CS2 really lure most of Valorant players into their game. This is all because they are too stubborn to change the thing people want the most.
If you do this, your game will continue to live.
it's impossible to know if valorant is really dying because riot just pulls chinese viewership numbers out of thin air
also wtf is "Make the agent run faster" lmfao
CS2 character run twice faster than Valorant agent. Mind you they are ordinary soldier yet still run faster meanwhile Valorant Agents are a fucking ninja and super human.
yeah that's the problem
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How was this a problem again?
No reason for tencent to fake numbers. Crowd is always packed even for bottom table teams..
Even lol viewership is big coz its massive in china.
whats the point of rarity if they make all the skins available? they don't even do that in cs. also what do u mean make the agent run faster.
none of these are the reason at all but it is struggling because the balance team have been actively balancing off social media tantrums and the bugfix guy is vibecoding out his ass
exactly + everyone will complain abt something no matter the meta
the main issue with valorant rn is that ranked is horrible
gains + losses suck
matchmaking sucks
there is no incentive to continue to grind, especially once you have already hit higher ranks
plus:
agent utility mastery is constantly being pushed to the sideline by tenz fans in favor of a "gunplay forward" game
new agents aren't exciting or innovative anymore, because riot are scared of experimenting and rather release safe and digestible agents
map design continues to be horrible
Narrowing the skill gap for agents (and the game too with stuff like showing when a smoke is about to disappear with the effects) is why Valorant is dying. They're making it too ez for low skill players to win.
Most recent of many examples (latest patch): giving the knife clone tech to every Yoru player (this makes it so that dedicated Yoru mains who knew the tech to make the clone look more real by making it have a knife out are less rewarded for knowing that tech)
Also like nerfing every agent and making util less relevant (by increasing cooldowns, decreasing util on agents, and adding agents like veto) is stupid af. Why is this game trying to become like CS (they can't be better than CS at being CS)? It needs to be Valorant.
tbh the yoru thing isnt that deep imo
but shit like raze nerf yoru nerf (neon?) nerfs i agree with, senti nerfs asw
on the other hand some nerfs like the ini nerfs make the Quality of play better by requiring smarter and strategic utility
oh another thing
Riot dev mfs nerfed killed yoru while he was at like 48% winrate in ranked (it shows that Yoru required actual mastery to be good at it - high skill ceiling, but not a good agent for casuals). Clove has been at like 53%+ winrate since like 2024 or something and not giga nerfed? Also why has Reyna not been deleted or reworked (stupid agent)?
Reyna and Clove will get reworked if the anti-rank manipulation stuff actually does anything and they realize the winrates are propped up primarily by ridiculous shooters with no game sense dropping ranks to feel anything.
the initator nerfs did not do anything to help utility usage become smarter
they just make it so you have to wait longer to use it in a smart way
everyone is still throwing the exact same util, they just need to wait like 15 extra seconds to do it again
genuinely a pointless nerf that just fucked the pro meta for no reason
idk pesonally in my asc-immo lobbies ive noticed not braindead spam util
what free skins in cs2 bro i have 2.4k hours and never got any free skins
When you finish your weekly mission you will get a free random case/free skin/Spray.
u have to get prime first. you can think it as a 1 time payment for lifetime battlepass
still not free, you pay upfront and earn back over time, but its not ""free"" and also all of my weekly drops ever besides cases have been dogshit grays and maybe 1 blue and 1 purple
Definitely not free. never said that. But it is not that expensive. I play CS2 rarely and i got the Prime, and within like 4-5 months i got double the amount. I don't gamble on crates i just sell them.
its not even agents tbh, every 5 stack game i play with friends there will be 1 smurf minimum for sure in other team. riot not doing anything in that for 5 stacks.....i am in plat btw i know i am not that good but i feel 5 stacks are fun and having a imm in another team would ruin it for all.....
I think None of these 2 games comes as superior. both have flaws ands strength. At the end it comes to individual players choice as to what they like to play IMO
The reason why you think valorant is dying and cs2 is not, is because cs2 is a simple game. You can come back to cs2 after a few years and everything will be the same thing, its quite literally the same game. Valorant on the other hand, if you don't come back in a few years, theres a lot of changes on maps, there's going to be quite a few maps that got made, new agents, ability changes on agents, new guns, patch changes and so much more which doesn't incentive old players to come back to the game
cs2 only popular in eu. I bet half the stream players are russian
I agree, I took a break from valorant for only 1 year and when i came back it just felt like a new game and I have to start back from 0. This is also why I say that valorant is much more exhausting to play because of a lot of shit going on. cs2 always feel welcoming but Im also more interested in valorant pro play than cs because teams can have so many various approach to the game unlike cs who just keeps repeating the same exact executes. as a viewer >> valorant, as a player >> csgo. just my opinions tho
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