Fancypmcgee

As one of the QA folks on the maps team this post made me panic so much when I clicked on the title 0_o

Edit top post for visibility instead of replying in thread: We do want to have appropriate translations. So while this is definitely not unplayable per se, we want it to be everything ya'll deserve, so our loc team and maps team are talking about how we can do stuff like this better, and we'll take this lesson moving forward :) So thanks for bringing it to our attention!

I have twice had my heart stop while scrolling through post titles. Hopefully it doesn't get me again in a few hours.

sh444iikoGod

the reminders are great indeed. i was ready to flame my teammates, but quickly checked reddit. luckily i saw this post and remembered 'not everyone is global elite in CSGO', so then i quickly changed my ways. all it took was this reminder

also you must be new to the internet if you think saying 'hey we dont do that here' will have any positive effect... lol. if youre gonna stick up for the person being made fun of, you better do it will full commitment & aggression or not at all

Definitely not new to the internet :P. And I have indeed seen it work! But hey, if that language doesn't feel right for you, don't use it. I'm just not an advocate for defending against verbal abuse...with more verbal abuse lol.

What u/aneia said! Thank you so much for saying something so nice! <3 I'm so glad you like the battlepass content. What's your most-wanted item in the current pass?

Kudo50

I did :) thank you for the answer anyway! thank you for the good work as well :)

Thank you so much :)

rilverotter

I submitted some tickets through out, mostly about memory crash dump errors, did any developers, mention these/fix them. Not hating love the game!

We fixed lots of crashes this patch and previous patches. We usually don't put crash fixes in the patch notes since it's impossible for players to know if we fixed their particular crash. We track every single crash and fix ones the biggest ones each patch. Sometimes just having bad memory can cause crashes, if VALORANT crashes often for you consider running a memory test. For context, we expect you to need to play VALORANT for a many many hours before you'd ever see a crash. It's a development metric called Mean time to failure (MTTF) and you can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures

Skerald

I’m soooo glad. For no reason, my FPS would drop at 10-15, which is unplayable (yes, I don’t have a PC made for gaming hahah)

Now, I constantly get 40-50 FPS and it’s SUCH AN AMAZING improvement for the quality of life. I’m know able to play without raging about my FPS’s lmao

Thansk a lot for these changes, it means a lot for me :)

Love to hear it. Honestly this is why we do what we do. It means a lot to hear it.

Reimillya

Hi! Thanks for the hard work over these past few months. I've been enjoying the game a lot.

However my friend seems to be having extreme stuttering issues. I'm certain his PC is capable of running the game, but currently he keeps getting around 20-60fps with extreme frame drops. The game is also taking up around 40% of his CPU.

His specs are I5-7500, a GTX 1660 Ti and 16GB RAM. Any idea as to what could've been causing this? Thanks in advance! :D

I5-7500

I would expect your friend to get much better average and higher performance given these specs. Can you have them contact player support and see if they can gather information and help them?

Off the cuff I'd say check all the settings in game and nvidia control panel to make sure everything is what they expect there.

LilyRose50

I love you guys!

<3

Kudo50

HI, I had a question regarding skin, not sure you can answer but we never know, is the reaver collection going to come back?

Unfortunately I can't say :(. But I hope you asking means you loved it!

I love seeing these reminders. Thank you so much :)
If you're interested in helping to shape our community in a positive way, here's a fun fact! Bystander intervention is the most effective method for dissolving a situation with a bully. However, that doesn't mean to start insulting and berating them. Comments like "Hey, we don't do that here," or "They're clearly new, and yelling at them isn't going to help." can be really helpful! (It's better to address the behavior, not the person.) Then, engage with the person who's getting bullied in a positive way. You might root them on, give them gentle feedback on how to improve their gameplay, or even just ask them how their day is going.
Hope this helps :) And thanks again for looking out for our newest recruits!

That hand in the foreground is just ...chef's kiss Well done OP! And thanks for showing our agents and game some love :)

Hey there fam! Something you might consider is that different people want alt game modes for different reasons. In our research, we found a TON. Here are just a few:
- More casual, less intense gameplay
- Lesser time commitment
- More opportunities for creative outplay
- One-for-all style allowing for solo play
- Zero abilities, only gunplay
Spike Rush meets some of these needs, but not all of them. It sounds like it wasn't your jam, and that kinda blows. But hopefully you'll find something that suits you better in the future :)

Thanks so much fam :) We wanted the Battle Pass to be just that: insane player value, especially for the players who invest so much time in our game. And it makes me really happy to know that it feels exactly that way for you :)
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Cb58logan

Is there an updated ETA? any problems?

We've started deploying a fix for players moving forward. Still reviewing players whose contract were put in a weird state.

ArmiesofZNight

We have a fix ready. We're holding off deploying until we get the servers in a better state (reducing the amount of change at once). We're confirming recovery options. We may have to apply updates to players to grant rewards that are currently behind. The initial fix will cover moving forward. Getting clarity on the remedy for those in the current state --we will make sure you get your rewards, just not sure if it will apply with the fix or if we'll need to run some scripts to apply the rewards to the accounts.

Starting deploying of the fix. Americas/Europe/Korea are all deployed. APAC will be out shortly.

This will fix players moving forward. Some players who play another game may get their rewards resolved, but it looks like we have to adjust previous accounts in a more manual way. We are working to resolve those players' issues, but it may take some time today to make sure they're in a good state.

llamaeatgiraffe

I may just not understand the economics of it all but can someone explain to me why it isn’t possible to just balance the pricing to where they may make less off of whales but widen the circle enough to where more buyers make up for it and even it out?

There’s just no way it is reasonable to constantly monetize games to only appeal to <1% of the games population by making your prices so insanely inflated. What about a $10 price tag or something that ropes in waaay more buyers but reduces dependency on whales?

It’s bizarre to me that the most profitable and satisfying monetization scheme for your playerbase is one that excludes a MASSIVE portion of them.

These numbers that such a small percentage of people spend money on F2P games have to be skewed by their insane financial models that most sane people can’t justify participation in.

I wish the battle pass model was the norm in F2P, as long as the grind is reasonable for working people.

Hey there fam! I know it's common thing for people to assume higher prices means only whales will buy the skins...but that's actually not the case! The research we've done on League shows us that players generally prefer to save up money to buy a really good skin, rather than buy a few cheap, lower-quality skins. This is supported by the fact that players basically stopped buying tiers below League's Epic Tier (1350), thus explaining why 750s and 975s are so rarely available now.
That said, we do want accessible pricing -- so we also have the 875 tier skins (about $8.75 before the VP bundling discount) like Rush, Luxe, and Galleria.
For players who really need the lowest cost options, we have the Battle Pass (which, when completed, grants 11 gun skins), the Character Contracts (which are 100% free, never expire, and grant a free sidearm skin on completion), and a few other things in the works :) Remember, this is just Day 1!
Hope this helps :)

FeloHu

- **Region:** EU

- **Type of Bug:** Can't Recruit Agent despite having unlocked my 1x Free Agent Recruit

- **Description:** The bug is that u can't redeem rewards from contracts at the moment I have unlocked the spectre and can't equip it I unlocked an agent and can't recruit either

- **Video / Screenshot:** https://i.redd.it/1wstt4sg3i251.png

- **Steps to reproduce:** Complete a Contract tier

- **Expected result:** Able to use/ Redeem your reward

- **Observed result:** Can't use my reward

- **Reproduction rate:** 100%

- **System specs:** Not relevant but AMD Ryzen 3 GTX1050ti

Sorry for the very late response, but thank you for the report. We are aware, investigating, and looking to implement a fix asap. We're validating it before we roll it out, and we will 100% make sure all impacted accounts are resolved. Sorry about this :(

Tigrammer

I started out feeling the same way after a couple rounds, but after playing Ascent 4 times in a row it is starting to grow on me. Finding all the cheeky places to use Cypher’s abilities has been great. Thanks for the new map!

There's some incredibly talented Artists, Designers, Engineers, SFX, VFX, QA folks, and Producers that all made it happen. I'm just lucky they let me help :)

ImWhiteTrash

Will this also fix people not being able to use their free agent unlocks?

I believe it's related.

vysec

Fab. I'll standby.

Issue's a bit more complex and AP's taking us longer than initially anticipated.