Player Behavior, Balance, and Anti-Cheat // Dev Updates - VALORANT

Anna and Andy check in from Seoul, South Korea after wrapping up VCT 2024. You’ll also hear from some of the dev team about the progress we’ve been making with Player Behavior efforts, a word on Ranked Resets, updates coming to Agents and Live Balance, and the Anti-Cheat team will share a highly-requested update aimed at improving your ranked climbs. For more information from the Anti-Cheat team, check out the dev blog that went live today.

VALORANT Studio Lead: Anna Donlon
Executive Producer: Andy Ho

Recorded on August 14, 2024
Product Manager, Competitive and Social Systems: Stephen Kraman
Agent Balance Lead: Dan Hardison
Product Manager, Gameplay: Coleman Palm
Anti-Cheat Analyst: Brittany Perez

Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Gameplay and Balance: 1:28
Anti-Cheat and Ranked Rollbacks: 4:05
Player Behavior: 5:44
Competitive and Ranked Resets: 7:07
Outro: 8:27

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[CRWYT]

"I am exhausted, I need a nap, and some fried chicken."
Me too. Me too.

[redrazor]

The sunset changes look insanely good, that site had so many problems and a lot of them look to be solved

[shikadu_namikaze]

Getting smurfs every other game, reporting them and riot doing nothing about it EVER is honestly crazy

[roki]

i wish CS has this similar approach to updating their games, like dev updates talking to us, updating anticheat. etc.

[bsmith]

The RR rollback would've been good a while back tbh. this should've been a thing

[Pyroferric]

Phoenix updates have me extremely excited!!! So happy that he can possibly get a role back in the top spots of agents!

[fastminebrb]

Honestly, Big W to this game for having no cheaters but the smurfs are out of control!

[MRHGaming]

DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SMURFS AND AFKs. sick of loosing soo much RR even when we are already 4v5. atleast lower the RR lost when we have AFK or something.

[vincenzosama]

Seriously, it was about time to do a rework on Phoenix bro, he's been pretty "dull" compared to the other agents.

But if they gave us the option to summon the fire wall through other walls, then we won. At this point, it is unfair being not able to do it lmao

[krishnanagar]

"Get Good, Don't Cheat" 💀

[maddmethod]

smurfs are worse than cheaters at this point

[Banders]

i love harbor right now i think that if you just lowered the cost of cove and made it so that teammates did not get slowed through the walls he would be a great agent. pls no large scale changes 🙏

[deryorsh]

Balancing the Shop-prices would also be great haha

[babusseus]

Looks like Valorant went with the good ol' reliable double box in main in the sunset changes

[NebulaIsTaken]

We all know that smurfing is Riot’s business model. If smurfing was bannable and you needed a phone number for comp like premiere, Riot would lose tons of players. They know this, that’s why they’re not doing anything about it.

[damienray]

"About 1% of valorant games have cheaters" I can tell you right now, between smurfs and cheaters, my friends and I have about 1 good game a night where we don't get someone who goes like 29/6 or 35/10 and makes the game completely unenjoyable in unrated. We've actually started playing comp more because, even though we used to hate it, we've found more balanced teams and less smurfers and cheaters.

[sanjeevshenoy]

icebox and lotus out of map pool to get split and pearl !? absolutely needed. i hated icebox and i know a lot of people who would rather play on split than on lotus, do im guessing this change will be welcomed

[patweakk]

Thanks for updating us about the replay system, much appreciated

[lzshirex]

I hope Harbor doesn't change a lot, a great buff or like what they did with yoru. I'm alright used to main him he's rn.

[lenclwyd]

HARBOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- THERE IS LIGHT