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| 12s | hey everybody we just wrapped up |
| 14s | Champions Grand finals here in Soul and |
| 16s | one of the most competitive final four |
| 18s | brackets ever congratulations to our new |
| 21s | world champions EDG for their |
| 23s | hard-fought and well-earned trophy it |
| 25s | was such a great series the energy from |
| 27s | the Korean crowd seeing our community |
| 29s | come together and the literal birthplace |
| 31s | of Esports meeting so many players crazy |
| 34s | matches broken pick thems though I did |
| 37s | end up in the top 1% what a week I am |
| 40s | exhausted I need a nap and some fried |
| 42s | chicken before we fly back home we |
| 45s | wanted to thank you all for being with |
| 47s | us on the road to Champs this year and |
| 49s | we also want to welcome the game |
| 50s | changers championship and offseason |
| 52s | tournaments that will be happening over |
| 54s | the next few months I think we've also |
| 56s | got some other people to welcome right |
| 58s | we do millions and millions of new cont |
| 60s | console players in fact hello out there |
| 62s | valerant launched on Console just last |
| 64s | month and your response has already |
| 66s | surpassed our wildest dreams it's |
| 68s | amazing to see how many new players are |
| 70s | playing our game on Console bringing |
| 71s | their friends into the fun and honestly |
| 73s | learning a ton from our PC players |
| 75s | seeing our existing players welcome a |
| 77s | whole new group of people in with mostly |
| 80s | open arms and only a minimum of |
| 81s | controller shade has given us all the |
| 83s | warm and fuzzies so much gratitude let's |
| 86s | jump into our main topics for today |
| 91s | hey everyone I'm Coleman I'm a product |
| 93s | manager on Val gameplay hey and I'm Dan |
| 96s | Val's balance design lead we're happy to |
| 98s | be back to take a minute to discuss |
| 99s | where the game's at heading into the end |
| 101s | of the year these year- end patches are |
| 102s | typically the best opportunity for us to |
| 104s | make necessary balance adjustments and |
| 106s | try new things without disrupting Pro |
| 108s | playay you can expect the year end to be |
| 109s | a time where you see larger scope |
| 111s | changes that are meant to have a |
| 112s | substantial impact on the game the |
| 114s | updates we made to ISO neon Raina and |
| 116s | Rays have helped us hit our goals |
| 118s | overall while we did overswing on ISO |
| 120s | initially after the follow-up patch the |
| 121s | dualist ecosystem is in a pretty healthy |
| 123s | and varied State for the most part and |
| 124s | we think this push and pull is a totally |
| 126s | normal part of live balance with |
| 128s | competitive games we want to ship more |
| 130s | patches throughout the year but we also |
| 132s | want to ship them in a way so that |
| 133s | they're not overly disruptive we are |
| 135s | still working on Phoenix and we're |
| 136s | planning some other opportunistic |
| 137s | changes within the dualist roster but we |
| 139s | also see some other spots on the roster |
| 141s | that are in need of some tuning |
| 142s | particularly among some of our weaker |
| 144s | sels and our controllers we know a lot |
| 146s | of you will be expecting Harbor changes |
| 147s | with this patch but unfortunately |
| 149s | they're taking a little bit longer since |
| 150s | we think he needs larger scope work and |
| 152s | we're still exploring our options here |
| 154s | additionally shortly after filming this |
| 155s | video Vice will be joining the roster so |
| 158s | we'll be following her performance |
| 159s | closely as we do with all of our agent |
| 161s | releases so now as we near the end of |
| 163s | the year and VCT is over you'll start to |
| 165s | see some of these changes roll out patch |
| 167s | 905 we made some changes to Astra and |
| 169s | chamber for Astra we wanted to improve |
| 171s | her total utility output compared to |
| 173s | other controllers and for chamber we |
| 175s | improved his capability to defend |
| 176s | territory aggressively and still make it |
| 177s | out alive we're also buffing the Aries |
| 180s | to improve its viability compared to the |
| 181s | rest of the mid-range price point |
| 183s | weapons in patch 905 additionally we're |
| 185s | making it easier to control recoil when |
| 187s | your fire rate is increased by things |
| 188s | like Raina ult or brimon you can also |
| 190s | expect changes to Phoenix Sage Cipher |
| 193s | and gecko there might be some other fun |
| 194s | things in store for patch 910 but we'll |
| 196s | update you on that more later but before |
| 198s | we go we mentioned on our socials that |
| 200s | you'd all see a new map rotation in 9008 |
| 202s | ice boox and Lotus are out and split and |
| 205s | pearl are back in in that video we |
| 207s | mentioned that we're making some |
| 208s | adjustments to Sunset more specifically |
| 210s | we're adjusting bite to make it more |
| 212s | defensible at a baseline removing the |
| 214s | unbreakable Cipher trap wire spot and |
| 216s | changing bman to reduce some of that |
| 217s | postplant gaml we'll also be making some |
| 219s | light changes to Mid to add some |
| 221s | Defender options when Defender opt into |
| 223s | contest and we've heard your feedback on |
| 225s | map rotations trust us we haven't |
| 227s | forgotten that fracture exists we're |
| 229s | looking at updating our schedule and |
| 230s | Cadence of map rotations going forward |
| 232s | and we'll share more details with you |
| 234s | when the next pool goes live with 908 |
| 236s | but for now we want to hand things over |
| 238s | to Britney Perez on the anti-che team to |
| 240s | talk about Vanguard and share some |
| 241s | pretty exciting news about ranked get |
| 243s | good don't |
| 246s | cheat hey everyone I'm Britney an |
| 249s | analyst with the anti-che team on |
| 250s | valerent you probably already know that |
| 253s | valerent uses an anti-che system called |
| 255s | Vanguard to keep the playing field fair |
| 256s | and keep cheaters out of our game in |
| 258s | fact only 1% of valerin games have |
| 260s | cheaters and the average cheaters is |
| 262s | caught and banned within their first six |
| 264s | games valerant debut on Console marks a |
| 266s | significant milestone for us with |
| 268s | anti-che both dealing with a new new |
| 270s | platform and new classes of cheats like |
| 272s | input spoofing AKA ziming we've done a |
| 274s | pretty good job of proactively catching |
| 276s | and banning users of these tools our |
| 278s | anti-che for console will continue to |
| 280s | evolve as cheaters do and we're looking |
| 281s | to stay ahead of the curve but we know |
| 283s | on occasion that some of you on PC or |
| 285s | console might run into a cheater and |
| 287s | that cheater isn't banned and the match |
| 288s | isn't terminated you might be wondering |
| 291s | if the Vanguard team is so good how are |
| 293s | the cheaters able to play without |
| 294s | getting red screened Vanguard is a |
| 296s | delicate Tango of prevention and |
| 298s | detection we strive to block sheet |
| 300s | outright but when immediately blocking a |
| 302s | cheat would make our techniques too |
| 303s | transparent we detect the intrusion and |
| 306s | delay our response while we agree that |
| 308s | the delay isn't ideal it's an integral |
| 311s | ingredient for your anti-che chefs to |
| 312s | cook up better detections but as a way |
| 314s | to make it up to all of you honest |
| 316s | Gamers out there we're happy to announce |
| 318s | that valerant is working on implementing |
| 320s | ranked roll backs basically if you |
| 322s | played and lost a game with the cheater |
| 324s | on the other team and that cheater was |
| 326s | later banned you'll receive a refund of |
| 328s | any RR lost the anti-cheat space is a |
| 331s | never-ending battle and despite our |
| 333s | polite requests for cheaters to stop |
| 335s | some will always try to cheat keep up |
| 337s | the excellent work reporting suspicious |
| 338s | behavior and will continue keeping your |
| 340s | games a safe and competitive |
| 344s | environment hey everyone Stephen here |
| 347s | our teams manag the player Behavior |
| 348s | experience in val when Anna made her |
| 351s | statement about keeping our community |
| 352s | healthy a couple of months ago we work |
| 354s | together to make a few commitments to |
| 355s | you we have significantly accelerated |
| 357s | the severity of penalties received for |
| 359s | comm's abuse |
| 360s | and we've expanded the restrictions on |
| 362s | gameplay to include all team based modes |
| 365s | not just competitive and Premiere and we |
| 367s | also unlocked Hardware bands for |
| 369s | Behavior we'll only issue these for |
| 371s | cases where we manually review we took a |
| 373s | look at those manual review processes |
| 375s | and audited them we now have clearer |
| 377s | steps for who needs to be involved and |
| 380s | when so that we can have faster manual |
| 382s | escalations and we're also Staffing |
| 384s | support to review a higher volume of |
| 387s | repeat offenders if you've been |
| 388s | repeatedly disruptive over the past |
| 390s | episode you received a notification a |
| 392s | couple of weeks ago any subsequent |
| 393s | Behavior events will be weighed more |
| 395s | heavily if you're disruptive expect a |
| 397s | ban we know that voice is still a major |
| 400s | area for comms abuse and we started a |
| 402s | beta for automated voice evaluation in |
| 404s | North America last year we've seen good |
| 406s | results so far and are committed to |
| 409s | rolling out voice valuation globally and |
| 411s | that's coming before the end of the year |
| 412s | however building confidence around other |
| 414s | languages is taking longer than we |
| 416s | anticipated so we'll support English |
| 418s | globally first and rolling out a |
| 420s | additional languages over time we need |
| 421s | to continue to invest heavily here and |
| 423s | are committed to doing |
| 426s | so if you did your placement matches and |
| 429s | received a rank you probably placed a |
| 430s | little bit lower than where you were |
| 432s | last season we feel the pros and the |
| 434s | cons to resets regular resets help to |
| 436s | shake out the inconsistencies and |
| 438s | maintain a consistent definition of |
| 440s | skill at every level at the same time |
| 442s | not seeing that rank that you work so |
| 443s | hard to achieve can be rough we're |
| 445s | currently looking into ways to keep the |
| 447s | benefits of resetting ranks while |
| 449s | providing more opportunities for upside |
| 451s | to balance against that feels bad now to |
| 454s | our new console friends welcome Champs |
| 456s | is such a perfect moment to join us you |
| 458s | get to see Val framed at the highest |
| 460s | level of competition we're so excited |
| 462s | for each of you to start on your own |
| 464s | competitive journey in val to those |
| 465s | players who have been with us since the |
| 466s | beta you noticed that we had to adjust |
| 468s | the way that we calculated rank from |
| 470s | beta to launch when we turned on the |
| 471s | competitive queue for console we |
| 473s | estimated where folks with place with an |
| 475s | all new player base and so many players |
| 477s | joining us all at once and after a |
| 479s | couple months of testing we saw that |
| 480s | players were climbing the ranks faster |
| 483s | than we had anticipated and the stats |
| 485s | behind it didn't quite match up so we |
| 487s | reset ranks and have a more effective |
| 489s | rank Distribution on Console now going |
| 491s | forward both console and PC will reset |
| 493s | rank at the same Cadence though console |
| 495s | players shouldn't expect a change as big |
| 497s | as the beta adjustment we're just |
| 498s | getting warmed up we'll be back soon on |
| 500s | our socials with a refresher on ranked |
| 502s | 101 and later to discuss some spicier |
| 505s | topics before end of year oh hey we're |
| 507s | back oh sorry I mean I told them about |
| 510s | the chicken why don't you take this one |
| 512s | all right thanks for watching everyone |
| 514s | and thanks for all your hype and |
| 515s | feedback throughout the year we'll see |
| 517s | you all in November at the game changers |
| 519s | championship and we'll be back in |
| 521s | January with the new VCT season and |
| 523s | another Dev update to kickoff 2025 Val's |
| 526s | 5year anniversary 2025 is going to be |
| 529s | such an amazing year and we can't wait |
| 531s | to tell you all about it in the meantime |
| 533s | be good to each other and enjoy your |
| 535s | games wait where did that come from here |
| 538s | comes a party |
| 542s | but everybody's gone yeah I just really |
| 544s | wanted to shoot this thing all right bye |
| 545s | everybody |