RiotArkem

RiotArkem



28 Apr

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Originally posted by valorantdatascience

Any chance you can include a saved binary file for semi-replay data. Your timeline capability shown in client is similar to the functionality I'm talking about, just stored in a more easily indigestible format. I am a professional data scientist who happens to love this game. I will do literally all of the format and documentation for free if I know you would use it.

Let me know.

Stuff like that will hopefully exposed via our developer API. I also hope that we'll eventually build a full replay system too.

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Originally posted by JoNike

I use to be a mastering tech for one of the big publishers. I do not miss it when I read stuff like this. Keep on the good fight!

Thank you!

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Originally posted by JakeFote

Hello, after this recent patch vanguard is now blocking me from checking my cpu temperatures on both nxzt CAM software and HW Moniter(A highly used software for temperature monitoring). I understand you can just exit vanguard now but that requires you to restart your computer just to play the game. I don’t think the intent of this anti cheat is to block you from monitoring your cpu temps, just some feedback. It is also blocking some features on MSI dragon center as well, which is kind of annoying.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Usually this is because those drivers have security vulnerabilities that are commonly used by cheat developers to load cheats into the kernel (or by malware authors for ransomware).

I recommend that you see if there's a newer version of the software that you can use.

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Originally posted by Eko1123

I know this may seem a bit minor compared to all of the other major bug fixes and patches that you guys are implementing right now, but is there any eta on when we’ll be able to disable profanity filter in chat?

It's on the list but I don't have an eta for you sorry

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Originally posted by Auknight33

I've been getting a weird error whenever I boot up my computer with Vanguard on. Just, some random program will boot up for like 5 minutes and keep me from doing anything until it crashes. I found a video of someone else with the same problem. Any ideas? (BTW love you guys, you really stand head and shoulders above almost any other gaming company and I play some of your games specifically because I know and trust the company behind it <3)

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

I'm sorry to hear about your problem. I hope you don't give up on us, we're never going to give up on you either.

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Originally posted by tr4p

So next patch is confirmed for tomorrow? Also. How long are we talking about before ranked gets turned on. Hours or days?

It's not my call but I think it'll be as soon as players confirm for us that no game breaking issues have slipped into the build.

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Originally posted by OfficialChairleader

Any chance to optimize the game a bit for AMD CPUs? I'm getting anywhere from 70 to 170 fps while people on a comparable or even worse system with an intel chip are getting a steady 200+. This has been an issue for league of Legends as well, it's super well optimized for potatoes that use intel chips but becomes somewhat unplayable even with some of the more recent AMD chips. It would be a bit sad to see Valorant leaves AMD users in the dust as well.

keep up the awesome work!

Currently the game performance scales best with single core performance which might be why intel CPUs seem to be doing well.

This next game patch should improve your frame rate but we also have more optimizations planned that could help.

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Originally posted by KKingler

Could there be a way to hide the system tray icon if I wish? I do not care about it running in the background but a system tray icon would be a little bit annoying. I like keeping them tidy. (also pinging u/RiotArkem if he can answer this!)

We agree so we made sure there's an option to hide the tray icon! Just click on it once and you'll see the option :)

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Originally posted by DabSlingz

Odd thing to ask, what time zone are you in? Wondering 16 hours ago when you said patch eta tomorrow if it was Tuesday or Monday for you

I'm in LA and was referring to Tuesday 28th but the patch doesn't have a fixed time yet as far as I know so I was estimating. I probably should have just said "soon" or "early this week".

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Originally posted by Kurakuno

/u/0xNemi /u/RiotArkem So those notifications from Vanguard will maybe tell us what is causing the issue for the reboot bug? I've tried everything i found here on Reddit and at some poit I even started a support ticket, which ended with the supporter saying to me that i basically had 2 options, wait for a fix or reset my PC (and I'm not gonna do that). Will this update make it easier for us to play Valorant?

Clicking on the notification should tell you what is causing the issue, we hope it helps you track down the problem.

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Originally posted by necky2

Did you have to develop an aimbot for your game, so you could test the AI?

Yes, I wrote a couple of different types of aimbots! It's not as good for testing as the real thing (because my aimbots bake in my assumptions on how aimbots should work which biases the models we build) but it was a good starting point.

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Originally posted by pro185

u/RiotArkem u/0xNemi https://imgur.com/a/30RN9s2 Vanguard is disabling boot procedures for my MSI motherboard and causing temperature issues across my GPU and CPU.

That's because that driver has a known security problem that's being exploited by cheat developers (and malware developers) there's some more technical information about it here:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40426

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Originally posted by nivek_c

After the most recent update I noticed that in menu my GPU usage is 100% and hits high temps very rapidly, but when playing my usage is only around 60% and the card sits in the 50 to 60* C range. Is this normal for AMD cards (5700xt)?

That's very unusual, I'd normally think it was impossible for Valorant to max out that GPU unless you were playing at 4K (and even then I wouldn't expect it)

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Originally posted by robklg159

@ /u/RiotArkem & /u/0xnemi

there's a discussion going on here and I was wondering if perhaps considering the frame by frame seemingly exact shots is there an animation difference in when these guns actually hit?

We've seen that video and we're discussing it internally to figure out what's going on and whether there's a problem (and what kind).

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Originally posted by 4bstract_Air

Are frequent ping spikes a common complaint from players or is it most likely just my internet?

Valorant does send and receive a high number of packets and some routers and some ISPs can have trouble with that causing ping spikes.

The last patch should have helped with this significantly (by not sending unimportant updates as often) but maybe there's more we can look at.

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Originally posted by sylvainmirouf

Unrelated question but will we have better or more servers when the game launches? I live in the south of France and I isually get 45-75 ping playing Valorant while I usually get around 20 in other games like CSGO. I have 800mbps fiber, 5 ping locally.

Usually these issues are configuration related between our ISP and your ISP, if you submit a support ticket we can in turn talk to your ISP to see if we can improve things.

We're also planning on adding more network access points and servers too which could help.

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Originally posted by Smt923

are these logs encrypted? is there any chance we could at least have user readable logs for things that are being blocked and why?

The system tray icon notification will tell you what's blocked if you click on it.

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Originally posted by throwaway138492

Any ETA on either patches?

Vanguard patch should be out now but the Valorant patch is coming today or tomorrow I think.

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Originally posted by EuG_GreeD

Today i've been disconnected from a match like 2 or 3 times, vanguard telling me it has encountered an error (makin me lose the buy phase) but not telling me whats causing it. Is there any way i get to know whats going on?

Looks like we're having server troubles, I'm looking into it.

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Originally posted by x4D3r

To be honest i already updated and the fps look the same or even worse, i don't know what u guys did but it sucks, graphics are worse than csgo and we fall to sub 100fps if a gun shoots

The performance improvements are in the game update which isn't out yet (not the Vanguard update).