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I do think that historically (as in, going into Closed Beta) we expected Viper to be stronger than she was due to a couple of prolific Viper players internally. However, since we've launched to live, Viper has underperformed for quite some time, despite a series of fairly substantial buffs. We don't balance off of gut feels like that, we balance off of data, and the data doesn't carry those same biases.

Personally, I'd argue that we gave Viper several sets of "greatly buff" changes with her wall going through walls, being able to maintain fuel on her Q and E at once with no penalty, applying fragile to her molotov, and stopping decay on allies... but she just hasn't seen the same success that Omen and Breach have.

We will continue to make changes to the agent to get her into a good spot, and while she is improving steadily, she's not there yet. We're actively playtesting further buffs to ship, but generally speaking, we prefer to make more measured, methodical chang...

Fun fact, she’s still one of the highest winrates in the game across all MMRs!

Spot on!

This was great. You've done a really nice job of explaining your points succinctly and clearly, you had really great visual aids, and you also put a lot of thought into how you curated the game footage. A lot of video guides have a lot of solo queue footage as filler, but you really seem to have put thought and effort into finding clips that illustrate what you're currently talking about.

Being in low gold/high silver I always thought the reason we stack B is so we still have two players left to hold site after our hookah player runs out with zero utility and dies instantly /s

Np! Sorry it took so long to fix. :'(

Its possible, but no commitment yet. We've sort of looked at it from 2 different angles. On one hand we have some sort of reactive features already like with the Sovereign skin line, where when you get a kill, the gems on the back glow and give off some little particles. We can continue doing things like that that are subtle but help emphasis that moment of getting a kill for the player.

When it comes to things evolving or changing, we'd probably treat it similar, keep it subtle and work progressively toward a final version. A lot of times we see this in games it involves things like color changes, glowing, etc, and we'd need to find the appropriate end cap. Do we reset your advances on death? Do we let you keep those advances round to round? What if someone picks your gun up and starts killing with it?
Variables like this are all things to take into consideration so we want to make sure we've gone over all of our options before going all in on an idea, but rest assu...

we've thought about this :)

It'll be fixed with the new patch this week. I'm so sorry. :( I promise you we tried to get the fix out last patch but kept encountering an error.

It’s a bug. We have a fix that should be going out in the patch this week. Sorry about that. The Variants weren’t affected, just Levels 2-4.

Purely my opinion: VALORANT has only been live for 12 weeks, so the esports scene is very early and will evolve over time. It's only natural that the first esports pros in VALORANT aren't players who were heavily incentivized in other scenes like CS:GO... If I were being paid 1.65 million dollars, I wouldn't be jumping ship to other games.

Over time, as the scene establishes itself, we (Riot Games and the VALORANT team) continue to invest in the game, and the amount of sponsorship etc grows, we'll also see more pros who are seen as primarily "home-grown" VALO...

If you send me a traceroute to 192.207.0.1 I'll see what we can find for them.

Which ISP and what is your location?

I'm happy to answer questions. I was responding specifically to one of the claims there saying it wasn't the case. We also don't put players on less congested servers based on mmr. All players are prioritized matchmake to their closest game server and we balance load among all of them.

There are other factors outside of the servers that also have an impact for players. Peak times especially in times of covid have put a lot of strain on internet infrastructure all over the world. Some instances of pain are related to internet traffic and poor isp routing

There are times in incidents where our servers will get into a bad state, but those aren't necessarily peak related. We've provisioned servers to meet demand. We also review metrics on client frame time/server latency/cpu/memory usage across all of our infrastructure. There are definitely occasions where the servers cause issues for the player. Every single person in the game would be impacted for those. Where indiv...