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Ranked play may hit Valorant’s closed beta “in a couple weeks"The numbers must go higher
The numbers must go higher
Look,Valorantmight be fun and aw, but what’s the point if you can’t make the numbers go higher? Right now, folk are just cycling in and out of wizard gunfights, learning the game and having fun, without the very important business of pushing an arbitrary rank higher and higher. Disgusting. From the sounds of it, though, that may change sooner than expected, with a Riot developer hinting at a ranked matchmaking system arriving in the next few weeks.
Responding to an aggrieved player, Riot developer Joe Ziegler noted that ranked matchmaking will hitValorant’s closed beta within weeks (viaDextero). Mind, I’ve been in some disastrous games of Counter-Strike, so I’m not entirely sure why this kid’s so grumpy over a 9-13 loss.
Our first “rated” testing is coming in a couple weeks, stay tuned.— Ziegler (@RiotZiegler)April 10, 2020
Our first “rated” testing is coming in a couple weeks, stay tuned.
— Ziegler (@RiotZiegler)April 10, 2020
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Valorant does have ranks already, mind. We even know what they are, given resident guides lord Ollie’s already given usthe complete rank rundown from Mercenary to Immortal. It’s just that, right now, none of that matters. While I imagine there’s some light skill-tracking going on, games largely seem to be pulled at random, occasionally leading to lop-sided matches.
What that system looks like when it arrives, we still don’t know. Doesn’t mean we can’t guess, though - I don’t see Valorant taking any huge departures from established competitive conventions, not when Riot themselves helped push them in the first place.
That’s all blind guessing, mind. We’ll get a better sense of what Ranked play in Valorant looks like closer to its arrival. If you want to reach ranked to begin with, mind, best start playing on the safe side - Riot have made it clear thatcheatersandkey resellershave no place in Valorant’s closed beta.
For now, the RPS hivemind remains mixed on Valorant. Or, at least, there’s a divide between staffers and contributors - with Matt calling it"a compelling case for a hybrid of CS:GO and Overwatch"as freelancer Cian Maher worries it’sa shaky compromise between CS:GO and Overwatch.
