I have an AMD Ryzen 7 8845 w/ Radeon 780M Graphics and 16 GB of RAM. What changes do /vm/ recommend me to improve the quality of my games in ranked?Also, Valorant thread. What are your lore implications for the Act 3?
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>>1747423Should I turn the buffering on? Sometimes my WiFi doesn't work well.
>>1747426Just put it on medium if the ping problem is not that great.
>>1747411I have a amd fx6300, a amd Rx 550, and 8 GBs of ram. I make zero excuses for my terrible performance in matches. I am almost at max rank because I am simply that good at the valorant.
any updated tips and tricks?
>>1763567phenom2 rx470 8gb ram ** 60hz monitor **the monitor almost makes it unplayable, everything else is fineI can easily tell when Im playing against skilled people and when Im playing against people with 300+ hz screensits night and dayif its a skilled person with good pc, its unplayable, you just get insta-shot everywhere before you can see them on your screeneverything else is manageable
What were they thinking when they gave deathmatch a REQUIRED playercount of 12? That's far too many people in a free for all mode on most maps, there's no breathing room.
>Thinking about picking up Omen>DISABLED BECAUSE OUR DIVERSITY HIRES CANT CODE FOR SHIT!!!!
>replays coming in september cool>MFA WILL STOP SMURFING AND BOOSTING ONES AND FOR ALL!!!!!11111oh noohnononononothis will do fucking nothing and riot will declare the problem definitively solved
>>1747411>What are your lore implications for the Act 3?New map is set in a medieval stonebrick castle, so that makes me think the new agent will be anglo/european.
>>1747411>What are your lore implications for the Act 3Sage is going to marry me.
>>1790296Sage is a monk isn't she
>>1791265she's bout to shaolin flip into holy matramony with me.
GUYS I DID IT I GOT MY FIRST ACE! And it was a clutch ace with fucking Killjoy!
>>1790296 She is so beautiful not like that baboon Raze.
>fight someone who's got a vandal/sheriff/ghost>they snap headshot me 90% of the time>fight someone who has any other gun>I can eke out a win around 55%, or just run away What the fuck is going on here? Why do these assholes never buy a marshall even though it has one tap headshots while also being cheaper than a vandal?
>>1804934Because with a Vandal when their triggerbot doesn't activate because they put it at 80% activation to avoid getting banned they can still spray you down.
how did gen.g lose to literal nobodies?
I picked up Breach since Raze, Reyna and Neon are for faggots, Omen and Yoru are for teenagers and Astra is for nobody. How do you play this guy? I feel like I have to read the minds of the enemies AND my teammates. If I hit a group with util I barely have enough time to jump out and kill one guy before the others recover and retaliate.
>chink>from germany???
>>1809858Welcome to the world of match fixing
>>1811135The point of the ultimate is to be a an opener for the faster duelist to pick. I don't recommend using it alone or with one teammate left.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone buy a frenzy or an ares and it's been a while since the last time I saw an odin pick.
new map is going to be aids
>>1821536that shit is just Anubis bro
>they used of their knowledge of 5 years to design new map>full of ratting spots>trash angles were you can get shot from everywhere >almost impossible to retake sites >bangable walls >horrible texturing for some reasonThey have learnt all the wrong things then lol also I'm pretty sure most of the devs that designed most of the past maps already got laid off
Forget the judge, corrode is the most ares abuseable map that could possibly be made. And that's a good thing, fuck vandalfags.
>>1823916Ratting is good. Rats are the only ones who know just how lousy with hackers this game is.
>ghost getting a longer draw animationprobably needed to happen all things considered but the sheriff needs competition
So I end seson p3 80rr, play 5 placements, win 4, one match mvp, and the one I lost I was team mvp and I'm placed g3 50rr? are you fucking with me? I won 4 fucking games, needed just one to get diamond last season, so if not this I would've been like d1 half-ish and instead I'm fucking deranked to g3, for winning 4 out of 5 matches, fuck riot faggots I hope they all burn in hell, what a fucking bullshit
>>1829008>such a shame... now go buy the new bundle so your grind is more enjoyable!
Odin being meta is a funny change of pace but you just know the devs finna plaster metal plates all over corrode.
>>1829008How are battle score and RR supposed to take into account difficult to quantify contributions such as KJ deterring a team from even approaching a site or Viper stalling a chokepoint for 30 seconds straight? Like, nobody expects any given lockdown to actually hit someone, it just swings the round entirely in your favor. But how can you measure the effect of something like that?
>>1832588At the end of the day, it’s still a shooter game
>>1832588win rounds, win matches
『ZETA Syouta DEBUT! MURASH Watch Party.VALORANT CHALLENGERS LEAGUE JAPAN 2025SPLIT.3 ADVANCE STAGE DAY1VTFAV VS CGZDLTT VS BCS, MRG VS CGZ』▽JastcattingVampire SurvivorsVALORANThttps://www.twitch.tv/kato_junichi0817
I can't find any Neons to hump anymore...
People take spike rush, team deathmatch, swiftplay and even escalation a lot more seriously than unrated and I don't know how to feel about that.
>>1838823Most of new players use unrated to quickly level up, also the fact that in unrated the games are longer plays to it, in shorter modes people just go all out
>vandalbabbies want odin nerfs just because it can be good against vandals on certain spots on a single map >they refuse to adapt their passive playstyles and continue trying to use vandals to beat odins at their own game instead of proactively using vandals to shoot odins in the places and positions where they are at a disadvantageo i am laffin, this is like saying the operator needs nerfing because the bucky loses against it at range
>>1841297Valorant players are genuinely retarded, they think any kill that wasn’t a headshot “doesn’t count” and constantly cry about “run & gun”
I think I may be addicted, I uninstalled the game at monday to take a bit of a break and installed it back today :/
>>1846080It is designed to be as addicting as possible
I'm gonna get Fade as my next agent because I want wallhack recon but I don't like messing around with Sova arrow trajectories. Any tips and advice for playing her?
>>1847101her eye is far more annoying to use than the sova dart
>tfw got a cheater that peaked Radiant in EP 9 banned because he went crazy with his triggerbot in a swiftplay
>>1847470One of the rare moments that the anticheat works and only when it's fucking retardedly obvious.
I just get on DM nowadays to report the top fraggers
>tfw stopped buying skins to fund my perfume addictionwe worried about the wrong frags now
Okay, Fade sucks. She's completely beholden to teammates to get kills off of her util. >throw haunt >gimped range and huge appearance make it super easy to find>throw prowler>very easy to kill and the nearsight duration is too short to capitalize on by yourself>throw seize>does jackshit to prevent someone holding a position from just shooting anyone who approaches>throw ult>anyone hit just shoots you on sight, useless for frontal assaultsSeize is the worst grenade in the game, worse than clove nade. Why the fuck did they limit the range? Were they afraid of the potential epic lineup to crossmap prowler combo? I'm just gonna play Gekko.
>Clove, if you ever go freelance, do not mention the immortality. Your clients will take advantage. I certainly would.What did Tejo mean by this?
>>1860804great source of donated organs, assuming no stds
>My face when people actually use the "replace username with generic placeholder" featureWhat are they afraid of, other gamers making fun of their lame ass username???
>>1868847there is a little rotation of users here in latam
>got a red screen >in a freaking iron/bronze lobbie
Omen is STILL able to use ult to pick up a dropped spike then cancel while keeping it. As if he wasn't good enough.
>>1870154Makes sense, newcomers don't know which cheats are safe to use.
>got 3 axe melee skins at the daily storeFully random store btw
he made it...
what am i supposed to as kj on attack, just watch the flank? because every time i do that my teammates just get completely flummoxed by the first chokepoint they come across. they just stand there holding a sightline no defender is going to walk into because they dont have toeven if i catch and frag a lurker, they still wont rotate until the 30 second mark
I see why this community hates "ratting," it's the easiest way to tell when someone's hacking.
>>1895633Thats all you're really meant to do until the spike goes down.
>>1895633Shoot your gun
>>1895633You're essentially a duelist with some trips that alert you to nearby enemies and an ult that absolutely decimates the round once the spike goes down.
It took me until level 40 but I finally did it, I got my first thrifty round.
has rank value gone up overtime or somethingi keep getting people with ascendant/diamond buddies in my silver games lol
valorant? more like FOULORANT!!!!!1111
Started playing maybe a week ago and I've enjoyed it so far. I'm no longer bottom frag and I'm getting a good amount of kills in games (10+!), although I still need to figure out basic tactics. Might try ranked soon.
>>1916868who is your valfu?
>>1916871jett makes my pp hard but i have considered buying the danish girl because she is cute too
If you are not aiming like at least the average immortal player, you are playing a completely different game.
If you aim like a diamond player, you might as well just play death match
i play kj and never use my abilities
>>1920428I don't even know what Immortal aim in any game is supposed to be anymore now that cheating is just a fact of life in every single multiplayer FPS and even in many LAN tournaments.Back in my day CS pros having an over-50 HS% was considered godlike aim.
>Few friends asked me to pick up this game>Say yes because I want to play games with my friends>Just remembered after installing it that they're all super casual, terrible at communicating or working together, and one regularly bitches at any randoms we get even when they're literally doing better than him and have done nothing whatsoever to warrant itI think I fucked up.
>>1927755>>Just remembered after installing it that they're all super casual, terrible at communicating or working together, and one regularly bitches at any randoms we get even when they're literally doing better than him and have done nothing whatsoever to warrant itand i love it. wouldn't want to spend my friday night any other way
>>1925534Diamonds hit immortal like shots 20% of the time. Rest 80% they shoot like gold.
New season, back to the treadmill for the free shit.The classic skin at the end just seems uninspired even with palette swaps, although the soda cup is cute.
>New to Valorant>Haven't really played shooters in awhile>Feel like I'm fucking washed>Getting onetapped constantly and struggling to make top 3 just in DMs>So buckbroken I open the tracker site to check ranks and see what I'm up against>Entire DM lobby is ImmortalOh, maybe I'm not washed after all. I still don't really get gunfights in this game. I haven't played CS in a hot minute but my gun/character both feels more unwieldy and unresponsive than I ever remember it in that game and I feel like I land a fair amount of headshots that I don't really deserve. Do I just suck or is there also a delay on becoming fully accurate even when you counterstrafe?
>>1772569none at all
>>1747426works fine for me
>peaked gold 3 soloque and stopped playing for two years>know that I can be better if I had decent teammates>come back and try to relearn game>back to the Bronze ghetto>game keeps putting me in with no-commers and people who have seemingly never played a video game in their lives>enemy teams alwasy have headshot only smurfs and te occasional cheaterI managed to get into silver, but I am not good enough to solo carry every game. Even when I have bad games, there are worse performers on my team and we get steamrolled. why the FUCK do I play
Agent: DiceRole: ControllerTheme: Time manipulation, shapes rounds by bending seconds.Basic Abilities1. Fast ForwardTrap that banishes whoever steps on it into a timeout zone for 5 seconds.After the duration, they reappear at the same spot.2. RewindSends whoever steps on the zone 5 seconds back into a past position.3. 555On activation, for 5 seconds, all status changes (damage, healing, buffs/debuffs) are delayed by 5 seconds.Ultimate: "Unpredictable"Rewinds the entire game by 10 seconds.No exceptions: player positions, health, abilities, consumables, spike state and map conditions are all reset.A total redo of the last 10 seconds, the definition of unpredictability.Ultimate stack resolution:00:00 dice 1 ults -00:10 -00:09 dice 2 ults since "00:01" never existed the clock runs back to "-00:19" instead of to what would have been "one second into a future that had never happened" and it would look to players as if the game had rewound nineteen seconds but to the characters no one had seen how the future after "-00:19" had been erased.Ultimate voicelines:team: "Insanity is repetition."enemy: "We’re all mad here."Voicelines:"everyone wants to try again until they do""time only goes forward to you""it's usually cheap to think, buy it" "you thought it was a good idea again""this failed but you wanted to know how""you won but you wanted to erase evidence""funny, you load your weapons"
>we get replays before a 1v1 game mode
>>1942923never cook again
Holy the new Champions is hot garbage
>>1946026I suspect the lack of game modes is because the devs don't want to spread the players too thin, although being able to queue for multiple modes at the same time would alleviate this.
I don't know who these teams or pro players are, what am I supposed to do with these pick'ems?
>>1948184Just ask ChatGPT to do them for you
>>1947395it gets much better after its gone from the shop
>>1949929Oh so that's who's ruining every multiplayer shooter these days.
low ranks are so hard to get out of and its motly because there is little to no communication, but that can be surpassed if people had at least two deceased braincells to rub together. how is a site with a deadlock, a raze and a fade letting anyone into site? I try to get some comms and no one says shit, I sperg out and one of them gets on mic to say dont be so salty. WTF are you doing in ranked??? our entry is lurking, our other entry is not using util.... how can people play this game??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? go play unrated you waste of skin.
>>1946026its not even a proper replay system. you cant see other player's games LMAO
>>1952673Classic Riot"Hey guys, you want a replay system so you can look at your own gameplay, right?"
>>1952673If you could then people would see that Vanguard doesn't work and then their only marketing point that still works wouldn't work anymore.
>>1952671Comms wouldn't make a difference at all lol those people clearly have no idea how to play the game at all. The Champions season is attracting a lot of even more retards into the game lately
>>1954135Gotta love the enemy players with perfect timing every round (they're bronze btw) or the classic "go all out with the cheats first half, then toggle on and off on the second half"
>>1954145My favorite one is "cheat so hard for 12 rounds then turn them off and be obviously dogshit for another 12 rounds until you turn them back on again and win."I live in the South too so this extremely obvious shit actually WORKS on the sub-90-IQ spics and nigs constantly seem to be on my team. No wonder their countries are such shitholes.
>be on defense side>we are 5v4 because enemy have an afk>all we have to do is chill, not do any dumb plays and wait for them and it's ez win>dumbass Fade decides to go look for them every round and dies like a retardThey need to delete this game from existence
>>1954135You can still see other player POV's if they were in your match, no? You just can't watch other players and being able to watch better players and see how they do shit is like half the point of a replay system.
>>1952671>>1954137Gamesense without mechanics is useless. Get to immortal to apply the game sense
>>1954750This.When pro coaches recruit they look for good aimers. Game sense can be taught, aim can't.
I have never seen a decent Astra player. So I have decided to BECOME the Astra you ran into that one time on unrated who wasn't completely useless. It will not be easy given how clunky she is, wish me luck.
love when it happens
>>1958856That lineup is so common that I wonder if that entire choke shouldn't be redesigned.
>>1959495he is a jett he should have been on a off angle.but i guess he wanted to save his dash for repeek
>>1925534>Back in my day CS pros having an over-50 HS% was considered godlike aim.Why do you say that like it isn't still godlike? There are still pro CS players with around 50 HS% that are renowned for their aim.
I really hate how they keep pushing for Phoenix as the main character
>>1965772black lives matter chud
guardian feels better than vandal
>assists: top 1>average damage: top 1>KAST: top 1>clutch: top1 >ACS: 7th
How are you using replay system?I try to see if my fakes worked. And how enemy reacts to the noise I make etc
>>1974413Catching the already obvious wallhackers
>que unrated to warm up>5 minutes of nothing>que deathmatch>still nothing>change server and get in a dm>ENTIRE LOBBY are bots using classicsfelt really weird.
>that one girl that waits until end of match to use mic and just to say gg and "impress" everyone by revealing we were playing with a woman all along
I followed a pickems guide written by a games journalist and got less than 50% correct on the first round. How could this happen to me?
how do i get good at this game? im coming from apex (which is shit now). i like neon but this is clearly a very different game from apex and i cant just spam movement everywhere
>>1972447I find it's a good way to practice for headshots.
>>1978995only spray close quarters. learn to strafe cancel. aim head level, preaim and prefire. be patient. apex is all about the quick movement, valo and cs way less so.
>>1978964Welcome to the world of match fixing
>>1978995I'm gonna be straight to you: just cheat
>>1978964>written by a games journalistthere's your problem read 'The Signal and the Noise' by Nate Silver instead
Chamber or Yoru next agent? Either way, it will take a few rounds of being supremely awful at the character before I get the motions down.
>>1984723chamber is very simple. you have to be aggressive on defence unlike other sentis. on attack you should know how to lurk. chamber is useless without good aimyoru has very high ceiling and a learning curve. he is insanely versatile.
>>1984723Yoru is the "holy shit I'm so fucking good at this game I am outplaying the shit out of you right now. I think there are characters that does what he does but easier but Yoru has a good flashbang and his tricks can really psyche an opponent out.Chamber is all about aim, that's all he does. All of his abilities are about getting good weapons earlier than his teammates and giving him a slight edge in holding a position. If you're doing well, expect to be asked for weapons a lot since you have a revolver and Op in your toolkit by default.
why does discussion of this game seem completely dead not just here but even on spaces like leddit?just seems weird compared to how much the game has blown up over the years
>>1991073I don't really think it's that dead on reddit, it's just that game subreddits are a lot less active than they used to be.I assume the discussion is on twitter or discord instead.
>>1991073i don't know but it makes me feel like im playing a childrens videogamehell maybe i am and not saying the anons are adults or something but theyre still more respectable than the average valorant player
>>1991073>lost 7 million players compared to last years’ Champions The game is just stale af, the ranked experience has never been worse, last few agents have been underwhelming, still no improvement on maps, match fixing scandal, huge lack crease in cheaters, many content creators just quitting or going more into variety, underwhelming 5 year anniversary, trash agent balance (took them like 2 years to rework Harbor lmao) the game’s image is just fucked
>>1991073The game appeals to a very specific kind of young person who is "Tumblr woke (likes shallow diversity where everyone is still hot even if they're not showing skin)" and if you're not that you're here because:-you specifically like CS with character abilities instead of universal util-you heard that Vanguard is the best anti-cheat and you're so god damn tired of cheating in online games-you heard there's a lot of girls playing this game and you find The Sims and MMOs to be too boring to be worth the effort
>>1993195A bunch of my friends also play it because they're scared of playing CS and see Valorant as a more casual alternative.
>Riot had to get Ohnepixel to inflate their trash 2025 Champions numbers Sad!5044msxvk2
rate the opening ceremony
Been wanting to fuck Pansy for 9 years now
>>1994492let me ask the expert while you're herehas she been getting fatter or thinner?
>>1747411>be me>read through thread>learn that Valorant is infested with jeets and ESLs Not my cup of tea!
so happy that ADHD faggot lost and cried like a lil bitch. would make us look bad had he won
>>1993882it's the opposite he's trying to leech
>>1995509He's way more viewers on average than most of the big valorant streamers, he also has his own CS pro team. He clearly was paid by Riot to try and bring in more viewers. It's plain to see that the game is not bring it in the money/viewers/players they were expecting to get this year
>>1747411What's the lore implications of getting my account unbanned?
>>1994618That's just 4chan.
good finals>>1995607based retard. all these cs nerds do is open cases and talk about valorant >>1946026>they made it customs onlylet me queue this fucking game mode already
>>1995719what's wrong with skins?
>>1996925You are trying to argue with a Riot cultist, just don't
Welp, the new agent is the most braindead, retard-catering addition yet.>rendezvous was too complicated for retards.... so now you get 2 of them!!!!!1111>invisible seize landmine... your just supposed to KNOW its there>cuck most of the roster outright when they try to entry, no skill required. Points for originality I guess?>Ult is basically: ME NOT WANT USE BRAIN, ME WANT SHOOT GUNWho else gonna learn how to main Breach just to make all the kids trying the new agent cry?
>>1997508yeah its looking like a broken addition and necessary choice which is really stupid. I hate HAVING to have a certain agent in a comp and this one seems like theyre trying to cater to casuals even harder. maybe they are trying to bring down the util execute visual garbage, but its a really lazy way to do it.so hes a nullifying agent, ok.... we already have Kayo, but now its retard proof so who cares about lineups. theres already a seize ability... so heres a new one I guess.it thematically doesnt even make sense for him to have a teleport. like why? what does teleporting have to do with nullifying util? the nullifying orbs are at least dependant on where you place them and activating them with knowledge and intuition, but they could be balanced even further.the ult is the ultimate NO U at the click of a button.
>>1999216>what does teleporting have to do with nullifying util? Nullify Sova droning you out when your E isn't active by warping away.
The last new agent they added for me was Clover, what have they added since and how cancer is it?
>>1999571>VysePeople were scared she would be broken but everyone forgot about her when it turned out Cypher and KJ are still the king and queen of sentinels.>TejoStupidly OP on release, he has the best molotovs in the game which eventually got a righteous nerf. He still has the best scouter drone by the way but don't tell anybody. >WaylayA strange mishmash of Jett, Chamber and Neon, her shtick is jumping in, hopefully getting a kill then teleporting back out and then all you have left is a conc nade. Largely forgotten because she doesn't do any specific thing as well as Jett, Chamber or Neon.>VetoFreshly released. The initial impression is that he's buttfucking broken; he has 2 rendezvous anchors, an alarm bot except better and most importantly, a projectile nullication sphere that ruins any attempt at using util to enter a site; His ult makes him immune to ALL utility for the ENTIRE ROUND... for only 7 ult points . If that wasn't enough, he also gets a combat stim and out-of-combat health regen. Veto will probably be nerfed after a few months of everyone pointing out how freaking obviously imba he is, but we all know Riot is doing this shit on purpose to tempt players back in with the allure of easy wins in ranked in order to revive interest in the game.
>>1999846i tried waylay the other day, her kit is really weird>A strange mishmash of Jett, Chamber and Neon >she doesn't do any specific thing as well as Jett, Chamber or Neon.is very accurate. two abilities devoted to her dive in/jump back sucks up a lot of her kit, which is too much without fully committing to that dive playstyle
What went wrong?
>>2003360Not enough porn
>>1988102>>1988693I picked Yoru, then proceeded to win 6 games in a row with him, game 7 was lost because of an afk; then I won another 3 games with Yoru before finally losing fair and square in game 10. My favorite trick is throwing out a gatecrash in plain sight and baiting an enemy into camping my tele for 20+ seconds, effectively taking them out of the fight while my team takes site on the other side of the map. How the fuck is Yoru still allowed to have 2 gatecrashes?
>>2005501>baiting an enemy into camping my tele for 20+ secondsThat's pretty funny>How the fuck is Yoru still allowed to have 2 gatecrashes?Because the enemy can just break it, not like it happens in your elo
Your bros I have some bad news… lol
The map changes look good but everything else...>nerfing astra when nobody plays her>nerfing waylay when nobody plays her>nerfing fade when shes already gimped compared to other initiators>nerfing viper again just for the hell of it>piledriving yoru into earth's core>buffing the vandal and spectre when they are already the most purchased guns by a country mile>nerfing the stinger (lol, lmao even)What the fuck are you guys doing. >"no, see, we nerfed omen, neon and cypher like everyone wanted so its not a shit update"THAT DOESNT MEAN ANYTHING WHEN YOU MAKE THE ENTIRE ROSTER SHITTIER ALL AT ONCE YOU RETARDS. OMEN, NEON AND CYPHER ARE STILL GOING TO DOMINATE. >"lol jus learn to main chamber and veto XDDDDDDDDDDDDD"Riot, I...
>>2009332All this is just to appease to Tenz, im not trolling
>>2009332The Spectre was pretty bad when I was playing 9 months ago and there really wasn't a reason to buy it over the Stinger.
What's the fastest way to level up so I can play Comp?
>>2009652Unrated
>>2009665Thank you, and what rank do I need to get to not be a bum?
Shills deployed. This is gonna be a PR nightmare for Riot lmao
>>2010646Radiant
>neon nuked from orbit AGAINwhy do riot hate fun
I guessed most of my pickems wrong and still wound up scoring in the top 7%.How'd you guys do?
they need to add a finisher where the victim gets flushed down a toilet
jett reyna clove chamber jett reyna clove chamber jett reyna clove chamber jett reyna clove chamber
How do I sell my account? It has several skins
>>2025077>ah this feels so much better yesTenz after booting up the game first thing after waking up in his chair after his 2 hour sleep from his last 12 hour Valorant session
>>2025077you forgot someone anon