from what should i start as a noob
>>1357609don't play this game.
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Quitbut also just perma aim for headshots and youll do fine
Uninstall button
>>1357609I played for years and never got better, I bought a steamkey for Kovaaks and after just a couple weeks of consistent practice I quickly climbed through ranked.Aiming is everything in games like this. The worlds worst player with zero game sense can carry his way to the top off aim alone, it compensates for any mistake you can make. Play counter strike, the gunplay and movement is significantly better
Binge coaching videos so you can learn fundamentals and have correct decision making.Don't care too much about aiming at first and worry more about trading your teammates or making sure that they trade you, good comms are as important as aiming.Play 5 stacks and avoid SoloQ as much as possible.
>>1373084>Don't care too much about aiming at first and worry more about trading your teammates or making sure that they trade you, good comms are as important as aiming.This is horrible advice
>>1357609https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXiSfsf_MEexplain why i need to play this horse puke in first place?
>no Kay/oyea Sentinels lost
>>1371974The gunplay is better but canceled out by the map design being worse.
So I just started playing this game because I bit the Vanguard bullet for League about a week ago. It's enjoyable but that agent with the stupid shield, Iso I think, is fucking cancer. Killing one when he abducted me was so satisfying. I'm playing Viper because quite frankly I liked her look the most. The wall is super nice but I hear she's been nerfed to oblivion. How do I get skins? The store only has 1 page and I don't like the look of anything. There's also the radiante that I have no idea how to use
I don't know why I'm waiting for a Guardian skin.I'm like everyone else I don't buy unless I got enough for Vandal.
What's so special about Clove in the lore? Phoenix and Omen are also immortal.
>>1373084No coach when recruiting looks for people who have good comms.
Cypher is such a character that Riot would design.
>>1380416>How do I get skins? The store only has 1 page and I don't like the look of anything.Welcome to the FOMO marketing tactic. They give you a whopping choice of 4 random skins per day in the shop and they offer new bundles every 2 weeks. Though the new champions bundle is sticking around for a month because it’s helping fund the prize pool for the tournament. The Night Market should be returning in a couple of weeks that will give you a random discount on six random skins so just pray to RNJesus for something you want at a good discount.>There's also the radiante that I have no idea how to useThis is another currency you use to unlock additional level to some skins. It’s retarded. But essentially certain skins you buy will also have additional colour schemes and weapon effects (inspect animations, sfx, final kill effect) that you need to use Radianite for. So even after spending $40 on single knife, you need to spend even more currency to unlock its full potential. You can get enough of it though the BP at least, unless you’re a mega whale
>when our team is losing by 7, it just turned halftime and we lost the pistol round>team actually has a brain because it's unranked so this doesn't matter and surrenders>immediately hear voice cracking 13 year old screaming about itGet fucked you never surrender cuck.
>>1380777I wish CS had a functional surrender system. Fuck the dread of having to sit out a 30 minute game which was clearly lost from the start vs the sweatiest 5 stack known to man.
>>1380416>playing Viper because quite frankly I liked her look the mostbased
>>1380437They had to make the trans character immortal to stop people from making 41% jokes about him
>tfw you're 3 weeks behind on weeklies
>NA NEVER SURRENDER WE GOT THIS GUYS DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE'RE DOWN 5 AND LOST PISTOL ROUND ON THE SWITCH>guy saying this is nonwhite>watch him play>he's obviously not wearing headphonesI hate living in a world where playing a headphone game without headphones isn't reportable but saying the dreaded enward is.
Geniunely the economy to this game sucks but what did I expect, it's Riot, it's designed to give the losing team hope.
>teammate and i can blind through walls>we keep telling team to not stop and clog the hallway, just go in>continue to body block and waste our flashes we should be able to leave games without penalty. these fuckers are intolerable
>>1382966If Riot wasn't able to punish you for having awful teammates, their ban rate would go down, and if their ban rate goes down, they would no longer be able to pretend that they do anything about cheaters.
Are we seriously not going to make another thread? I mean, read the OP, he didn't made this thread as a general, are we going to just hijack it?
>>1383205Do it yourself if you're that bothered bout it
>>1383205no generals on /vm/
>>1382795I had the same shit happen its always the bottom fragging faggots with 0 util that bitch about wanting to surrender. Like wow I'm so sorry that I want to get assraped trying to carry you useless fucks for only 6 rounds instead of 15.Course the prick who didn't want to surrender also got killed by a dude jumping down behind him around a corner making the most noise known to mankind but the faggot had 0 sound and is too much of a peabrained dipshit to think to check his back once in a while.
>>1383398Who says that?Are you a janny?
>>1383398deboonked by opening the catalog
>>1383453>>1383432now read the sticky
>>1383481>Enforcing stupid rulesSo you are a janny?Why else would you support poorly made rules that shouldn't apply when they don't harm the board or the imageboard in general?
>>1383545>4chan janny>not enforcing the rules on a selective basis depending on what games they do or don't dislikeShit like that is why I don't go on /v/ 'cause their leftist discord friends run to call mod the minute they can't convince you that the newest slop like Street Fighter 6 isn't the best shit ever.
Team Deathmatch made me realize how great the stinger is. I don't use the spectre anymore unless I wanna spam through smokes. The stinger is better at close range and with the alt-fire, also better at long ranged. Medium range is where the spectre is superior but I just won't take medium ranged fight then.
>>1383597Honestly the only benefit the Spectre has is the suppressor being useful from time to time.Stinger is just better all around. Burst fire is good for range, close range is almost Bucky tier with how fast it fires, and it doesn't do that much less damage, not without making it up for it in RoF.Also, unlike the Spectre, it's an actual budget weapon.
>>1380437phoenix and omen are newfagsclove and possibly reyna are megahags
>>1383605I wish Team Deatmatch allowed you to pick any weapon once its been unlocked. I would like to play a match just using the sheriff or the stinger.
>>1382865shitters will buy SMGs everyround, thinking they're Sinatraa anyway
whoever was defending the judge last thread is retarded shit is trash
>>1383941>defending the judge last threadThat was me anon... the weapon got nerfed a lot over the years and now it is just a shorty with a 5 rounds drum, ngl.Where were you using it? it has it's niche places like Bind's hooka and Heaven's garage and A short, is it specially strong as a Controller and some Raze players are really good at jumping in with it, but now that her satchels got nerfed too I doubt you will see that in game often, so you are right, the weapon is pretty weak now specially considering its price.You are better off using the shorty as your secondary or the Bucky on eco rounds if you can afford it. both of them can do the same plays around smokes
is it normal to check out of a match after a few rounds? it feels like you can tell if your team is meshing or not rather quickly into a game
>only 1 guy on our comms>cheery at first>we go 0-5 >gets incredibly tilted and salty>every comm he gives is dripping with salt >calls 2 other guys trash and constantly deriding them>the power of this salt gives him carry powers >we end up winning the gameI’ve never seen saltiness and tilting be a benefit before holy shit
>>1384299You "can't" leave a game early, are you familiar with the afk punishments in league of legends? Valorant works the same way, the game punishes you for it specially on Comp and the penalty increases over time if you keep doing it but just as in LoL people just don't care, everyone leaves whenever they feel like and take the queue penalty.I have seen people who have around 5 accounts and cycle between penalized accounts, I have seen people who just buy a new account to get back to smurfing in comp instantly for less than $10, Riot does nothing against smurfs since they always end up buying champions or skins in their other accounts.I recommend you playing Shiftplay and TDM more often, that way your are not stuck with dumb teammates and AFKs for too long.
>>1384344well I'm playing on console for context. there is soooo many people who don't seem to understand the basic concepts of the game. shooting while running, running in fucking general, not sitting on spike. refusing to stay still and watch an angle. I'm starting to consider only playing practice for a month sothese "people" will be gone
>>1384399Console just got the full release so there’s just way more clueless noobs around than normal. I noticed it last week when the beta went fully open and nobody would give me the spike as Gecko
They seriously need to stop pushing Phoenix as a the beginner agent, they can do more damage than good with him
>someone on console talks into mic trying to talk strategy>nobody on team (myself included) has a mic plugged in because we're playing a console game on a couch
if you play iso you should kill yourself
>>1384439An annoying Black zoomer shouldn't be the face of Valorant.
>>1384636I wouldn’t say because he’s the tutorial character that he’s the face. The face is clearly Jett
>get to diamond>Riot decides to do a rank reset for full release>go to silver because of shit fucking teammates and shit maps Gee, thanks
>>1383597stinger absolutely melts rifles when you're close. you slightly run and gun over the corner, you can get 1 and damage the 2nd guy with a single spray. spectre doesnt come close at all
>>1384684The ranks got rebalanced because it was too easy to get a high rank on console
>>1384750I’m definitely not deserving of being in Silver, though. Mid Gold and I’d say fair enough. Is this a ranking system where it places you lower at first so you can climb and feel like you’re improving?
I hate getting to the ranks where you have to aim.So much fun seeing everyone else have perfect spatial reasoning and get flicks all the time while I cannot.
>>1386162are you on console or pc? on console people are always one tapping me while they are moving. these fellas are on another level
>>1384912I am plat but after episode reset a couple episodes back, I am unable to get out of gold. I admit I dont have the solo carry potential But, it seems every act I end up with ~50% win rate stats. Even with that, this act has been even more blatant on how the algorithm has been dogshit in ranking up for the past 2 episodes. This act is even worse and I have the numbers for it. I played about 100 hours, just look at these stats I took a cap of last week. dont you think its even a little bit suspicious? and my KDA is 1.0 as a sentinel, cant do much in stomps and playing retake. I also think i'lll do better if I play duelist to have more impact but I want to improve and rank up AS A SENTINEL and the game just doesnt reward other roles as much.
>>1386949if they added a rank after plat called ''lulz'', and lowered plat reqs so you can be plat again would that make you feel better?? having a consistent 50% WR means you are where you belong
>>1386949Play nothing but deathmatch and team deathmatch for an entire month and then go back to ranked for a week to see if your aim is on point, practice a few lineups every day too.After that don't play too many ranked games in one single day, unless you are a streamer I doubt you have too much energy after 5 games.
>>1386973>you are where you belongim not disagreeing m8, thats not what my post is about. im gold now, its fine with me. Its just the ranked grind is punishing grinders worse than any episode ive played
whos winnin champs ya think
I was a top OSU player who started playing FPS games on the PC for the first time Pretty fun!
he made it...
>>1388658As long as it's not Sentinels, any I'm happy with
>>1388792ey tripfaggotgeng is out whats your take
>>1388978i didn't have them making it out of groups either
PRX IS SO FUCKING ASSSSSSSSSSSTHEY NEED AN IGL
don't play the game jerk off to clove ecchi hentai, she's a jailbait character.
>>1386949Thats why Cypher is op. Just leave the site and go for a fast rotate and stack mid and other site
>>1386949I'm not gonna blow smoke up your ass we know that Riot manipulates the winrate algorithm for League of Legends so you should assume they do it for everything else. In fact you should assume every company is doing that.The problem is that we believe in matchmaking and "ranked" gaming which is utterly pointless.
Tried it after a long time and now I see flying shit that cums on you, it relies too much on weird abilites, the maps are utter garbage and the movement is ass. Got back to cs2
>>1391253Girls don't play CS2.
is it normal to sometimes go too far, or not far enough when flicking? i'm not solely over flicking, or under flicking. it's a mix of both. i'm not sure if i should still be fucking with the settings
>>1391474practice in the Range more I guess. I remember hearing something like overflicking and then micro adjust is better than doing vice versa
what the fuck are you retards doing just make a normal general how the fuck is anyone supposed to know that the valorant discussion is happening in a fucking thread about some retard who's new to the game and asking for help
>>1380437Clove's age is 1K+>>1380439they look for the opposite though if you're a fucking disgusting pig on mic you make people around you play worse and want to give up sooner>>1380777>down 5-0>ff>que up>down 4-1>ff>que up>down 3-2>ff>que up>up 3-2>they ffpeople call this a "fun" valorant session
>>1392095That's what I told them but they have to be bitches about it with the "it doesn't bother me" and "no we gotta follow the stupid rules that are not being enforced, even the ones even janitors do not care about" responses. They know the activity will be hurt by this, they know if someone comes to /vg/ looking for the valorant general they will give up after not finding it, but I treat anons the same way I treat my teammates, if there is a huge problem that is fucking us up I will tell them about it once, if my teammates don't care about it that is their problem, I will try to play my part and get better at the game, it is their decision to die to the stun+nade combo on A main every round when we don't have any utility to challenge it.
>>1392161If it's unranked you have no right to complain.
Shroud is promoting a cheap copy of Valorant lol
>>1380777Attacking and defending are basically 2 different games, so I always wanna see how they play the other half, no matter how good we play attack my team always loses defending since duelist have this urge of dying in the first second after the barriers go down and refuse to change strategy when they are getting aimdiffed every round.>>1392280Not him but I have the same problem with people surrendering all the time, I want to play the game and I'm not gaining any experience or getting any better by going back to queuing, what will I do if I ever face a team that plays just like this in comp? just surrender? I want to try to make plays even if know some of them won't work, I wanna see the enemy team make plays so I can think of ways to counter them, valorant is full of losers who only want to gamble with the queue roulette until they face a bad team for an easy win so they can type gg ez in the chat, they don't want to play the game, they want to feel they are good at the game just to brag about it.
>>1392296I don't know how I have the opposite problem as you guys. My issue is that no one EVER surrenders, even when it's not just hopeless in terms of skill difference but we're down a player (or two) or one player is actively trolling, or the enemy team is actively trolling, and we're generally demoralized. In unranked. And it's usually out of spite too, the last person to deny the surrender will usually straight up say in chat something along the lines of "I want you to suffer more."
>>1392305The only think I can say is you should play shiftplay more, at least there you will only be trapped with afks and trolls for half of the timeI gave up on playing Unranked after the day I sat down for 8 hours and didn't get to play a entire half, it was always my team surrendering or the other team surrendering, no matter if the game was close or a stomping, I felt I was getting edged for too long, fuck that.>And it's usually out of spiteYeah it is awful, remember you are playing with kids.>I don't know how I have the opposite problem as you guysIt's the randomness of life, I saw a guy who had 100% winrate on Icebox over 85 matches in soloQ, 85 games, and he was not a decent player, he was your average Sage shitter who only knows how to place the wall on mid.
Getting killed due to body block is almost uninstall-worthy.Of course, then the irresponsible amount of money I've spent on this game would come back to hurt me.
>spending money on a f2p game>spending money on cosmetics >spending money on any Riot or Tencent game>spending money on "micro"-transactions when you will never be able to get that money back
Jett makes me cum so much
If I ever see anyone with any of those new rainbow vomit skins I will just immediately throw
>>1392296>since duelist have this urge of dying in the first second after the barriers go down and refuse to change strategy when they are getting aimdiffed every round.vice versa, they keep peeking and pushing on CT But, get cold feet during T side while entrying as soon a smol smoke lands in front of them
>>1392782>Yoru, Jett and Omen keep peeking as CTs>they are so confident they will quickly push smokes on retakes >as Ts a single smoke on main stops them>they won't get in even with Sova utility clearing the siteFucking pussies, I genuinely don't get what the fuck is wrong with them
AND SHE GRABBIN ON MY DICK LIKE
lmao, I will absolutely not go on a loosing streak after this
why doesn't tracker.gg record your First Blood percentage? i feel like that would be a good statistic to have
is it just me or the ping is really high as fuck right now if you play in one of the APAC servers
anyone else rage report everyone that flicks them because you know even if they were hacking they would never get punished anyways?
>>1393549Riot's servers get fucky from time to time, usually when some rewiring or maintenance is going on your ping will get fucked for your entire region, it may last hours, they don't tell you about those emergency maintenances unless the servers go down, gotta keep the illusion everything is going perfectly 24/7>>1393785I'm not schizo enough to do that, but I always report them if get one tapped through smokes when I'm standing on unexpected places, it could be luck but the report goes just in case.
>>1393813I don't really consider it schizo, just with how bad the hacking problem in FPS games is lately, and how all anti-cheat is worthless if it isn't actually like most things and just a screen in-between you an subcontinental, staying on the safe side for me is to just report everyone that has too good of a K/D, does suspicious things (once had someone who ran Outlaw and did this odd no-scope thing of shooting off both barrels almost simultaneously and always, ALWAYS getting one perfect bodyshot and one perfect headshot), or is rolling with a group that seems to be in general trolling, talking shit, and flicking to your head a little bit too well (I notice hackers also tend to play in stacks, probably to prevent reports from their own team).
Almost done with challenges so I can get my one (1) agent token and buy Yoru. Can’t wait to flash my teammates
>tired of all the bullshit entry and duelist dicksucking designed into the gamethat shroud fps looks interesting with no ultimates and movement abilities. I might check it out
I don’t understand why this game says I flash people but they never have the fucking flash symbol over their head or they just fucking instantly recover meanwhile I’m getting the Helen Keller treatment
>>1393960>3v3Cringe and DOA
>>1393549no, its true. APAC has been fucked these past few weeks. very laggy
Night market FUCKING WHEN
>>1392796me, im the sova BUT they get courage when I get out first to trade me. They're good at baiting so I generally jump in if the team is too scared.
>>1394125the ugly character designs will single handedly kill it. it being 3v3 doensn't seem to be that bad with everyone getting 2 characters
>>1392291>shillingHe plays new games all the time, he is a designated beta tester and a beta key dropper on twitch, he "shills" pretty much every new game that comes out >>1394125>>1393960>>1394171It looks fun but don't expect it to go big, play it while it is not full of hackers and has an active playerbase.It could have the best gameplay and the best character design ever but it still would die since it is not backed by a huge videogame company, Valorant keeps a healthy playerbase because it's a Riot game, without Riot Valorant would be another fotm dead niche shooter.>>1394137The urge of buying overpriced pixels
>>1394137i have quit that game. But i remember it comes once every 4 months or so. check the latest one and count.
I suggested we should force buy after losing the second pistol round but the duo guys on my team said "I will rather lose this round but fight after the 10-4"I said "that's okay but get ready for a long game" and they were okay with it, then we lost the bonus round too but they wanted the comeback after the 11-4, no one gave up mentally, it was a really nice game with a team that had enough patience and were willing to adapt, I wish I could get teammates like that more often.>>1394802>i quit>keeps coming to the threadAre you seriously leaving after getting body blocked? really anon? it is the nature of multiplayer games, how many times did you fucked other people's plays? did you think they gave up on the game over such a dumb thing?I just scream "GET OFF MY WAY" after it happens and usually they don't do it again, if they do it again I report these motherfuckers.
>team all jump off abyss at start of their econ round>concede round loss and avoid wasting money, so they can go back to proper buys at the expense of one round loss>people are mad and calling it disrespectful and unsportsman-likewhy so mad? it's a legitimate strategy, the math makes sense
>>1382795get better loser stop being a bitch and play it out although I agree with you that playing without headphones or a mic should be an instant ban >>1383841you cant do that? I guess I never tried but I thought you could
>fade refuses to locate enemies>omen refuses to smoke>all sit on top of each other in a corner>get picked off one by onejoys of being low elo
>>1395965If I see a player doing never surrender shit I will specifically target them to make their experience worse.
i created an actual valorant general we can talk there before it gets deleted in 2 hours lol
1V1 GAME MODE FUCKING WHENthey teased it 2 years ago
>>1396993After the replay system
>got the same shitty knife in the store two days in a rowThere's no way that shit is completely random as they claim
>>1397361fun fact: the probability of getting any skin two days in a row is the same probability as getting one specific skin in your store
dm or tdm for warmup?
anyone else notice that Tenz does this little forced cough when he's stressed, like one of those nervous ticks. probably stops him from screaming into the mic or slamming shit, but that can't be healthy just bottling everything up inside
>torn between playing dogshit yoru cuz he’s fun>or broken omen to carry my teamHelp lads
You’d never catch me playing this trash for free, any Tencent game for that matter.
>>1397543He clearly would prefer to be playing CS, he looks completely tired of Valorant, but he knows he would do shit if he tries again in pro CS
When does arcane season 2 come out? And I hope they're going to drop a skin with the release.
>>1397821>3 flashes>instant rotates>best info ult in the gameyoru isn't dogshit, but hard to use.learn some lineups for TPs and comm your flashes
i’m diamond but jett holding me back
>>1399049i'm diamonds too when Jett holds me if you know what i mean
>>1399068based
Been stuck in gold for two episodes. What am I doing wrong?
>clove troons who have no idea they can use smokeslove it
>>1399187not playing jett/reyna/rez
post what you listen to while you warm up/DMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqWlIpexZvE
>45 hrs in>still iron 2guys when do i get ascendant?
So, I'm getting this right? The third place of the tournament can actually somehow become the champion? How's that fair?
noob tourney runners should have all teams face each other and best results face off in top 8
half the matches were same region vs same region. shoulda had each one face at least 2 each from the three other regions
>>1399019Yoru requires a lot of synergy with your team to be REALLY good.
Switch to Counter Strike
>>1402468no, Valorant is our favorite mens space
>>1402490You mean FTM """mens""" space?
>>1357609Play Strinova/Calibyau instead. Network test is starting and is open for everyone till next week, register through the launcher.
>>1402468CS is dead. I don’t how Valve managed to fuck CS2 up so much but they clearly just don’t give a fuck anymore. Cheaters are rampant as well
>>1402875>tranime slop
>>1380416Nice.
Hope the new character is not ugly/black/brown/dogshit/troon
>>1402875I have been following this game for years, I'm glad it is actually coming out, I have been waiting for a fun shooter to play casually and put some hours into, every new PvP shooter is some 5v5 or 3v3 forced esports shit or battle royale, I hate battle royales and most gachas have boring gameplay and lack PvP, I hope this game does well because I really need a new wacky casual shooter in my life besides TF2 and Splatoon>>1403106Anon Valorant already is the tranime version of CS
Why does the daily challenge have to be rounds won? Why can’t it just be played? I’ve just had two matches where we only won 1 round…
>>1404289Just play spikerush bro
>>1379435>the map design is worse>t. valorant playeryou are smoking something mind altering and i think you should share it
>>1404325Only good maps in valo are sunset and ascent
finally got bronze and i’m still getting at least 2 smurfs on enemy team whilst my team doesn’t even know the controls. can riot at least pretend they got it under control?
>>1404328i would rather play ancient with 800 ping and a team full of anti ukraine gibbering russians than any map in valo
Deadlock will be the last hot character they will release
>>1405302>that waist to ass ratioRiot you based for this one
>>1405302It’s ok, you don’t have the testosterone for her
https://youtu.be/btpWg1gDXIE Damn, Omen really is the coolest character in the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkrIHAAEXRsIt is "alright" I guess, unbreakable utility is something the game needed more, I am tired of shooting at 20 different objects before I can get a duel, a sentinel that can flash is something new and unique at least (can wait to Breach-flash as a sentinel) I just wish the flash had one more charge, and the thorns will be a really deadly combo with any molly or area damage utilityMolly + thorns = not moving away? take damage and die, moving away? take even more damage.The thing is she is pretty weak at info gathering, she could slow down rushes like Deadlock and Sage but if a entire team decides to push the wall at the same time it will be useless, Deadlock's and Sage's wall have to be destroyed, even if it takes 3 seconds it stops the enemy and distracts them for some time, I know the thorns are going to be in front of the wall and you activate them when the wall is triggered but the activation time seems to too slow, like really really slow, by the time you trigger your entire setup the enemy could be far away from it.Another thing, looks like the entire setup is one single combo, KJ has a turret and a bot for 2 possible combos, Cypher can do the same with 2 trips and 2 cages + the cam, what can Vyse do? trigger the entire setup and peek once, looks like the bitch has one single chance to do some impact, she seems pretty weak against a coordinated team, I need to see how she plays and I wanna see some buffs
post Valorant agents that remind you of your true self
my dick down your vct interviewers throat
>yet another clearly unfinished agent just like Iso
>>1405302robot sex?
>>1405582her flash is her only real interesting ability
>>1357609i have been playing for 2 years and this game is getting shit in 2024 so dont play dont suggest dont talk about this mf
>>1405711who's your Valfu?
>>1405685ult forcing people to use sidearms isn't interesting?
Jett as Vyse little sub toy
is aspas washed
>>1379435Valo has shittiest map design... Visually looks good but they are shit gameplay-wise. Heck, one of the map creators actually is a former vavle employee that made the least liked maps of cs and got fired LMAO.Also, being character based is very restrictive, leading to bullshit unfair balance and less player expression same as what happens with league of shitfucks.Enjoy the malware in exchange for s worse game lmao
>>1406893I'll take Valo's map design instead of every map being a 3-lane split where every route has maybe 3 places an enemy can show up in and every round is just waiting to see who wins the early peeks.
EDG VS HERETICSWHO'S WINNIN
Low elo niggers really downloaded the game to crouch behind walls for half an hour
crazy that you guys are mainly discussing this game here, i thought this game was popular enough for a general
>>1407064edg, china's going to take over
>>1407596It's mostly popular with zoomers, there isn't enough of a 4chan demographic overlap to maintain a general
>make healer character so there's a "designated noob" character>give her a bunch of abilities that sabotage your team if used badlyGood one, Riot.
>>1407658how do you know?
jett owes me footjobs
>>1407845Valorant is consistently one of the most viewed games on Twitch and has active communities on twitter, leddit and even tiktok. It has, at minimum, 20M MAU according to public data trackers.It's a popular game by all normal metrics, but it barely gets discussed on 4chan. Imagine a venn diagram with the valorant playerbase and 4chan, the circles don't have much overlap
>>1407857i think people just didn't try to start any conversation about this game
>valorant only released in china a year ago and they've already won worlds
>>1408005I mean, it is a Chinese game after all
EDG has been on VCT since 2022 though
Lotus and bind are somehow worse than icebox
I swear gayko and phoenig are made for kids with mental disabilities
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Valorant%20(Video%20Game)%20Player%20RPF/works?page=1what the fuck are chinese fujoshi on they're esport players lmao
>>1409325Faker is treated like a kpop idol somehow, to the point where riot can get away with making a $500 skin and whales actually buy itGuess it makes sense that the cycle is starting with val esports players
>>1407050tell me you're a brainlet low elo shitter without telling me you're a brainlet low elo shitter
>>1409436Tell me I'm wrong. Like actually tell me I'm wrong.
>>1409363which VCT team do you think would work as a boy band
>>1409558Not him and I don't know but FNC's posers are trying real hard to be one
>>1357609uninstall the game and delete your riot account.
>>1409558G2 and obviously EDward Gaming
so no more tournaments until next year?GC troontour doesn't count
>>1413174nope, but next year they're changing the schedule so it spreads across more of the year
How's the new act going for everyone?
>>1414802i',m almsot done with the battle pas
>>1418210The new one? There is no way. Send a screenshot.
>got only premium skins in my store two days in a rowCompletely random btw
>>1418717Just say you’re broke lil bro
>>1419271I’ve already bought 7 skins with finishers lmao still looking to get 2 more and a knife. This game just has way too many shit filler skins just to make the store pool worse
Ive been playing for 2 weeks on console. My biggest complaint is french people/arabs. I took the Paris server out of my server list and it doesnt make a difference because they queue in the london servers anyway.Going to rack up 200 hours in unrated before I do my placement matches. some games I drop 35 kills, other games I bottom frag so idk where I'll place. It's fun though.
Bronze: nobody knows how to enter a site for shit, they all stack in one place as they don't know how to rotate, blame the duelists for everythingSilver: everybody rushing into site like idiots, no idea of post plant, start running around the map like monkeys at the minimum pressure from defense, full of lurking Reynas
>>1420134Gold: everybody rushing like idiots, defenders only know how to spam utility but can't hit a shot, attackers chicken out as soon as one smoke lands on main, they don't have enough brain cells to process the fact that site is empty and Omen smoked from the other site, no one plays mid everPlatinum: everybody thinks they are too good for this elo, all aim no brains pushing smokes without using any utility and get surprised when they get killed, everyone refuses to rotate even if the other site is empty, your Jett/Raze will gets mad at you for "not pushing with him" after he jumped over 3 mollies, Reina continues lurking, still has her flashes after the entire team died, then she gets 2 kills and dies.
>>1420167>Reina continues lurking, still has her flashes after the entire team died, then she gets 2 kills and diesThis is me but I don't know how else to play because I don't trust my team and my aim is shit so I'm never getting above this rank.
I've been a good boy for several months now. I get one Alt-F4. As a treat.
I like playing Omen, and I like playing Sova, but no one wants to play Sova when I play Omen, and the rare people that play Omen when I play Sova, are stupid. But man I want that mythical Omen/Sova synergy.
did the valorant general die for good?
>>1422193nah it's still alive
Teammates throwing 4 rounds in and the enemy smurf getting 40+ kills is the real valorant experience
>>1357609Is this bay bay's first tac-fps? Switch to cs and play hundreds of faceit matches. You're too shit for Val rn.
>>1421721I am Sova main, we can be a duo my friend
People need to play more Halo, no one has any idea how to teamshot.
>on a "haha jokes" team
>>1403106Funny how half of valorants cast are trannies and faggots.
Astra sisters we back
what the fuck?
>>1428761Please, there's multiple kinds of DEIslop and this is the most tolerable version of it.
I used to be an aimgod and now over the past few days I can't hit anything... my chair must be sinking and my posture is incorrect.
Why is everyone talking about her lately?
Awesome how Clove can choose when her ult procs as if it's not already a hard anti-clutch mechanism that comes up way too often.
I want to kill anyone who says people surrender too much in this game.Not only are you never allowed to surrender, even when you have an AFK, but if you ever complain, the enemy team will conspire to try and get you stuck in the game for longer.Literally I hate these niggers.
>>1436224No one's conspiring against you shitter. Just get better.
>>1436224Not surrendering with one or more afks is shit, report these afk fuckers so they get a higher penalty.The "enemy team trying to make the match longer" is bulshit most of the time, it's in your brain, in most cases the enemy team is having trouble closing the match, there are no "impossible comebacks" just really difficult ones that are hard to pull out, a better players than you could win that, you know how that "better player" got that good at the game? by practicing and analyzing his plays thinking what could he do better next time.>I want to kill anyone who says people surrender too much in this game.The problems is retards who go "let's rush A" and when it doesn't work 3 times in a row they go "let's rush B" when that doesn't work either they will vote to surrender without thinking why it didn't work>was it the economy?>was a play of an enemy player?>was a good read on the enemy team?>was it my team dying without using their utility at all?>was your team peeking an AWP one by one and dying without a chance of getting traded?>was it the 5 ults the enemy dumped on the retake?>"lol I don't know, I don't remember what happened last round, I was talking to my friends on discord"Fucking low iq monkeys can't play strategy or setups for shit, they don't know what map control is and get angry when they don't get easy kills for free.>>1436498What the fuck is that name?
>"IM OUTTA HERE">*runs into her death*
>>1439457>she runs into my arms
>tenz, sacy and maybe zekken out of sentinelsliterally who are they gonna field for redbull?
I don't give a shit if you're doing better than me, you're not going to be able to clutch shit if you're not wearing headphones and I saw you fail 5 rounds where we even had numbers advantage just because you can't hear a motherfucker coming to your right.
>>1440628Zekken was baiting. And they can field whoever the fuck they want. If M80 don't get promoted Zander will most likely be trialing with them.
>>1420134to be fair it is always the duelists in bronze. No one else is stupid enough to peek a very obvious sniper and think they can win. People in low elo think duelist=will win a 1v1 and not realize they do so because they have movement and blinds to actually challenge angles.Last unranked game I had a fucking pheonix use his wall as a smoke on attack but instead just blocked our teams movement because his wall isn't a smoke because it damages everyone and then when we hit defence all he would do is run out and get killed and never use his wall to actually you know defend. Dude also died EVERY round.TDLR low elo people who play duelists never use their kit ever and can't trade even.
How would you buff or rework her sensors?
>>1441792>to be fair it is always the duelists in bronzeIt is the duelist and absolutely everybody else in bronze, in low elo people barely have any understanding of how things in the game work, zero macro, no idea how to execute, how to defend or how to control the map. recently I made an account for a different region and boy low elo is brain-off city.Look at this """"execute"""" on A short: enemy smokes us off, I get closer to the smoke and set up our smokes for attacking, none of our 2 Sentinels have placed any utility, Phoenix flashes in by himself with no support from Skye (Skye left as soon as the enemy smoke landed in front of us, now she's lurking on B long) no one else gets in with phoenix so I run in with him, he gets killed and I trade, him I clean Site and the other entrance, the site is ours but we haven't plant, why? Cypher has the spike, Cypher and Chamber are still sitting behind the smoke on main, I tell them to plant and they say "but our duelist died, I want to rotate" we have the site clear for 10 whole seconds and we didn't plant.The enemy "retakes", 1 guy from CT and 2 guys jump from heaven, I kill the ct and one of the heaven guys then I get traded, Cypher and Chamber get killed from behind by the one guy who decided to lurk from mid, now the spike is lost and Skye loses the 1v2 50 seconds later.And they get mad at phoenix for not getting kills when they are sitting there doing nothing, zero situation awareness, they think the duelist the a tank and dps and they are support roles or something.The role of the duelist is challenging angles, duelists get in, take duels and create space and the other people run in behind them (if that is possible) trying to at least trade them.Yeah sometimes you duelist is retarded and doesn't use utility but don't say you are in bronze because of bad duelists, it is dumb or new players who don't know what to do in general.
>>1441792>Pheonix use his wall as a smoke on attackI am sure he was doing it wrong but that is it's main function, it is used to split the site, flood one side and flash through it, so the dude had some idea of how it is supposed to work, it doesn't do much friendly fireDon't push your Phoenix wall if you don't have some kind of recon or space taking utility like a flash, a stun or a droneUnfortunately a wall like that can fuck your team's gameplan, coordinating is the hardest part in lower elo, try to ask your entry fraggers what is their plan, sometimes they are not dicks and will actually explain the way they play
>>1420167>>1420134nigga just aim your way to plat and work from therediamond is where functional preround strats and reactive play happenascendant is where midrounding happens
I'm certain that the reason I suck is because my desk isn't low enough and I'm not in optimal position for swinging my arm around.
>>1442033No I mean like this mf would block off the entrance of the site with his wall like he was trying to use it like cloves or brimstones smokes and we had to wait for it drop. dude also went 2 deaths for every kill for a k/d ratio and the one fucking time hes able to rush freely IE his ult this mf spends the whole time walking to not give away his position.>>1441932I'm not in bronze but I play alot of unrated and so you get a grabbag of people there and I'm not saying duelists themselves are the reason for losing but the whole idea of a duelist attracts the worst players who will be the reason for losing. They either never challenge angles and push or they peek fucking sight lines with no blinds and get plucked by a sniper or they rush out the second the gates drop and try to fight a whole team and get mowed down.Duelists tend to be a magnet for this kind of behavior at lower levels because shit players oftentimes see people drop 30 bombs or clutch up with duelists thanks to their kit so most of the time ur dead weight retard players will instalock duelists at lower levels and play recklessly because they have this mindset that they can clutch up and get ez kills even though it takes just as much setup as other types of agents.
>>1443402I feel like a lot of people go into this game thinking that it's like League, you pick a role and then "do that role."But 90% of this game is still just CS. If you can't aim for shit it really doesn't matter if you're playing a healer or a duelist you're still dead weight most of the time. Hell, abilities that deal damage are pretty rare in the entire movelist. You still have to use your gun to kill in most situations.
Did the Valorant community just decide it was okay for players at the bottom of the scoreboard to constantly be talking shit. Back in my day if you were at the bottom of the scoreboard and talking shit the admin fucking server muted you.
>>1443602Riot daddy said you can't say anything bad or you will get reported and banned.>bottom of the scoreboardThat doesn't always reflect your skill, you could be playing perfectly but the starts align and you get fucked one round after the other>you trow the perfect flash and get one tapped by the flashed ct>next round a teammate body blocks you getting your killed>next round you get hit and killed by a crazy flash lineup>next round you get killed by the Raze ult>next round a teammate makes noise behind you making the ct spray the smoke killing you>next round you get tagged by Sova's drone and lasered by his ult>next round 2 teammates get in and you get killed by the ct hiding in the corner the other guys passed by without clearingAnd so on, baiting your teammates is a easy solution for such situation, nothing wrong with it, they will get mad at your for bottomfragging anyways
>>1443681There's only so much bottom fragging someone can do in 13 rounds before it inevitably becomes their fault for not gitting gud.
I'm watching him.I'm watching him use Reyna E after every kill even in scenarios where it's useless and I know I will not be allowed to surrender this at 1-6.
>>1443804Well I alt-F4'd that one, mostly because of the aimgod Neon on the other team. They irritate me without even saying a word and you just know that the personality type to just run around with Jett and Neon and an Adderall prescription is one of the worst people you'd ever meet if you had to meet them.
>>1443681One time I was playing a game as harbor vs an enemy harbor and the enemy harbor killed me round 1. I told him it was on site and that this was now a blood feud to see who was the true harbor got a 3 day chat ban for that.
>>1443681I got a 3 day chat ban for saying "this team is so bad" but not only that but it also banned me from playing every fucking gamemode except deathmatch until the ban expired.Not fucking kidding
>>1443681My friend wiffed a pretty easy shot on mid, he typed "im retarded" in chat and he got a 1 day coms ban, both chat and voice.This is what happens when you allow women, niggers and faggots in your hobbies, you get your ass censored. Go ahead guys keep buying these $40 skins, keep eating shit out of Riot's asshole.
I try not to take Riot's retarded enforcement too seriously it's done purely because of SBI and the fact that it makes them "look good" to have all these banned players (even though they're just all the players who finally got fed up with a shitty team or edaters or the horrible community in general) since it's not like they're a serious company. Imagine playing ranked the way it exists where you can have two ragequitters and the game still somehow counts and more importantly despite us being down 4 rounds before the AFKers, now that the AKFers are gone, you still are gonna hit me with "winnable" and refuse to surrender? Are you fucking retarded? Am I going insane? Or am I the only sane man alive?
They always fight Clove's resurrect.They always do they never just back off and let her die, they always force a fight and die.
At that level now where it's all just aimdiff and no amount of strategy matters.
>>1371974I quit counter strike because I stagnated for years and couldn't improve a couple of months ago. Thanks I'll check out kovaaks if I ever choose to come back to cs.
>tfw it's another smurf vs smurf episode
I'm playing unranked exclusively and I'm happy
>>1357609why would you play this garbage
>>1446044Because CS2 is even worse. Much, much worse in fact. I wish we could go back to CSGO.At least Valorant doesn't have that many cheaters
Please stop flanking with me while I'm ratting, you are basically making me lose the ability to enjoy this shitty game.
Fracture is just so ass man, there's no mid to play so you're just getting 5-manned at whatever lane you took and hoping you can take one or two out so your team doesn't have to 4v5 retake.
>>1447680It's a fun gimmicky map. It just shouldn't be in ranked rotation. I love playing it in unrated
ironically, riddle order's players are probably gonna all get picked up for T1 teams because zeta and dfm need players while boom is fucking doomed since they'll never win against even FS
>>1447680fracture is literally the best mapto be honest, sounds like you're literally retarded
>>1449692huh.guess i was wrong.
Kyedae
>>1452481HUH.HOLY FUCK.
tenz and sacy retired for this btw
>team spreads out 2-1-2>naturally this means whichever site they don't hit the opposite one needs to rotate>niggers in at the site they do hit just keep dying, refuse to back off and try and retake>blames everyone else for not being on top of them all the time
>>1420134Reyna is such a crutch character esp on console
>they upgrading to UE5 soonLooks like my potato time in Valorant soon coming to an end
>>1451472Have you tried defending Arcade? it sucks when you are against competent enemies (personally I hate how regular smokes can't fill that shitty entry point).Same about A Hall, duelists (and chambers) love defending that part of the map for easy kills but after a stun or a flash you lose it, then you have 3 Ts running past the door and flooding your spawn 5 seconds later. As the other anon said it is fun as a gimmicky map but I hate it in comp, I hate defending on it.
>>1455111>but I hate it in compnigga it hasn't been in rotation for years
>>1455176And? I hate that map and I don't wanna play it in comp ever again. I am old, I don't need map rotations, I don't need a new map every act, I don't like when things change "for the sake of change" just because kids got bored of "the current thing"I don't need things to change for me to be interested in them again, I don't like change unless it is some kind of improvement, I could play Ascent and Heaven for the rest of my life without getting bored.
>>1455108I can't wait for the game to run worse and not look any better because of course it won't because it still needs to be just easy enough for 3rd-worlders to play.
>>1455108Whats the fucking point?
I HATE THE RIOT GAMES COMMUNITY AND THEIR BULLSHIT TROLLING ATTITUDE WE'RE 4-9 AND WE JUST LOST THE PISTOL ROUND ON THE SECOND HALF. SURRENDER.
>losers now trying to push the meme than Neon is "broken"
>>1456595Most duelists are broken, they should remove all the movement abilities from the gameNow that I'm thinking about it they could also get rid off all the ults, all the damage dealing abilities and all the info gathering abilitiesYou know what? all the agents should have the same kit, Brimstone' Q, Kay/o's Q (on another key of course) and one Brim smoke for every player, we should also make smokes extinguish mollies to stop faggots from spamming mollies on chokepoints and playing postplant molly lineups for the spawn or the opposite site
>>1456595I'm Gold 3 and I can only hit a moving Neon maybe 30% of the time. Neon is keeping me from Plat 1. Neon is the problem, I promise.
>"competitive" shooter>no replay system
https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1841537777860804846?t=gKYg6MVzGA9uFT5_ICDJow&s=19>Valorant has banned 3.6 million cheaters since their 2020 launch, averaging roughly one ban per 37 secondsThose are absolute shit numbers considering that at least half of those bans where bypassed
>>1456595TBF her ultimate is fucking overpowered. Never seen any other ability team wipe quite like it.>Insane DPS>Perfect 100% accuracy even while moving and sliding>Extremely long length>inb4 just headshot herThat can be said about literally anything in this game and the ults time to kill is not that much slower than a vandal headshot.
lmao