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VALORANT’s Act III Competitive matchmaking begins Oct. 13 and the video above is the best place to hear our plans for the new ranked experience—straight from Game Director Joe Ziegler and Systems Design Lead David Cole. You even get a peek at Episode 2!
The long and short of it? We’re going to take a step back and simplify our goals with ranked, which you’ll see over the course of Act III, into next year in Episode 2, and beyond. Act III is about moving quickly—we want to bring back more competitive integrity to the queue, and get you focused on what matters: winning.
Here’s a summary of all our planned changes:
To help with a more even matchmaking experience, we’re limiting the Rank tiers you can queue with from 6 tiers to 3 tiers. Experiences with your friends outside of your Rank circle are still important to us and we’re working to carve out more places for this.
Hey thanks for the report! This actually helped us identify an issue in our Asia Pacific region that we have now fixed! You should no longer see players in matchmaking that are more than ~7 competitive tiers apart.
The singapore routing issue we had was on our end in this case, though I'm noting this set up in case we see future issues.
oh thats cool
They'll be added to the Asia-pacific shard, so you won't need to do anything. It will just work one day in the near future.
Can you please share any info about when the small scale tests will start for bahrain servers?
We ran a few with the mumbai tests earlier this week. so they'll be on a similar cadence.
Congrats bruv
I don't think it's fair to assume they'll launch something OP. It think lots of people just got angry at the idea of a turret before it was even implemented.
Sounds like any new agent they introduce will initially be called OP, but will be learned in a matter of days. Maybe just keep them banned in some tournaments like they did with Killjoy, though.
I appreciate you vouching for us a bit here. It should go without saying that we don't aim to launch agents in an OP state - definitely not our goal. Raze certainly needed nerfs, and we probably took a bit too long because players were learning the game and we wanted to give it some time to breathe to be confident in the change.
Reyna has been at a reasonable level of power since launch, but is generally stronger in lower MMRs. We've shipped changes to help combat this, but she's always been quite balanced.
Killjoy just didn't meet our clarity goals, first and foremost, and was also a miss. Now that her abilities are much more clear, her power has become more reasonable - but yeah, we're still learning what the onboarding curve for new agents looks like and how to best respond, and Killjoy was our first true agent release with our current live audience. We'll continue to improve here, keep giving us feedback.
hey , is middle east servers out ? , i made my account 2 months ago and its in eu and i have been playing on 130 ping , so is there anyway i can change my account server to middle east?
The middle east servers are going to be added to the europe shard. your account will stay where it is, but you'll have access to the closer server and get matchmade there when we're fully live.
Read moreI can't say I'm sure because I didn't experience it first hand. I also don't have experience developing anti-cheats, an am super confident in Vanguard (I've never experienced any blatant cheaters.) I also recognize you can't give out information on players, and I'll try to avoid asking about that.
But can't you say with confidence that this is exactly what cheat developers want? They aren't developing something that'll get caught immediately, and even with review from multiple people, how confident can you be in this decision? It's an arms race, and if this decision ends up being false, it's a win for the developers, they know something they made slipped through Vanguard.
Personally, it was the crosshair placement for me. When detecting a cheater, do you consider factors like this? Lots would argue that this level of 'gamesense' can't be linked to this level of aim, but again, I'm no anti-cheat dev, so I can't be sure. Like I said, I didn't watch this live, and I ha...
Good questions, You are right in thinking that this is exactly what cheat dev's would want. Signal on if your cheat services are being detected or not. It is part of why you should never come out and say someone is or is not cheating. ;) We do consider a wide range of factors and game data is vital. Good security strategies in this space are about layers of defense. If you're just trusting a single layer you're going to have a hard time knowing if you have been bypassed or not. Detection is an important layer but IMO preventing the cheat from loading is even more important when you can.
Do people really think Riot owes it to a REDDIT thread to spend man-hours proving to nameless, faceless people that someone isn't a cheater? Really? Ignoring the fact that NO game fully details how they find cheaters (due to obvious reasons), that's such a ridiculous and narcissistic viewpoint lmfao.
You should prove to us
Riot did their job. Either they did it poorly, or not. But that's nothing anybody on reddit can find out, None of us have any say, idea, or access in determining whether someone is a cheater beyond the anti-cheat team.
This dude gets it, time will tell if we did poorly or not.
You should prove to us how it's legit just like how we gave proof of why we think it is cheating. Give and take, educate us since we are wrong.
Maybe give which clips u checked, which riot ID u checked (if it matches with her account on stream), which PC did u check ( she was using a sponsored pc on her stream Intel NUC Ghost canyon?? ) etc. Please do not say Vanguard did not find a cheat because it is not perfect.
Tell us why we're wrong with proof so this will hopefully not happen again.
Taking your word for it is so lame and feels like talking to a corrupt government.
Looking forward to the knowledge.
I am sorry I can't give you the proof you seek or expect you to believe our decision here. When I first saw the clips yesterday I thought it was cheating along with many people on my team. However our investigation process looked at many sources of data that brought us to this outcome. I can't give you this data. It would undermine our strategy and violate data privacy.
I would challenge you to look at this in another way. Anti-cheat is an arms race we are fighting every minute of every day. Sometimes we are winning and sometimes we are getting kicked in the teeth learning. The ability to adapt and respond to threats over time is the measure of a good Anti-cheat team. You should judge our effort and my team on the experience you are getting in Valorant. Not some random case of cheating in normals.
To educate My primary reason for posting in the first place was to get a head of the witch hunting. I have been in Anti-cheat long enough to ...
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