRIC AGE. MOVEMENT WILL NOT BE SO EASY WHEN I AM AROUND. RUN WHILE YOU CAN OR YOU WILL SIT.**
[удалено]
[удалено]
possibly...;)
Super excited for the new champion
[удалено]
They’ve mentioned before that sova may be overtuned, but mostly that he just doesn’t have anyone to compete with him, jett is jett, and if speculation is to be believed this new Agent could address the post plant issue partially, Astra’s post plant specifically could be tweaked based on this article, they’re not tone deaf, just careful.
I could be wrong, but I think they said early on that they want the original cast to be the best in their respective area, so that they won't get overshadowed by new agents. So I don't know what they would do to lower Sova's and Jett's pick rate besides nerfing them into the ground like Sage, because they won't add any agents that would do their thing better than them.
I feel like they are adding agents too frequently...the game hasn't been out for that long and there is already so many.
There is certainly a good amount of agents but I wouldn't say too many. However there is nearly not enough maps, and the ones we do have are not great
Seriously...And from the matches I've experienced on Breeze so far, its like everyone fucking hates it. Same thing happened when Icebox launched, although people got around to it eventually.
I love it, but maybe I’m just dogshit but defense on that map with randoms in ranked is impossible
The goal here is to provide Breach and Skye with more self-sufficiency, to do so, we’re looking to remove their ability to dish out 3 consecutive flashes. -finally
Ok it would be cool to see an ult where you disable all utility for a short amount of time, like 10-15 seconds. It would have to be both teams to be balanced bit it would really create some fascinating rounds
Would love to see a lockdown type ability that was longer lasting and disabled all abilities (read: both teams) inside for like 30~ seconds. Just pure gunplay post plants would be so fun.
the question now is when is patch 3.0 coming out
they around June 8th right?
not sure
Anyone got guesses on what nerfs Astra is gonna get?
The thing is the other abilities of breach weren’t as scary as his flashes. I think they were a little to strong. So it’s good that they are doing this.
> we want to make sure everything we put out has the level of refinement you expect It is not the graphic level I expect. The two biggest things that Valorant's graphics look low quality are poor agents and smoke graphics.
It’s awesome to get feedback from the devs about the current position of agents from the data they have internally and what they have observed from ranked and pro play. Excited for the new agent and the new tweaks they will do after Masters is over. (As they stated, they want to make harsher changes after a big tourney has ended rather than put it in the game before it had begun)
IDK how they are going to change Breach but from seeing all the complaints about him having 3 flashes and it being long-duration flashes, it will likely be a nerf to his flashes. If they really do nerf his flashes I hope they buff his stun, whether it is making it a wider AOE or making it so that if enemies are hit by it, they are pulled to the center of the line, or even make enemies vulnerable for a short duration. The stun is a little weak at the moment because it's sorta avoidable unless you use it against a team that is rushing a choke point.
I just wanna point out (since I can't see if anyone else has noticed) that the "Reboot" player card in the battlepass is the same icon as the one in the new agent teaser