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Mendo tweets a lot talking about the state of the game. Sometimes comes off as whiny. So, they’re shooting the messenger.
Mendo had a good tweet later on, basically telling Tailored that the nerfs were locked in and that one content creator sitting down with a Dev, for a video, does not mean he had a say in anything.
It should go without saying that we don't balance off of stuff like this. We had been reviewing a lot of data and having lots of philosophical conversations around the Operator for quite some time which culminated in these conversations - we'd been testing these changes internally for weeks before Nick ever had that interview with Mendo.
Even the lead balance designer called him out on it.
LMAO Blau is not the lead balance designer, he's in Insights like me, but working on future unannounced projects in R&D. He does not work on any aspect of Valorant, just likes the game and likes to meme on Twitter