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Yeah, I totally feel you on this.

For your first point - yeah, Raze is the only character who has such lethal punishes, even if she's gated in applying them. I do think Phoenix, Jett, and Sova can apply some "invisible pressure" at round start with their ults, but it's less severe so I feel you. I think you hinted at my response here later in your comment, but our hope is that accessing that power should come with tradeoffs that do feel meaningful - giving up a Sage's stall/heal power or a Viper's zone control to get Raze's lethality should feel like an interesting choice. To your point, if it feels like not a choice at all, we've f*cked up and should swing in with some changes. I think we're all on the same page here.

To your second point, yeah I agree that we have to be methodical in how we add things like this. Ultimates are allowed to be disruptive, as we want them to feed into a team's tactical decision making loop for each round, but if there are too many that...

While I don't think you should be cheating at other games (well other multiplayer games) we won't ban you for things you do outside Valorant. In some cases the game might not run if generic cheating tools are open but we don't want to ban players unless they are actually cheating.

Hi, thanks for the questions!

1) We designed Vanguard for multiple games so the thought was that it should be as independent as possible which is why it has its own entry in Add/Remove Programs and doesn't uninstall with the game. We're changing this and soon uninstalling the game will uninstall Vanguard too (or at least ask about it).

2) It wasn't ready for the first week of closed beta but we have a notification pop-up that says that Vanguard is being downloaded/installed in the patcher now. In an upcoming version the pop-up will be expanded to include a link to an article with more details.

Yeah, I hear you on this - ceding ground all the time isn't a viable strategy. I'm not a designer, so I'm not an authority on this, but I can speak to my experience at least - I hope it can help a bit. There's two things that I personally have found in spaces like this:

One, it helps a lot that Raze doesn't start the game with her ult - you've gotta play a few rounds before then. By then, I know where Raze has historically been playing, and I respect that portion of the map a bit more instead of ceding everything. She can obviously mix-up and show up elsewhere, but then hopefully we have a bit of information that can help my team on the other side of the map by inferring which agent she could've swapped with. There are basic abilities that also create "invisible pressure" like that - Sova's dart being a prime example. Obviously Raze's ult's output is a lot more severe, so I feel your frustration, but I do think it can lead to some interesting tactics if both teams are playi...

Just to start off, I'm not a designer so it's important to set that context up front! I'm on Insights, specifically on Gameplay, so I'm responsible for things like data informing game balance, playtesting content in development, gathering feedback from players via surveys and labs, etc. I work closely with designers and the balance team, but I don't design anything - I gather data and sentiment on the stuff they make and work with them to help inform our decisions going forward.

So, I'd default to one of our designers around why Raze has this specific ult, but I can speak to it philosophically. Raze's ult is 6 points. It is very lethal, requires near-line of sight (has a small aoe, so you can hit people in corners, but you can't hit them through walls), and is on a tight time window after being equipped to be used. It's definitely sharp ability, but I personally don't feel it's fundamentally broken and can be used as a tactical tool to play around. Compared to other 6 point...

That quote from Trevor is talking specifically about Paint Shells, Raze's grenade. This clip's a bit different because it's Raze's ult, and Dizzy uses two Satchels to close the gap on this player from an unexpected angle.

For what it's worth, this player also knows that Dizzy has his ult when the round starts - when I'm playing offense on Bind against an aggressive Raze, I normally give it a few seconds in the start of the round before pushing into a tight angle like that if she has her ult up to punish plays like this. The ult has a short duration once equipped, so if she plays aggro like this and doesn't see anyone quickly, there's a good chance you can waste her ult for free.

Regardless, we understand the frustration here, and we're definitely looking for ways to message her abilities even more clearly to ensure players have enough information and time to play around her.

No worries! Thanks for bringing it up - the clarifications and discussion help everybody, and we're human beings so will occasionally miss things. No harm in making sure.

Weapons you purchased for teammates via the request system factor into their econ rating, but will not negatively affect yours.

We're working on better tracking for weapons purchased and dropped the traditional way.

We're on the same page, and I simplified my response. :)

This bug was caused by a misconfigured collision setting in the parent component of the UI prompt. I've fixed it on our side.

We talk to EAC fairly often, I'll check in with them to see if there're any compatibility issues.

Right now we don't ban for just using AHK, if we decided that AHK isn't allowed we would likely tell you to close it rather than ban your account.

This is correct. Still working on it - think we have a workaround identified so hoping the team can get this cleaned up soon for you guys. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Yup, the game can differentiate virtual threads from physical ones on the processor. We set thread priority to inform the OS what's important and try to let it do it's job. Scheduling is an incredibly complex problem all by itself so we let the OS choose the cores given that information. You have to make considerations like how a virtual core can share cache or not. It's widely different across the different CPU architectures. Needless to say we trust that Microsoft's engineers have put far more time, effort and thought into how their scheduler works across a number of CPU architectures. We focus where we have the expertise which is on the game code and threading model itself.

We've also done some work to make pinging significantly less of a performance drop as well.

Oh that's cool! I was thinking about something similar to drive esports broadcasts, Twitch overlays, etc. Good to have a reference point from CSGO.

I can only help with issues with RiotClientServices.exe. If the high CPU usage is indeed in LeagueClientUxRenderer then it could be related to the new patch. The 10.8 patch was released on the 14/15. I haven't seen any discussion about FPS drops due to LeagueClientUxRenderer CPU utilization with 10.8 but I am also not on the League team so I am not in the loop for a lot of these types of discussion. I think the VALORANT devs in this subreddit wouldn't be able to help either.

My recommendation is to reach out to player support. They may already be aware of the issue and have a workaround. If they do not have a workaround, it is still useful to report so they can have an estimate of how many people are running into the issue. It may help get the issue prioritized over other current issues that are being dealt with.

We're actively working on the penalty system that'll go alongside the various other AFK/DC features we're working on, and there will be penalties associated with leaving games. What they are and how severe will depend on how long they were gone (how much impact their leaving the game had on the match) but ultimately we'd like to incentivize folks to not abandon matches :P