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Hey thanks for changing the avalanche skins to remove the orange parts, change material, and add the animation on preview! It's nice that you are listening to the community :)
We heard you! :)
Hey thanks for changing the avalanche skins to remove the orange parts, change material, and add the animation on preview! It's nice that you are listening to the community :)
We heard you! :)
I first thought the sword theme is leaking a new agent (there were some rumours about a crusader agent and there have been more leaked SFX for other possible agent abilities)
Can you say "I can't confirm or deny this" if every skin bundle somewhat represents one agent?
Reaver Set = Omen
Sovereign Set = Crusader
Prime Set = Dogbot
Our skin collections aren't explicitly tied to agents, except for the agent guns you see in the agent contracts (e.g., Sage's Final Chamber Classic gun).
They're extremely well done. Grats my dude
Are we going to see designs evolve in the future? At the moment it feels we're playing it rather safe with skins, which is fine tbh.
If we get a rebel wasteland in valorant I'd be happy af.
Oh what do you mean by evolve? And what would be less playing it safe? Tell me more! :)
Any word on the reaver skins? I really liked the knife animation.
No word on Reaver yet. Some stuff from Closed Beta will come back, but not everything. And whatever does come back will be updated, even if it's a slight update.
are there enough Sage vs non-sage games for there to be meaningful data? And isn't it likely the games without a sage are low elo ones where everyone is running around like a headless chicken anyways
There are enough, yeah! We also filter by MMR ranges, so we have an understanding of her relative power across the player skill spectrum - it's quite high. But also, Sentinels are intended to be more powerful at holding ground, not taking it - Sage's wall was often being cast as a sort of super-smoke or site blocker to enable aggressive plays, which not only contributes to her outsized power but also doesn't quite fit within her role. So we're looking to shave off some power there and try to get her kit's output to be a bit more appropriate.
just wanted to reinforce that we do use a lot of data analysis to understand our game state at any point in time in order to make specific balance changes.
balance changes based on pure data analysis are useless and lead to bad design decisions like the whole of league of legends.
Sage's winrate is substantially higher than Reyna's, believe it or not!
Maybe sage is a free character and reyna came after almost everyone had their two free extras unlocked already and the grind to get tier 5 on reyna's contract wasn't reached yet by a majority of people? shrug
Oh, I don't mean to imply we just do pure data analysis, that's definitely not the case. We also field recurring surveys to understand how players feel about the state of balance by patch, what they find frustrating, etc. and also have a set of design principles and goals that we adhere to. There's a lot that goes into the process that isn't just raw numbers.
But, when it comes to raw numbers, we also have that covered. Just wanted to reinforce that Sage is getting nerfed again because she remains the strongest agent in the game and we're trying to bring her power in line with the rest of our lineup.
Or until they have 3 more self-healers.. she's not overpowered at all, just necessary or a detriment to not have. That she keeps getting singled out for nerfs blows my mind. The wall is already trash, it takes so long to place the wall and they keep lowering its duration and hp. It could use a buff by removing the snap to terrain that makes it so miserable to use.
Meanwhile 50 kill reyna roams free at least another week, with 4 heal-to-150hp skills and two through-the-wall one-way blinds.. yikes!
We make balance changes based off of actual game data; every time we've nerfed Sage, it's because her power is too far above other agents in terms of actual game outcomes (match winrate, round winrate, etc.)
Sage's winrate is substantially higher than Reyna's, believe it or not! Obviously we're keeping an eye on everyone, just wanted to reinforce that we do use a lot of data analysis to understand our game state at any point in time in order to make specific balance changes.
soon tm
Likely the next bundle going up in 3 days, skin line includes knife/stinger/marshal/guardian/ghost
Also avalanche skin line readded to the game.
That was fast! What do you think? :)
When is the patch dropping? Tomorrow, I presume? I suppose I'll just have to wait for the Twitter post
Throughout the day today. We do the americas region first, so we have the business day to manage issues that might arise, then asia pacific and kr, then EU
Golden Gun - Grants capturing player a Golden Gun
One-shot, one-kill
Perfectly accurate at all times
Agent moves at knife speed
Only has a single bullet in chamber and 2 backup rounds
Kills grant an additional round
That’s gonna be real fun
Additional feature we forgot to add to patch notes: when you kill someone who has a golden gun, it instantly transfers into your inventory with full ammo.
Read moreRegion: EU
Type of Bug: Game fails to load
Description: After update 0.50 (including version 1.0) the game gets infinitely stuck on loading screens. It happens when starting a shooting range or match.
Video of the incident: https://youtu.be/wxVQi4nUJhE
Reproduction rate: 100% of the time. Tried getting in the game for hours and hours with no luck
Steps to reproduce: Try to launch the game and go to the shooting range or start a match.
Expected result: Match/practice starting
Observed result: Getting stuck in infinite loading or after some time being booted back to the main menu.
System Specs: Intel i5 Processor, Windows 7, Nvidia 770, WD Black Hdd, 24 GB RAM.
Another interesting thing to note: It is i...
Sorry this is happening to you! You can clearly connect to the platform in Frankfurt but then sounds like you can't connect to the game server we assign you to. We've seen some weird ISP problems in Europe, so let's try and diagnose this from your end and see if we can find something affecting all of the players in your area. I'll DM you for logs and some other things.
Thanks for the video! This video is an excellent example of what we look for in a video about a bug- there's just enough context for before and after the bug occurred, which helps narrow things down. Lovely.
I found a repro for this bug- it looks like it's possible to fire the OP on the server while the client is still readying the OP if you attempt to fire it within a small window while equipping after using Omen ult. This puts the state machine of the gun out of sync on client and server. This causes other weird downstream effects like mentioned in the comments here- stuff like the reload not visually occurring on the client. Just found the bug so no ETA on a fix, but we have eyes on it now. Thanks again for the video!
I have got it installed, same story :(
Have you tried a clean driver install?
(both monitor and graphics card)
Higher priority is one thing, Ascent being 80% of the map pool was just unnecessary imo.
It was 40% actually! But we've dialed it back down so now all the maps are evenly weighted (which was always the plan). This is something we're still experimenting with, so keep letting us know what feels appropriate or not here.
We're looking at it for next patch hopefully :) Some thoughts~
We like the "call to arms" that it generates. It's a strong engagement opportunity for the capturing team and we'd like to retain that in some form. Currently, (as you all called out) it's a bit overbearing and ends up slowing action down a lot because players just sweat it out once their afflicted. Want to find that nice middle ground where the capturing team is empowered, but the defending team still has a fighting chance.
Look for changes soon!
Why have I not recovered free agents yet ? 6days ago you said the fix was going to be deployed asap
Sorry for the lack of update! We did run an update at the time, but it did not solve the root issue and only solved a small portion of the issue. We have a fix planned to deploy with the the patch downtime this week.
Yeah, same issue!
Do you have this monitor driver installed? https://www.benq.com/en-us/support/downloads-faq/products/monitor/xl2540/software-driver.html
If not, can you give it a try?
Same, they're taking their sweet time. Waiting for 12 battlepass level rewards and free contract rewards. They patched a few servers on the 5th, it's now the 8th and EU is still yet to get this patch. Hurry up riot
We're on it my friend. We rolled out a fix for Asia Pacific + Korea on Thursday/Friday, but encountered a bug on Friday that stopped us from pushing the fix live to EU/NA/LATAM/BR.
The fix should be live with the next patch (scheduled tomorrow)
