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this was the goal :) we wanted to show the potential of what skins could be in this game. glad you all are liking them so far

Of course! Regarding accept/decline - unfortunately I don’t work on the feature side of the project so I can’t really speak to stuff like match accepts/queues/etc at all

This is a broader design question I’m not the best equipped to answer (I’m in insights, not design) but I think one key difference between us and League is that we get “free freshness” via our map ecosystem. League games are always one big accumulator function which makes the curve of a game feel different, but it always takes place on SR which has a patch meta.

For us, having different maps, different sides, and different economic states I think makes a “single patch meta” hopefully feel much more diverse; the meta on Ascent may not be the same as the meta on Bind, you play both offense and defense in a single game, etc. I think that’s a cool thing that gets us a lot of variety and freshness on any individual patch.

I wrote that so I can probably give some context - the Guardian is still pretty versatile in terms of the broader weapon arsenal. A dedicated long range weapon would be something like the Marshal or the Operator, where you’re at a substantial disadvantage in close range engagements - the Guardian is intended to be stronger at long ranges, but still strong enough to be usable in close/medium range, even if it’s not optimal.

The Rifle weapon class tends to be defined by its versatility compared to other weapon classes - they’re generally powerful at all ranges, even if they get beat by specialized weapons at the edges (snipers long range, shotguns short range). That’s what the versatility component means there - we want it to still be usable in medium and close ranges, but just be best used at longer ranges than the other Rifles in the Arsenal. If you want to use a long range leaning weapon that doesn’t get destroyed if you’ve got to clear some close range angles, the Guardi...

THIS IS SO INCREDIBLE!! looks like you're already fairly far along, but if you need any high res images or clarification of shapes for this, i'd be happy to provide them :)

We have a tentative fix for this elusive bug, but it will be in 1.04 - it barely missed the cut for 1.03.

If this bug happens to you often, these steps might make it less frequent: - Keep your client on the AGENTS page while waiting for match start - Close programs that can cause a lot of disk activity (file copies, downloads, etc.) while playing

Appreciate you raising the issue of non-VFX related issues clearly and with good examples. Great post.

First Link: Some of those shots in the middle look they should hit, but don't. But it's hard to tell from that video, especially in Reddit's video player. We (and by 'we' I mean Sobey) do tests like this often, and haven't seen issues in clean-room environments. But there is something odd going on in that video. We'll have to investigate.

Second Link: Glad you pointed that out! This is a legit bug that we're aware of. The team figured out one way it could be caused and put a fix out in 1.02, but we can't confirm if that's what triggered that particular instance. That instance may be fixed. We'll keep an eye out. I can't tell if that video is from 1.01 or 1.02.

Third Link: Similar to the 2nd, but actually a different underlying issue. as ...

Hey Swagsparian! Input queue means the time in which your input (firing the gun in this case) will be queued up. for example:

You left click twice with the guardian within 0.1175s. The gun fires but your 2nd left click was done while the weapon is firing. The 2nd shot will come out when the gun is able to do so.

If you left click twice but the 2nd click was outside of the queue time and still within the weapon's firing state, the 2nd shot will not come out.

This change doesn't make the weapon shoot any slower than its Rate of Fire, its intended to make consistently shooting the weapon feel more smooth and not feel like it "jams" when you're mashing the fire button. Hope that clears it up!

Professional play and Rated queue are very different beasts and we approach balancing on those metrics very differently. We don't solely balance the game around pro play - we look at all levels, because we care about all of our players. Also, pro play generally tends to take a bit to adapt to more recent changes; when teams practice with a certain comp, switching things up and being confident enough to pull them out in a tournament takes time.

So, yeah, we're keeping an eye on Viper here overall, but I just don't want to set the impression that her having a 1% pick rate in a tournament means she absolutely deserves buffs (it could, but it's not a guarantee, especially after just one patch in a very early pro meta). There are going to be a lot of metas in Valorant that exist in pro play that don't translate to standard play and vice versa, and we need to be able to balance both accordingly.

Heyo! We're having a tough time with that bug, it just doesn't consistently show up for us in testing. We've put in a speculative change, but we did not include it in the patch notes because we're not confident it will fix the issue. If it's still happening for folks after the patch, getting me your logs would help a ton!

The mission was removed with this patch. It didn't make the cut for patch notes, but the change was made

This was minor enough to keep out of patch notes. The change did go in

This comment lower in the thread explains it really well, actually

https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/hmuao8/valorant_103_patch_notes/fx7e4ii/

Yes, this wasn't part of the patch notes, but the change is in this patch

Reyna's not bad, but she's not objectively strong either. She's not the strongest agent in any MMR range, and actually isn't even the strongest Duelist agent in any MMR range. She's still pretty good on average, and we're talking about whether we can make changes to make her a bit less frustrating to play against... but unless something changes this upcoming patch, Reyna changes likely won't be centered around cutting down her power (since she's not too strong in any MMR range right now).

This will be fixed in patch 1.03.