I just think there's something incredibly valuable in core gameplay that is fundamentally good and a design philosophy that will keep the game running for years without power creep.

Look at how Smash Melee still has a developing meta and fanbase after two and a half decades without patches. And then also look at how Spectre Divide never took off.

I wonder how many people complaining about staleness of the game have tried playing in a premier team.

Street fighter community seemed alright to me

Why would he know?

I fear anyone with a 2G flair, for they fear nothing and have nothing to lose.

0/8

I mean yeah they've explicitly said the first few years of the game's life were in a
launching mentality where they're just focused on getting the game to a popular, playable state, and that now they're in more of a sustaining phase where they can focus on the game's longevity. I trust them to get more of these luxury things done with time but gamers are just impatient.

I don't know enough about tier 2 to argue that tbh

We'll see about that

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I've never heard of Zellsis or kpop what are you talking about

PRX in the convo in 2025 </3

You don't get it, it's so hard to be racist now with woke cancel culture 😔

How do we think the new Talon roster will perform? Should they drop fr0st too?

It's like a metronome to help him lock in, trust.

Aside from failing to deliver the replay system, I don't see how they aren't listening to players. The game is fairly well-balanced, has high-quality servers, very few bugs and cheaters, and (in my experience) consistent punishment for toxic behavior, which is something they've become stricter on because they listened to players.

They're doing a much better job of planning for long-term life of the game than most other competitive shooters. Most of the issues with valorant have been because of the community, as opposed to bad decisions by devs like with Apex and OW.

The replay system being this far overdue is a pretty egregious mistake, but these things happen. It wasn't an intentional delay.

And frankly, I don't trust fans to make good maps for a game like this. It'd be a cool thing to have for the sake of creativity, but it would take a lot of manpower to release a custom map creator and most of the community probably would not engage with it.

Not to be a Riot defender but I genuinely don't understand where these sentiments come from. Valorant in 2025 doesn't feel any worse to me than Valorant in 2022. Besides a replay system, what exactly do people want?

So you want people to stop judging? Sounds woke asf to me.

impossible for people say things and express their opinion/emotions

So which is it

I agree that it's really weird and people shouldn't post drawings like that, but which is it? Should we care about people's feelings or should everyone have thick skin?

unfortunately, if you get shot, you die

Name one person whose career was ruined because of "canceling"

He could've said nothing, for one

some weird ass fanart

https://xcancel.com/chuuballing/status/1893673476889674226

Idk how I feel about primmie duelist but if they cook they cook

Some of y'all complain about how "soft" the valorant community is and then get your panties in a twist over a drawing

Zellsis himself thought it was funny

Who's gonna be duelist...?

nevermind

Me too buddy

What

Brutal

Who's coming? The ghosts in your walls?

respect

Actually yeah what did he have to say about it? Anything spicy?

My short king Shyy

Do you have examples

Tacolilla

When does mibr play?

true, but do come back when lulquid makes playoffs and 2-0s your flair

Dark Horse = Night Mare

much to think about

It's your flair's fault I'm ngl

Which in turn only happened because aspas had a life game against Shyy

In conclusion, we were robbed of EDG vs KRÜ grand finals

I just wish we had gotten to see a latam/br team go to Bangkok even if it's unlikely any of them would've done better

so true

It sounds so cursed but I low-key feel like G2 chokes on liquid, horsey wins the rematch against VIT, then DRX locks in for GF and we don't even get EDG vs VIT

but for the record chichoo vs less and kk vs derke would be spicy and I want it

Yes I watched the games and it's why I predicted EDG to win, no overreaction. All of those things you listed are things G2 failed to do and EDG did. The exception is not peeking "unless forced to," because good teams will regularly peek of their own accord in order to secure an advantage.

EDG's biggest strength is in their micro gameplay, and it's not the same as an aim diff. They are prepared to initiate team fights that will disorient the enemies and quickly cover each other's backs. Just because the opponents look sloppy playing against it doesn't mean EDG is sloppy too.

Some of y'all watch teams play so passively it's to their own detriment and then act like teams that take initiative somehow aren't playing with good fundamentals.

It's 2025 and we're saying it's perfect valorant to wait a full minute for defenders to peek you and die to pop flashes out of smoke

isn't it? there's no seeding now. it's random draws from the pool of 1-1 teams

no it's not
fuck those paper ass walls

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flair? believe in your team vro 💀