I feel like in a few years, Valorant is gonna be just pure dead. There hasn't been a great rivalry like OPTIC vs LOUD ever since... Also the way this game is shaping out to be is so stale. The only fun teams to watch are PRX, GEN G and NAVI. Introduce agent bans RIOT so we can have more interesting comps and games. 2 agent bans and if its a bo5 it should be 3 agent bans. PROVE ME RIGHT OR WRONG.
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The dynamic nature of Valorant META makes it so that not one team will be able to dominate long term. In my opinion people just need to understand that fact and adjust to the idea that new teams are going to pop off all the time while old teams will grow weaker. Doesn't mean that the new teams will stay good or the old teams will stay bad.
But agent bans sound fun.
In all fairness people like CS because of the consistency of the game. Valve doesn't fuck over their eSports scene every few months by rebalancing things everyone uses and introducing yet another piece of utility that everyone now needs to adjust for. In CS the best teams are consistently good for a long time, in Valorant one update, agent addition or weapon rebalance completely changes the team rankings.
No? Rewatching old games, OPTIC used to run phoenix and interesting comps while LOUD invented this viper harbor comp. It was very fun to watch, nowadays everyone runs the same mirror comp on split, lotus with no creativity and innovation except the teams i mentioned which were NAVI who ran brimstone and gekko as well as LOUD who ran the deadlock comp.
Huh? You know, thats like, one of the few things that changes with valorant semi-often. Metas/agent comps
Like the one thing that changes relatively often is agent nerfs/buffs which make different comps meta which makes different strats meta which makes the gameplay different
Sure its similar rn but like its gonna change bruh
And besides its different between teams
Odd point
That's literally what makes Valorant more boring for me. When everything is constantly changing there isn't much point getting invested as nothing is going to stay the same. The quality of gameplay falls off a cliff too considering the game is mostly smoke spam and free kills from showstoppers or equivalent util you don't have to put much effort into.
I'd really like to see Valorant stop changing things for a full year and let teams actually play around and perfect things somewhat. As it is it feels like there is no reward for a team investing in finding comps for highly involved characters when you can take less involved characters and get the same results with way less effort or thought put into it.
Ranked is a shell of its former self. The game was in its best state when there were fewer agents, because there was a defined meta. Now there are so many agents and random comps in games, that each game is essentially a coin flip. Agent bans and map bans will save ranked
Also Valorant was supposed to be the game where there is highly innovative and creative strategies. Give me a break LOL CS is still better.
This is exactly how Valorant has felt for me. It was promising early on, people still working out the kinks, now whenever a desk is talking about "meta comps or setups" it sounds like made up hype and analysis. Games feel more like scrims and throwing the kitchen sink to see what sticks than anything heavily thought out. There will be the occasional util combo that's clearly been thought of specifically for retakes or stopping rushes, but everything outside of that doesn't seem pre-planned as a protocol
Raze is my biggest issue at the moment, the showstopper is just a free round the majority of the time because it just removes a player from the round. How is that any sort of "tactical shooter".
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