Valorant Dev Tracker

We're working on some performance work that takes a long time right now, so we don't have any updates to provide until that's done. We used to have a lot of updates in the patch notes because we were cleaning out "low hanging fruit" types of improvements that weren't too hard to make. Now we're at the point that a lot of the perf work we need to do will require refactoring existing systems, which carries with it a lot of engineering time and testing time.

However, we did recently spend a ton of time digging into the hitch on death that turned out to be related to the act rank triangles on death recap, and we also put in a good chunk of time to build out Nvidia Reflex support so that players can take advantage of the low latency mode that it provides.

Every team on VAL is responsible for performance. We do have a team that's more dedicated to it than others, but we also spend a decent amount of our time on live performance maintenance. It takes a lot of work to ...

Always a WIP :) keep the feedback coming! We’ll improve the game together.

Yes the best settings for input latency would be: Reflex : On + Boost V-Sync : Off

Previous requirement was to play 20 games, win or lose. Forcing someone into 20 wins is a steep barrier of entry, so we settled on 10 wins as opposed to the old requirement. It can be revisited and potentially changed to 15, or some other number that makes sense after we take a look at the stats! So if a smurf wins 10 games in a row, then I guess it only takes 10 games, but I doubt that’ll be happening :)

We try to get in fixes for performance in the shooting range, but generally we keep it at a lower priority than the main game mode.

This issue is probably related to a sort of consequence of the game's architecture. We need to do something called "garbage collection" periodically, which is where we tell the game to kick out stuff that's loaded into memory that doesn't need to be there anymore. In normal modes, we force this to be done on the round resets so that it doesn't impact gameplay at all (which is also why you might see your graphs dipping when the round swaps over to a new one). This is why you might get this issue in the range but not in actual games.

In the Shooting range, there's never a round reset, you're just chillin' there. Eventually you'll get to a place where memory is capped out, so when something needs memory, the game needs to dynamically kick something out and replace it with the new thing, which can cause dips like these. They aren't usually ...

We’re changing it from 20 games played -> 10 wins :) Patch notes should be going out about it soon tm We’re hoping this also helps with AFKs a bit

Yep, we are reworking penalties to actually result in punishments relevant to the behavior that was displayed, ranging from chat bans to potential game bans as well.

I don’t work on the balance team sorry 😅

!pin Just letting you know that VAL recently spun up a team to deal with behavioral issues such as the ones you mentioned :) we are currently re-evaluating our penalty/reporting system and detection of different types of disruptive behavior. Hopefully you’ll start to see meaningful change once we implement our work bit by bit.

We’ll be doing this in the next patch :)

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