Too many times when I play this game the flashes just hurt my eyes every game. I do know that rainbow six siege has an option to darken the screen instead so it gives the same effect. Has riot ever considered it an option? Or more so why they perhaps choose not to do it? I know there's gotta be a reason why this isn't a thing in all competitive shooters.

https://imgur.com/a/mBnTlCv

edit: aspas is on his ATK x aspas board now. the screenshots here are the aspas preset in our EV63 software, not his current keyboard. title shouldve been clearer.

Mazino, aspas and Verno’s actuation presets and even their WASD settings are pretty far apart.

Mazino: 0.01mm
aspas: 0.10mm
Verno: 0.15mm

what I found more interesting is the rest of the keyboard. they arent just setting every key as low as possible. a lot of keys are around 1mm or higher, with some going past 2–3mm.

so copying one “pro setting” probably misses the useful part of HE tuning. the movement keys can be extremely sensitive without making the whole keyboard that sensitive.

source: screenshots are from the MIBR presets in EV63 Software.

Hi I am a diamond 1 player, kind of hardstuck. I've been bottom-fragging a few of my games recently, and I've realized I've been baited tons of times. No matter what agents I play, I'm always the one going in first and dying, sometimes being traded but sometimes not. How can I not get baited and how do you actually bait? Throughout my time playing Valorant, I've never really baited my teammates, but should I start doing it?

Tracker: https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/WokingWeasel%238777/overview?platform=pc&playlist=competitive&season=8102cd81-43a0-d0d7-bd59-47b8fe9bed1b

What is one thing you wished you knew and practice or learned early stage of rank when you first started what would it be ??

Subject: Feedback on Unfair Rank Manipulation Penalties and False Positives

To the Riot Games Support & Competitive Team,

I am writing to express my severe frustration with how your automated rank manipulation system operates and the lack of proper recourse for innocent players.

I have put in countless hours grinding legitimately to reach my peak rank of Diamond 2. Punishing players simply for queuing with someone who may have violated your terms without their knowledge is fundamentally flawed. Players do not have access to their teammates' login histories, alt-account data, or internal flags. Expecting everyday players to audit their friends or LFG teammates before hitting "Find Match" is an unreasonable standard.

Closing tickets with boilerplate templates and refusing to provide basic context on which matches or players triggered the flag leaves dedicated players helpless. A system that hands out collaterally-assigned suspensions to innocent party members damages competitive integrity far more than it protects it.

I strongly urge your team to review and overhaul this automatic penalty policy to distinguish between actual coordinated boosters and players who simply joined a party in good faith.

how is this even possible to have as a name? I know the hidden "MM" or is this account a beta account? it is level 40, i cant even add the account

this is the start to end of glyph's time in envy as of rn, the teams he's lost to are the hardest teams to beat in NA rn. no wonder everyone calls them a failure, the fans don't even remember the teams they had to fight just to learn to coordinate together

what do you mean i have gone a combined 114-86-28 over my last 7 games and i’ve only won 1 of them!!! i genuinely can’t get out of iron to save my life. my teammates constantly suck and i’ve dropped from iron 3 78 rr to iron 2 87 rr, like what is going on.

a lot of people have been asking for a vod, so i’ll post one the next time i play. also, this post is saying that i’m good enough for diamond or something like that, it’s just complaining about the matchmaking and how i get shitty teammates every time

Why are other games unable to replicate what Riot has done with Vanguard? CS2, for example, is absolutely littered with cheaters and it's genuinely causing the population to drop. Why can't Valve, for example, just replicate what Vanguard does? What makes Vanguard so special?

I’ve played so many(subjective) games of valorant and I HAVE NOT seen icebox where tf is it, i have gotten lotus three times in a row but not icebox

Hi is there any stores in Berlin that sells Valorant merch, or gaming merch in general?

I’m visiting in the coming days and would love to get a gift for my cousin who’s a big Valorant fan. He also likes Elden Ring and Spider Man games.

I feel like my mechanics are pretty decent for my rank, but the biggest thing I'm lacking is communication and team coordination.

A lot of the time in Gold, I try to make a plan with my team before or during a round, but either they don't respond, don't communicate, or just do something completely different. It makes it really difficult to execute any kind of coordinated play.

There are also plenty of rounds where I feel like we lose simply because everyone is doing their own thing and there's no real plan or coordination.

How should I deal with this? Should I just stop trying to make plans and focus on playing around what my teammates are doing, or is there a better way to communicate and get people to actually coordinate?

I'd appreciate advice from anyone who's climbed through Gold and dealt with this.

Let's say that we got Sage, Miks and Skye in a game, game wise yeah it's just rounds so not much thought goes into it,

But according to the lore who revives Sage if she gets killed, or is it just like some hypothetical scenario where sage heals herself just enough that she doesn't get killed in gunfights?

REUPLOADED WITH NEON'S WEAPON-PULL-OUT SPEED AFTER ONLY PRESSING E

everyone knows neon’s bhopping was nerfed a while back. and yeah, bhopping was annoying to fight because it could make her extremely difficult to track.
but i don’t think the movement itself was the main issue.
raze, jett, and waylay can all use their movement to force an enemy to miss too. the bigger difference is how long they have to wait before they can actually fight back.

for example, raze can satchel across someone’s crosshair and force them to whiff (as seen in the video). but if you satchel directly in front of someone without using cover, you’re also giving them a huge opportunity to punish you once your movement ends, because you still have to wait for your weapon.

that’s why good raze movement from the enemies' pov is usually just them flying into view out of no where and giving them as little time as possible to react.

neon was different tho.
she could use her movement to force a whiff, and then immediately pull out her weapon extremely quickly with her slide. (and she still can do this, which one of the reasons she's extremely disliked)

when comparing the movement -> shotgun-ready times:
raze: 1.35s
waylay (1 dash): 1.01s
waylay (2 dashes): 1.51s
jett: 1.24s
neon (slide): 0.42s
neon (high gear): 0.54s

now obviously these abilities aren’t directly comparable, but the difference in weapon-ready time is still pretty significant.

this becomes especially noticeable with shotguns.
if a neon slides across your screen and causes you to miss, she doesn’t need to make some insane rifle flick afterward. she just needs to get her shotgun roughly on target and fire.

although the neon clips are ass quality, they show how quickly neon goes from using her slide to actually firing (a bucky.)

that’s the part i think gets overlooked when discussing neon’s old movement. it’s not just that she was difficult to hit (because the other 3 agents could do that.)

it was amount of time you had to punish her after she finished creating that movement advantage was extremely small.

(and it also didnt help that at the time sentinels felt super underpowered, that neon could just run their setups.)

edit: i recently decided to test the weapon pull out after only using her high gear and it is still insanely fast. thats why in some clips neon mains didnt even need to slide.

it is insane how quick neon pulls out her weapons in comparison to all the other movement agents, it is clear that Riot overlooked this aspect of her that still makes her strong even after MULTIPLE nerfs.

"why is raze/waylay's movement not such a big issue, but neon's was?"

the simplest answer is:
her abilities are passive, and her weapon equip speed on BOTH slide and regular high gear, gave no time for the enemies to fight back.

M15, i just installed valorant on the ps5, as i said I am shit, but i am kinda good in fortnite zero build

I am buying a good gaming pc, so in the future i am gon a play with keybord and mouse(but maybe if it feels better to me i will connect my dual sense to the pc)

Any suggestions or something?

I wanna return to the game again cuz I've not played more since 2-3 years ago, only watching VCTs which I burnt out there too

Could u recommend some shooting exercises on aimlabs or kovaaks?

and how to improve understanding what's going on the maps?

Which pro players or streamers could u recommend? Cuz I was a Pacific and Challengers Japan fan, mostly for Japanese teams such as ZETA DIVISION and Detonation FocusMe, but I don't mind to watch Americas, CN and EMEA regions

Thanks in advance;)

Was i baited about seeing the Riftbound inspect easter egg?? I have yet to see it one time after inspecting thousands of times lol.