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Riot Addresses request for a pick and ban system for agents, for deathmatch and more

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7 Jul 2020

Nathan Bonello

In their recent “Ask Valorant”, the community has asked a variety of questions regarding the future of Valorant and some new added features that might be beneficial for a game such as Valorant. This was the first question that a user had for the Riot Games developers:

Q: Do you have any plans to change the aim punch? Like, each weapon getting a different amount of aim punch?

Trevor Romleski, Senior Game Designer for Riot Games has said the following: 

A: “Not at the moment, but I do think there’s an opportunity to lessen aim punch in extreme cases, for example, a long fire from a pistol or shotgun that is inflicting minimal damage with lots of fall off.”

Aim punch in Valorant right now seems like it’s in a good state and doesn’t need any adjustments, however the developers will adapt to any unexpected occurrences.

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Q: Many of us are wondering, will there be a deathmatch mode?

Jared Berbach, Lead Game Modes Producer for Riot Games has said the following: 

A: Deathmatch is absolutely a mode that is coming to VALORANT in the future. We don’t have a timetable yet, but it’s something where we’re actively working on the underlying technology as well as designing, iterating, prototyping, and playtesting right now.

Deathmatch has been a requested feature since the release of the closed beta and it will be very exciting to see how Riot will go about when it eventually gets released.

Q: Are there any plans to make the VALORANT client a non-full screen application?

Steven Eldredge, Senior Producer for Riot Games has said the following: 

A: “There are no plans at the moment for menus to have their own display mode setting like the League Client where it launches an executable ‘game’ in full-screen from a news/store/friendlist client. This is mostly due to the fact that VALORANT is an all-in-one executable, whereas League’s is two separate ones. Players can currently put the game into windowed and windowed fullscreen which will also apply to their in-game experience.”

Due to Valorant being an all-in-one program, which is completely opposite to the league client, it will not be possible for Valorant to be a non-full screen application however there are options to set the resolution of the game to windowed or windowed fullscreen.

Q: Will there be a pick and ban system with Agents and maps?

Trevor Romleski, Senior Game Designer for Riot Games has said the following: 

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Credit: Riot Games

A: We’ve considered a draft phase for agents, but the current thinking is that we would not have bans. For some more reasoning around bans: first, we expect teams to have set plays and strategies that will require very specific agents. Banning an agent would invalidate that entire strategy, and we don’t want to discourage practice.

When a Pick and Ban phase is in place for a game such as Valorant it means that a players’ favourite and best agent will be removed from the match, which often leads to having no set pieces for the match as that agent was a core part of that strategy, and rightly so, Riot do not want that happening.

Q: Will it be possible to play in other regions? Example, playing on NA servers while being on EU?

Dave Heironymus, Technical Director of VALORANT has said the following: 

A: While we know that some friendships can be easily sustained across thousands of miles, a fast internet connection can’t. All games of VALORANT must be hosted on a single game server located in a single physical location, so even if we allow someone in Japan to queue up with someone in the UK (for example), one of them has to connect to a game server that’s very, very far away.

Riot Games are considering enabling the option if there is huge demand, however they want all matches to be fair, and when it comes to matches from different regions across great distances, it is not possible due to latency and the internet not keeping up.

There were a lot of important questions regarding Valorant’s future in this week’s “Ask Valorant” especially Deathmatch and the Pick and Ban system, which are directed towards the future of Valorant as an esport. If you would like to see the full list of questions yourself, click here

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