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Hey guys, I sent in a suggestion to Riot about adding a feature to Valorant and they told me it needed the power of Reddit to get anywhere.

See their reply below, followed by my suggestion:

Bobby (VALORANT Support Site) Dec 5, 2020, 12:31 UTC Hey there, Thank you for sharing your feedback - personally I think that that's a very good idea! ^ However, you should know that our developers do not seek for ideas from tickets, but rather from opinions posted on the internet, so I would suggest you to post it on our Discord and Reddit channels - in that way your opinion wouldget visibility and our developers would have the chance to notice it! ^ WIsh you luck! <3 Kind regards,

This was my suggested feature to add into Valorant:

LMIGHTY Dec 4, 2020, 22:29 UTC Hey, just think this should be added as a feature. A lot of players have several skins for the same gun. It would be very nice if you could hold right click or so whilst buying a gun and then for a dropdown menu to appear, giving you the option to buy a specific skin for that gun in the middle of a game. Sometimes you just wanna be able to switch it up mid game. Please pass it on :-)

Sometimes you don't get your main, and we can all agree that the Reaver Collection only looks good on Omen really ;-) Being able to select the skin you wanna use whilst in a game would be a feature I'd love to see added asap.

So Reddit Gang, what to do you say?

[edit] IF it would cause issues with performance, another idea would be to have the option to switch inventory in champion select. Just like you can with league of legends. Would prefer to be able to use all my skins in game tho :)

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over 3 years ago - /u/Riot_Giraffy - Direct link

I like the suggestion! I'm an engineer that worked on loadouts. As others have pointed out this does have a performance cost associated with it. Your loadout is static within the game so that we don't have to force potato machines to load every gun skin in the game.

That being said, there's definitely room to improve our skin selection process. It's hard to get value from owning different skins for the same gun. If you have suggestions that affect your loadout before agent select, then they are more likely to be realized. I've seen someone else suggest a "Equip Random Owned Skin" type of feature, which could work. If you have any more suggestions I'd love to hear them. I'm not a designer, but it's awesome to get feedback in the space I work.

over 3 years ago - /u/Riot_Giraffy - Direct link

Originally posted by Charda-so

Or maybe add a way to « bind » skins to certain agents. That way, you have this set of skins for Sova, but another set of skins for Omen, Viper, etc. With a « default » set?

When I have time I'll look into the perf impact if we don't preload skins until the end of agent select. If it's not too bad, then I'll bring it up with some designers and changing skins during agent select becomes a possibility. No promises on any of this. Just wanted to reply and say I'm listening.

Thanks for the ideas and feedback!