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Valorant key-sellers and bots get the boot to free up beta slotsHand in your keys
Hand in your keys
But I can see the frustration in leaving streams running for hours. Yes, it’s a pain, but maybe don’t go rushing out to give strangers money for keys - Riot have made it quite clear that those probably won’t last long.
We’ve banned a pile of VALORANT closed beta account sellers and botters to free up more entitlements. Tracking more. Don’t buy accounts, you might lose them!— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT)April 9, 2020
We’ve banned a pile of VALORANT closed beta account sellers and botters to free up more entitlements. Tracking more. Don’t buy accounts, you might lose them!
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT)April 9, 2020
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Once you’re in the game, though, you can finally join the hot discourse of whether Valorant is, well, any good. Contributor Cian Maher’s been playing it for a bit - and while he felt it was a “perfectly acceptable shooter with tense gunfights and cleverly-shaped arenas”, itstruggles to find an identityoutside of “CS:GOwith anOverwatchreskin”.
Staff writer Matt, for his part, thinks that’s bullshit. He reckons Valorantmakes a compelling case for a hybrid of CS:GO and Overwatch, with all that wizard guff only amplifying the tension and strategy of lethal, CS-style gunfights. “Guns are better with wizards,” he argues. “I relish every chance to outsmart rather than outshoot, and Valorant gives me enough of them that I can see myself playing for a long time to come.”
If you’re in Matt’s camp, you’ll be happy to know our guides-maestro Ollie has all the info on getting up and running in Valorant, including thisnifty pointer on getting to grips with Valorant’s many guns.
I’m still trying to work out where I stand on it - a tough feat in part because I haven’t yet got beta access. Just sitting here, really, thinkin' about how hard I fell off Overwatch and how CS:GO’s map tools have always been far more appealing than the game itself.
Can you slide on your arse, Valorant? Apex lets me slide on my arse.
