Thread 1747411

I have an AMD Ryzen 7 8845 w/ Radeon 780M Graphics and 16 GB of RAM. What changes do /vm/ recommend me to improve the quality of my games in ranked?

Also, Valorant thread. What are your lore implications for the Act 3?

>>1747423
Should I turn the buffering on? Sometimes my WiFi doesn't work well.

>>1747426
Just put it on medium if the ping problem is not that great.

>>1747411 (OP)
I have a amd fx6300, a amd Rx 550, and 8 GBs of ram. I make zero excuses for my terrible performance in matches. I am almost at max rank because I am simply that good at the valorant.

any updated tips and tricks?

>>1763567
phenom2 rx470 8gb ram ** 60hz monitor **
the monitor almost makes it unplayable, everything else is fine

I can easily tell when Im playing against skilled people and when Im playing against people with 300+ hz screens

its night and day
if its a skilled person with good pc, its unplayable, you just get insta-shot everywhere before you can see them on your screen

everything else is manageable

What were they thinking when they gave deathmatch a REQUIRED playercount of 12? That's far too many people in a free for all mode on most maps, there's no breathing room.

>Thinking about picking up Omen
>DISABLED BECAUSE OUR DIVERSITY HIRES CANT CODE FOR SHIT!!!!

>replays coming in september
cool
>MFA WILL STOP SMURFING AND BOOSTING ONES AND FOR ALL!!!!!11111
oh no
ohnonononono
this will do fucking nothing and riot will declare the problem definitively solved

>>1747411 (OP)
>What are your lore implications for the Act 3?
New map is set in a medieval stonebrick castle, so that makes me think the new agent will be anglo/european.

>>1747411 (OP)
>What are your lore implications for the Act 3
Sage is going to marry me.

>>1790296
Sage is a monk isn't she

>>1791265
she's bout to shaolin flip into holy matramony with me.

GUYS I DID IT I GOT MY FIRST ACE! And it was a clutch ace with fucking Killjoy!

>>1790296
She is so beautiful not like that baboon Raze.

>fight someone who's got a vandal/sheriff/ghost
>they snap headshot me 90% of the time
>fight someone who has any other gun
>I can eke out a win around 55%, or just run away
What the fuck is going on here? Why do these assholes never buy a marshall even though it has one tap headshots while also being cheaper than a vandal?

>>1804934
Because with a Vandal when their triggerbot doesn't activate because they put it at 80% activation to avoid getting banned they can still spray you down.

how did gen.g lose to literal nobodies?

I picked up Breach since Raze, Reyna and Neon are for faggots, Omen and Yoru are for teenagers and Astra is for nobody. How do you play this guy? I feel like I have to read the minds of the enemies AND my teammates. If I hit a group with util I barely have enough time to jump out and kill one guy before the others recover and retaliate.

>chink
>from germany
???

>>1809858
Welcome to the world of match fixing

>>1811135
The point of the ultimate is to be a an opener for the faster duelist to pick. I don't recommend using it alone or with one teammate left.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone buy a frenzy or an ares and it's been a while since the last time I saw an odin pick.

new map is going to be aids

>>1821536
that shit is just Anubis bro

>they used of their knowledge of 5 years to design new map
>full of ratting spots
>trash angles were you can get shot from everywhere
>almost impossible to retake sites
>bangable walls
>horrible texturing for some reason
They have learnt all the wrong things then lol also I'm pretty sure most of the devs that designed most of the past maps already got laid off

Forget the judge, corrode is the most ares abuseable map that could possibly be made. And that's a good thing, fuck vandalfags.

>>1823916
Ratting is good. Rats are the only ones who know just how lousy with hackers this game is.

>ghost getting a longer draw animation
probably needed to happen all things considered but the sheriff needs competition

So I end seson p3 80rr, play 5 placements, win 4, one match mvp, and the one I lost I was team mvp and I'm placed g3 50rr? are you fucking with me? I won 4 fucking games, needed just one to get diamond last season, so if not this I would've been like d1 half-ish and instead I'm fucking deranked to g3, for winning 4 out of 5 matches, fuck riot faggots I hope they all burn in hell, what a fucking bullshit

>>1829008
>such a shame... now go buy the new bundle so your grind is more enjoyable!

Odin being meta is a funny change of pace but you just know the devs finna plaster metal plates all over corrode.

>>1829008
How are battle score and RR supposed to take into account difficult to quantify contributions such as KJ deterring a team from even approaching a site or Viper stalling a chokepoint for 30 seconds straight?
Like, nobody expects any given lockdown to actually hit someone, it just swings the round entirely in your favor. But how can you measure the effect of something like that?

>>1832588
At the end of the day, it’s still a shooter game

>>1832588
win rounds, win matches

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https://www.twitch.tv/kato_junichi0817

I can't find any Neons to hump anymore...

People take spike rush, team deathmatch, swiftplay and even escalation a lot more seriously than unrated and I don't know how to feel about that.

>>1838823
Most of new players use unrated to quickly level up, also the fact that in unrated the games are longer plays to it, in shorter modes people just go all out

>vandalbabbies want odin nerfs just because it can be good against vandals on certain spots on a single map
>they refuse to adapt their passive playstyles and continue trying to use vandals to beat odins at their own game instead of proactively using vandals to shoot odins in the places and positions where they are at a disadvantage
o i am laffin, this is like saying the operator needs nerfing because the bucky loses against it at range

>>1841297
Valorant players are genuinely retarded, they think any kill that wasn’t a headshot “doesn’t count” and constantly cry about “run & gun”

I think I may be addicted, I uninstalled the game at monday to take a bit of a break and installed it back today :/

>>1846080
It is designed to be as addicting as possible

I'm gonna get Fade as my next agent because I want wallhack recon but I don't like messing around with Sova arrow trajectories.
Any tips and advice for playing her?

>>1847101
her eye is far more annoying to use than the sova dart

>>1847470
One of the rare moments that the anticheat works and only when it's fucking retardedly obvious.

I just get on DM nowadays to report the top fraggers

>tfw stopped buying skins to fund my perfume addiction
we worried about the wrong frags now

Okay, Fade sucks. She's completely beholden to teammates to get kills off of her util.
>throw haunt
>gimped range and huge appearance make it super easy to find
>throw prowler
>very easy to kill and the nearsight duration is too short to capitalize on by yourself
>throw seize
>does jackshit to prevent someone holding a position from just shooting anyone who approaches
>throw ult
>anyone hit just shoots you on sight, useless for frontal assaults
Seize is the worst grenade in the game, worse than clove nade. Why the fuck did they limit the range? Were they afraid of the potential epic lineup to crossmap prowler combo? I'm just gonna play Gekko.

>Clove, if you ever go freelance, do not mention the immortality. Your clients will take advantage. I certainly would.
What did Tejo mean by this?

>>1860804
great source of donated organs, assuming no stds

>My face when people actually use the "replace username with generic placeholder" feature
What are they afraid of, other gamers making fun of their lame ass username???

>>1868847
there is a little rotation of users here in latam

>got a red screen
>in a freaking iron/bronze lobbie

Omen is STILL able to use ult to pick up a dropped spike then cancel while keeping it. As if he wasn't good enough.

>>1870154
Makes sense, newcomers don't know which cheats are safe to use.

>got 3 axe melee skins at the daily store
Fully random store btw

he made it...

what am i supposed to as kj on attack, just watch the flank? because every time i do that my teammates just get completely flummoxed by the first chokepoint they come across. they just stand there holding a sightline no defender is going to walk into because they dont have to

even if i catch and frag a lurker, they still wont rotate until the 30 second mark

I see why this community hates "ratting," it's the easiest way to tell when someone's hacking.

>>1895633
Thats all you're really meant to do until the spike goes down.

>>1895633
Shoot your gun

>>1895633
You're essentially a duelist with some trips that alert you to nearby enemies and an ult that absolutely decimates the round once the spike goes down.

It took me until level 40 but I finally did it, I got my first thrifty round.

has rank value gone up overtime or something
i keep getting people with ascendant/diamond buddies in my silver games lol

valorant? more like FOULORANT!!!!!1111

Started playing maybe a week ago and I've enjoyed it so far. I'm no longer bottom frag and I'm getting a good amount of kills in games (10+!), although I still need to figure out basic tactics. Might try ranked soon.

>>1916868
who is your valfu?

>>1916871
jett makes my pp hard but i have considered buying the danish girl because she is cute too

If you are not aiming like at least the average immortal player, you are playing a completely different game.

If you aim like a diamond player, you might as well just play death match

i play kj and never use my abilities

>>1920428
I don't even know what Immortal aim in any game is supposed to be anymore now that cheating is just a fact of life in every single multiplayer FPS and even in many LAN tournaments.

Back in my day CS pros having an over-50 HS% was considered godlike aim.

>Few friends asked me to pick up this game
>Say yes because I want to play games with my friends
>Just remembered after installing it that they're all super casual, terrible at communicating or working together, and one regularly bitches at any randoms we get even when they're literally doing better than him and have done nothing whatsoever to warrant it
I think I fucked up.

>>1927755
>>Just remembered after installing it that they're all super casual, terrible at communicating or working together, and one regularly bitches at any randoms we get even when they're literally doing better than him and have done nothing whatsoever to warrant it
and i love it. wouldn't want to spend my friday night any other way

>>1925534
Diamonds hit immortal like shots 20% of the time. Rest 80% they shoot like gold.

New season, back to the treadmill for the free shit.
The classic skin at the end just seems uninspired even with palette swaps, although the soda cup is cute.

>New to Valorant
>Haven't really played shooters in awhile
>Feel like I'm fucking washed
>Getting onetapped constantly and struggling to make top 3 just in DMs
>So buckbroken I open the tracker site to check ranks and see what I'm up against
>Entire DM lobby is Immortal
Oh, maybe I'm not washed after all. I still don't really get gunfights in this game. I haven't played CS in a hot minute but my gun/character both feels more unwieldy and unresponsive than I ever remember it in that game and I feel like I land a fair amount of headshots that I don't really deserve. Do I just suck or is there also a delay on becoming fully accurate even when you counterstrafe?

>>1772569
none at all

>>1747426
works fine for me

>peaked gold 3 soloque and stopped playing for two years
>know that I can be better if I had decent teammates
>come back and try to relearn game
>back to the Bronze ghetto
>game keeps putting me in with no-commers and people who have seemingly never played a video game in their lives
>enemy teams alwasy have headshot only smurfs and te occasional cheater

I managed to get into silver, but I am not good enough to solo carry every game. Even when I have bad games, there are worse performers on my team and we get steamrolled. why the FUCK do I play

Agent: Dice
Role: Controller
Theme: Time manipulation, shapes rounds by bending seconds.

Basic Abilities

1. Fast Forward
Trap that banishes whoever steps on it into a timeout zone for 5 seconds.
After the duration, they reappear at the same spot.

2. Rewind
Sends whoever steps on the zone 5 seconds back into a past position.

3. 555
On activation, for 5 seconds, all status changes (damage, healing, buffs/debuffs) are delayed by 5 seconds.

Ultimate: "Unpredictable"
Rewinds the entire game by 10 seconds.
No exceptions: player positions, health, abilities, consumables, spike state and map conditions are all reset.
A total redo of the last 10 seconds, the definition of unpredictability.

Ultimate stack resolution:
00:00 dice 1 ults
-00:10
-00:09 dice 2 ults
since "00:01" never existed the clock runs back to "-00:19" instead of to what would have been "one second into a future that had never happened" and it would look to players as if the game had rewound nineteen seconds but to the characters no one had seen how the future after "-00:19" had been erased.

Ultimate voicelines:
team: "Insanity is repetition."
enemy: "We’re all mad here."

Voicelines:
"everyone wants to try again until they do"
"time only goes forward to you"
"it's usually cheap to think, buy it"
"you thought it was a good idea again"
"this failed but you wanted to know how"
"you won but you wanted to erase evidence"
"funny, you load your weapons"

>>1942923
never cook again

Holy the new Champions is hot garbage

>>1946026
I suspect the lack of game modes is because the devs don't want to spread the players too thin, although being able to queue for multiple modes at the same time would alleviate this.

I don't know who these teams or pro players are, what am I supposed to do with these pick'ems?

>>1948184
Just ask ChatGPT to do them for you

>>1947395
it gets much better after its gone from the shop

>>1949929
Oh so that's who's ruining every multiplayer shooter these days.

low ranks are so hard to get out of and its motly because there is little to no communication, but that can be surpassed if people had at least two deceased braincells to rub together. how is a site with a deadlock, a raze and a fade letting anyone into site? I try to get some comms and no one says shit, I sperg out and one of them gets on mic to say dont be so salty. WTF are you doing in ranked??? our entry is lurking, our other entry is not using util.... how can people play this game??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? go play unrated you waste of skin.

>>1946026
its not even a proper replay system. you cant see other player's games LMAO

>>1952673
Classic Riot
"Hey guys, you want a replay system so you can look at your own gameplay, right?"