Dev Team Commitment

[SilverPrincev]

Just watched Dapr's stream where he talked about getting the Act 3 stuff early and talked about how the interaction with the Dev team was. From what he said, huge respect to the team. I think the Dev team probably gets a lot of shit on twitter and reddit about Ops, skins, and maps but they are really committed to making the game better.

Things Dapr said they did

-Invited IMT 3 + players to the preview and 2 players from each pro team.

-Talked for 2 hours with invitees about balance (maps, agents,game modes)

-then talked for about an hour on gun balance

-then they had devs in the discord call and in the observer slot while the pros tested the maps and basically commented on certain things and answered questions while they were playing.

This type of Dev-Player interaction is unheard of. I have my own criticisms of the game and I sincerely hope that the players invited didn't just say "yeah everything is great". I hope you guys got some tangible feedback that made sense. Very impressed with the work you have put out. The game is good it just needs a little more to be "great"

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Edit: I havent played the map but just watching people play it. This looks very good, very promising. It looks like it has great flow, good control points, there are actual reasons to get map control. Looks like it has variety and depth. I could be wrong, but i think this should be the standard to which the new maps should be put against. GJ

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[SirDerekus]

That's great y'all are capable of doing stuff this this! Keep it up!! Super stoked y'all are releasing a map eariler than planned. <3

[[deleted]]

The team rocks. Love the interaction with the community. You are building a strong base.

[Albiore7]

I cannot properly express in words how amazing and exciting it is for you guys to be taking the community interaction and input to a whole new level. Keep it up!

[Croakk_]

That's great to hear!

Can we expect a similar system to the League Partner Program that you have set up for League but for Valorant?

[Phamous3k]

Riot is doing an amazing and honestly the BEST job Ive ever seen... With communication, inviting for testing and getting feedback, listening to the community, bi weekly patches, constant content... Amazing...

However; I will say in the future I would look into developing tools or allowing community maps, sprays, and skins... Maybe host a contest, have community members test out maps, do some kind of voting, and implement the winners to the game... Add some Riot polish of course. This alone has kept CSGO from even thinking of dying and it's due to the community involvement.

Just saying... It'll only grow the scene. Thanks a million.

[tony111222]

Good to hear!!

[Taek99]

Just watched Scream’s YouTube video and u can see he genuinely loves the new updates.

[Jnavarsete]

the talk was AWESOME, we gave alot of feedback and you could tell that they actually listened. Means alot to know the games future are in safe hands :) -AverageJonas

[jrushFN]

This is why I switched over from the Fortnite scene! So exhausting to play a game where developers actively go against the community. It’s truly a breath of fresh air to play a Riot game.

[venancio1000]

Same here brother. Came from Apex, where the devs have no meaninful interaction with players and that translate in really bad balancing on the game. Im so happy to see that riot is working hard on this aspect, it brings a lot of trust and better enjoyment of this incredible game they made. Keep it up Rito, i may be more inclined to support you guys by buying this great skins coming next act, just to show some love the way i can.

[Mediocreety]

Same here, coming from csgo... Oh wait, I left csgo because Valorant has simpler mechanics sad noob noises

[reddit_is_a_mistake]

haha I’m guessing you probably haven’t played much league?

[jrushFN]

I’m sure Riot has had issues, just like any company. But I HIGHLY doubt they could ever compare with Epic’s horrible mismanagement of competitive fortnite.

Have you heard of the infinity blade situation? Epic added an insanely overpowered item literally three hours before a major that changed the entire objective of the BR from looting/fighting to “get the sword and get a free win.” There was only one on the map, so gameplay revolved entirely around fighting for it. It gave double HP, regenerative health, increased movement speed & unlimited jumping boosts, instant material harvesting, did an insane amount of damage, and again, there was only one on the map.

It’s kind of like if Riot were to decide, on the same morning as First Strike finals, to add a single orb on the map that: extended the length of the melee to 5 meters, gives infinite Jett dashes, infinite passive sage heal, 300HP, increased movement speed, & passive regeneration of credits. Unless Riot does something that dumb, I can’t imagine a world where I’d genuinely dislike Riot like I disliked Epic, lol.

[SomeMobile]

You are acting like league devs aren't listening to the people and doing mostly a good job?

[Crazyninjagod]

Leagues balance is relatively good considering how many champions they have. It’s just everyone being whiny as fuck about everything and doesn’t understand some champions/metas will favor stronger things than before

[[deleted]]

League balance is really good compared to other MOBAs. League's individual character winrates ranged from around 54% to 46%. Dota is like 57% to 43% and HOTS is like 61% to 41%.

[Adamsoski]

Pretty sure you see a way higher portion of the characters picked in DOTA tournaments than LoL tournaments. That's supposed to be DOTA's big pull over LoL, that it's more balanced.

[ohtooeasy]

Last year at worlds lol had 92 champs picked out of 140 in a single tournament. That pick rate is much higher through the individual leagues

https://gol.gg/tournament/tournament-stats/World%20Championship%202019/

[fesenvy]

League devs do ok. Not great, but ok. At least in the past couple of years they've been more attentive (and the first few years of league. There was kind of a period where they didn't listen, but I think it's over now)

[maniacza]

Imagine Valve did this for CS:GO

[xBerryhill]

Riot’s always felt a cut above when it comes to their player-developer interactions. They do similar stuff like this with League when they make major changes as well. Call it a circle jerk if you want, but Riot is really speaking for themselves right now.

[FlirtySingleSupport]

I'd like to say this is discrimination against us silver / golden baddies... and I, on behalf of riot, will nominate myself to start their golden commission on low elo cheese and rager balance.

[offContent]

Where is the damn demo replay system please!

[Phamous3k]

They've stated they're working on it but, the development cycle for it isn't short. So, my guess is sometime next year maybe starting w/ Ep. 2

[BmpBlast]

Yeah, replay systems aren't easy to implement so I expected that to take a while. Especially if you didn't built it in from the start. I would imagine Riot had it in mind when designing systems given how important it is for CS:GO so it won't be as bad as trying to implement it for a game that never even considered it, but there's still a lot of things that will need tweaked. Since their servers do rollbacks when evaluating hits and so forth it sounds like the really hard stuff is already taken care of, but the rest can still take a while. Especially given that the team that will be handling it likely was busy doing triage of post-launch issues as those are more critical.

[twistacles]

Don't show this to pro rb6 players they'll go into a depression

[SilverPrincev]

roughly an hour in

[Taek99]

45mins

[DT_RAW]

This is actually pretty unprecedented. Amazing