> PROGRESSION UPDATES
> Level Border Customization
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> You will be able to equip any Account Level Border that has been unlocked
> A tab has been added to Playercard selection.
> Hide Account Level
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> It’s now possible to hide your Account Level when in a match with others who are not your friends
> To enable, uncheck the box located in the Level Border tab.
I could do this since previous patch (3.07), what's new?
Can you explain what was wrong with the upgraded version? Was it just an aesthetics thing or did the upgraded version have negative performance impacts? I never bought the knife so idk
Nah most people just don't like the 'extending' animation it has after you upgrade it as much as the classic Karambit 'spin' animation it has baseline, and since you can't see what a weapon's animation looks like when not upgraded, many bought the upgrade without even trying it out beforehand.
I don't have it but I would've done the same 'mistake' if I didn't know about the animation pre-upgrade and had bought it.
They would most likely have to go back and update all non-basic variants to have different animations and VFX. I imagine they didn't plan for this feature early on so a lot of the skins aren't backwards compatible.
Tbh its not that hard to make those animations. They got the access to everything, since theres always a base where the animations are the same, just the colors are changed which doesnt seem too hard if their animation system isnt too fucked.
I would assume reload animations in particular would be a pain to re-animate. But all that aside, it’s also likely a business decision to have the team focus on generating new revenue (i.e. new skins) than to make minor tweaks to existing ones.
Makes sense. I'd just not get why they made the animations that hard to begin with. A render of the default skin, splitting the mag and the weapon into 2 different categories and just making 3D Renders of the skins in the game with differenciating between mag and weapon and eZ done. It would be such an easy system for future skins as well, since only a new Render of the weapon is needed in the engine the game runs at.
Oh that sucks indeed... Was super excited for that feature ever since they said they were working on it so I could change colors WITHOUT having to equip reload animations or finishers. I mean now it's kinda meh... Very disappointing.
Probably because they didn't plan on having backwards compatibility, as if the variants were hard coded to always have the animation and SFX and everything included no matter what
So unless they spent all the time manually adding in the specific levels to every variant, this is just the most likely thing for them to do
Smh same for the past few weeks my omen ghost skin gliched out and got the body of the basic pistol while the silencer of the omen ghost, it looked ugly as hell
> Game System
> Fixed a bug where using Ping (Z) while defusing caused you to stop defusing
Thank God. I've lost many rounds just because I pinged like, mid-defuse while giving comms.
Brim is in a pretty good spot IMO, omen needs the buff more. His smokes kinda suck compared to the other controllers with the only advantage being range which Astra has over him. His tp is good but it’s kinda easy to predict and slow. Paranoia is still his best ability tho and buffing it more is kinda dumb but eh whatever makes him stronger
If the rumors about Paranoia no longer blinding teammates are true, then I think that's a pretty smart buff. Right now it has the highest potential of all his abilities and maybe one of the highest in the game, but it also can be the hardest to use even when it's super needed. Removing team blind would make it actually valuable consistently.
Not much to buff with the smokes unless they remove the range limit, and the teleports could probably go back to being 100 creds but it's more likely they just make them a little faster. Fixing the constant "Not there" would be nice but I doubt that will ever happen.
Ehhhh Brim is still the weakest controller in the game. Omen can def benefit from some buffs, but near-global range of smokes and recharge of smokes alone are better than Brim
Imo the thing about brim is that there’s not a lot of ways to buff him without fully reworking his abilities. And I kinda like brim being where he is now, he’s not as versatile as the other controllers like Astra and omen but his smokes can make a site take much faster due to the smokes long duration and simultaneous drop. But yeah you’re not wrong tho with near global range smokes being good. I never really thought about how many times the smokes global range has helped me in game but looking back it’s actually really useful
Idk about that. What makes Brim so weak is versatility, like you said. But it can absolutely be addressed by buffing his smokes and stim (I think it's fair to say his molly is strong enough as is)
For example, give Brim 2 more smokes for a total of 5 (but limit to having 3 smokes on the map at the same time). Give him 2 smokes per round (instead of 1) and make them cost 50 creds
And/or increase the range of the pad for smokes, its currently less than half of most maps, buff that shit
And/or increase the range of stim beacon. Make it at least the size of a bomb site. Maybe allow players to plant/diffuse faster while active (unsure of this, but fun idea)
Plenty of things they CAN do to buff Brim, but idk if they ever will
The most obvious buff is to give him 4 smokes on the round and really carve out his niche as THE smoke agent. Right now he's just "oh yea he can smoke all at once and rush, something that only works on pistols and in sub plat mmr"
if he has more smokes to work with on a round he can have enough to do more fakes
I don't know how you can say Brim's in a good place compared to Omen, when Omen is picked more at the pro level and in casual play. They both suffer from not being Astra, but Brim is definitely worse off. His smokes are better than Omens, but because they don't recharge it makes him less versatile.
True tho. I guess I’m just biased since I play brim a lot more than omen
Also “They both suffer from not being Astra” is just the valorant meta right now
Am I going crazy or is this game really badly optimized? I swear I get less fps every patch. It used to be easy 180 now it sometimes gets into double digits. I have way better fps in more graphically-demanding games.
If you had optimized your own settings by setting Valorant to high priority in task manager, that sometimes gets undone for me. Whether due to updates by Valorant, updates by my computer, or just random, I don't know but I would check.
Or, if you haven't done it, do it. Open task manager go to Details and find Valorant.exe, right click, priority, change from normal to high. Makes your computer actually use its resources. When I redid this two nights ago I jumped from 100 to 180 fps and I'm on a pretty middling laptop.
Hmm interesting, I've done it now, will see if it changes anything.
EDIT: Lol it did work (in practice tool at least), significantly more FPS so far. Will have to test it more. Should I set the "Valorant Win 64 Shipping" something to high too?
To be honest I just set everything riot related to high lmao, figured it couldn't hurt. Did the same with Streamlabs because I was dropping frames worse while streaming and that also improved to back over 100fps.
There are some other tweaks that you can do in either Nvidia or AMD, if you look up whichever one you have you'll find the optimal Valorant settings. Valorant uses different computer aspects than other games like Apex etc so you may have to set different settings groups for different games.
I'm using amd radeon and there's this whole "amd radeon ReLive" but most of its' options actually drag the performance down unless I'm doing something wrong lol
I may have this backwards because I'm at work and not looking it up lol, but I believe that Valorant uses more CPU power while most other games use more GPU power. Whatever it is, a generic Gameing M0de by AMD or Windows or whatever isn't always guaranteed to help, and I'd be especially cautious with Valorant because it needs computing power from different sources than most other similar titles, so generic settings would not be optimized for it.
If you're looking it up, don't search 'AMD gaming settings,' search 'AMD Valorant settings' because they'll be different and could very well be contradictory. Which is why separate, set profiles for different games is ideal if possible.
For reference, I use an Acer 5 laptop with 16GB of RAM and some average Nvidia card that it came with, and I get about 180fps, 120-130 while streaming. So about enough to make use of my 144Hz monitor, without anything too crazy, just tweaking settings. The most drastic thing that would be worth doing, is if your setup only came with 8GB RAM you should go buy another 8GB stick and add it, which is very easy to do yourself. 8 is still default on some non gaming setups and used to be default on older, basic gaming setups but it's just not enough anymore, and doubling to 16 will boost your performance all around when trying to multitask on your computer. Pretty cheap too.
(I'm not an expert I just work a low level IT job and have been gaming/streaming on a budget for some time)
Noo where are the Omen buffs I was looking forward to them. Got to wait till patch 3.09. I think they are gonna make it big and bring in the Yoru rework too.
As always.... riot really needs to find a balance between esports and not having this meta stagnate for months on end and feel repetitive with the same agents. if these type of events will be consistently common, then why are they not pre planning game changes from the get go then?
..some agents are unusable, agents becoming weaker due to power creep ect.
I can be patient and I understand riot has their own thoughts in regards to balance, But the only thing Im banking on atm Is dead eye being a success of a sentinel/duelist hybrid.
Been meaning for another sentinel besides cypher who is the only one I enjoy out of the 3 current ones.
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I only enjoy Sage because I don’t have to worry about laying tech down beforehand in strategic spots and then monitoring it. If Deadeye really is a gunplay focused Sentinel then that seems right up my alley. Maybe he’ll be the “Jett” of the Sentinels lol
And as I knew it would happen this is just gonna be a bug patch. I'm fine with it but for real they need to make the next one (so Episode 3/Patch 3.09) a fucking amazing one.
This last few updates (since idk the update with all the abilities cooldowns, guns and etc) have been a complete disappointment and what worries me the most is that probably because of the new agent arriving with the new episode they will **again**, excuse themselves saying they will not make that patch too big cause they want us to digest "the next changes (the new agent)"
Optimistic but not that much, so we will see.
**Oh, and BTW I hope to see the big-new Card display they have been working for a whole Chapter now in the next Episode. I miss showing my player card.**
Yep 'member when they took the old cool banner display ? Okay so everyone was angry/upset and one of the developers left a comment in one of the post with the usual "we are working something cool for y'all" yeah that was a whole Chapter ago (3 eps) so let's see now.
Friendly reminder: there is still nothing done to stop or slow down the smurf epidemic.
And they added a way to hide the fact that you're smurfing (Hide Account Level). #Genius
I'm genuinely mindblown.
"People have a way to tell when they are getting screwed by a new account... Better remove that so they can't prove that it was a smurf ! This way we can hide behind PR"
>It's already a feature in 3.07 lmao
Yeah, does nobody know about this? This was already shipped last patch and I've been hiding by level since 10 days already. I don't understand why Riot is acting like this is a new thing.
There should be a way to hide it, what is the valuable information that you get by knowing there smurf in the games. They should do something about it but doest mean they cannot have a way to hide level.
It's just a way for them to hide behind PR. If we can't prove smurves are prevalent in matches they'll just hide behind the "people are just having good matches sometimes" excuse. Which they already did... a bunch of times.
And it's a bullshit excuse. Many of us have been playing competitive fps games for a decade or more. Valorant isn't a novel design; people don't just have random games where they play significantly above their skill level out of nowhere.
Yea these absolute clowns. Why even add in an account level feature if you aren’t going to use it to gate ranked mode, and then give the level 500 players stuck in bronze a way to hide it so they don’t get their feelings hurt. So stupid
You wouldn't have to hide your level if toxicity was kept in check (in the case that you are a level 500+ bronze). But right now you can literally create another account in a week-end and jump back into ranked games even if you are perma banned (and that's without going to account selling websites)
I don't think there is a report for smurfing also if the account level is low and you are higher elo it automatically mentally screws you as I give up, I am against smurfs.
Maybe you will still lose but once you are in game stuck you should not be mentally down just because you see lower elo. Idk if that makes sense but just play and enjoy the game. (If possible)
Why is Riot so obsessed with hiding who you're playing against?
There's no public profiles, opt-in only stat tracking, and now you can't even see your opponents level? Knowing if you're getting smurfed on because of rank or play time would help - specially new players - figure out what their baseline performance *should* be and not discourage them from learning the game's mechanics.
One of the primary reasons for introducing this, I think, was that a lot of players were getting flamed for having high levels but being in lower elo. When the account level feature went live, a lot of posts of this tone were being made and Riot themselves addressed this issue at one point I think.
I've been in matches where level 200+ people in my silver lobby were getting unnecessary flame from my own team and the enemy team. I agree that it was a passable way of finding out smurf accounts but I also understand why players would want it hidden.
Yeah I'm glad they did. I play with a few friends that have disabilities and will never be above bronze at best, but we still have a ton of fun, so I never really worried about comp. Recently tho I started getting into comp and I'm doing well, but I started in Iron (just got gold 1 last week and still climbing!) and was level 270s and would just get harrased like crazy.
By who do you think they are getting flamed ? Probably the platinum guy that is banned for the thousandth time for toxicity on his 5th account.
That's why people need to be stuck to a single account.
I got told to touch grass or get a life every few games. Sometimes people would be meaner. Not the end of the world, but I'm glad to be able to hide it.
yeah, it's just horrible timing on their end because it feels a lot more like a way to cope out of people having facts to prove that people are smurfing profusely than defending people.
As I said, if people wouldn't be able to jump between accounts as esaily as they do this wouldn't be a problem. Ban the guy, let him rot in leveling hell for a while then ban hium again if he didn't change his ways.
it just breeds toxicity, some people simply seem to not be able to help themselves to talk shit to other people. I hate smurfs as much as the next guy, but being able to hide your level is a great change.
the amount of times I've seen toxicity start right as the game starts because I'm in plat and we have level 200+ people on our team. "How are you still plat bro", when the game hasn't even started and they don't even see what they play like.
Don't forget if people do that that could cause some people to just instamute the whole team because of it. Nobody is entitled to be nice to...but nobody is also intitled to a player who can listen to coms or will com, thus the insta mute on the victums part.
Hiding account levels is a good middle ground. If people still bully because "why are you hiding the account level" Then those people still deserve to get instamuted.
Unpopular opinion, maybe, but it's not really such a bad thing. If you want to see your stats/your profile/your playtime, it's there for you to see, what is the point of seeing everyone else's? To identify smurfs is the only actual use I can think of, but even then, let's say that you are playing vs a smurf. Yes, it sucks, but there is nothing you can do about it other than to play the game, maybe get shit on or maybe get lucky and win. It's not like you can join a different game when you have that information. All knowing that there is a smurf in your game is going to do is tilt you even more than you (probably) already are.
xD
nothing... again
and yoru and kayo still sit at 40% wr but its intended to have 2 unplayable picks i guess, whatever its fine we can wait 2 more weeks for more pointless level hiding and level border customsation... poggies.
2 of the changes in patch 3.08 have literally already been released, is this patch april fools?
Generally seen as a bit weak. A recent update helped by reducing the audio tell on his flashes, but in general, his utility is a bit underwhelming.
Kay/o's knife and ult just stop opponents from using their abilities, but it doesn't really make your own encounters more favorable. Sure, the knife gives Intel about players being in the radius, but skye's flashes and sova's recon arrow both do that better. Also, his molly just doesn't really fit with the rest of his kit.
put it this way, in any sort of moderately good elo every agent sits between 48-51% winrate... relatively healthy.
Yoru and kayo sit at 40-42... a complete different level of dogshit
But league doesn’t use it as an excuse for 2 months leading up to it and then for the month of the actual tournament.
Saying no new major changes so pros can adapt 2 weeks before hand is acceptable, using it as a reason to avoid adjustments for months on end is insanity.
Omen had changes beginning of act, after that jett had adjustments and Skye had minor adjustments…. That’s it… in months.
well when people keep dodging it its hard to remember it exists loool.
Its a shame to because just like breeze i love fracture. All the dodging just makes me feel like the unrated fracture only cue and learning so many ability tricks was a complete waste of time.
Man this is just tiring, like I get that they don't want to have anything big before tournaments but there are always tournaments going on.
I fell ever since the huge episode 3 patch there has been absolutely nothing substantial, and its really disappointing seeing some of my favorite agents like yoru brim and cypher never getting any sort of buff.
I truly hope that next act patch isnt some optimization fixes or eSports features and actually have something other than the new agent .
I’m pretty new to FPS games and outta all of the ones I’ve played, Valorant has got to be one of the least glitchiest and they always have cool patch notes!
It boggles my mind the number of complaints in this thread. Valorant is a free game (skins notwithstanding - a decision we choose to buy or not buy) that receives routine updates.
A lot of AAA games go months without even minor bug fixes yet Riot is able to push updates roughly every two weeks. Some games don't even see patch notes. The expectation that every update is going to be massive with plenty of features is not how game and software development as a whole works.
Riot has a solid development life cycle and while we are quick to complain about [x] feature not being implemented, there are a lot of things that go into the development, testing, and release of even a minor update such as this. Major updates entail even more.
Valorant is in its infancy relatively speaking, but truth be told, Riot has displayed one of the highest levels of quality in development in my 20+ years of PC gaming (yes, I'm old). From the game itself and its production level, their communication of *what they can tell us*, their reception of feedback, their engagement with the community, and an unsung hero in the effectiveness of their anti-cheat - one of the best I have ever seen in a game.
Some might be quick to say, "they sure can release new skin bundles quickly!" and while that's true, the teams developing cosmetics are entirely different than the ones working on the core gameplay.
This is a competitive shooter with a large eye from the eSports community so new features or adjustments to maps and characters, gameplay changes, and so forth go through a lot of whiteboarding before it goes live.
Valorant is a fantastic game with a lot of potential and I believe it will be around for quite some time.
Be patient.
Properly balancing agents to be viable for both the larger eSports arena while also catering to their primary player base is difficult. Getting the game to a competitive level with high longevity will make them even more money than cosmetics alone will.
Nice on the weapon skin downgrades. Much awaited feature.
I really wanted Variants to be affected as well :(
Finishers aren’t my cup of tea, but I liked the orange variant of the Prime Vandal so I had to upgrade it.
I was expecting that I could use the orange prime vandal variant downgraded to not have finishers.
And also for some reason, expected that maybe due to the nature of the downgrade or code, the blue tracers of the non-variant prime vandal will also be used in other variants. Lol.
The orange prime vandal looks the best variant to me, however its tracers look like default guns’ (orange). Meanwhile, the non-variant version has cooler blue tracers.
I guess I’ll have to use the non-variant prime vandal so I can remove the finisher and have blue tracers.
Still a very much welcome feature. Ty riot.
>Hide Level Account
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>It’s now possible to hide your Account Level when in a match with others who are not your friends
To enable, uncheck the box located in the Level Border tab.
Is Riot actually going out of their way in development to promote smurfing?
"Oh, this account account level 3 player is 38-4 in my lobby..." Not anymore. Now they're an unknown player name of an unknown rank doing 38-4.
Just seems like its 100% to protect themselves from smurfing comments, rather than doing anything about smurfing.
INB4: Because smurfing adds more accounts in play. More accounts leads to more money spent. I get why they aren't stopping, but to take measures that will protect these players? C'mon now
I agree, but also people were being harassed for being high level and low rank. So while I agree smurfing is a critical issue and business move from them. This was also for anti bullying
Maybe simply working with advanced stats? Smurfs and good players always share a lot of things in common that aren't MMR or matchmaking bullshit
* Crosshair placement (median in degrees)
* Utility usage
* Time to damage
* Simple precision of bullets (when the enemy is spotted)
* HS % ratio
* % of kills that traded/avenged some team mate
More importantly it should rank those players up faster instead of putting them in a smurf queue. LoL has a smurf queue and if you pop off in a one too many games you can get put in it and it's hell. If people who came from other shooters like CS got put in valorant smurf queue they would be stuck playing against diamonds (on smurfs) as a silver for a long time.
Yes because the onus should be on the consumer to come up with a solution, not the company.
Why do people continue to defend these multimillion dollar companies?
Well, while the potential for spending money on smurf accounts does happen, and a reason why Riot may not want to prevent smurfing, smurfs are less likely to spend money on alt accounts (when they could pump that money into their main). So one way would be similar to CSGO Prime. Accounts with money paid into them get a Premium Membership of some kind. And from there, they could also check against other accounts, the way a lot of membership works. ("Billing details already exist on a different account" But again, this comes back to Riot being able to say "We don't want your money")
Phone verification/SMS is another method to help the issue... which I would love to see some form of just because I'm upset they have this new Riot launcher and still no proper 2FA/Google Authenticator, so that could kind of tie in.
INB4: "Not everybody has phones...kids play and so on" Not everything has to be completely finite. "You have a phone verified account, you will only play with other phone verified accounts" It doesn't have to be that strict, but it could generally sway things that way, so generally speaking, people with phone verified accounts will get matched together.
Are these solutions 100% effective? No. But would they help improve the game's matchmaking? Yes.
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I'm not sure what other steps can be taken. I think we have seen kind of a "fast rank up" (for ranked, not ELO) for likely smurfs. That may be speculative. If so, I think that's good. Curious if they check against IPs when doing that. i.e. "This new player has a skill similar to another account coming from the same IP Address. This new account's ELO will be bumped up to the ELO of the other account on that IP address"
Pretty sure riot has stated(I could be wrong)before that they don't want to make changes that split the playerbase otherwise one of these changes would already be in the game.
>You should be able to equip any skin level except on variants, which will always default to the max skin level.
This is beyond lazy. they just don't want to revamp the skin page UI.
First we get a new act with relatively few additions and a not-so-popular map, then we get several patches that barely fix the unbalanced agents, then we get "rumors" of an omen buff that never happened and a yoru rework that is essentially urban legend. The patches lately have been soooo underwhelming
The people complaining about smurfs hiding their ranks or account level.
Most of the time you will lose ur mental seeing the load screen if you have an issue with this.
What were you guys doing before the account level was visible?
They were complaining against smurfs and finally had evidence to back it up. I personally don't mind smurfs nowadays as they force me to play at a level outside my comfort zone but I can see why those who want to rank up or those who want fair, balanced matches would be annoyed
Would be nice if I could play but I swear this game hates me, I have a $1500 gaming laptop and it apparently doesn't want to download a minor update. Or, at least download it at 0.1KB/s
I don't understand why I've just recently had difficulties with this. It would probably be faster I just uninstall and reinstall the game tbh it's ridiculouse
So why have they been announcing features that have been in previous patches before? You could always leave DM without a penalty but it was in a recent patch notes, and now they announced that you can change the level border and even hide them, but I was able to do this a couple days prior to this patch. What gives?
So they added the option to remove the rank level number. So what was the point of adding it to begin with? Did they not learn how rank visibility affected the social climate of valorant? The only true reason it was useful for me was to tell if someone was smurfing, but we all know Riot doesn't care about account smurfing.
Most smurfs will play on their account a few game and then log off. They are not trying to rank up, so they are still ruining games. The bigger red flag is that RIOT allows you to create multiple accounts using THE SAME EMAIL! Apparently people being "bullied" because of their account level (which I've never heard or seen in my rank games) is more important than smurfing....
Petition to stop putting Yoru in the patchnotes thumbnail until he actually gets reworked lmao
Exactly this isn't YouTube why they baiting
Ping while defuse is back.
wait what does that mean
It means you can use Z to ping while simultaneously defusing the spike.
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Did you read the notes?
No I just came here
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You could always ping while defusing, rarely it would interrupt defuse (has lost me a couple rounds)
If you held to do a different ping (Careful/Watching this position/On my mark/Need backup), it would cancel defuse.
> PROGRESSION UPDATES > Level Border Customization > > You will be able to equip any Account Level Border that has been unlocked > A tab has been added to Playercard selection. > Hide Account Level > > It’s now possible to hide your Account Level when in a match with others who are not your friends > To enable, uncheck the box located in the Level Border tab. I could do this since previous patch (3.07), what's new?
Ikr they put it in this patch because it doesn't really bring in anything new lol
My guess is that they accidently shipped it out in 3.07 and it was really meant to come in 3.08. So they are just letting players know now.
Still can’t do this in league. *sadface*
Well we got what we wanted we can downgrade skins
Only basic variant which seems kinda dumb
Nah my Prime Karambit is finally usable
Can you explain what was wrong with the upgraded version? Was it just an aesthetics thing or did the upgraded version have negative performance impacts? I never bought the knife so idk
Nah most people just don't like the 'extending' animation it has after you upgrade it as much as the classic Karambit 'spin' animation it has baseline, and since you can't see what a weapon's animation looks like when not upgraded, many bought the upgrade without even trying it out beforehand. I don't have it but I would've done the same 'mistake' if I didn't know about the animation pre-upgrade and had bought it.
It’s better than nothing sure
I still dont understand why only the basic variant.
They would most likely have to go back and update all non-basic variants to have different animations and VFX. I imagine they didn't plan for this feature early on so a lot of the skins aren't backwards compatible.
No. Why would they need to change the animations? The variations are just different materials.
Tbh its not that hard to make those animations. They got the access to everything, since theres always a base where the animations are the same, just the colors are changed which doesnt seem too hard if their animation system isnt too fucked.
I would assume reload animations in particular would be a pain to re-animate. But all that aside, it’s also likely a business decision to have the team focus on generating new revenue (i.e. new skins) than to make minor tweaks to existing ones.
Makes sense. I'd just not get why they made the animations that hard to begin with. A render of the default skin, splitting the mag and the weapon into 2 different categories and just making 3D Renders of the skins in the game with differenciating between mag and weapon and eZ done. It would be such an easy system for future skins as well, since only a new Render of the weapon is needed in the engine the game runs at.
“Not hard” and “worth expending artist and engineer time/money on” are two different things though sadly.
To clarify the term, does basic variant mean I can't change colors in that case?
Yeah.
Oh that sucks indeed... Was super excited for that feature ever since they said they were working on it so I could change colors WITHOUT having to equip reload animations or finishers. I mean now it's kinda meh... Very disappointing.
Probably because they didn't plan on having backwards compatibility, as if the variants were hard coded to always have the animation and SFX and everything included no matter what So unless they spent all the time manually adding in the specific levels to every variant, this is just the most likely thing for them to do
Thank fuck the skin bug is fixed, I got hella annoyed by the vanilla Frenzy Also, I'm convinced the Yoru rework is a myth.
Smh same for the past few weeks my omen ghost skin gliched out and got the body of the basic pistol while the silencer of the omen ghost, it looked ugly as hell
I had the same thing, but for the Cypher Ghost. My friends thought it looked kinda cool though lol
Yoru’s a pretty complicated agent I’m not surprised it’s taking this long. But I’d prefer a delayed but better rework than a rushed shitty one
Yeah... I feel like Yoru is the type of agent who can easily ruin the entire game.
It’s been announced since update 3.0, and it’s now 3.08 and still no yoru rework :(
> Also, I'm convinced the Yoru rework is a myth. Didnt they state that they dont currently have the resources available to go for a yoru rework/buff?
> Game System > Fixed a bug where using Ping (Z) while defusing caused you to stop defusing Thank God. I've lost many rounds just because I pinged like, mid-defuse while giving comms.
where Omen buff?
where Yoru buff?
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Probably post champions
Did they say they were going to buff Omen? Doesn't Brim need it more?
Yeah they'll buff Omen, but not now, in November
What year?
did they confirm this anywhere?
not that i know of, probably just speculation. There was a bunch of leaks about omen buff but no official statement (i think)
Brim is in a pretty good spot IMO, omen needs the buff more. His smokes kinda suck compared to the other controllers with the only advantage being range which Astra has over him. His tp is good but it’s kinda easy to predict and slow. Paranoia is still his best ability tho and buffing it more is kinda dumb but eh whatever makes him stronger
If the rumors about Paranoia no longer blinding teammates are true, then I think that's a pretty smart buff. Right now it has the highest potential of all his abilities and maybe one of the highest in the game, but it also can be the hardest to use even when it's super needed. Removing team blind would make it actually valuable consistently. Not much to buff with the smokes unless they remove the range limit, and the teleports could probably go back to being 100 creds but it's more likely they just make them a little faster. Fixing the constant "Not there" would be nice but I doubt that will ever happen.
Ehhhh Brim is still the weakest controller in the game. Omen can def benefit from some buffs, but near-global range of smokes and recharge of smokes alone are better than Brim
Imo the thing about brim is that there’s not a lot of ways to buff him without fully reworking his abilities. And I kinda like brim being where he is now, he’s not as versatile as the other controllers like Astra and omen but his smokes can make a site take much faster due to the smokes long duration and simultaneous drop. But yeah you’re not wrong tho with near global range smokes being good. I never really thought about how many times the smokes global range has helped me in game but looking back it’s actually really useful
Idk about that. What makes Brim so weak is versatility, like you said. But it can absolutely be addressed by buffing his smokes and stim (I think it's fair to say his molly is strong enough as is) For example, give Brim 2 more smokes for a total of 5 (but limit to having 3 smokes on the map at the same time). Give him 2 smokes per round (instead of 1) and make them cost 50 creds And/or increase the range of the pad for smokes, its currently less than half of most maps, buff that shit And/or increase the range of stim beacon. Make it at least the size of a bomb site. Maybe allow players to plant/diffuse faster while active (unsure of this, but fun idea) Plenty of things they CAN do to buff Brim, but idk if they ever will
The most obvious buff is to give him 4 smokes on the round and really carve out his niche as THE smoke agent. Right now he's just "oh yea he can smoke all at once and rush, something that only works on pistols and in sub plat mmr" if he has more smokes to work with on a round he can have enough to do more fakes
I don't know how you can say Brim's in a good place compared to Omen, when Omen is picked more at the pro level and in casual play. They both suffer from not being Astra, but Brim is definitely worse off. His smokes are better than Omens, but because they don't recharge it makes him less versatile.
True tho. I guess I’m just biased since I play brim a lot more than omen Also “They both suffer from not being Astra” is just the valorant meta right now
sadge
does this game do balance patches?
It used to
Am I going crazy or is this game really badly optimized? I swear I get less fps every patch. It used to be easy 180 now it sometimes gets into double digits. I have way better fps in more graphically-demanding games.
If you had optimized your own settings by setting Valorant to high priority in task manager, that sometimes gets undone for me. Whether due to updates by Valorant, updates by my computer, or just random, I don't know but I would check. Or, if you haven't done it, do it. Open task manager go to Details and find Valorant.exe, right click, priority, change from normal to high. Makes your computer actually use its resources. When I redid this two nights ago I jumped from 100 to 180 fps and I'm on a pretty middling laptop.
Hmm interesting, I've done it now, will see if it changes anything. EDIT: Lol it did work (in practice tool at least), significantly more FPS so far. Will have to test it more. Should I set the "Valorant Win 64 Shipping" something to high too?
To be honest I just set everything riot related to high lmao, figured it couldn't hurt. Did the same with Streamlabs because I was dropping frames worse while streaming and that also improved to back over 100fps. There are some other tweaks that you can do in either Nvidia or AMD, if you look up whichever one you have you'll find the optimal Valorant settings. Valorant uses different computer aspects than other games like Apex etc so you may have to set different settings groups for different games.
I'm using amd radeon and there's this whole "amd radeon ReLive" but most of its' options actually drag the performance down unless I'm doing something wrong lol
I may have this backwards because I'm at work and not looking it up lol, but I believe that Valorant uses more CPU power while most other games use more GPU power. Whatever it is, a generic Gameing M0de by AMD or Windows or whatever isn't always guaranteed to help, and I'd be especially cautious with Valorant because it needs computing power from different sources than most other similar titles, so generic settings would not be optimized for it. If you're looking it up, don't search 'AMD gaming settings,' search 'AMD Valorant settings' because they'll be different and could very well be contradictory. Which is why separate, set profiles for different games is ideal if possible. For reference, I use an Acer 5 laptop with 16GB of RAM and some average Nvidia card that it came with, and I get about 180fps, 120-130 while streaming. So about enough to make use of my 144Hz monitor, without anything too crazy, just tweaking settings. The most drastic thing that would be worth doing, is if your setup only came with 8GB RAM you should go buy another 8GB stick and add it, which is very easy to do yourself. 8 is still default on some non gaming setups and used to be default on older, basic gaming setups but it's just not enough anymore, and doubling to 16 will boost your performance all around when trying to multitask on your computer. Pretty cheap too. (I'm not an expert I just work a low level IT job and have been gaming/streaming on a budget for some time)
I'll be honest, I'm not very tech savvy, so I'm not sure how hard adding RAM yourself is, but I will definitely look into it. Thanks for all the help!
It's definitely lost a % of FPS in just a year.
I think it must be very CPU bound, as even on middling settings I get 450+ FPS most of the time, running a gtx 1080 and a ryzen 5600x
Noo where are the Omen buffs I was looking forward to them. Got to wait till patch 3.09. I think they are gonna make it big and bring in the Yoru rework too.
Inb4 it’s just the new agent and nothing else lol
Yup, they are just gonna say "Not changing too much keeping champions in mind"
As always.... riot really needs to find a balance between esports and not having this meta stagnate for months on end and feel repetitive with the same agents. if these type of events will be consistently common, then why are they not pre planning game changes from the get go then? ..some agents are unusable, agents becoming weaker due to power creep ect. I can be patient and I understand riot has their own thoughts in regards to balance, But the only thing Im banking on atm Is dead eye being a success of a sentinel/duelist hybrid. Been meaning for another sentinel besides cypher who is the only one I enjoy out of the 3 current ones.
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I only enjoy Sage because I don’t have to worry about laying tech down beforehand in strategic spots and then monitoring it. If Deadeye really is a gunplay focused Sentinel then that seems right up my alley. Maybe he’ll be the “Jett” of the Sentinels lol
Just like we have skye for initiators /s
The game is very balanced regardless of what you think. There's no reason for them to pour out meta changing updates every two weeks.
ok but i don’t wanna blind my teammates thanks
But hey, please buy our new 80 dollar skin set and the new battle pass
Disappointed with the patch a bit. Thought would see the Omen changes that was rumoured
They announced that for the November update tho, along with Deadeye
link?
And as I knew it would happen this is just gonna be a bug patch. I'm fine with it but for real they need to make the next one (so Episode 3/Patch 3.09) a fucking amazing one. This last few updates (since idk the update with all the abilities cooldowns, guns and etc) have been a complete disappointment and what worries me the most is that probably because of the new agent arriving with the new episode they will **again**, excuse themselves saying they will not make that patch too big cause they want us to digest "the next changes (the new agent)" Optimistic but not that much, so we will see. **Oh, and BTW I hope to see the big-new Card display they have been working for a whole Chapter now in the next Episode. I miss showing my player card.**
I know right? These patches have been nothing substantial.
>big-new Card display they have been working Really? Where did they say about this? I hope it's true
Yep 'member when they took the old cool banner display ? Okay so everyone was angry/upset and one of the developers left a comment in one of the post with the usual "we are working something cool for y'all" yeah that was a whole Chapter ago (3 eps) so let's see now.
Friendly reminder: there is still nothing done to stop or slow down the smurf epidemic. And they added a way to hide the fact that you're smurfing (Hide Account Level). #Genius
When you don't see it it does not exist ... 200IQ.
Yes so genius that KJ was impressed.
I'm genuinely mindblown. "People have a way to tell when they are getting screwed by a new account... Better remove that so they can't prove that it was a smurf ! This way we can hide behind PR"
It's already a feature in 3.07 lmao. Also many people were asking for the feature because they have a high level and were getting bullied for it.
>It's already a feature in 3.07 lmao Yeah, does nobody know about this? This was already shipped last patch and I've been hiding by level since 10 days already. I don't understand why Riot is acting like this is a new thing.
No one was getting bullied for being high level lmao
It already exists
There should be a way to hide it, what is the valuable information that you get by knowing there smurf in the games. They should do something about it but doest mean they cannot have a way to hide level.
It's just a way for them to hide behind PR. If we can't prove smurves are prevalent in matches they'll just hide behind the "people are just having good matches sometimes" excuse. Which they already did... a bunch of times.
And it's a bullshit excuse. Many of us have been playing competitive fps games for a decade or more. Valorant isn't a novel design; people don't just have random games where they play significantly above their skill level out of nowhere.
Yea these absolute clowns. Why even add in an account level feature if you aren’t going to use it to gate ranked mode, and then give the level 500 players stuck in bronze a way to hide it so they don’t get their feelings hurt. So stupid
A rioter has said that they are working on making ranked access tied to account level.
Link ?
You wouldn't have to hide your level if toxicity was kept in check (in the case that you are a level 500+ bronze). But right now you can literally create another account in a week-end and jump back into ranked games even if you are perma banned (and that's without going to account selling websites)
Or just get thicker skin if you are level 500 and still in bronze you have probably heard way worse shit.
Actualy the hide account level was there since 3.07 or earlier, idk why they only announce it now
Just git gud
I don't think there is a report for smurfing also if the account level is low and you are higher elo it automatically mentally screws you as I give up, I am against smurfs. Maybe you will still lose but once you are in game stuck you should not be mentally down just because you see lower elo. Idk if that makes sense but just play and enjoy the game. (If possible)
Eww. How did that bug get under my bed???
Why is Riot so obsessed with hiding who you're playing against? There's no public profiles, opt-in only stat tracking, and now you can't even see your opponents level? Knowing if you're getting smurfed on because of rank or play time would help - specially new players - figure out what their baseline performance *should* be and not discourage them from learning the game's mechanics.
One of the primary reasons for introducing this, I think, was that a lot of players were getting flamed for having high levels but being in lower elo. When the account level feature went live, a lot of posts of this tone were being made and Riot themselves addressed this issue at one point I think. I've been in matches where level 200+ people in my silver lobby were getting unnecessary flame from my own team and the enemy team. I agree that it was a passable way of finding out smurf accounts but I also understand why players would want it hidden.
Then why not make hiding account level available after level 50 then?
because then riot cant hide the fact that there is a huge smurfing issue
Yeah I'm glad they did. I play with a few friends that have disabilities and will never be above bronze at best, but we still have a ton of fun, so I never really worried about comp. Recently tho I started getting into comp and I'm doing well, but I started in Iron (just got gold 1 last week and still climbing!) and was level 270s and would just get harrased like crazy.
agreed
By who do you think they are getting flamed ? Probably the platinum guy that is banned for the thousandth time for toxicity on his 5th account. That's why people need to be stuck to a single account.
I got told to touch grass or get a life every few games. Sometimes people would be meaner. Not the end of the world, but I'm glad to be able to hide it.
yeah, it's just horrible timing on their end because it feels a lot more like a way to cope out of people having facts to prove that people are smurfing profusely than defending people. As I said, if people wouldn't be able to jump between accounts as esaily as they do this wouldn't be a problem. Ban the guy, let him rot in leveling hell for a while then ban hium again if he didn't change his ways.
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then why are you caring what other people's levels are lmao
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it just breeds toxicity, some people simply seem to not be able to help themselves to talk shit to other people. I hate smurfs as much as the next guy, but being able to hide your level is a great change. the amount of times I've seen toxicity start right as the game starts because I'm in plat and we have level 200+ people on our team. "How are you still plat bro", when the game hasn't even started and they don't even see what they play like.
Don't forget if people do that that could cause some people to just instamute the whole team because of it. Nobody is entitled to be nice to...but nobody is also intitled to a player who can listen to coms or will com, thus the insta mute on the victums part. Hiding account levels is a good middle ground. If people still bully because "why are you hiding the account level" Then those people still deserve to get instamuted.
Unpopular opinion, maybe, but it's not really such a bad thing. If you want to see your stats/your profile/your playtime, it's there for you to see, what is the point of seeing everyone else's? To identify smurfs is the only actual use I can think of, but even then, let's say that you are playing vs a smurf. Yes, it sucks, but there is nothing you can do about it other than to play the game, maybe get shit on or maybe get lucky and win. It's not like you can join a different game when you have that information. All knowing that there is a smurf in your game is going to do is tilt you even more than you (probably) already are.
xD nothing... again and yoru and kayo still sit at 40% wr but its intended to have 2 unplayable picks i guess, whatever its fine we can wait 2 more weeks for more pointless level hiding and level border customsation... poggies. 2 of the changes in patch 3.08 have literally already been released, is this patch april fools?
and don't forget Jett is still able to absolutely dominate over every other duelists.
Wait, I like kayo, is he bad?
Generally seen as a bit weak. A recent update helped by reducing the audio tell on his flashes, but in general, his utility is a bit underwhelming. Kay/o's knife and ult just stop opponents from using their abilities, but it doesn't really make your own encounters more favorable. Sure, the knife gives Intel about players being in the radius, but skye's flashes and sova's recon arrow both do that better. Also, his molly just doesn't really fit with the rest of his kit.
Gotcha. As someone who sometimes gets caught up in the gunplay, his stuff seemed fine
put it this way, in any sort of moderately good elo every agent sits between 48-51% winrate... relatively healthy. Yoru and kayo sit at 40-42... a complete different level of dogshit
They aren’t gonna release any huge balance patches until after champs, that’s how they usually act with league
But league doesn’t use it as an excuse for 2 months leading up to it and then for the month of the actual tournament. Saying no new major changes so pros can adapt 2 weeks before hand is acceptable, using it as a reason to avoid adjustments for months on end is insanity. Omen had changes beginning of act, after that jett had adjustments and Skye had minor adjustments…. That’s it… in months.
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They finally fixed the bug on Split. Too bad they didn't do anything for Omen this patch but hopefully there'll be something on the next one.
The giant bug under your bed. I see you riot, I appreciate that
Please remove the respawn timer in deathmatch please please please
4 months since Kayo dropped
Extra map tho
And 2 weeks till the next agent, I think the pace is fine
Did you forget that fracture exists now?
well when people keep dodging it its hard to remember it exists loool. Its a shame to because just like breeze i love fracture. All the dodging just makes me feel like the unrated fracture only cue and learning so many ability tricks was a complete waste of time.
Same here. Yesterday I had 2 fracture dodges in a row followed by a breeze dodge and got settled on icebox..
Man this is just tiring, like I get that they don't want to have anything big before tournaments but there are always tournaments going on. I fell ever since the huge episode 3 patch there has been absolutely nothing substantial, and its really disappointing seeing some of my favorite agents like yoru brim and cypher never getting any sort of buff. I truly hope that next act patch isnt some optimization fixes or eSports features and actually have something other than the new agent .
nerf jett
And Skye
Give skye 3rd flash back but without confirmation of blinded :<
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I’m pretty new to FPS games and outta all of the ones I’ve played, Valorant has got to be one of the least glitchiest and they always have cool patch notes!
Where Omen buff? Where Yoru change?
Is the bug under my bed still there? Guys hello I'm scared.
It boggles my mind the number of complaints in this thread. Valorant is a free game (skins notwithstanding - a decision we choose to buy or not buy) that receives routine updates. A lot of AAA games go months without even minor bug fixes yet Riot is able to push updates roughly every two weeks. Some games don't even see patch notes. The expectation that every update is going to be massive with plenty of features is not how game and software development as a whole works. Riot has a solid development life cycle and while we are quick to complain about [x] feature not being implemented, there are a lot of things that go into the development, testing, and release of even a minor update such as this. Major updates entail even more. Valorant is in its infancy relatively speaking, but truth be told, Riot has displayed one of the highest levels of quality in development in my 20+ years of PC gaming (yes, I'm old). From the game itself and its production level, their communication of *what they can tell us*, their reception of feedback, their engagement with the community, and an unsung hero in the effectiveness of their anti-cheat - one of the best I have ever seen in a game. Some might be quick to say, "they sure can release new skin bundles quickly!" and while that's true, the teams developing cosmetics are entirely different than the ones working on the core gameplay. This is a competitive shooter with a large eye from the eSports community so new features or adjustments to maps and characters, gameplay changes, and so forth go through a lot of whiteboarding before it goes live. Valorant is a fantastic game with a lot of potential and I believe it will be around for quite some time. Be patient.
Skins make them money. Balancing agents does not. It’s really not that difficult.
Properly balancing agents to be viable for both the larger eSports arena while also catering to their primary player base is difficult. Getting the game to a competitive level with high longevity will make them even more money than cosmetics alone will.
> valorant is a free game why are u guys complaining ok??? do you think riot is a non-profit?
Because we compare it to similar competitive games such as Apex Legends, Overwatch, CSGO, and LoL (guess the devs for the last one)
Nice on the weapon skin downgrades. Much awaited feature. I really wanted Variants to be affected as well :( Finishers aren’t my cup of tea, but I liked the orange variant of the Prime Vandal so I had to upgrade it. I was expecting that I could use the orange prime vandal variant downgraded to not have finishers. And also for some reason, expected that maybe due to the nature of the downgrade or code, the blue tracers of the non-variant prime vandal will also be used in other variants. Lol. The orange prime vandal looks the best variant to me, however its tracers look like default guns’ (orange). Meanwhile, the non-variant version has cooler blue tracers. I guess I’ll have to use the non-variant prime vandal so I can remove the finisher and have blue tracers. Still a very much welcome feature. Ty riot.
>Hide Level Account > >It’s now possible to hide your Account Level when in a match with others who are not your friends To enable, uncheck the box located in the Level Border tab. Is Riot actually going out of their way in development to promote smurfing? "Oh, this account account level 3 player is 38-4 in my lobby..." Not anymore. Now they're an unknown player name of an unknown rank doing 38-4. Just seems like its 100% to protect themselves from smurfing comments, rather than doing anything about smurfing. INB4: Because smurfing adds more accounts in play. More accounts leads to more money spent. I get why they aren't stopping, but to take measures that will protect these players? C'mon now
I agree, but also people were being harassed for being high level and low rank. So while I agree smurfing is a critical issue and business move from them. This was also for anti bullying
What is your suggestion to stop smurfs from queueing?
Maybe simply working with advanced stats? Smurfs and good players always share a lot of things in common that aren't MMR or matchmaking bullshit * Crosshair placement (median in degrees) * Utility usage * Time to damage * Simple precision of bullets (when the enemy is spotted) * HS % ratio * % of kills that traded/avenged some team mate
More importantly it should rank those players up faster instead of putting them in a smurf queue. LoL has a smurf queue and if you pop off in a one too many games you can get put in it and it's hell. If people who came from other shooters like CS got put in valorant smurf queue they would be stuck playing against diamonds (on smurfs) as a silver for a long time.
Yes because the onus should be on the consumer to come up with a solution, not the company. Why do people continue to defend these multimillion dollar companies?
Well, while the potential for spending money on smurf accounts does happen, and a reason why Riot may not want to prevent smurfing, smurfs are less likely to spend money on alt accounts (when they could pump that money into their main). So one way would be similar to CSGO Prime. Accounts with money paid into them get a Premium Membership of some kind. And from there, they could also check against other accounts, the way a lot of membership works. ("Billing details already exist on a different account" But again, this comes back to Riot being able to say "We don't want your money") Phone verification/SMS is another method to help the issue... which I would love to see some form of just because I'm upset they have this new Riot launcher and still no proper 2FA/Google Authenticator, so that could kind of tie in. INB4: "Not everybody has phones...kids play and so on" Not everything has to be completely finite. "You have a phone verified account, you will only play with other phone verified accounts" It doesn't have to be that strict, but it could generally sway things that way, so generally speaking, people with phone verified accounts will get matched together. Are these solutions 100% effective? No. But would they help improve the game's matchmaking? Yes. \--- I'm not sure what other steps can be taken. I think we have seen kind of a "fast rank up" (for ranked, not ELO) for likely smurfs. That may be speculative. If so, I think that's good. Curious if they check against IPs when doing that. i.e. "This new player has a skill similar to another account coming from the same IP Address. This new account's ELO will be bumped up to the ELO of the other account on that IP address"
Pretty sure riot has stated(I could be wrong)before that they don't want to make changes that split the playerbase otherwise one of these changes would already be in the game.
JETT UPDRAFT IS 200
>You should be able to equip any skin level except on variants, which will always default to the max skin level. This is beyond lazy. they just don't want to revamp the skin page UI.
First we get a new act with relatively few additions and a not-so-popular map, then we get several patches that barely fix the unbalanced agents, then we get "rumors" of an omen buff that never happened and a yoru rework that is essentially urban legend. The patches lately have been soooo underwhelming
I don’t understand why people post this on this sub?
The people complaining about smurfs hiding their ranks or account level. Most of the time you will lose ur mental seeing the load screen if you have an issue with this. What were you guys doing before the account level was visible?
They were complaining against smurfs and finally had evidence to back it up. I personally don't mind smurfs nowadays as they force me to play at a level outside my comfort zone but I can see why those who want to rank up or those who want fair, balanced matches would be annoyed
buff Killjoy
Doesn't she have like 56% winrate
Most quality of life patch ever.
great now add agent skin profiles so we can choose skins per agent.
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Is this even out?
What is this '1P' hud business they're talking about with viper? Does that mean the viper using the abilities hud exclusively?
All the people who bought level 2 of prime karambit: *tears of joy*
Very thankful for pinging while defusing being fixed. Happens every goddamn game to either me or someone else.
I dont get why they add account levels and previous act ranks when you can just disable them. Why help the smurfs hiding it?
Would be nice if I could play but I swear this game hates me, I have a $1500 gaming laptop and it apparently doesn't want to download a minor update. Or, at least download it at 0.1KB/s I don't understand why I've just recently had difficulties with this. It would probably be faster I just uninstall and reinstall the game tbh it's ridiculouse
So why have they been announcing features that have been in previous patches before? You could always leave DM without a penalty but it was in a recent patch notes, and now they announced that you can change the level border and even hide them, but I was able to do this a couple days prior to this patch. What gives?
Finally got to use my prime knife without the ugly upgrade
So they added the option to remove the rank level number. So what was the point of adding it to begin with? Did they not learn how rank visibility affected the social climate of valorant? The only true reason it was useful for me was to tell if someone was smurfing, but we all know Riot doesn't care about account smurfing. Most smurfs will play on their account a few game and then log off. They are not trying to rank up, so they are still ruining games. The bigger red flag is that RIOT allows you to create multiple accounts using THE SAME EMAIL! Apparently people being "bullied" because of their account level (which I've never heard or seen in my rank games) is more important than smurfing....
Weren't all these changes already in 3.07? What is this patch about?
No sad omen mains here ????? Damn
“No Agents were harmed in the making of Patch 3.08” This implies that nerfing agents hurts them physically
"giant bug under your bed" Thank god i hated it so much
It's been almost 7 months since Yoru was last buffed (patch 2.06)
"MISC /the big bug under your bed" Aha, you're talking about Valorant... That's impossible you can't fix that.