Day 19: Online Class/Game Review

The Cons with Valorant

 

Valorant, one of the most top hit game by far blowing out major games such as: Fortnite, League of Legends, Call of Duty Warzone, etc. But since it has it the top of the chart, the community have been encountering many problems and bugs with the game. Even I've encountered them. So far, Riot games have been working hard to try to fix/patch the roots of the problems. I'm here today explain the 3 biggest problems with Valorant

1. FPS DROPS & GAME STUTTERS

Valorant player have noticed bizarre frame rate drops and game stutters during gunfights or after the use of abilities. The massive frames drop ans stutters makes its impossible to kill anyone in the area. (Stutters are causes from the lack of fps in a game.) Riot programmer and anti-cheat lead "Arkem" provided players with a brief update on what to expect going forwards with the game's frame rate.

"Arkem" also shared that removing frame drops and bettering FPS for players is a priority for the Valorant dev team. He said: “The game will probably remain CPU bound for the foreseeable future but we do want to remove frame drops and improve the frame rate on high-end gaming PCs.”
 
Players have been sharing many surprising theories as to why their frames have been dropping in the beta, with some even claiming that the "ping system" had been a cause. However, Riot will likely resolve many of the frustrating issues before the game's full release later in the year.

2. The agent "Cypher"

Cypher is an amazing agent in Valorant. He provides so much to the team with his camera and trip mines. However, players have been using exploits with him. 

Firstly, you can place a gun onto of his camera and use it to kill enemies.

In this clip you can see how cypher camera with a gun can be used.

Secondly, Cypher camera can be place in walls or out of the map. 
In this image, you can see the potential of information you can give to your team with this cypher camera exploit.

 Here a clip of another cypher camera exploit. 

 

 

 

Riot so far have announce that they will be fixing all the bugs/exploit with cypher but many players are still finding a way to exploit with him. 

3. The broken run boost with the agent "Jett" & "Viper".


As players figures out all the unique things to do with each agents, some have found a bug with 2 agents in the game, Jett & Viper.

What is a run boost?

Basically for those of you who don't know, run boosting is when you stand on a teammates head, both of you run in the same direction at the same time and then when you jump, you jump about 3x further than normal. It was mainly used in "CS:GO" as the developers allowed it as a way of fast travel in the game.

With Valorant run boost, its not a 3x further distance but a distance of 10x. It is so frustrating to play with as you can't see them because of how fast they are going.

In this clip, you can see Viper run boosting the Jett with her abilities in a practice game.

Heres another clip but used in an actual game.

From these two clips, you can see the endless possibilities with this "run boost strategy". Riot so far have not announce any fix to this bug yet. But the players hope they fix this sooner than later as this will ruin their game.