Valorant Dev Tracker

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We are looking into ways to reduce the impact to players when service instability hits. We don't currently have a system similar to league's loss forgiveness yet, but it is something we are investigating.

I think this is THE TAKE. Sometimes you have to push the boundaries to understand how resilient the game thesis is, and that seems to be a philosophy hard baked into Riot's design DNA. I think there are other games that want to take tiny steps toward perfection, but if you've ever watched League, you'd know that's not in the genetics.

It isn't to say change for the sake of change (Morello's got a dev diary coming up where he talks about extreme intentionality when designing an agent), but it is about seeing how the game can be stretched but not broken by designing provocative experiences. An agent that's a 1.1 of another agent just ends up consuming the other.

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it's okay, self-leaks come with the business (and boy is business booming)

Whatcha mean it's far too late to undo anything. We've literally remade entire characters in League of Legends.

I think the conversation around why it's worrying is good, but nothing is so sacred that we'd keep it in if it did real damage to the fundamental truth of the game. "Annoying" is probably not enough to remove something (a good Cypher annoys the sh*t out of me), but let's keep talking.

I like watching the discussion on upcoming agents because it helps the team calibrate whether we're misaligned in information (y'all don't get what the abilities do), values (y'all think grenades are stupid), or capability (y'all don't trust us to balance this thing).

I also remember the fun conversations around Sova's Sonar Dart when we showed it in our first gameplay trailer, and how those died down once people learned about the mechanics of it.

We're not asking for blind trust, but for me personally I think the hand-wringing and trying to preemptively demand change is a bit overblown. Let's try it out, see how the game takes it, and learn together! This is the joy of a game that gets patched every two weeks and has all the intentions of staying around for a decade or longer. We can get better through conversation, but we won't get anywhere by being afraid of change.

Also nicolo's tweet keeps haunting me in my dreams and we'd like to say it's a little misg...

We run post mortems on all of our major service outages. We occasionally will post the info in our messaging for reconciling information, but we don't do it for all.

Part of the reasoning is timing and follow up for publishing (translation and location). We used to do it more on LoL-- I as services producer like reading them too. The other part is some of our outages are 3rd party linked, and there's nuance in root causing attribution and publishing that end up being more work than value.

We use a mixture of our own physical datacenters and cloud providers.

Hi, agreed 100%, we're looking to remove the 1 unrated game requirement for spike rush and future alternate/complementary modes (:

On launch, we had developed spike rush on an accelerated timeline - we thought it would be a fun mode but weren't sure if it'd resonate with fans of the core mode. We knew unrated was a good way to experience the game. So we wanted to give players the best first impression of VALORANT that we could confidently. Now that we've been out for a while and spike rush has been received pretty favorably - and is actually a pretty good mode for new players for the reasons you listed - we're comfortable with removing that requirement.

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An unfortunate edge-case default asset/text if there's an issue communicating with the back-end service in time to populate the page; I'd expect this would be resolved navigating away and back again. We happen to have fixed this last week, and will be included in the next patch :)

Although I respect the dream of escaping the clutches of Bronze and slingshotting to the highs of Valorant Radiant. I still believe in the dream, just it being a lot lot slower, harder but ultimately more rewarding.

Issue popped back up. We're continuing to investigate.

Looks like the recovery was short-lived.

Looks like we are seeing a repeat. Continuing to investigate.