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We're looking at all of these for the launch patch (and have talked about a few in dev blog posts over the last few days). I don't work on any of the groups directly tackling these issues, so I can't give much more context than that, but rest assured we're aware of these and working hard on resolving them.

I get you - you've got a sharp gameplay motivation that's satisfied by like one feature lol. I'm definitely more engaged when there's competitive stakes, but downtime can help (although with League I usually stopped playing after a week or two of preseason).

Probably also worth playing some unrated to learn the new map if that helps!

What's that mean? As in they won't be able to play ranked at launch?

I know you're basically asking what's the optimal path to getting the highest possible rank, so I'll give a deeper explanation:

This isn't a literal analogy but in the same way you could increase your chances at a CB drop from Twitch streams by marathonning hours and hours of viewtime, it wasn't mandatory and in the long run there were many other, much larger factors at play. So you could grind unranked as if it were ranked to give you a little bump going into ranked placements, but how you perform in your ranked placements (and ranked thereafter, obviously) has a much larger impact.

In general, we as the dev team tell you the important things to do because if everyone just operates in that way, the system works really well and everyone's happy (I mean it!). If people start attempting to game the system, it sometimes backfires or just turns into a messy experience overall.

Take that to this situation: with unranked being the only queue available for...

We'll probably carry over some (maybe all) of your unrated MMR to keep the shark pool from eating the incoming fish.

We're not going to be launching WITH ranked, probably turning it on in a few weeks after once everything's stable. Your ranked MMR is going to be reset, but the 20 match requirement isn't.

We have plans for this! (for all kinds of bad behaviors including cheating) I think it's important for people to get feedback when their reports lead to a punishment being delivered.

Make sure it's a msg not chat -- chat disabled.

Make sure it's a msg not chat -- chat disabled.

Can you do a traceroute to 162.249.72.1 and paste results? Still seems too high.

You should not be getting 55 from Lux to any of the adjacent locations. What is your ping in practice?

ComHem looks stable to me -- can you run a traceroute to 162.249.72.1 and paste the results here?

This might actually come down to match-making.. Luxembourg is difficult. You're right in the middle between 3 interconnection points (Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt) but the experience should be consistent. Frankfurt seems to win out most of the time. I'll keep an eye on it in coming weeks once the population starts to ramp up.

Which ISP please. Will look into it.

Hmmm if it's dropping to 2.4 it's definitely downclocking from the 2.6 base. With those temps it's likely due to thermal load. Try seeing what you can do to run cooler and see if you can get those clocks to the 4.2 turbo the processor supports (likely can't maintain, macbooks/laptops can actually have a pretty hard time with cooling). A cheap quick test can be to very carefully set your laptop on some ice trays to see if you can get temps down. Please be extremely careful if you try this. Other options can be to buy laptop stands with built fans. Other options can be to try finding some fan control software and maxing them out.

Also try not using the external monitor. I've seen some weird HDMI issues that can cause gpu stalls for external monitors. When you switch monitors be sure to put your resolution back down to 1080 and not the 2880 I think your mbp supports.

Anyways I do have to get going now. It's pretty late here. I hope this helps!

Hmm that's a hard one. I've definitely seen weird things when I used to use a bootcamped macbook for gaming.

You might check if your settings got reverted accidentally. With a Radeon Pro 560x you might be gpu bound especially if you're playing at higher resolutions. Try some of the GPU fixes (lowering Res, turn off improved clarity, turn off antialiasing). Does that change your framerate? If it doesn't you're probably CPU bound. Maybe a thermal issue? You can download a tool like HWMonitor to check on that, see temperatures and clock rates.

From the data I've reviewed I don't see specs dropping 50% average framerate even from best patch to worst patch. It's probably best to reach out to player support for something like this. They can maybe go through more of your computer's data and help find anything odd.

Howdy,

I want to dive in and address some quick points on how we think about performance and what you can expect from launch. First let me just say that we see launch or 1.0 as the starting line. We're in this for years to come. Perf is part of that commitment.

Performance is a wide range of topics but in terms of top priorities for perf we have 3.

• Accessibility : We want people with low end computers to be able to join their friends in VALORANT. So invite your buddy with his Intel HD 4400 to game with you. They won't be slamming 144FPS down but hopefully they can have fun. For the most part, we seem to be hitting the mark here, there is ongoing work to get all character ability VFX in budget here but it's coming along at a fast rate. We improve a number of abilities every patch. Patch .50 fixed a rather large issue introduced with .49, one of our key GPU optimizations regressed and we had to go fix it up again.

• ...

1.) I appreciate the response and won’t dismiss your concerns here. Team definitely hears it and is extremely careful in how they go about validating issues. From what I know, everything is still manually reviewed and validated before being implemented as a track/ban methodology, so what I mean by “aggressive auto banning” is not a sentient big data AI deciding the vowel “E” is scary and taking action but more the team can say “yeah we know how this thing works, ban it,” and they can do that en masse. False positives terrify EVERYONE, which is why it’s also a VERY common FUD (fear/uncertainty/disruption) tactic employed by cheat developers - they spread rumors that the anti-cheat bans someone for an innocent thing (it’s not) and maybe they can stall the confidence of the anti-cheat developers and continue their lives.

2.) I head up communications on the V team, actually. I just happen to work with every dev to know the underlying issues.