Valorant Celebrates 1st Birthday, Touts 14 Million Active PC Players 6k6w6g

Valorant is celebrating its first birthday this week, and like a proud parent, Riot Games reveals that the tactical first-person shooter has logged over 14 million active players on PC and half a billion games played in just its first year. “After a record-breaking closed beta debut and successful global launch, VALORANT quickly established itself as a global fan-favorite, emerging [...]

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Valorant Changes Up Split Map With Patch 2.01 n64o

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Last week’s major Valorant update saw the debut of the newest agent, Yoru, and the start of Season 2 among other things. Patch 2.01, while smaller in comparison, introduces significant structural changes to the Split map to make it more balanced for the attacking team. “This Split update is focused around improving attacker options on the map, as well as [...]

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Valorant Act 2 Launches Tomorrow With A New Agent, Deathmatch Mode, And Battle 3t45g

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Riot Games has just announced that they will be releasing Valorant – Act 2 tomorrow. Act 2 will come with a new Deathmatch mode and a new Battle reward track. The Battle will cost 1000 VP and will feature the new Glitchpop gun skins, gun buddies, sprays, player cards, player titles, and Radianite points. “Glitchpop was an opportunity for us [...]

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Valorant Game Designer Talks About Game Balancing Process l484g

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Maintaining game balance is a never-ending task for PvP game developers, especially competitive ones like Valorant. Riot Games, however, has a different approach when it comes to rolling out balance changes. The studio says that they don't rely solely on metrics and data but also consider how the players feel about a particular Agent. “Game balance is something that every [...]

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Valorant Has Officially Launched Worldwide With A New Hero, Launch Issues Currently Being Fixed 3l1f3r

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Valorant, Riot Games’ highly-awaited competitive online shooter, has officially launched worldwide. As expected, player have hit a few snags as soon as the servers came online. These include error codes, server instability, problems with unlocking battle rewards and skins, and missing Valorant Points purchased during closed beta. Riot Games acknowledged the problems on Twitter saying that they’re on the [...]

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Riot Announces Valorant Official Launch Date And Deep Dives Into Vanguard Anti-Cheat System 2o2y10

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Riot Games’ Valorant is finally launching early next month after nearly two months in closed beta. The studio announced that the highly-awaited competitive shooter will officially be opening its doors on June 2nd. The announcement was made via a new dev update video and a lengthy blog with some pertinent launch information. The blog also goes into detail about the [...]

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Over 8K Cheaters Caught By Valorant Anti-Cheat Engine, Banned Players Are Being Very Salty 2m6p46

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In spite of the community’s qualms about the Vanguard anti-cheat system and background process employed by Valorant, it seems to be doing a good job in weeding out players with a blatant disregard for the rules. According to a tweet from Riot Games Anti-Cheat Engineer Phillip Koskinas, 8,873 have been banned for cheating since the game started closed beta tests [...]

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Valorant Marketing Head Says Partner Streamers Aren’t Being Paid 1j694r

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Earlier this month, Riot Games’ shooter Valorant broke the Twitch record for the most number of hours watch in one day for a single game. Twitch streamers raked in a total of 34 million hours on April 7th and peaked at over 1.7 million concurrent viewers even though the game is still in a limited closed beta. The record-breaking [...]

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Riot Games Rolls Out Guidelines For Valorant Esports Tournaments 3v6ui

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With Riot Games marketing Valorant as a competitive shooter, we’ll probably be seeing the game enter the eSports scene sometime after its official launch. In anticipation of this, Riot has laid down a number of ground rules for tournament organizers. It includes a requirement that the “Show Blood” option be turned off for all broadcasted eSports tournaments. Riot has also [...]

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Riot Games Talks About Valorant’s Server Tech And Anti-Wallhack Measures 4s5y3c

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Riot Games talks about the measures they’re taking to ensure that Valorant, their competitive shooter, will run as smoothly as possible and will be protected from hackers and cheaters in a new video and dev blog. To make sure that matches run smoothly and improve latency, Riot created their own ISP called Riot Direct to reduce the number of [...]

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