Valorant

ITS going to be the next BIG THING and you know it.

>That’s precisely why Valorant seems primed for success. Simply put, the game combines character-specific superpowers heavily influenced by Overwatch with a tense, high-intensity tactical shooter model more or less carbon-copied from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Riot is attempting to build a modern Counter-Strike, one that appeals to a generation of MOBA fans that grew up on the idea of honing your skill as a specific hero with unique powers and an ultimate ability to use in crucial, match-defining moments.

>Going from the early reception on Twitch, Valorant is getting that recipe right in a way that might pull big streamers and pro players away from other games. The game broke Twitch’s record for most-watched game in a single day, with 34 million hours watched. And the game’s peak concurrent viewership of 1.7 million people was second only to the 2019 League of Legends World Championship.

Will you buy a beta account? How hyped are you?

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oh cool another game big in asia but completely irrelevant in the west

Looks a lot like CS, just with fancy grenades. Might pick it up the next time I go to a LAN-party

finally a shooter for disabled people

How many people would watch if there weren't any drops to be had? Get fucking real.

Yay payed streamers are playing this game it’s the new BIG thing !11!!

yikes user

Im sick of these stupid ass new age shooters where instead of being a faceless operator whlse kit is loaded out and selected, or a player custom created character, you have to pick from a roster of faggots, niggers and trannies who all have different abilities and ulties and loadouts. Shit is supreme faggotry.

Yas Forums being contrarian for the sake of it as usual, anyone who has touched the game is enjoying themselves playing it.

Competitive multiplayer games are so soulless and boring.

Here here.

fuck chinks

Reminder that this game is spammed by Chinese shills. Sage and report.

People are desperate to get off the csgo/valve train so they're at least going to want to try this game. It doesn't play very well though.
Plus this:

but elon musk loves china

Do zoomers have troubles remembering ONE year ago?
Literally Apex 2.0

No one is going to bite into this artificial media hype. Either the game is a good superhero CS1. 5 mod that keeps people playing or it's not.

Based and VALORANTpilled

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STILL NO KEY after 5 hours

>ITS going to be the next BIG THING and you know it.
Nah.

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VALORANT PogChamp

Is he right?

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1 life shooters are a snooze fest. unless they have a traditional arena or TDM, ill pass

The game looks like shit. I hope you people arent serious.

>tactical
umm
sweetie
no

EA is shit at selling their games while Riot is all for that esport streaming bullshit.
It's streamers saying it's the next big thing, it's streamers, journalists and Riot themselves since they're pushing hard for it to be that way.
Don't waste your time, games designed for esport always have shit communities.

well user faggots are really serious

>beautiful graphics
don't know what to say at this point

He is right to a degree but I think there is value in a game that can be played both casually and competitively. Clearly this game just wants to be esports though.

Isn’t it a hero shooter?

Same thing was said to overwatch, kek.
Also, I don't understand why this much aggressive shilling.

Just play counter strike. All the abilities are retarded and add a layer of bullshit

>Also, I don't understand why this much aggressive shilling.
because they can afford it

It's boring and slow, but if you think that's competetive then okay. I'd rather watch CSGO gameplay since its competetive, fast, and visually appealing.

he is right

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>created for the same purpose CS was
no, he's retarded and probably doesn't remember there were Counter-Strikes before CS:GO, or thinks they CS started at 1.6

Seeing this trash game flood my Twitch feed is pissing me off. It’s so fucking boring to watch

Fucking based

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I just can't get a fucking key.
I want to play csgo, but csgo put me in low trust factor, and now i'm being matched with hackers left and right.
How to i raise my trust factor back up to high? And how long?

Counter Strike was never made to be competitive. That's why it's actually fun.

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It lowers the skill floor and skill ceiling by making resource management and map control far less important. It's the way most multiplayer games are going. It's one of the reasons I'm glad Fortnite exists, I don't like the game but at least it's not a dumbed down version of something else so it still gives me hope that one day multiplayer games will actually start getting more complex again.

This. And a big part of it is the server browser. I've probably spent an equal time on custom servers as I do playing comp in CSGO. Overly sterilized SUPER SRS ESPORTS games just fucking fail after the first year. Just look at overwatch.

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>created for the same purpose CS was, hardcore competitive
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
CS WAS CREATED AS A CASUAL ALTERNATIVE TO QUAKE AND UNREAL
These people cannot be serious

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In the sense that the game does a poor job at bringing in casuals? Yeah, casuals often care about the fluff. They want a single player mode and lots of story, they don't want to play a meta and do more than hop on with their friends for some easy fun. OW's success was short lived cause it was never about the gameplay, a bunch of shorts/comics with merch would have been more profitable. For mobas they have a huge amount of downtime where everyone can feel like they did something even if they lost every player vs player encounter. BR goes a different route where it is 90% mucking about and you can luck out by shooting someone in the back of the head.

At the same time, it is CS with a load of bullshit CS players hate. They want their slow boring ass game with no weird power ups. Eventually they will get Q'ed and go fuck this. Sure it will be a competitive game, most powers don't seem that busted but if I wanted a game with fart gas cover play an actual hero shooter.

CS is a casino shorter

>virtually every single Overwatch streamer is playing this now
That’s too bad. Overwatch sucks but it had style and uniqueness. Valorant looks bland as fuck and soulless. Do the characters even have a personality?

funny considering VALORANT is just counter-strike but dumbed down and more accessible for casuals lmao

Are you fucking retarded? It plays nothing like quare or UT and they wanted to create a Hostage scenario type of game. Nobody cared if it was competitive as long as it was fun.

He's saying it doesn't have beautiful graphics because competitive games don't need beautiful graphics. I agree on both points. Valorant looks like a shit game though and I'm sure it will fail. League of Legends was created over a decade ago so I doubt any of the people who actually knew how to rip off games are working on this.

This. I spend over 1.2k hours in CSS and 90% was on minigame/jail/surf and poolparty maps.

>he wasn't browsing internet forums pre 2000
CS was always casual, and it's fans were constantly sour grapes about the actual arena shooters

I swear I’ve seen that chick with the knives’s animations somewhere else. Battleborn or something

Tactical shooters are boring, adding abilities to it won't make it anymore fun.

>le 5v5 competitive esports tactical shooter
when will this meme die

I like csgo because trust factor/prime helps keep sweaty freaks away from my games. I don't want to play with angry tryhards in valorant

Apex wasnt hyping itself up though, people played it for a month and then moved back to fortnite because Apex is bulky around teamwork

>competitive games don't need beautiful graphics. I agree on both points
I disagree, to some extent. You need to be at least visually pleasing , have a good style going that creates the right mood. There is a reason games like LoL at least attempt graphical upgrades over the years. Any success OW has can be largely put on the look and character designs. If the game play had held up it could have been bigger. Valorant looks like a bad Chinese knock off, people don't get that instant investment when they see an ugly world with shitty models.

If they try that shit with the fighter it will go horribly, consistently bad looking ones get lambasted while good graphics can lead to huge notoriety. It is a genre where pushing graphical capabilities has often been the key to success, Virtua Fighter's 3D even inspired sony to focus on 3D graphics with the PS1.

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>take Counter Strike
>remove all the real guns
>remove the faceless CT/Terrorists
>remove all good map design
>add in generic black faggots and Chinese women
>add in MOBA abilities instead of military equipment
>maps are just hallways and cubes
>characters dont even ragdoll when they die
What is the appeal?

Not all were mentally ill autists who decided to stick to one game and defend it like a sperg. Most people played whatever the fuck they wanted. Also, cs became big around 2000-2001. So that's pretty much irrelevant since 1999 CS played like nothing compared to the current cs.

Not gonna play this piece of shit but anything that kills Fortnite is based in my book

>have to watch Twitch streams to get a Beta key
>viewer numbers are super high because of that


Why do companies do these trickeries?

i like these new games, it funnels retards into them and keep the rest of the good games good

Really. It just looks lame

>playing competitive multiplayer
It's like you hate fun and enjoy anger.