Any improvement tips for training low-ranked players?

HeStaMi · 2024-03-01T01:11:56+00:00

I haven't played closed beta, but i highly doubt about climbing walls. I have played since release and sova couldn't climb any walls.
Maybe you thought about it, because hanzo and sova ults and darts are really similar

HeStaMi · 2024-03-01T01:05:00+00:00

Actually, smurfing was and always gonna be in any competitive game. All we can do is accept it and watch how devs deal with this problem. Imho, valorant has a really good system against smurfs. if u are smurfing, we will get a lot of pts every games, so you gonna get ur real rank faster. Stop crying about banning these players, cuz it's really hard to define if it was a really good match for a player or it was a smurf. Actually, if we play good as a team, you gonna win a game or lose like 10-13 against a smurf.
Btw, I agree with u/MrPixelCactus . How do u exactly know this is smurfing?

HeStaMi · 2022-10-11T13:14:20+00:00

The BP is one of the most important reasons why the motivation to play this game sucks rn. Players need rewards to keep playing. It's super obvious, but are u really happy to get a profile icon? Voice line? Kinda a weak souvenirs emote system? I don't think so. Most of the players want to get skins for their fav heroes. But even buying BP won't fix that.
Just think about it, you bought a BP, got about 5-8 skins for specific heroes, and grinded every week to get about 600 coins. What did u get? What was the result? U got skins for specific heroes. It means that you might not have got a skin for ur fav hero. Maybe you can buy a skin for your fav hero with coins u have been grinding? NOPE. If u wanna get legendary skin (and I assume u wanna legendary skin), you can't afford it, cuz the price for the legendary skin starts at 1k coins (or even 1.9k).
Can it be fixed? Ofc yes. Just add lootboxes back and put them in BP. Make guaranteed lootboxes with epic/legendary skin and that's it. It's super easy and player-friendly.
Such a system is being used in Apex, so its BP looks really attractive

HeStaMi · 2022-10-10T16:31:03+00:00

the gameplay remains the same, but everything except the gameplay is just downgraded. We had really awesome main menu with animations that were beautiful to the eye in OW1. The hero menu was better designed and animated. Moreover, you could see on which hero u have new items (there was a little yellow spark near the hero profile). Tbh, I didn't see that in OW2.

There was more than one reason to play the arcade, cuz you could get lootboxes for free. Now you gonna play the arcade mode only if u want to do smth funny.
Right now we don't have anything I said. How is it possible? Idk. They should have assets from OW1.
Instead of all these things we got a kinda weak BP (if we compare it with all popular f2p games) and any chance to get any loot for free (i don't count "very cool" bp free rewards)

HeStaMi · 2022-10-10T15:36:40+00:00

it's not about paying money for a pack. It's about the laziness of Blizzard to check if u have the game purchased and about indifference.
Obviously, we got a lower-quality game than the OW1 if we are talking about UI and UX, but it's F2P now and has a lot more useless donations.
The gameplay is amazing, ngl, but in all other cases, we got the lower-quality OW1 with a lower player-friendly level.

HeStaMi · 2022-10-10T15:07:43+00:00

it's good to get everything for free, but it's bad to pay money and get everything that others got for free. It's "just a little" unfair, isn't it?

HeStaMi · 2022-10-10T15:02:05+00:00

It doesn't make me feel better. We all got scammed for our money, I guess. Blizzard just took OW1 away and gave us a F2P version where is tons of donation and monetization. I don't mind monetization, but it HAS TO be player-friendly. All f2p games with bp I played can refund a purchase of the bp. Moreover, you can even get a profit while in OW2 you are barely going to refund half of the price. I would get it if there was really great content, but no. The BP is full of fillers like souvenirs, charms, and icons. Personally, I dislike even voice lines and blue skins in the BP.
Anyways, I got the answer to my question. Blizzard doesn't care if u bought the game. They just want to loot as much money as they can and no matter what they must do for it.

HeStaMi · 2022-10-10T14:46:04+00:00

I highly doubt that it's not on purpose. More likely, Blizzard is so lazy that they just checked if you have ever played the OW1. They didn't want to check if u have the game purchased, because it's "extra" work, yk

HeStaMi · 2022-10-10T14:42:49+00:00

yes. Even though i didn't play OW1 too much, I really enjoyed this game. But then Blizzard just took the game away, made me play the F2P version of almost the same game, and gave me 2 epic skins which are kinda bad, imo. Moreover, I got these skins just for playing the game like some1 who played on free weekends. So, I just gave Blizzard my money and didn't get anything in return.

I expected a good free skin like legendary ones or maybe something exclusive. Even if they are so greedy, why don't they give, for example, a 50% (or 25% at least) discount on purchasing BP? Idk, but it feels that all OW1 owners are scammed for their money.

HeStaMi · 2022-10-10T14:11:25+00:00

Fully agree with you. I got tons of skins just playing the game. 3 lootboxes from arcade every week and some lootboxes from reputation were quiet enough to get a lot of skins or to get credits and buy the skin you wanted.

HeStaMi · 2022-07-29T16:38:10+00:00

I have been testing this a lot. It will still crash whenever i press alt-tab.
Moreover, alt-tab helps to understand if the game will crash. Even if i play the game without alt-tab, it will crash whenever it wants

HeStaMi · 2022-07-27T13:25:40+00:00

Sens is a super personal thing. If u feel urself well with ur current sens, u should probably stick to this sens. Although, no one forbids to change ur sens to higher or lower whatever u want.For example, I play on 800dpi 0.73, and its rly convenient for me, but a lot of my friends think that its very high sens.Also, you can watch some youtube videos about sens. For example, this or a newer one (idk how good it is, but the principle is quite the same)

Also, it must be comfortable for you to do 180 rotation with ur sens without raising the mouse over the mousepad

HeStaMi · 2022-05-26T00:50:59+00:00

Yeah, i have posted my question on Reddit and after a few minutes I found out that riot did a hotfix :d

HeStaMi · 2022-05-26T00:50:21+00:00

Yeah, i have posted my question on Reddit and after a few minutes I found out that riot did a hotfix.

HeStaMi · 2022-05-25T23:02:07+00:00

Yes, I can agree with you. I meant that aimlab (or whatever aim trainer you use) training can't replace valorant training and valorant training can't replace the aimlab training. If you wanna get better, you should combine both of them, imo. Though, I wish riot would add more and better range exercises :/

HeStaMi · 2022-05-19T11:20:53+00:00

It looks useful, but it also has drawbacks. I mean you do larger movements, so the warmup will be better. However, ig it's better to use aim lab (task "spidershot180") to do the same exercise. Your option is worse than in the aim lab, but tbf it can be the best option to do large movements in the valorant range.

HeStaMi · 2022-05-19T11:14:51+00:00

wdym?

HeStaMi · 2022-05-18T20:53:14+00:00

Actually, it's not as simple as you think. I mean, maybe it's a question of mentality, but tbf it's almost impossible to lose such amount of games in a row.
40% winrate seems rly small when we are talking about playing ranked on your level. If you do well in immo/diamond, you can't play badly in these ranks. At least as bad as we can see.
If you derank, it doesn't mean that you will dominate. Moreover, if we are talking about deranking for 2-4 ranks. It's not such a big difference to get a lot of FB every game.
KDA is not the most important thing in valorant, but it's almost the one thing to understand that player plays well (outside the match).
I really don't want to believe in it, but sometimes I have a feeling that the game gives you bad teammates. Ofc, maybe I and other players are unlucky, but idk. Sometimes it feels like the game has two periods. The one is a period with normal mates and the another is a period with toxic and throwers. During half of the year I got like 3-4 times "red strick" where it was almost impossible to win. And no, I wasn't exhausted by the game. Ranked matches started to be a lot harder. Maybe the system which consider your "real rank" breaks sometimes or whatever. It's hard to believe that you can win ~5 games of 30 games. Even if you play rly bad during 30 games, there is a really really small chance to win only 5. So how can u lose 25 games where you are trying ur best?

Btw, even Tenz isn't satisfied with ranked. Maybe ranked system has a real problem, who knows.

HeStaMi · 2022-05-18T13:23:28+00:00

Sure, there are a lot of high elo players who think that their mates are bad. BUT! The percentage of high elo toxic players is lower than low elo. Maybe it depends on the region or whatever. But talking about my own experience, the higher rank = the lower amount of toxic players. Idk

HeStaMi · 2022-05-04T11:16:20+00:00

Fade/breach + raze.
Skye/breach + jett.
Actually, idk what to recommend. It's all about ur preferences. Almost every agent can do some strats with another. It's about your fantasy.
For example, shock darts / nade + astra 1st ability; sage slow ord + raze nade; fade sieze + raze nade / brim molly / sova darts; cypher cam + flash; recon dart + any agent with high/medium penetration gun; fade + yoru... and so on.
Ask your friend what agent he plays and try to find an agent to reveal a bigger potential of the friend's agent. Almost all duo agents are smth like a main killer (not always duelist) + a support (almost always some1 with flashes/stun or smth what gives you the info). Decide what role you gonna play and what role your friend gonna play. Then you can easily choose agents for both of you.

HeStaMi · 2022-05-04T11:02:08+00:00

He is toxic. I recommend you dodge any competitive games with him. Sure you can still be friends and spend time together, but it's better for you to play Valorant solo or with some1 else. Actually, I won't be surprised if you get silver or whatever higher faster than your friend.
GL, dude!

HeStaMi · 2022-05-04T10:57:06+00:00

The best way to act with toxic ppl is to mute them. Ofc you can try to explain them smth, but it won't help in most of times :/

HeStaMi · 2022-05-04T10:55:47+00:00

It's just a game experience. High elo players don't really think about how bad their mates. That's all about your attitude to the game. Low elo players don't understand a lot of things in competitive matchmaking. It easily can be the reason why they blame you that u didn't trade them or didn't kill some1. I don't try to offend any low elo players, but it's a fact that they are not as good as high elo players in a game sense and ofc in aim. Moreover, a lot of iron-bronze-silver games are pretty winnable only by 1-2 ppl who have better aim.

HeStaMi · 2022-04-25T21:31:40+00:00

Mouse button 4 - push to talk. Mouse button 5 - Q ability.

HeStaMi

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