I am sorry but I also want to post my feedback to your game. I was super excited when I heard that Riot is finally launching a new game for competetive players like me. So when I finally installed Valorant the dissapointment was big. Let me explain my points: I was expecting something really new and worth to be played in 2020. But what we got is basically just a 80% Counter Strike Rip Off that was released 20 years ago already. And then you mixed in 19% of Overwatch (because this competitor had a new idea) and 1% of your own game League of Legends. I mean honestly it is already an ingame joke. Brimstone looks like Gangplank. Viper looks like Akali. Omen looks like Reaper from Overwatch, which some Jax face. But this is all still ok for me. The worst point in your game is actually, that it is no fun. Sorry to say, your game is no fun. I am just a mediocre player an I am struggeling heavily with this whole "walk around a corner - BÄM dead". I have friends to whom I honestly had to say: "The game is ok, but not for you, because honestly you are too bad for it and there are so much more skilled players, you will not enjoy it at all, because you are dead before you even realise what happened." so they do not even install the game. Coming back to what is actually bad about this game: The gameplay is stolen by a 1999 released game The graphic is not worth to mention in 2020. Compare your game to Battlefield or Call of Duty ( I am aware that you want to attract as many players as possible. People with bad computers can play your game due to the bad graphics and small children will play it as well, because the violence does not look that bad if you put everything in comic style, but please accept the fact, that your graphics are bad Do something about the AFK thing. Every second game does not start because somebody does not pick a Champion. Meaning in the end that 9 players were wasting 70 seconds by looking at the blank screen. First of all you could reduce the 70 seconds easily to 30 seconds. Still plenty of time to click on one champion. And second even if somebody does not select a Champ cant there just be put the next player in there to pick and then start the game? Instead of everybody has to go through everything again? Same for AFK players. Super annoying. Actually happens I would say in 25% of games. Why do you auto remove this AFK player but then never add a new player to the game? In ranked ok, but in normal games that actually nobody cares about? Why not just add the next player? I would not mind to be added to a different game that is already up and running. Ok I will not be the MVP and have to chose a Champion because others are already taken, but honestly who cares?? Your game has a super high skill cap so if I play Gangplank or Reaper actually does not matter if I am super skilled with my mouse. These skills that they have are a nice to have but if you cant shoot you will not have any fun at all in the game anyway. So yea my text might look a bit as a rage text and I know that the usual trolls will come up again now and tell me to play something different if I dont like the game. Just wanted to make a point that for Riot Games in 2020 I was expecting something BIG and not a "oh we are actually quite late to this whole shooter market, lets copy everything of the most successful games, put it in a mixer, call it Valorant and release it as THE THING that everybody was waiting for". I am not even mad, just sad by the result. Still hoping that the next game you will release might be a good one. Peace Out

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Your game is Bad

Maquinna

I am sorry but I also want to post my feedback to your game. I was super excited when I heard that Riot is finally launching a new game for competetive players like me. So when I finally installed Valorant the dissapointment was big. Let me explain my points:
I was expecting something really new and worth to be played in 2020. But what we got is basically just a 80% Counter Strike Rip Off that was released 20 years ago already. And then you mixed in 19% of Overwatch (because this competitor had a new idea) and 1% of your own game League of Legends.
I mean honestly it is already an ingame joke. Brimstone looks like Gangplank. Viper looks like Akali. Omen looks like Reaper from Overwatch, which some Jax face.
But this is all still ok for me. The worst point in your game is actually, that it is no fun. Sorry to say, your game is no fun. I am just a mediocre player an I am struggeling heavily with this whole "walk around a corner - BÄM dead". I have friends to whom I honestly had to say: "The game is ok, but not for you, because honestly you are too bad for it and there are so much more skilled players, you will not enjoy it at all, because you are dead before you even realise what happened." so they do not even install the game.

Coming back to what is actually bad about this game:

The gameplay is stolen by a 1999 released game
The graphic is not worth to mention in 2020. Compare your game to Battlefield or Call of Duty ( I am aware that you want to attract as many players as possible. People with bad computers can play your game due to the bad graphics and small children will play it as well, because the violence does not look that bad if you put everything in comic style, but please accept the fact, that your graphics are bad
Do something about the AFK thing. Every second game does not start because somebody does not pick a Champion. Meaning in the end that 9 players were wasting 70 seconds by looking at the blank screen. First of all you could reduce the 70 seconds easily to 30 seconds. Still plenty of time to click on one champion. And second even if somebody does not select a Champ cant there just be put the next player in there to pick and then start the game? Instead of everybody has to go through everything again?
Same for AFK players. Super annoying. Actually happens I would say in 25% of games. Why do you auto remove this AFK player but then never add a new player to the game? In ranked ok, but in normal games that actually nobody cares about? Why not just add the next player? I would not mind to be added to a different game that is already up and running. Ok I will not be the MVP and have to chose a Champion because others are already taken, but honestly who cares?? Your game has a super high skill cap so if I play Gangplank or Reaper actually does not matter if I am super skilled with my mouse. These skills that they have are a nice to have but if you cant shoot you will not have any fun at all in the game anyway.

So yea my text might look a bit as a rage text and I know that the usual trolls will come up again now and tell me to play something different if I dont like the game. Just wanted to make a point that for Riot Games in 2020 I was expecting something BIG and not a "oh we are actually quite late to this whole shooter market, lets copy everything of the most successful games, put it in a mixer, call it Valorant and release it as THE THING that everybody was waiting for".
I am not even mad, just sad by the result.
Still hoping that the next game you will release might be a good one.

Peace Out

y844kst

Hi Maquinna!

Unfortunately Valorantforums.com is not the official forums for Valorant, and is not affiliated with Riot Games in any way. However I very much appreciate your review of the game nonetheless. You have some (somewhat) valid points, Such as the high level skill cap.

I absolutely agree that the game has a high skill cap, as its still taking me some time to get used to the controls and the mouse movements as they are very different. However, I am getting better and I believe if you gave it a chance you would too.

Now graphics wise. They aren't really bad. It's focused on allowing low end pc's to run their game.
Take a look at the video below to explain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Hks63elr4

Now to get into Whether Valorant is a "rip off" to csgo Have a look at the video below it will explain it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAiRXLfnE1o

The whole afk thing? well riot do plan on patching in a later update the ability for players to replace people who have left. but its a matter of when.

Hopefully that has somewhat helped you.

Regards,
y844kst

Sergio

Maquinna The gameplay is stolen by a 1999 released game

And? That point doesn't make sense.

Maquinna The graphic is not worth to mention in 2020. Compare your game to Battlefield or Call of Duty ( I am aware that you want to attract as many players as possible. People with bad computers can play your game due to the bad graphics and small children will play it as well, because the violence does not look that bad if you put everything in comic style, but please accept the fact, that your graphics are bad

Valorant isn't a game made for immersion like Battlefiled or other Frostbite games. It's a game for those competitive people to run the game at more than 144Hz, so it has such a low graphics quality.