Valorant Dev Tracker

Easy enough and pretty harmless. Will add it to my list.

Not placeholder, but a limited version of the full system we want to give you all. We'll be adding more options over time.

Upcoming patch. We're orienting all fixed maps with Defenders on top and Attackers on the bottom. We're also adding an option to display your starting side on the bottom.

If you hover the encounter with your cursor (either when dead, or by toggling the cursor at the start of the next round) it shows a flyout with timestamped events. Can shed some light on these sorts of situations.

While many of our services will be separate, there are certain ones that make sense to be shared from a simplicity of operations standpoint. This particular impacted all the games in different ways since we all use that amazon location differently.

EU tends to see a lot more issues in general as the play patterns in europe tend to have narrower peaks where lots more players will be online at once, whereas NA's play patterns are more spread out. This means a lot of our available server/capacity is in use at once, and if some errors or services run into trouble, that extra space can be used up trying to process those errors and can cause cascading issues.

We're learning a lot about where the strain in our systems are from this beta, and we hope issues you all have been seeing this week are quickly mitigated over the coming days.

We believe we've made some adjustments that should reduce impact when we see these latency increases. Hopefully, it's not continued but should minimize the impact you all were seeing.

There appear to be repeat incidents happening in our AWS there, seeing issues across mutliple games. We have a team looking to get matchmaking recovered.

The Anti-Cheat has an independent patch line throughout this closed beta while we're working on compatibility and updates.

I responded to a thread about Recoil/Spread, this is a great one to talk about movement accuracy:

Running Accuracy:
Our intention is that most weapons (shotguns excluded) are not reliable when shooting in a full movement state. If this becomes an effective or reliable way to shoot the weapons then we will definitely look to correct it.

Also, distinguishing between an opponent hitting a headshot on you while in a full run state, versus when they've come to a stop on their side but still look like they're moving for you. I've observed many cases where it's interpreted that the opponent shot you while moving, but they were already within an accurate standing state on their client. This is due to networking where you haven't quite got the information about the opponent coming to a stop, but they've already shot and killed you. We're going to explore opportunities to tighten this up and reduce the occurrence of this.

We'll continue to watch ...

Working on some compatibility and quality of life changes for early next week

Read through a bunch of comments here regarding the potency of tap / burst shooting (recovery time feels too long). One thing I would recommend is try the strategy of rapid tapping 3-4 shots (instead of shooting them very slowly) as this will get out more bullets quicker and they should be much more accurate relative to going full-automatic. We were actually worried this method would be too strong and have some tuning in place that begins to send the gun into its recoil state as you continue to tap.

We'll investigate tap/burst recovery, it's helpful information as we continue to tune the weapons.

I can look into this request, thanks!

This is correct.

Hey everyone, lots of good discussion in this thread. I want to take the opportunity here to provide some more info and context about some of the choices being discussed.

First shot accuracy:

In VALORANT each weapon has a base spread (deviation from the center) value. Some weapons have no base spread (Guardian, zoomed Marshal, zoomed Operator) while others have a large amount (Bucky, Judge, Ares). Weapons that are accurate but not quite perfectly accurate (Vandal / Phantom / Bulldog) have some unreliability at very long ranges to balance them against guns more sharply intended for these very long distances.

While this can incorporate some RNG into the outcome of a long-range engagement with some of these rifles, you have options to remove this RNG for nearly all ranges by utilizing ADS and crouch. ADS provides a flat spread reduction, while crouch provides a percentage reduction. These stack together so if you’re zoomed and crouched, the rif...

Yep. Data science and behavioral modeling is going to be part of our approach too.

Can't give a specific date, but Summer 2020 is still our intended launch.

Game is a Closed Beta, and obviously, a lot of things in the game aren't quite there yet for the competitive experience we want the game to be. But it's a good compromise to get excited players in, while being able make sure we're scaling and ready for a full launch.

As closed beta progresses, the faster these guys will be spun out of the game.

Thanks for the concern, and thanks for your patience in sticking with us and dealing with these players.

Tuesday is the plan for the next patch barring anything that would delay it.

I can't give a timeline as we are still in QA but my hope is that we will have something in days, not weeks. The experience might look a little rough at first but we will improve it over time.

No plans for Linux or wine support at this time but it is an ongoing discussion.