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Ranked rating can be tied to MMR if you knew the math.

I'm going to make up numbers, but lets say a players MMR in immortal+ is 1500. Lets say their actual ranked rating is like 50 on the leaderboard.

Maybe 50 ranked rating is actually 1200 MMR, so they will earn increased ranked rating per win(and less for a loss) until they get to 1500. Then when they converge, if they don't improve or get worse, and their MMR sits steady they will gain an even per win/loss off matches.

Essentially we are always pulling you to your MMR with convergence, and the system knows how much rank rating you should have based on your MMR and will get you there no matter what(you just need to put in enough games).

Also you have two MMR's, a skill MMR and a win/loss MMR. Immortal+ is win/loss MMR only. So it's much easier for them to converge and stay with their MMR since skill is not a factor. Where as lets say someone places in bronze, converges at silver, then suddenly they...

The clear message here is that the Ares needs to get buffed.
AND YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH PREETI >:(

NERF ARES!

Handling an Ares is an art. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't make it bad.

Sincerely, An Ares Onetrick

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It's all good, nothing that you said in your comment was incorrect hah. We feel the same pain that y'all do on this front, we want to get that set up ASAP.

We're working on getting a separate patch line to help unlock this capability! Balance team feels you on this one, believe me

I know we always say this, but we're just still iterating. We've playtested several versions of Viper buffs but are trying to tread the line between helping her into viability in solo queue, viability in compet play, and also maintaining her identity without homogenizing her compared to the other controllers.

It's actively being worked on, there are just lots of larger questions at play here, and we also have a big tournament coming up so we didn't want to ship something that would be potentially disruptive that we weren't absolutely confident in.

Sorry this took us a few patches. The initial change was shipped to address some of the Omen/Sage glitches that could teleport Omen under the map, but the hitbox widening on corners was an unintentional side effect. Should be all cleared up now, though!

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Its hard to grammar good when there be rank to play.

Unfortunately most Elo-like systems require 1000+ games to actually know your true rank. That's also in an environment where the rules may stay static, no new content(like maps), very static rules - essentially chess.

Because we have to take a more proactive approach, your MMR is still pretty in flux until you hit the 50-100 game mark. We saw lots of feedback that "Two bad games demoted me twice!" alternatively if someone popped-off they may have promoted into a rank they may not deserve if it was early in their confidence/mmr testing.

So this new system lets us test your MMR, get more confident in it, and converge you to the rank you belong in over time. The system also allows to create a very strict set of rules, for gains and losses, using ranked rating. In an MMR system, even if we made your MMR visible, every match would be vastly different in gains/losses. One match you may gain next to nothing, where the next you may gain a ton of MMR. Switching to ranked rat...

NNNNNNNoooooooooo I faileddddddddddd

Wrap it up, it was a good run. Gonna go grind some grammar tests instead of ranked.

It sounds like your MMR somehow got below your rank. Do you play grouped alot? If your rank some how gets boosted above your MMR the system will try to push you down, because it believes you some how got above your rank. Alternatively if you had a streak of bad games, it could have dropped your MMR. If you keep doing well you will reverse your MMR, and start to climb.

Your earn rates are dependent on you MMR, which is dependent on your average match performance. That means one match of being MVP may not make you gain a ton more points, but it will help boost your MMR which will help all of your matches and make it easier to climb.

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That's really strange that it's kicking in that much in Iron. It may be discouraging but keep playing and improving. We haven't seen any math or match making issues so far, but I'll take another look at iron gains/losses to make sure there aren't any sketch issues.

It sounds like your MMR somehow got below your rank. Do you play grouped alot? If your rank some how gets boosted above your MMR the system will try to push you down, because it believes you some how got above your rank. Alternatively if you had a streak of bad games, it could have dropped your MMR. If you keep doing well you will reverse your MMR, and start to climb.

Your earn rates are dependent on you MMR, which is dependent on your average match performance. That means one match of being MVP may not make you gain a ton more points, but it will help boost your MMR which will help all of your matches and make it easier to climb.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but there are no current plans for VALORANT to support Mac OSX. For now, to play VALORANT you'll just have to bite the bullet and free up space for bootcamp or build a Windows PC.

I do feel for you here though. I worked on porting LoL to Mac native all those years ago and have seen firsthand the development time it takes to port to / maintain Mac. As much as we'd like to reach every platform and player we have to look at where our development time is most effective for the entire playerbase.

P.S. It may be possible to buy an external Thunderbolt drive and use that for bootcamp and may be a cheaper alternative than expanding your main drive or building a PC. I've never tried it personally but a cursory search online does seem to indicate it's possible. I've only ever done bootcamp from the main disk.