Valorant is deep, complex and it always pushes you to do your best and become a better player. It has everything to offer great and intense matches, but it also requires and level of cooperation and commitment that won’t appeal all players.
Valorant isn’t trying to appeal to everyone. It’s trying to appeal to a hyper focused slice of the hardcore shooter fanbase. If that sounds like you, you will absolutely love it.
Valorant leans heavily on its predecessors, but makes use of established schools of thought and the unique novelties of its Agents to create a fresh take on tactical shooters, even if its launch is a little slim. For years, there hasn't been a fight for Counter-Strike's throne; but in Valorant, Riot Games has found a valiant contender.
Valorant is likely to make a big impression on anybody that enjoys competitive shooters, even if it is a little light on content at the moment. Genre newcomers will need to stay patient to push past the initial difficulty curve, but its exhilarating combination of gunplay and agent abilities is accessible enough that reaping its rewards shouldn’t take too long.
Valorant doesn't stray too far from Riot Games' plethora of hero-focused titles. With the fusion of high-level gunplay and hero mechanics, Valorant is both highly competitive and unfortunately too highly skill focused for casual players to enjoy.
Valorant considers a standard match as best of thirteen rounds. Thirteen rounds! You don’t know which team is dominating in three rounds, Valorant? Because I sure do. It’s the team running rampant all over the map. Your Spike Rush mode is only slightly better at best of seven, but even that can drag. It’s all in service of the eSports focus. Anything quicker would be too fast for dramatic shows. Riot has made eSports their bread and butter, so it’s no surprise that Valorant is heavily skewed to that audience. Gone are the days of 1v1 arena fights in LAN tournaments with fullbright settings. One match. One result. One mistake and you were done. There were no upset wins or swings. You did a looping run from the railgun spawn and the keg of health and you didn’t dare deviate because it could all be over with one high-ping hit. Anyway, I’m old. Valorant has made me realize that I don’t recognize the landscape I grew up with. I’ll let the younger generation deal with Valorant’s sequel.
One of the worst competetive shooters ever created but alright game.
Game features:
- Anti-cheat that mostly works yet it's capable of abusing your PC when you don't even play Valorant by using every possible % of your CPU and RAM
- Probably tons of smurfs, cringe duos, toxics, crybabies, boosting services, and a lot of actually stupidity.
- Rank system doesn't seem to be adjusted properly due matchmaking sometimes giving a solo ascendant atleast 1 plat in team during ranked. Also sometimes there's actually no difference in Diamond and Gold players even in overall stats, but atleast golds aren't playing in something considered "high-elo"
- "Quality" gun control, spraying mostly rng, shooting while moving mostly rng, first bullet accuracy mostly rng. If you don't hit first 5 bullets just hide or die, spraying and praying while crouching is not working if you hit something it's just luck but most likely hurts eyes of everybody watching.
- Abilities are mostly good, but beware that most new characters are overpowered for most of time, while Riot decides to nerf a character with lowest pickrate because dunno don't care.
If you actually enjoy this game congrats, if you play for fun it can be a good time but in reality if you try your best on ranked, you most likely gonna get smashed (atleast on Diamond 1 - Immortal 1) by teammates not capable of talking, random dudes headshoting you while in the air, an random french man cusing at you in his native language, a random game crash, a random server issues, a random update that nerfs characters that don't need it. Riot focuses to not reward skilled players so much it actually hurts, if you want to hit immortal you need teammates and time to just play. (doesn't work if you play by using steering wheel without monitor.) I played this game for a long time and never can stay for long, i come back hoping for anything good but always leave, the gameplay just ****. The nice thing is community, for the half of the time it's toxics, smurfs, cringe edaters,creeps, random woman that screams at you, random man that screams at you in some random language, random child that does all of above but with irritating voice. Atleast the other half can grant you the nicest time of your life starting from having fun on all of the modes to even starting enjoy ranked even when losing due to nice atmosphere and having fun. In the end this gameplay for an competetive game ****, all that matters is your teammates and way you approach being abused by the broken gameplay. (edit: i don't want to start a topic about how broken are rating points in this game it's just not worth it. If you know how broken it's in League of Legends, it's broken here too, just don't care or do. I don't give a ****.)
SummaryA 5v5 character-based tactical shooter. Imagine this: tactical shooter meets hypernatural powers. Everyone’s got guns and a unique set of abilities, so how do you beat someone with the speed of wind? Use your own moves to outplay them and beat them to the shot. VALORANT is a game for bold strategists who dare to make the unexpected play,...