DrLupo interviews the VALORANT developers
Product Manager, Anna “SuperCakes” Donlon, and Design Director, Joe “Ziggs” Ziegler had an interview with the famous internet personality, Dr Lupo, on April 4th, 2020.
A little recap on the topics they talked about:
- There is no estimated time for the beta to last until the launch of the game.
- Access on the 7th will be more than double the amount from 3rd the only way to get the beta is from twitch drops.
About monetization
- They're going to do it with Skins, cosmetics.
- No loot boxes.
- There will be a battlepass.
- Agent skins: not now, They are worried about messing up the game
- Probably will be seasonal events.
Ranked
- Not in the first weeks of the beta.
- Queue up as a group of five, there is only one queue list but the algorithm tries to avoid solo queue vs stack of five.
- Rating system is similar to League
- Ranked and unranked have skill based matchmaking
Map Count: four maps at release
- Focus is on high quality map
- Maps can have changes if needed.
Agents
- 10 agents in the beta.
- Some will be released later.
Technical and client data
- No aim assist at all, they are focused on PC.
- The game will smooth out people who lag. People shouldnt see anyone lag.
- Anti cheat - Fog-of-War: Your client doesn't know where the enemies are till you need that information.
- If any cheats are detected the match/game is not added to your stats/score. It will not count. The match will end.
- Field of view: locked at 103, focus for competitive balance.
- Screen resolution: Supporting 16:9 and 16:10 also 4:3 but stretched.
- Will be spectator vision at release.
- Replay system, working on it, but will not be available at release.
- No plans for creative mode / customs maps.
- Colorblind mode will be available.
- They are exploring how to help hearing disabled people. Not sure but still looking into it.
- They are looking to do a streamer mode, but no ETA yet. Before Launch most likely.
- Not left hand mode, but they are looking into it. They don't know if it will land before launch.
- Weapon Bobbing, They don't have any plans to disable it. But they can look at it.
- Mouse sens Vertical / horizontal: Right now there is only 1 sensitivity to control both. It's not separated.
- Public accessible API: Yes, there is going to be. Not known when. Not for closed beta.
- Very hard to get LAN support.
- No mouse acceleration in game.
- Private and custom match support available.
- Reconnection option will be available.
Teammates quitting
- They are testing.
- If they find out they are AFK/Disconnected.They are looking into leaver penalties.
- They don't know yet, but they are looking for feedback on how to address this.
Riots plans for update
- Hotfixes: Emergency patches and they really need to tackle fast.
- Blance: there will be patches with more spaced out time periods.
- They will be doing them frequently enough to respond to players.
- Content updates will be difficult but they want to balance it and not overwhelm players with so much new content. They can't say how long.
- They will probably be around that 2 week cadence just like League of Legends.
- They aren't sure if that model will work for VALORANT.
Not much info about esports
- Community tournament guidelines will come first.
- They want to learn more from the players before building an esports Infrastructure.
Want to see the full interview? Watch it here on DrLupo's channel.
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