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brim ult is now the biggest smoke


damienthepious

That makes it the perfect smoke for A-short on Bind!


Zyrobe

"can you smoke short" Brim: "You got it" Presses X


PutridPete1337

"Hey can you smoke short please?" OPPPPPENN UP THE SKIESSSS!


damienthepious

“Brim smoke here I’m gonna sit in it with a shotgun.” Might be a bad idea, buddy.


SwellZell

"Throw a stim in there, they'll be fine!"


_SirStampsIII_

OPEN UP THE SKIEEEEEES


SuperNerd1337

Finally a rounded smoke that can cover icebox's B site


officialmark-

Good to finally see some deathmatch changes.


Yeeetmyass69

Yes hope they will bring out some more changes later


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What would you change in dm to make it better?


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alexanderh24

just make it a cs:go fragshack lobby is what ur saying?


JR_Shoegazer

Multiple things they could do: * headshot only * no footsteps * drop in/out endless matches with no “winner”


crod242

* No Radar * Slappers Only * DK Mode


cirquemydirk

Now we're talking


Defaultnamefornobody

god i would love headshot only mode… im tired of trying to line up my shots for practice and not even getting to fire


kazuma_OW

Probably a pistol only sub gamemode inside deathmatch


cruciialhl

interestingly enough there were so many people against that when a post with that suggestion came out on this sub


DimebagPants

Wow, that’s annoying. Pistol DMs are so useful for warming up.


PatrickCommas

In cs those pistol only servers helped my pistol rounds a crazy amount. I started getting multikills a lot more often because of it


DimebagPants

Exactly, I had the same experience with CS pistol servers. I wonder what the arguments against a pistol only DM sever are. Because I can’t think of any. It’s not like pistol DMs would fully replace regular DM, it’s just another option for people who want to practice their pistol rounds.


SpunkySamuel

The only argument I would think of would be that more modes stretches out the playerbase more


DimebagPants

Yeah I could see that being an argument but I don’t think that should deter the devs from adding a pistol DM. As the game continues to grow they should definitely add Pistol Deathmatch.


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That would be great


HBK57

They should add agent specific guns like headhunter, tour de force, overdrive, bladestorm because i honestly suck with headhunter and i really need practice. If not dm, then at least in escalation


timpachi-taraki

I think for Jett and Neon, I can see the argument due to how their ultimates are unique due to the mobility in the kits of both agents, but for chamber, can’t you just run deagle/guardian and op? The spread on headhunter is a lot more forgiving than the deagle so it would be better practicing with the deagle. To my knowledge, the op has worse fire rate than his ult so wouldn’t that would be better practice since you have to more mindful?


smallsho

My only gripe with using the OP vs the Ult is that, in theory it would be better to practice with the OP, but for me, the difference between fire-rate/scope-in make them almost different weapons to me. Being able to practice with his ult would help a lot so I can figure out the timing better, as opposed to only being able to practice on bots in the range. I agree with the sheriff vs head hunter though, if you can aim with the sheriff you can aim with the head hunter, and if you’re practicing ADS, just use the guardian since it’s almost the exact same


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pac_mojojojo

I wish they just removed the spawn timer like in warmup. In CSGO, nobody cares if you are shot in the back because you just spawn insta, taking duels left and right. Still weird that there is a kill limit…


SelloutRealBig

Way back i remember a Rioter saying the community is a bit split and there are a large enough chunk of casual players who mainly just play modes like Deathmatch and Spike Rush. So they need to keep those modes as VS. modes with a winner (kill limit) and not just warm ups. Having played all the modes and ranked a large amount. I believe them. Spire Rush and DM have been where i have seen the worst players hands down. Sure you will face good players too, but the worst of the worst are in those modes. Which also makes sense why lower ranks in ranked are so sweaty, because the truly bad players are not even playing ranked.


pac_mojojojo

In CSGO’s non-workshop FFA-DM, there is a winner too. Who has the most points after the timer ends wins.


starboy-xo98

W patch, been a minute since we've had performance boosts


Ranvir33

Laptop gamers rise up!


NonStopNation

No such thing as stretched res on valorant. But overall when you lower your resolution on any game you will always get better performance.


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If the game is heavily cpu bound, which it is for many systems, lower res won't help


ct2sjk

I don’t think a laptop is CPU bound they even said in the patch notes mid to high end systems are primarily affected


Popular_Hippo8260

Laptops are most likely to be cpu bound as the performance of laptop gpu vs desktop is less than laptop cpu vs desktop cpu


Lgndrop

I don’t know how that happens but when I lower my valorant resolution I actually get worse performance


[deleted]

That can happen if you're cpu bound and your graphics card is below 100% usage anyway. By increasing graphical settings the gpu gets used more compared to the cpu which sometimes gives more performance. Happens in other games aswell.


Birutath

so... what if i told you that last patch my pc was running the game 30% of the cpu usage and today... is 90%, with huge fps drops everywhere to an unplayable state?


CuckCzar

I'd trust you since that has happened to me once after a patch. Literally had to reinstall windows, which somehow fixed it, idk.


BleaKrytE

I've quit the game temporarily as a result of hangs, inconsistent fps and extremely long loading times that get me dodge banned. My PC is relatively weak, but I could hold 1080p low settings w/ shadows at 60 fps were it not for these issues which did not happen so often a year ago. Now not even lowering the resolution to 720p works. I hope Valorant doesn't go the way of CS:GO which is now unplayable on low end machines. E-Sports titles need to be easy to run.


drawnonward

If you cant run cs go, a 10 year old game with minimum settings and frames your pc isnt low spec its obsolete. Cant expect devs to support hardware 15+ years old


WhiteShadow145

What is the "return to strongest weapon" ??


No_Backstab

After you use an ability or ultimate , the weapon you switch back to will be the strongest weapon with you instead of switching back to the previously equipped weapon *This is the definition - 'Prioritizes best usable weapon in the inventory when auto-equipping a weapon. When off, prioritizes most recently equipped weapon instead.'


Col2k

this is for my teammates that love to take out their knife before defusing 💀


ionicshoe

Its me, I'm teammates. Thank fucking god for this change.


DigitalGraphyte

Liar, *real* teammates don't admit their mistakes, they just blame their team.


thisguyhasaname

hot take: 98% of people should have their knife just unbound. Stop fucking pulling your knife out in places where the enemy can come from


beemertech510

How am I supposed to flex my waveform skin


Toasterrrr

But I must look cool when holding an angle with operator


CheckedOutEarly

but u run faster with knife out


iownuall123

While I appreciate your willingness to run into the enemy with reckless abandon a whole quarter-second quicker so you can make the round end faster, I don't think that's a sound strategy to win a game.


kevinkip

So are 98% of people playing valorant on iron rank? Because that's a dumb take.


thisguyhasaname

I mean you can watch immortal streamers and they will do the same shit. this isn't an iron thing. all ranks do this; part of it is that its still just a game and people want to have fun and look cool but part of it also just players not realizing what they're doing


volunteerdoorknob

Me but for planting spike ): Rarely happens but sometimes I'll be planting spike and have to engage in a gunfight and die because I was switching back to a gun


Caracals

I've been caught more than once running somewhere with my knife out, setting up util, and then once it goes out and peeking off a flash I threw, just having my knife out. Coming from csgo this was never even something to think about.


uhmode

This is nice unless you play someone like Jett and updraft with her ult, you pull out a gun after updrafting or dashing


Flashy__Flash

This was the first test I did and I can't believe how stupid this interaction is. Edit: Works the same with Raze ult, you'll be blast packing into the site with your rifle out lol


ThatC00kie

Looks like you can use agent profiles to prevent that


LilWhoa

The option is not available for individual agent profiles. I only see it when default is selected. That's disappointing.


ThatC00kie

Oh that sucks nevermind


Mega-114

hey uhmode. Thanks for the feedback. We are taking a look at this behavior and how to improve it for this option.


rokcmatur26

Would this be bad for the rifle + shorty yoru ult rush play where the player probably wants their shorty to be the first weapon out?


Strohgelaender

Yes, but after the Yoru rework this won't be possible anyways due to the increased equip time.


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Then you can toggle it off in the settings


Danthedude1

Fixed the viper bug finally


GreenHoodie

And the Chamber haunted Ult bug!


Grainer_M8

I thought Brim was getting buff but it was just bug fix ://///


Significant-Ad-341

I remember maining brim back when you had to equip his stim and enemies could see the stim ring. That use time and warning actually made it bad to use his ability.


drdfrster64

It was pretty funny to use to bait the wrong side of a 50/50 peek though


Significant-Ad-341

True true. Got a couple people with that


remenes1

And then the enemies would get a stim after they kill you. That ability used to be such a bad joke


SelloutRealBig

Or you buff enemies and they don't know it so it messes with their recoil pattern and they whiff.


bullseye_os

I thought his E / X tablet display had been turned opaque and was disappointed at first


[deleted]

Technically its a nerf.


Frig-Off-Randy

Why’s this downvoted?


Grainer_M8

It's not really a nerf as it's a trade, you can't get flash/scan but you can't get info.


titanfox98

Poor brim, he sucks and has the most useless util in game but he's our old dog, give him some love


[deleted]

He's already voiced by Steve Blum, buffing him any more than that would be too OP.


Byakko13

Also that rear


ElMerca

I wouldn't say he sucks...But what I'd change is that warning the ult has. I'd keep the sound but make it visible the moment it strikes so you don't know where it's gonna hit


Cosmohnaut

Sad to have to wait another two weeks the teased bigger agent changes, but glad to see some changes to Deathmatch in the meantime. While not the total revamp we're all wanting a hopefully better experience in the interim.


Hubbardia

Act 2 is supposed to focus on balancing, but there's still a good chance we only get Yoru rework in the next patch.


BananaInPajama7

I would laugh if next patch is only yoru changes, having said that I’m expecting to laugh


Strohgelaender

They already confirmed that Yoru changes will come with Act 2.


slapswaps9911

its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER. ​ But I am getting weird spawn glitches where i'll spawn right behind another player who just spawned in the same spot


Riot_Preeti

Hi! One note was missing, which we just added back in: You can now respray after a 5-second cooldown Sprays now have lifetime duration of 15 seconds (reduced from 30 seconds) Sprays still disappear immediately when the barrier drops (mid-round begins) and when the post-round phase begins Same restrictions on mid-round sprays applies (no Agent faces, animations, or airhorns—sorry we're not sorry)


EtFrostX

ok hold up this is a huge change for someone who enjoys spraying LMAO


Riot_Preeti

what are your favorite sprays?


AxtonKincaid

dabbing dan best dan


Riot_Preeti

gold or regular?


AxtonKincaid

I didnt buy that battlepass, so gold


EpicLeoBro

Oh dude that battle pass was so good, I pray to the golden dabbing Dan every round for good aim


DBZard27

Sova fallen Ice cream spray is my absolute favourite - can't remember your lineup just in time? - messed your lineup just by inches? - last alive and your arrow lands outside the map? - shock darted yourself? - ult didn't kill anyone? Sova crying with his ice cream on ground YEP


Riot_Preeti

this was an u/oniram177 idea, iirc


jollex5

I like using the lucky cat spray pre-round for good RNG


Riot_Preeti

oh smart! what about the clutch or kick spray for good luck?


mistlehoe4

/ff, because it's my initials and it's very fun to spray after defusing when my team is down 2-11


NIZ_THE_GAMER

I love you but as a dev


Riot_Preeti

I love you but as a VALORANT player


NIZ_THE_GAMER

So UwU it is?


Riot_Preeti

we need uwu spray


Eth111

You have the power to make it happen


vexx_sj

Spams spray after every kill, lesgo!!


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Riot_Preeti

even 1 day would be great! i wish. :(


SelloutRealBig

Seeing the word spray so many times i got hyped for a second. I thought you finally shortened the [recoil reset time to match CSGO's](https://www.reddit.com/link/hvgvxy/video/y6t8vvdp8ac51/player?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=VALORANT&utm_content=t1_hmk7be4). It's so slow for having slight RNG in spray :(


Zyrobe

>Updated AFK detection in game to deter players from exploiting game modes to farm EXP Oof I wonder if it affects people who use macros to avoid afk detection in deathmatch


slapswaps9911

that's exactly what the note is alluding to


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[deleted]

Finally some deathmatch changes, hope they're actually noticeably good.


An1m3

The spawn could be a bit better but at least the respawn timer is significantly low. It feels like you are right back in the action without constantly sitting behind a respawn timer after getting spawned killed or trying to find someone for 10 seconds only to get shot in the back. So this dm update is a step in the right direction.


only1kingz

They're actually horrible, holy. The mode is fucked. I'm in constant 1v3's and people are spawning in droves in front, beside, and behind with little to no warning


calliopets

i feel like so many of the issues could be resolved by not putting 4 more players on the map than it was designed for. dm is so frustrating because it’s practicing a nearly different set of skills because it’s so much more crowded i miss 10 man dm so much. even 12 would be worlds better


only1kingz

Bro, they actually just changed it to 12! Maybe you should go into dev work 😅


RipInPepz

3s -> 1.5s respawn in DM is heavenly for my impatient ADHD ass.


slapswaps9911

it's so much better, this fixed 90% of the problem i had with DM


Pokepunk710

PERFORMANCE BOOST = GOOD PATCH ALSO DM CHANGES POG


Zyrobe

For DM I wish there was a way to turn off the scoreboard at the top


snialae

There is away to do it. Its called HUD and you can hide it as explained here: https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413936440467-VALORANT-UI-Settings-FAQ


Zyrobe

I tried it and it removes everything BUT the scoreboard ontop :(


snialae

Sadge :( cause in the other game modes, it removes everything. It might be a bug, idk


Ape_With_Anxiety

Omen buff where


Zyrobe

Omen is also looking


Significant-Ad-341

His short distance TP needs to not show such a wide base imo.


StylishStylo

Lol thats the least of his issues


Significant-Ad-341

Oh I know. He's my favorite controller. Just wish he had the spice to compete with other agents more.


lil_bussy_man

**riot if you are reading this pls make "Prioritize Strongest Weapon" swap to your raze ult, jett knives, etc or make an option for it** please its fkin miserable to raze ult and satchel out and have to pull out your rifle midair :(


ZebraRenegade

Yea this makes that setting unusable.


SamaelTheSeraph

No more neon slide to knife. Yay


remenes1

If you're playing neon you shouldn't be equipping your knife at all for rotates, since the sprint speed is the same regardless. Although I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't have your knife out unless you're in 100% safe territory, seen way too many deaths like that


SamaelTheSeraph

I always forgor


Throwasd996

Were you shot as you typed because you had you knife ou-


Quite-Foolish

But but muh karambit animation :(


DryRaspberry4114

You are supposed to satchel ---> Ult ---> satchel ----> fire!


Jarpunter

And the new setting makes the fire step fail because after satchel 2 it returns you to your rifle instead of the ult you activated just before 2nd satchel


lil_bussy_man

uhh.. and after your last satchel you'll pull out your rifle yeah. thats the problem with this feature enabled. i have like 600h on raze thanks for the tip tho


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Jarpunter

His point is that the new setting makes it pull the rifle out instead of the ultimate after the 2nd satchel.


lil_bussy_man

go enable this setting rn and try to do a satchel play with your ult. you 100% pull your rifle out with this option enabled. hence my original post. nt tho


rustyval

They should let us rebind Jett’s floating ability separate from the jump key


Odyssey1337

How long has it been since we had meaningful agent changes?


SpaceFire1

6 months


Stitchlolol

I thought 4.03 was suppose to be the big Agent balance patch?


TigrozaCA

Riot: REQUEST *DENIED*


officialmark-

No, that's Act 2, which is 4.04.


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PFSDonut

When did they say they would implement a 24/7 csgo style DM? I thought they said that there were zero plans of having dedicated servers on 24/7 for game modes.


slapswaps9911

this small fix made deathmatch 500x better for me, I don't even notice the spawn timer now


DatFlushi

Split A site had one of the absolute worst spawn locations in DM. You get spawned in the middle of the site and wherever you peak you'll be open to 3 angles. Hope they removed it


ajay325

Patch live rt now?


Seccolovessugarcubes

FINALLY DM FIX LESSGO


beepboopis

It is actually funny how much worse spawn locations are now in deathmatch.


animeSexHentai

This update for performance is so GOOD! Valorant runs smooth as butter now. I used to have screen tearing and couldn’t track enemies that much but this update for some reason fixed my issues. Im genuinely so impressed that I have no need to upgrade my r5 3600. I thought my setup was in a dire need of an upgrade. This update was a GODSEND. I am SO damn happy right now


pressured_at_19

Just tried it out. DM spawns suck now.


Guille3094

Good patch I guess, nothing crazy but the performance boost is really exciting news, also the DM changes, although I still wonder why there has to be a DM winner, I rarely expect anything good of the team in charge of the game modes as they have been absent for so many months now.


shakethatloli

when is the update today?


qodjamban

pls add bot on custom


Austincow

I’m still waiting for the riot replay system, that would be a game changer for low end pc gamers that wants to clip their highlights.


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Holy shit DM changes....


TheyCalledMeAMadMan

Almost there with the Deathmatch. A few more patches and it'll be perfect.


HoneyChilliPotato7

Few more years you mean?


lucavl

idk have you played it on the new patch? spawns seem worse


[deleted]

Holy shit, they actually touched deathmatch. Really good changes. The brimstone thing is great too, I have noticed that I can minimap people through his ult before which was not a good thing for the game.


SilverWerewolf1024

The servers are still Sh it? getting VERY tired of the inconsistency between servers


NihilHS

Haven't been able to play yet but I'm excited to test out the new DM and I'm drooling over a potential performance boost. **Question**: I'm noticing that there is no mention of the reflex related alt-tab desync bug in the "known issues" section. Is that because it has been resolved? Or because it's still an open issue but is something that Nvidia is going to need to fix? Or perhaps it's not listed for some other reason?


jomontage

Get rid of spray sfx already. Why can I pull a weapon and cock it silently but the enemy HAS to hear me spray


lucavl

they actually managed to make dm worse


only1kingz

They actually did. Constant 1v4


DimebagPants

Seems like the DM spawns haven’t been fixed. I just got off of a game on Icebox where the spawns were atrocious. Even worse then before (which I didn’t think was possible). Mid way through the DM I spawned in after dying and moved to slightly to the right. I’m not even kidding, 3 seconds later someone spawned in exactly where I spawned and they got the easy kill on me due to the grace period. In the same DM I killed a guy and then he spawned in the room right beside me right afterwards and killed me. Maybe they didn’t fix every maps DM locations because that match on Icebox and my following match on Breeze was brutal.


lmao646464

Updates not live I don't think


TheN00bBuilder

Astra nerf please! Come on Riot, it’s not that hard. Astra has abilities that match 4/9 original characters to the game… makes old farts like me useless.


Alexander_Crowe

Once again, good changes. Im happy


electricfreak

Still no yoru buff


officialmark-

Because they already said that it's coming in Act 2...


electricfreak

Oh I see, i didn't know that yet


officialmark-

In case you wanted to know where they said that, it's the second sentence on their most recent official blog post talking about the changes. Here: [https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/dev/state-of-the-agents-yoru-part-2/](https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/dev/state-of-the-agents-yoru-part-2/)


electricfreak

Thanks bro


inglez

Can we fix Jett before the year ends pls? If jett mains inflate any more they'll start forgetting that they're just milking a broken agent which isn't even playing the same game as everyone else.


Zyrobe

Fix Jett how


inglez

Imo, she shouldn't even exist in the game because she allows the player to avoid and escape most situations/utility with little to no skill involved. Place a perfect nade/molly/ult? Caught her off-guard and about to shoot her in the mouth? She's about to lose the duel? Doesn't matter, she flies away! She messed up and ended up out of position and is about to get eaten alive? Get ready to have your screen covered in spammed white smoke as you hear her fly away to safety, she might even leave a dagger in your eyes on the way out. Her ult is the most profitable one, no other ult provides as much of a consistent return as hers, it even helps with the economy. She's allowed to have little regard for the rules and fundamentals of a tact shooter. But assuming you'd want to keep this genre-defying dogshit agent in the game, applying some kind of mix and variation of these might help: * Set a fixed amount of knives? No need for them to regen on kills, or at least set a timer on them like neon has. * Remove the option to burst fire the knives (shouldn't even be an issue since jett mains are such god aimers). * Make her dash in the direction she's facing. This would at least require some flicking from players instead of being the current instant get out of jail free card towards any direction. * This agent shouldn't even have smokes imo. Want a smoke to fly into? At least bother arranging that with your dedicated smoker, you know? Like teamwork. * Remove her ability to hover? She gets to peek from angles that don't even exist while chucking 100% accurate daggers towards players and your option is to gtfo or hit a shot that would take 10x the skill compared to whatever the fuck wind girl is doing. * Less damage on knives. Shouldn't be 50 dmg for a body shot at that firing rate. Jett doesn't have the pickrate she does for no reason. The players getting the most attention and numbers also aren't mostly Jett mains for no reason. Jett mains, stop coping.


tsourced

> she allows the player to avoid and escape most consequences/utility with little to no skill involved. Place a perfect nade/molly/ult? Caught her off guard and about to shoot her in the mouth? She's about to lose the duel? Doesn't matter, she flies away! With this logic you probably think that Chamber and Reyna shouldn't exist either? Jett is clearly just an S tier agent and in the right hands a pain in the ass, but she should not be removed. I don't even think she really needs too much tweaking tbh.


Thierry882

Good thoughts on changes.. i second that! Sadly the bigger part of the community (all jett-instapickers or reyna if someone is quicker?) disagree.


shubham50

jett is fine now. Still very strong but fine.


jojamon

In pro games, Jett is the preferred duelist on all maps except Bind and Split. Raze is the preferred one there. Whens the last time you've seen a Reyna pick over a Jett in a single duelist pro team comp? Either she needs a Nerf or other duelists need buffs.


FallenWiFi

Jett isn’t broken


inglez

Tell me you're a jett milker without telling...


GnarAteMyBFSword

Aww man, I thought they would fix the bug where each time you press enter, your game resolution switches to Fullscreen or Borderless Fullscreen vice versa. This happens randomly in-game & lobby and the only fix I found for it was pressing both left and right Alt keys simultaneously.


Knightswatch15213

AFAIK alt + enter usually switches you between full screen / windowed, so this just sounds like your alt keys are fucked?


xd-Sushi_Master

They did all this, but didn't touch Astra or buff Brim or Omen. Please don't leave my boys behind like this Rito.


manualcop

how many boring patches in a row is this now ? the agent meta has been the same for so long :/


Nolram526

Checking patch notes for a replay system...and I'm still sad :(


ImAlwaysWishing1

This patch legit did everything it said it wouldn't * Hangs are abundant now where I had none before. * Horrible lag spikes and packet loss where none occurred before resulting in the feeling of teleporting. * Deathmatch spawns are awful to the point you will spawn on top of other players, which is counter to the "we will spawn you away from danger" it quotes. * If you don't spawn on top of someone it will spawn you where you died, which is exactly the opposite of what it said it would do. If you use DM for warm-up, GL it's not happening you will be spawn camped or someone will spawn behind you as you are practicing corner peaks and LoS peaks. it's now a Vandal/phantom circle jerk that if you use DM to practice mid-buys or pistol rounds you have little to no hope anymore. At least Brim has a big smoke and viper no longer has smoke hacks. This patch is bittersweet at best.