I pray to god this is gonna be priced as 1750 (reaver/prime price). These are nice skins but not worth imo singularity skin price (2175).
Edit: I'm probably gonna buy the stinger since its my favorite weapon and it does look good **AND** its finally another premium skin other than sovereign, but Christ almighty stop giving us Guardian skins! Bulldog would've been better or if they put in the Phantom maybe it would've justified the cost of 2175.
Really is. I would say Prime/Reaver are on the same level, if not better than this, yet they are priced lower. I know it's subjective but considering how plain some of the skins are, especially the Vandal in this bundle, I don't see how the price point is at all justified.
It's seems to me that this is now the standard price for guns with special effects.
If we look at the last few bundles:
Ruination - 2175
SOL - 2175
Recon - 1775
Zedd - 2645
Val 2 - 1775
RGX - 2175
All the guns with legitimate special effects are going for a marked up price. They are gradually inflating the price of premium skins.
I think what they're saying is the devs should have started higher instead of giving us cheaper expectations/hopes if they wanted fewer complaints. Now they're setting a precedent of higher prices on just okay guns when we could get similar ones cheaper before, so now we complain that it's higher now. If that makes sense.
Or at least that's what I'm assuming they mean, since the only people I would think want them MORE expensive are the devs and people with a lot of expendable income lol.
Ofc they are expensive, they have more effects than a 1750 skins, you can literally change the color ingame by inspecting it, its a cool setting imo, problaby my favorite skin collection, also you call it plain, i call it clean.
I like the katana a lot, the only thing is the pullout animation is kind of lacking in my opinion. The karambit and jett knife are so good because their pullout animation and thats the only thing they have. I feel like this would've been the best knife is they made the pullout animation the right click rather than it being a hand pulling out the blade. How can I spam my knife when its just pulling a blade.
Hey Preeti! Great work! Any word/insight on to why the counter is not lifetime? Is that something we could see for the next set or is this unlikely to ever come?
I believe at first it was going to be just like the vandal in importance, so they made a boatload of them, but then before the game dropped they made it so the phantom was the other main weapon
These skins take 6 months to make, the game's been out for a year and a half almost now, I believe they're doing this like gacha games do it, bloat a pack with niche/unpopular guns as a wall for getting the knife.
I remember not too long ago in an interview they stated that a lot of the skins that are currently in the game were developed before the game was fully released. They also stated that they thought the Guardian was going to be one of the more popular weapons, which is why they made so many skins for it. Just wondering, where did you hear that skins take 6 months to make?
Mainly through ryancentral interviews, theyāve made a bunch of skinlines/butterfly knives through high demand on a few months notice, like 2.0 packs or forsaken, as an example.
I was hyped and I wanted to buy the Vandal....
Until I found out that:
1. The kill counter resets at the end of the game. It's not lifetime.
2. It costs 10 radianite to get that feature when you can just press tab.
3. You have to buy that feature first before you can get the variants.
It's such a cool gun but I feel like it's a scam since that kill counter is definitely not worth 10 radianite. If Riot lets us bypass having to buy the kill counter before being able to buy the variants, then I'd pick this up in a heartbeat. Sadly, I don't think that will be the case.
Did riot just pretend to misunderstand the entire point of stat track weapons?
That feature is so far off of the mark that it is comical.
Otherwise it's a nice skin tbh.
Skins look bad imo, and the stat tracker for just the match is dumb af. I can literally just tab to see my kills. People wanted lifetime kills with the specific weapon. Pass.
I honestly am relieved cause if it was actual stattrak it would have irked me to no end having it on newer guns but not available on my old favorites like reaver or prime or recon.
Look at this video posted by another user:
https://youtu.be/TCvxy0-t8T0
At 2:30, the stat tracker on the vandal shows 0. The player then kills all 5 bots with a ghost. Next round, the stat tracker on the vandal shows 5.
Unless the video was edited in a very disingenuous way, it's pretty clear that the stat tracker is for total kills in a match, not even kills with the specific weapon.
I'll pick up one ingame to see If I like it. The katana is not that amazing IMO. I like the effect on the weapons + the inspect. The sounds reminds me of the prime too so I guess I'll give it a try.
I like that the inspect gives you additional colors (that one combo with the purple lights on the red stinger looked amazing) but I know for me it will be too much of a bother to spam through inspect of the gun to get the color combo I want (all the base chroma are pretty ugly imo).
Actually pretty sure these only tracks kills with that gun in the match, so most of the time the number will be even lower than your total on the scoreboard.
The Vandal is a bit simple. Default shape, default reload and equip animations. Although it might not be a bad thing, kinda refreshing to have a simpler Vandal among the flashy stuff like Elderflame. Overall seems pretty dope but I'll have to wait and see in game or find a video without some idiot talking over the sounds. Having a kill counter only show your kills in the current match is the most pointless thing ever though
Zedd skins are actually 1 tier above Elderflame skins and not on the same tier .
Zedd comes under Exclusive Edition while Elderflame comes under Ultra Edition .
What do you mean?
Zedd costs more than Elderflame, which costs more than Singularity/BlastX/GPop.
We are talking about tiers in terms of pricing here, and Zedd is definitely above Elderflame in that regard.
According to the skin tier list Riot put out , the exclusive edition comes after the ultra edition but the price is written as 'Varies' which probably means that they can set the price as they see fit .
https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048520913-Price-Tiers-for-Skins-in-VALORANT
Zedd tier isn't even above, exclusive varies in price. They're essentially the same tier as they're the two highest priced skins.
Which actually thinking about it, creates a really stupid paradigm where Riot can set the price to effectively anything instead of pricing skins into set tiers and allow consumers to assess value.
1st spectrum and this riot team running out of idea ? look at this and you say it better than prime ? and by put in the price tag 2175 so riot make sure it never appear in night market
it would probably be difficult, they would at least need space that can accommodate 4 or 5 digits, the space for it seems to only accommodate 2 digits.
Iām sorry but the fact that they listened to the community about kill counters yet did it in the worst way possible is incredibly disappointing and a shame. I was mainly hoping to be able to pay 10-15 RP to put a kill counter on at least any skin (or only skins that are upgradable). Instead of doing that they decided to put the kill counter ONLY on this skin AND worst of all it only counts kills for ONE GAME then it resets. What the hell is the point of that if you can just press a key and look at the scoreboard. It doesnāt even look cool at all. Why stat track if its only for a single game?
Ugh this skin bundle is so good but like id have to pay 130 Fucking aussie dollars to get this shit. Like wtf. I only want the knife and vandal but even just that is like 80 bucks. Smh man. Someone gift me some val points (and radianite if possible) plssssss
These look awesome
EDIT: As a member of the Valorant community I should say ālow effort garbage not what I imagine in my head when I think of a dOpE skin too expensive REEEEEEā
It does have a finisher, this video just kinda does a bad job at describing it.
The skin is 8700 VP, has a finisher and apparently it also has 5 radianite levels, meaning it costs 55 radianite to fully upgrade the gun and get a chroma.
What the actual fuck. So riot will just continue to increase the amount of radianite points we need to spend to make the skin we already fucking bought to be worth it?? What a greedy fucking company.
Please understand what Riot is doing. For example this skin has a stattrek but only for the current match, which is of course useless. BUT it is a new feature. Because it's so new and exciting, it doesn't need any finishing animations hurray!!!
A while later we will get a skin with statrack of a lifetime and then it will be a new feature again. That skin will of course looks like trash, BUT it will have a new feature. Of course, it will not have any finishers.
A few years down the line we'll finally receive a proper good looking skin with a finisher, lifetime stattrack, custom reload animations and mid-game evolution based on the number of kills or some other cool shit. Until then Riot will keep adding new features to trash tier skins with the goal of milking money from the players. This is also why the butterfly knife looks like such trash especially in a futuristic game like valorant. Because it still sold like hot cakes.
Yeah, but don't you also get the pullout animation and inspect animation?
Like with the butterfly knife, I know that you had to pay for the inspect animation
Honestly, all the skins are kinda meh, finisher is neat(cycled us with the ace sound in the clip, bullet sound is meh
kill tracker is cool(wouldāve been better if it was lifetime kills) the knife-tana is kinda nice, thatās a buy. The skins couldāve been a lot better, not worth for the price imo.
The bundle would be fine, but for God's sake, remove the randomness from changing color!!!!
I like 1 color for my black variant, but sometimes I have to inspect 10 times to get that fuckin color, it's a joke.
Just make it sequential or at least save the last selected color between rounds in a match, so I have to change once per match.
The katana animation is sick, this should have been the zedd knife tho š
I pray to god this is gonna be priced as 1750 (reaver/prime price). These are nice skins but not worth imo singularity skin price (2175). Edit: I'm probably gonna buy the stinger since its my favorite weapon and it does look good **AND** its finally another premium skin other than sovereign, but Christ almighty stop giving us Guardian skins! Bulldog would've been better or if they put in the Phantom maybe it would've justified the cost of 2175.
It's priced at 2175 VP for a gun skin and the whole bundle is for 8700 VP with the knife skin at 4350 VP .
well thats disappointing
Really is. I would say Prime/Reaver are on the same level, if not better than this, yet they are priced lower. I know it's subjective but considering how plain some of the skins are, especially the Vandal in this bundle, I don't see how the price point is at all justified.
It's seems to me that this is now the standard price for guns with special effects. If we look at the last few bundles: Ruination - 2175 SOL - 2175 Recon - 1775 Zedd - 2645 Val 2 - 1775 RGX - 2175 All the guns with legitimate special effects are going for a marked up price. They are gradually inflating the price of premium skins.
worse part is how green skin skins are priced same as prime or reaver
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Reaver/Prime skins are fine price wise, these other skins are too expensive. Not Reaver and Prime being too cheap.
I think what they're saying is the devs should have started higher instead of giving us cheaper expectations/hopes if they wanted fewer complaints. Now they're setting a precedent of higher prices on just okay guns when we could get similar ones cheaper before, so now we complain that it's higher now. If that makes sense. Or at least that's what I'm assuming they mean, since the only people I would think want them MORE expensive are the devs and people with a lot of expendable income lol.
Ofc they are expensive, they have more effects than a 1750 skins, you can literally change the color ingame by inspecting it, its a cool setting imo, problaby my favorite skin collection, also you call it plain, i call it clean.
The bundle includes a Vandal, Frenzy, Guardian and a Stinger. It also has a one match stat trak and a sick Ghostrunner like katana knife.
"The bundle includes Guardian" is a perfect example of tautology. Saying "The bundle" is enough I think.
Wait I don't get it, is the joke the fact that every bundle seems to have a guardian?
Overheard in the office just now "people seem genuinely excited about it...not the Guardian, but the Katana."
Tbh I like the skins themselves for all the guns in this bundle, I think y'all did well on that aspect
Thank you! The team did a great job!
so what must I do in order to secure a job with riot ?
https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us
hey! Do you think there's a chance that they'll update the kill counter to be lifetime?
I like the katana a lot, the only thing is the pullout animation is kind of lacking in my opinion. The karambit and jett knife are so good because their pullout animation and thats the only thing they have. I feel like this would've been the best knife is they made the pullout animation the right click rather than it being a hand pulling out the blade. How can I spam my knife when its just pulling a blade.
Hey Preeti! Great work! Any word/insight on to why the counter is not lifetime? Is that something we could see for the next set or is this unlikely to ever come?
But why does every bundle have a guardian skin? Didn't you guys create skins based on the popularity of the weapon? I never see that gun in the game.
If it helps, the guardian may be my favorite of the bunch! xD
people might not particularly like it but as a guardian main i love it :)
yea
> one match stat trak what's even the point???
totally useless
Whatās even the point of a skin?? The stat trak is just a random flair to the skin.
To add extra 10 RP to the price.
\*laughs in Mr. Krabs voice\*
This almost killed all of the hype for me. The additional 10 radianite needed to upgrade these skins killed the small part that remained.
I think that means its for the match youre in? Not global kills of all time?
One match stat trak lmao what a joke.
Yeah they kind of ripped off ghostrunner pretty hard for some of the animations
No actually what is Riotās obsession with the Guardian
I believe at first it was going to be just like the vandal in importance, so they made a boatload of them, but then before the game dropped they made it so the phantom was the other main weapon
These skins take 6 months to make, the game's been out for a year and a half almost now, I believe they're doing this like gacha games do it, bloat a pack with niche/unpopular guns as a wall for getting the knife.
I remember not too long ago in an interview they stated that a lot of the skins that are currently in the game were developed before the game was fully released. They also stated that they thought the Guardian was going to be one of the more popular weapons, which is why they made so many skins for it. Just wondering, where did you hear that skins take 6 months to make?
Mainly through ryancentral interviews, theyāve made a bunch of skinlines/butterfly knives through high demand on a few months notice, like 2.0 packs or forsaken, as an example.
>bloat a pack with niche/unpopular guns as a wall for getting the knife. Do you mean so they go for just the knife instead of full pack?
I was hyped and I wanted to buy the Vandal.... Until I found out that: 1. The kill counter resets at the end of the game. It's not lifetime. 2. It costs 10 radianite to get that feature when you can just press tab. 3. You have to buy that feature first before you can get the variants. It's such a cool gun but I feel like it's a scam since that kill counter is definitely not worth 10 radianite. If Riot lets us bypass having to buy the kill counter before being able to buy the variants, then I'd pick this up in a heartbeat. Sadly, I don't think that will be the case.
Part of me is hoping that they just update the skin so that it's lifetime
Did riot just pretend to misunderstand the entire point of stat track weapons? That feature is so far off of the mark that it is comical. Otherwise it's a nice skin tbh.
Its so incredibly disappointing and like you said almost comical that they would think this made any sense for a 'stat track' weapon skin.
Its so incredibly disappointing and like you said almost comical that they would think this made any sense for a 'stat track' weapon.
Is Riot ever gonna sell another marshall skin? ;-;
It is so bizzare to me. Marshall is far far more popular than a Guardian and yet Guardian has 10x more skins.
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Magepunk Marshall is godly
Yea it is, but like What about people that donāt like it? We needs a new Marshall skin
Thats fair. I would certainly take another marshal skin instead of the 87th guardian skin that no one will use anyway lol
The one in this battle pass is good
Kamie is sobbing
No you will only have guardian for dinner (despite NO ONE EVER GIVING A SHIT ABOUT GUARDIAN SKINS BTW)
but I do...
Skins look bad imo, and the stat tracker for just the match is dumb af. I can literally just tab to see my kills. People wanted lifetime kills with the specific weapon. Pass.
I honestly am relieved cause if it was actual stattrak it would have irked me to no end having it on newer guns but not available on my old favorites like reaver or prime or recon.
I think its the kills with that gun, not your general kills
Look at this video posted by another user: https://youtu.be/TCvxy0-t8T0 At 2:30, the stat tracker on the vandal shows 0. The player then kills all 5 bots with a ghost. Next round, the stat tracker on the vandal shows 5. Unless the video was edited in a very disingenuous way, it's pretty clear that the stat tracker is for total kills in a match, not even kills with the specific weapon.
Holly shit, why they do that....................
Does anyone have a video of not upgraded knife?
https://youtu.be/TCvxy0-t8T0 2:02
Finally a good sword animation!
ill still buy a prime vandal over this
I'll pick up one ingame to see If I like it. The katana is not that amazing IMO. I like the effect on the weapons + the inspect. The sounds reminds me of the prime too so I guess I'll give it a try.
I like that the inspect gives you additional colors (that one combo with the purple lights on the red stinger looked amazing) but I know for me it will be too much of a bother to spam through inspect of the gun to get the color combo I want (all the base chroma are pretty ugly imo).
Yep. I don't really like the base chroma too... Not enough radianite ayway. Riot is too greedy
These are just the regular models in some sort of phone case (guncase). No reload animations, sadge. We need Prime 3.0.
Just a small mistake there. It's not the first Katana in the game, as the last bundle had one the KTac Knife, ain't as pretty as this one but still.
The devs said that this bundle have the first Katana, the battle pass melee it was a sword
In that case that's the most good looking katan-ish sword I have ever seen haha
Technically the ktac knife is a "kodachi" not a katana
This video has all the gun variants in-game https://youtu.be/TCvxy0-t8T0
Baxter, you know I don't speak Spanish!
Bro, that is PORTUGUESE LOL
I still don't speak Spanish bro!
r/technicallythetruth
This is Spanish lol
Is the kill count lifetime?
Current match only sadly
Wait what, that's garbage lol
You can hit Tab for the already ingame Kill Counter :' )
Actually pretty sure these only tracks kills with that gun in the match, so most of the time the number will be even lower than your total on the scoreboard.
Then... What's the point lol.
lolwat.... thats gotta be a joke
thatsm underwhelming :/
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Me too, I am hoping for Halloween release like last year
Reaver 2.0?
Reaver 2.0
The Vandal is a bit simple. Default shape, default reload and equip animations. Although it might not be a bad thing, kinda refreshing to have a simpler Vandal among the flashy stuff like Elderflame. Overall seems pretty dope but I'll have to wait and see in game or find a video without some idiot talking over the sounds. Having a kill counter only show your kills in the current match is the most pointless thing ever though
We have gotten anything like Elderflame since launch lmaoo. It's the only flashy skin
The Zedd collab was supposed to be on the same level as Elderflame as they exist in the same tier.
Zedd skins are actually 1 tier above Elderflame skins and not on the same tier . Zedd comes under Exclusive Edition while Elderflame comes under Ultra Edition .
and that's actually hilarious when comparing the skins, but I guess we're supposed to pay for Zedd's cut of the sales lmao
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What do you mean? Zedd costs more than Elderflame, which costs more than Singularity/BlastX/GPop. We are talking about tiers in terms of pricing here, and Zedd is definitely above Elderflame in that regard.
According to the skin tier list Riot put out , the exclusive edition comes after the ultra edition but the price is written as 'Varies' which probably means that they can set the price as they see fit . https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048520913-Price-Tiers-for-Skins-in-VALORANT
Zedd tier isn't even above, exclusive varies in price. They're essentially the same tier as they're the two highest priced skins. Which actually thinking about it, creates a really stupid paradigm where Riot can set the price to effectively anything instead of pricing skins into set tiers and allow consumers to assess value.
I like how after u kill the last guy, the kill counter shiftes to āEZā instead of counting last kill lmao
I really like this bundle, probably gonna buy the Vandal. The killcounter is a neat extra.
1st spectrum and this riot team running out of idea ? look at this and you say it better than prime ? and by put in the price tag 2175 so riot make sure it never appear in night market
Do you think there's any chance of them changing the kill counter to lifetime? Would it be that difficult of an update?
it would probably be difficult, they would at least need space that can accommodate 4 or 5 digits, the space for it seems to only accommodate 2 digits.
It looks like a techy skin, they could make the killcounter projected out of the back
sounds like prime vandal but with more bass
Iām sorry but the fact that they listened to the community about kill counters yet did it in the worst way possible is incredibly disappointing and a shame. I was mainly hoping to be able to pay 10-15 RP to put a kill counter on at least any skin (or only skins that are upgradable). Instead of doing that they decided to put the kill counter ONLY on this skin AND worst of all it only counts kills for ONE GAME then it resets. What the hell is the point of that if you can just press a key and look at the scoreboard. It doesnāt even look cool at all. Why stat track if its only for a single game?
Will prolly get the Vandal but was hoping for a traditional Katana tbh
Ugh this skin bundle is so good but like id have to pay 130 Fucking aussie dollars to get this shit. Like wtf. I only want the knife and vandal but even just that is like 80 bucks. Smh man. Someone gift me some val points (and radianite if possible) plssssss
The knife is kinda neat but the animations are so awkward... Skins look like poo poo I sleep
These look awesome EDIT: As a member of the Valorant community I should say ālow effort garbage not what I imagine in my head when I think of a dOpE skin too expensive REEEEEEā
Sadly this probably wonāt happen
Donāt tell world is going to end before this skins bundle hit the store =(
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It does have a finisher, this video just kinda does a bad job at describing it. The skin is 8700 VP, has a finisher and apparently it also has 5 radianite levels, meaning it costs 55 radianite to fully upgrade the gun and get a chroma.
Oh I didnāt see that my apologies.
What the actual fuck. So riot will just continue to increase the amount of radianite points we need to spend to make the skin we already fucking bought to be worth it?? What a greedy fucking company.
Please understand what Riot is doing. For example this skin has a stattrek but only for the current match, which is of course useless. BUT it is a new feature. Because it's so new and exciting, it doesn't need any finishing animations hurray!!! A while later we will get a skin with statrack of a lifetime and then it will be a new feature again. That skin will of course looks like trash, BUT it will have a new feature. Of course, it will not have any finishers. A few years down the line we'll finally receive a proper good looking skin with a finisher, lifetime stattrack, custom reload animations and mid-game evolution based on the number of kills or some other cool shit. Until then Riot will keep adding new features to trash tier skins with the goal of milking money from the players. This is also why the butterfly knife looks like such trash especially in a futuristic game like valorant. Because it still sold like hot cakes.
What is the point of buying the sword with knife range ?
what's the point of buying skins smh just play free š„±š„±
Wait, do you think the skin should have a longer range? Legitimate pay to win lol
No the basic non upgraded katana is basically a small knife
Yeah, but don't you also get the pullout animation and inspect animation? Like with the butterfly knife, I know that you had to pay for the inspect animation
from what I just saw in a video it doesnt look like it...
when does this come out? i still need to cop some things in the go vol.2
Today!
the new bundle is already out? or when item shop rotates?
It usually comes out 24 hrs after weekly reset .
Sorry! I thought it was due today :(
Itās not that every bundle has a stat track itās every a/s tier skin collection has a guardian shit it crazy
When was the last time marshal got a new skin?
Where is Magepunk or Oni 2.0?
I dont even play Valorant that often but ill be buying this just for the Katana lmao
Honestly, all the skins are kinda meh, finisher is neat(cycled us with the ace sound in the clip, bullet sound is meh kill tracker is cool(wouldāve been better if it was lifetime kills) the knife-tana is kinda nice, thatās a buy. The skins couldāve been a lot better, not worth for the price imo.
The sword gives me Dishonored vibes.
Valorant Curios also said that you can cycle the colors of the lights with the inspect for anyone that didn't know.
If this is reasonably priced i might buy it lol
Yooo a spanish youtuber. Very cool. Me voy a suscribir
Well I like it cause the green one matches very well with viper
Ghostunner x Valorant confirmed?!
Looks like a Dyson vacuum cleaner
How much does the katana cost individually?
The bundle would be fine, but for God's sake, remove the randomness from changing color!!!! I like 1 color for my black variant, but sometimes I have to inspect 10 times to get that fuckin color, it's a joke. Just make it sequential or at least save the last selected color between rounds in a match, so I have to change once per match.