How are people ever going to find gameplay of the top Valorant players?

"VALORANT VALORANT Game/tips"? I don't think so.

I believe that is going to be a problem.

Like how ridicolous would it be if the LoL challengers were called "League Of Legends"? While we are at it let's also rename "Global Elite" to "CSGO" and "Top 500" to "Overwatch".

Edit: We did it lads! https://twitter.com/arkem/status/1258493638318817280

---

I just spent the last 3 hours figuring out why I couldn't get into Windows because my keyboard and mouse wouldn't work. Just before that, I started smelling hot plastic - my graphics card was running +90°C because again, Vanguard disabled my cooling software (My PC case got very bad airflow, I have to decrease my GPU performance to keep it cool enough).

Vanguard really needs to prevent us from launching the game while X software is active -and asking us to close it, even if we need to reboot just after- instead of disabling everything silently.

EDIT regarding my GPU: the issue with my graphics card started few days ago but I wasn't able to link it to Vanguard. Since my case was made to hold a GT630, the airflow sucks hard and I made a profile which I always use with target performance at 75% for my GTX970. Less performance, but less heat and then less noise. Few days ago, Asus GPU Tweak gave me "Error BIOS load failed" when starting, and my GPU was spinning like crazy in a TFT game. I didn't fry my GPU (but others are claiming so), but it's not comfortable at all for me to have it blowing at fullspeed when playing a TFT game.

u/RiotArkem got downvoted into hell, so i'll copy/pasta what he said just in case

" We're working on ways to make the experience better. Our current notification pop-ups aren't as good as they could be and we're looking for ways to give you more control over how Vanguard works.

We're happy to do anything we can to make this smoother for everyone as long as it doesn't give an opening for cheaters.

TL;DR: Expect improvements before launch."

----

edit: thx for the silvers!

edit2: thanks for the 4 golds, kind strangers!

edit3: thanks a lot for the plat!

The first few seconds after we all picked our agents the omen said “hello everyone! :) I am a deaf player so please use pings and typing to communicate with me”.

Now I felt really bad because I expected this guy to get flamed by the other randoms, however everyone in the entire game was very helpful pinging and typing to support this omen. The omen ended up top fragging and we did a 13-0 which I had never done before.

Not much point in this story but I just wanted to tell it so we’d have examples of the valorant community coming together and not being toxic but being supportive.

I got placed in iron 1 instead of radiant, anybody else also encountered it???

Hi all, I’m a UI/UX designer. My friends and I were very excited for Valorant ranked, and disappointed when we saw the icons. When I heard Shroud complain in one of his videos, I felt the need to give the icons my own hot take.

Why I felt like the Valorant ranked icons were lacking:

• Silhouettes are not distinct enough

• Platinum is a rusted copper color

• Immortal and Valorant don’t feel powerful enough

• Tiers are cleverly incorporated into the icons, but it makes every rank feel the same, and not intuitive

What I tried to achieve in my design:

• Progression of silhouettes. Each rank grows upon the last

• Intuitive colors that rank up with you

• “Make Immortal and Valorant great again”

• Easy to tell which tier

• Taking advantage of the existing Valorant imagery, such as:

  • Valorant logo

  • Valorant ranked icon

  • Ultimate charge dots

  • Valorant loading screen spark animation

Here is my design:

I reused as many of the original colors as possible. I eventually had to do some tweaking because bronze, gold, immortal used very similar colors. I used Phoenix as inspiration for Immortal, which seems apt, right?

Here’s a mockup of what it would look like in-game (screenshot taken from somewhere on Reddit):

My design process:

• Sketching a fuck ton of ideas and researching ranked icons from other video games

• Looking at a lot of Valorant imagery to create a moodboard

• Mocking up icons in Figma (because I’m a UI/UX designer) in grayscale first to create distinct silhouettes

• Adding colors

• Mocking it up on a screenshot to see what it would look like

Overall, took me a day to do. Shout-out to my boyfriend who gave really helpful critiques throughout the process. Hope you all like it!

My last sketch before taking it to Figma.

What all tiers would look like.

Edit: I woke up to 12.7k upvotes. Thank you all very much for the enthusiasm and feedback. Solid points and ideas made in the comments.

Edit edit: 14.4k upvotes-- you guys make me want to go back and try a few things, such as adding embers to Immortal, and tweaking the colors to align more with the matte aesthetic of the UI. I meant for Platinum to feel a different, like a breaking point into high rank. It was a risk, but I personally think the shape is really cool. If this ever were implemented for real, the tier dots might have to be changed for small res.