If players have a group of teammates they perform well with, we don't want to discourage them and set a precedent that the real test of skill is in solo play. 'It's important to us that competitive matchmaking in VALORANT is focused on teamplay, because we believe that playing as a team is a major component in your overall mastery of the game.

Why does VALORANT allow any premade size for ranked? Why not a true solo queue? It's the turn of Ian Fielding, product manager of the Valorant competitive team, to say more about the Competitive mode and answer some questions: We will be tackling both topics in the near future.' Some of the asymmetry is Riot's fault (we need to further optimize routing to our game servers), and some of this is player abuse (lag-switches). This is something we as a dev team find unacceptable. If lag is asymmetric (high latency up to the server, low latency down to the client), that individual will have higher levels of peeker's advantage. We are targeting SERVER, as SERVER->CLIENT). SERVER FRAMERATE = 7.8125ms (1/128th of a second, 128-tick servers)ġ-WAY NETWORK LAG is based on game server locations, your (and your opponents) geographic locations, and Riot Direct routing paths. It is tuneable with the 'Network Buffering' setting in the options menu, if you have poor internet or bandwidth) NETWORK INTERP DELAY = 7.8125ms (this is 'buffering' to smooth out enemy player positions on your screen. Philosophically, we believe the less peeker's advantage there is, the more tactical the game's meta becomes.' That being said, our goal is to minimize it as much as possible in VALORANT. It’s something that exists for all games. 'Until humanity learns to move faster than the speed of light, peeker's advantage is never going away. Here is David Straily, Valorant’s technical engineering lead, to explain what's going on: Peeker's Advantage Among the topics discussed are technique, peeker's advantage depending on the lag, and Vanguard. Several members of the vast Valorant team have answered recurring questions from the community.

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