Sean
VVALORANT
•Created by Sean on 3/23/2024 in #community-help
Updated graphics drivers and now my valorant looks weird
After updating nvidia drivers my valorant started looking like this, it is the only game that this happens in.
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VVALORANT
•Created by Sean on 3/6/2024 in #community-help
Why does utility feel so oppressive to me?
So I've been playing on and off since the beta and it feels like this most recent time I've returned, every match is just me getting completely squashed by utility. For context I'm consistently playing in gold, and back about 2 years ago I hit plat 2 as my all time peak. I'm understanding that the general player base is a lot more well educated on the fundamentals now, so I understand why I haven't really kept up as well in that regard, but every game for me personally just feels like I can't break through enemy utility at all. My site hits on attack are lackluster usually getting stopped before they start by smokes, cypher trips, sage walls, even deadlock setup. I am usually maining duelist and I don't want to be the guy that blames the team that I can't properly entry, but I mean I'll have controllers on my team drop smokes, I'll push into a massive wall of enemy utility (because they pretty much drop it the second our smokes drop, and I'll die without any impact or being able to be traded. Best case scenario seems to be we get smoked or walled and then rotate with no map control and end up getting stopped by an enemy that's taken space and called for early rotates. I kind of understand as well that most people will say something along the lines of "well you go take that space yourself then and be a lurker or something along those lines" and I'd be happy to, but every time I've tried even if I'm the main reason we pick up the round I still get the shade thrown at me of "You are the duelist why do you not entry?" I want to play my role, and I want to keep the team happy, but I just feel like I can't break into any site alone, and more often than not the blame seems to just fully fall on me regardless of where I am on the map. "You are a duelist why can't you ever get an entry kill?" "Why are you lurking on duelist?" "Why are you staying behind and not entrying?". It just feels like every single site I hit is a brick wall and if I try to just shove my way through that brick wall it crumbles down on top of me.
tl;dr: I play duelist and when my team expects me to entry I do, and I am met with what feels like an absolutely overwhelming torrent of utility that shuts me down in an instant with absolutely no hope of escaping the situation. Coming from csgo the abilities in this game feel so absolutely oppressive that I do not know how to cope with playing against them properly in my preferred role.
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VVALORANT
•Created by Sean on 3/2/2024 in #community-help
Help me pick a main
Hi! So I've played a few agents now over the years, but I'm still really struggling to find my perfect fit. For context my playstyle is like stupidly aggressive. I am the guy on the team that will fearlessly entry any site at any time when we decide to commit, but I feel like I just can't find the agent that fits playing in this way. I ego peek everything, and I genuinely just don't really have fun playing this slow methodical dissecting playstyle. So far yoru and phoenix are close, but I'm super uncomfortable on agents like jett and raze. I wouldn't even mind playing an agent that isn't a duelist that fits this kind of hyper aggressive playstyle. In general I am not a support, and I do not have fun without taking fights and always being the point of contact. I'm getting tired of filling just because I "know" every agent's basics. I want to lock in an agent every game and carry with them until I really hit a rank where one player can't win games alone anymore. I know I sound delusional in a way, but I also know some of you could give me at least suggestions for what I'm looking for.
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VVALORANT
•Created by Sean on 1/16/2024 in #community-help
Don't know what's wrong with me
I doubt anyone will see this but on the off chance it does get spotted I just don't know what's wrong. I haven't changed up my practicing habits too much, so while I shouldn't be improving drastically I feel like I shouldn't be getting worse, but that's exactly what's happening. Over the past month and a half or so my gameplay has just gotten worse, and worse, and worse. It's driving me crazy, and I just feel like I can't hit a single shot. My decision making used to be really sound and fairly consistent, but now I always feel lost and confused in game. My aim while never the best was always pretty solid for the ranks I consistently sit in, and it was never overly frustrating to play the game like it is now. I just feel like I can't enjoy myself at all anymore because every single game I just miss every shot, run around like a headless chicken, and feed my enemies free kills cause I can't shoot back. I've been playing off and on since the beta and this is the worst I have EVER been. Even early on coming straight from csgo I was 100x better than I am now. Honestly I don't care about ranking up, I don't want to climb to radiant or go pro. I simply want to have fun in ranked and not feel completely useless to the teammates I do happen to get along the way. I don't like feeling like I ruin people's games by being as bad as I am right now.
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