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There's a lot of factors that play into those decisions and outcomes, and we're still actively working through many of them, but yes those bonuses would go away (as otherwise you'd have a sizable advantage) and it'd essentially depend on how long they were gone (how much impact their leaving the game had on the match) that'd depend on if they'd still see penalties or not.

Ultimately we'd like to incentivize folks to not abandon matches :P

Players didn't (and can't) create these names. This is specifically a bug where the system is giving them these names automatically through a fault, where once the fault is fixed they'll be correctly routed into setting a name that fits within our intended confines.

The fact that this obscures the ult charge is an unintended side effect of the bug, not something that any player has purposefully done to have an advantage.

Thanks for the details, and thank you very much for being understanding :-)

Not intended. Fixing :)

Here.

This is fixed on our side. Will patch when we can.

:(

The default binding is Z

There's technically rewards in the form of XP and character contract progressions for unlocks, but I can agree with the general sentiment. We'll hopefully land with a balanced approach that works with both perspectives that are being shared in this thread... or we'll miss the mark entirely, learn from feedback and try again :D (but hopefully more of the former than the later).

Our player support folks are superstars, and bug reports specifically make their way through directly to the team so those reports (especially the detailed ones) are incredibly value to helping us make sure we're on-top of the issues that are disrupting play the most. <3

Is less about "can we support strings of this length in code" and more "I really don't want to need to ensure all these UI widgets where a name can be excessively long look good or consider all these features needing to support inputting those names either" :P

One of the big differences is the ascenders don't have the same acceleration as normal movement, so you hit max speed almost instantly. That and verticality, like you mentioned, makes them feel pretty quick.

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We are working on a fix (already reported in the megathread!!), thanks for the report.

Accuracy on ascenders is a bit worse than walking state. These are nice shots, but also some luck involved. We're keeping an eye on how it plays and will tune as needed.

Edit: To clarify, there's also no move speed bonus. If you're just going up/down without walk held, you move about the same speed as when running with an Operator.

AYAYA

The way it worked before was that anyone with access to the game could see other people with access to the game playing it, but if you didn't have access, you couldn't see it.

Now everyone can see if you're playing it all the time.

I certainly am :D

Story time! I was first introduced to Valorant (a long time ago now) during an under wraps playtest internally at Riot, where I was among the first handful of employees not on the team to play and all we knew at that point was "it's an FPS".

I had pretty low expectations of the game being to my tastes given the trends of the FPS genre as a whole but was intrigued to see what type of FPS we were making. From the first moments running around in pre-round getting a feel of the movement and gunplay my low expectations flipped to huge excitement; there had clearly been a huge emphasis placed on how the game feels, and that hasn't changed too much over the years. It might not be for all types of players, and that's fine, but for me it was unapologetically the game I wanted to see exist. After I'd completed my first game I got up and went directly over to my now manager and asked that they get me on the project, and haven't looked back since.

Yep my team has been talking with developers interested in the space and we're working with the VALORANT team to expose a set of APIs for the game. No timeline on this yet but it's looking it'll be post close beta. There's a lot of work the VALORANT team has to do before launch.

All developers are given a development API key when they sign up so they can explore and experiment with the API. However if you're building an app that gets used by players, we require developers to register the product (and stop using the development key). Once a product is reviewed and there are no concerns, we grant a production API key that remains static. Some developers were skirting our policies and registration process by making requests with multiple developer keys. Expiring developer keys after 24h makes this approach less feasible.

That's really strange, and something we'll have to look into. Compat bugs like this are especially tough for us right now because of the pandemic though :(

I don't know, I don't work on that :(