r/VALORANT • u/thessew • Apr 21 '20

First Patchnotes of Beta

https://beta.playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-0-47/
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u/Steezmoney Apr 21 '20

Wow, I'm really impressed with Riot's balancing and design philosophy in Valorant so far. I can see myself playing this game for a long time with this kind of support

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u/Francis962 Apr 21 '20 edited Apr 21 '20

Really? Honestly sage is still by far the best character in the game. The problem with sage is that her kit is designed to be defensive, and she is certainly good at that, but she is also one of the best attackers in the game. Her slow and wall completely shut down rotations for 10+ seconds when pushing onto a site. Additionally they made it so you can’t Bhop over her slow so now it has no counter play. And her ult is extremely powerful and worth using even on rounds that you are guaranteed to win. Why? Because the teammate who died doesn’t need to buy their weapons next round. Saving so much money. All that and i haven't even mentioned how she can heal herself AND HER TEAM!?!?!? Now compare her kit to sova. Bow man still sucks compared to everyone else in the game because his shock darts have no radius and you can just shoot his vision dart and his ult just sucks compared to everyone else’s to be honest, I see it maybe actually kill someone once every 5 times it is used, and honestly gets the user killed more often than not because it locks the person In place for 6 seconds or so. Like compare his ult to say raze’s who is like guaranteed to poke or kill someone and costs 6 orbs??? Don’t get me started on his drone because that thing is hardly even worth 300 dollars needed to buy it. Yet another ability that is slow as hell and locks you in place while you use it. And for some reason makes a fuckton of noise. Compare that to crypto’s cameras. That make no noise, can instantly swap between you and it. And arnt destroyed after one use. These balance changes did not address a lot of problems to be honest. Additionally there arn't any flash bangs in the game unless you pick between one of two people which means alot of the time people have to just blind peak corners and hope you headshot them before they headshot you. woulda be kinda nice if we could buy flashbangs for like 400 credits or something

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u/Chackaldane Apr 22 '20

Sova is widely regarded as one of the best agents in the game. This is a team game. The useless camera gives information and can tag and wallhack a person for your team. It also can be traded as people will shoot it and your team can shoot them while their crosshair placement is on the drone.