I keep getting this error message “ a d3d11 compatible gpu (feature level 11.0, shader model 5.0) is required to run the engine” when I try and boot up Val
My graphics driver says it’s up to date, I’ve tried restarting and I have all the latest windows updates

Any idea how to fix? Just randomly popped up today yesterday had no problems

I think it would be cool for the smaller masters (8 teams) to have a round robin group stage and then playoff bracket (double elim) like the regional leagues in 2023. That would absolutely ensure no fluke runs happen and that the winner is the best team.

Yair Rodriguez mentioned (fuck him how’s he getting a title shot in big 2025)

Forget chile he’s low key been the best latam player since 022

Yeah he’s the goat

I think Tex should deffo go tho, he was never tier 1 worthy even in 2022 outside of on duelist

Madrid his performance doesn’t really matter either no? Iirc edg went 0-2 or 1-2. His only standout performances where Tokyo (where he was individually incredible) and champs 2024. He was great in champs, but he only really played fantastically in 2 matches (v trace and th). He still had a lot of overheat moments or making mistakes in the other matches and smoggy and chichoo had more impact. He’s an incredible player still but not quite derke/Aspas level as people compare him too.

Exactly kick Tex and bring Less home I agree

Heat and tuyz Ik are good, and basic looks great in t2, but Palla has impressed me
Furia look good man hopefully this carries over to stage 2

I’m agreeing with you brotha

In vlr he’s fairly rated but I’ve heard casual fans say he’s the best player itw or best player in Americas many times

Agreed as well. He’s great but I think chichoo is better in international events. Outside of Tokyo kk is a bit of a regional farmer

Watch them sign elmapuddy 😂😂😂

Definitely not. It’s extremely difficult to flex at the highest level in valorant and doing it while also igling is literally a speed run to inconsistency. The fact that he’s able to put up numbers while doing that is the definition of most valuable player.

Overrated =\ bad persay, just less good than people think they are

Who other than the obvious ones like derke, Aspas, Zekken are overrated players in valorant?

I’d prolly say meteor or Jawgemo maybe

I don’t think he’s underrated. His supportive utility is excellent but he has too many maps where he plays extremely poorly in fragging. He’s pretty fairly rated rn imo.

He was good on loud too when allowed to play smokes
They put that mf on cypher when he was rivaling less on smokes before

Izu is actually t1 best player, he’s more consistent than meteor or buzz and plays every role in the game

I hate that it ended up with fns getting dropped anyways as well. If only they’d dropped fns first.

His team went like 1-4 and none of his teammates has much better performances than him tbh

Lightning fast had a decent t1 stint tbf

I wish if they removed clove from the game. Reyna too ideally, but I’d rather clove gets gone first. Or at least severely reworked

I’m assuming you’re saying this because of the grand finals vs th? The thing about derke is he always has 2-3 games a tourney where he goes like 40-20 or 70-40 and then 2-3 games where he’s even or slightly negative. Kaajak is consistently good whearas derke fluctuates between good/avg and the best player in the world by far.

That would be insane, but I don’t know how op it would actually be. It’s the cooldowns that’s the issue with astra more than running out of stars.

Kaajak is more consistent whereas derke has higher peaks. Derke is more a hard entry and Kaajak is more of a traditional star player. They are both very good players, and I think Kaajak will come to be regarded as or nearly as highly in the coming years imo.

Idk tho, we don’t really have old skye to run with the double controller. Gekko and Kayo are kind of mid replacements

Vyse is really strong, as is double initiator and double duelist. Not everyone will run double controller even if it is op

Reduce cooldown on astra stars when recalled, or buff ult duration, or maybe decrease the cooldown on duck/stun maybe?

The other problem, is, even if you nerf him unless you nuke his blind, he will always be picked. A suck or a stun that gives you a cooldown on your smokes as well, or a stim/molly and no rechargeable smokes will always be worse than a good omen blind. If they nuke his blind, omen will just be dogshit, not balanced.

Does he really? People just pick him because the other controllers simply don’t get enough value to be absolutely necessary on most maps, than specifically because of omen, other than on specific maps where his blind and tps get a lot of value (ascent, lotus). Also, having a controller than has blinds and a to encouraging team fights and aggressive controller plays is a good thing and healthy for the state of the game, unlike an agent like tejo

I don’t think agents should be nerfed due to high pick rate unless they are oppressive or overpowered. Omens blind simply gets more value than astra’s global utility and 5 stars (due to cooldown), and brim’s 3 smokes at once gimmick is useful on only 2 maps in the game. Harbor is downright useless unless on icebox. So buff them instead of nerfing omen

Omen is very commonly picked, but he doesn’t feel oppressive or overpowered, so instead of nerfing him, buff harbor (viper harbor comps would cause a drop in omen pick rate). An astra or brim buff (2stim beacons and some cooldown changes, maybe on recalled stars), and omen is completely balanced and will only be played on maps where the blind is too op (like ascent/lotus (tps), and haven (though astra will too, as will harbor viper)

Nearly every single pro that is a fragger in pro play has 1.3 KD + in ranked, with exceptions like texture who play a very different style in ranked vs pro play. If your going off win percentage in ranked, that doesn’t really matter or translate, but all the fragged are good in ranked

He’s a better duelist than Alfa imo, tho Alfa might be a better raze

Insane that you had two op gods drop 100+ which cost both bo5s
Low key woulda won tho if niesow played all the maps instead of being subbed

BLD vs GE, yay on top yellow on icebox missing the easiest shot in the world with his operator. That’s when I realized how washed my goat was, who always hit every single easy shot in his prime and could have hit that shot blind, stunned, and tethered in 2022. He proceeded to go 6-19 on viper in the next map.

Tejo drone and suppress and missiles are annoying for chamber. Gekko flash can’t be turned, for an example.

Should riot buff chamber? Having a chamber player makes op ping more prevalent and helps build superstars (cryo, ardiis, less, yay, buzz, derke etc) which makes the pro scene more exciting. Prime chamber won’t be nearly as annoying now days because we have way more initiators and more powerful initiators to deal with oppers/chamber.
After chamber nerf, opping was still common but now it’s barely used due to all the new ways people use them initiators and the new initiators that were added.

I’m curious what fns’s stats in grand finals are now

Ik he’s an igl and and calling in a grand finals is usually calling the hardest match of the tournament, but here’s his personal stats across 5 grand finals (TH are 0-5 in grand finals).
He avgs 0.78 rating and 0.73 KD (243 kills to 333 deaths)

Shao on vyse instead of fade 😭 because angel can only play smokes and init

Also just being on the right team during the right time. There’s a reason why certain teams win during a meta then fall off after because the meta suits their players agent pools.

I agree. Tenz is on top 10 OAT, derke chron Leo and Alfa are all arguably top 10, and boaster is a goat igl. But sacy who was multiple trophies I wouldn’t consider top 10 all time, even though he was a top 5 player in 2022. Individual performance matters as well as trophies. However trophies mostly matter because it proves you can do it against the best teams itw.

It’s just funny seeing people add “skill” to trophy winners
Like a player could be criticized super heavily or thought of as holding the team back the entire run up to grand finals , wins a trophy and suddenly they clear everyone else in the role and they are actually impactful/underrated

I notice a lot of people conflate trophies with individual skill. They put people that they would never even consider on the goat list into it the second they win a trophy. Every time a team wins a trophy, they assume all of the players are the best at their roles. An avg player wins a trophy and for years they insist they are a top player even if they underperform because they won a trophy, and people are shocked at their underperformance despite them being individually average before the trophy run.

This isn’t a fighting game or an arena shooter or any 1v1 game. You don’t need to be the best in ur role to a win a trophy, you just need to be decent/good and on the right team at the right time. There are players who may never win a trophy that clear like half the winners that exist.

What happened

The most impressive part is you actually know all the names
All Ik is My vandal is the Godzilla one with spikes

Let’s put meteor on tejo then get rid of our best support player, what’s t1 cooking
Surely the non tejo meta is best for the og roster

His team won like 18 rounds in 2 matches
I’m not saying he didn’t play bad but when you get stomped that badly and the sample size is only 2 matches it’s not as people pretend it is

If chronicles team got shit on hard they only got 18 rounds in 4 maps, he prolly wouldn’t look great either

Yeah that’s fair I really thought that last ascension was for sure m80’s moment finally
Kinda sad for Nismo all the other insane m80 players got picked up