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Soul Assassin said:
Bets on if there will be local servers?
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There will be. I have never seen a game get this much support prior to launch. The LoL peeps will also be interested. The moment this competes with CS in the e-sports scene then orgs and clans will want to sign-up ASAP, and I don't believe that they, Riot Games', will want to exclude us.
 
Does anyone know if we will have a chance to get selected into the Closed Beta? I am watching summit on Twitch and have my riot account enabled for drops, but they did mention only EU/NA... but it's slightly confusing as South Africa Don't have servers and we normally play on EU West when playing LoL.
 
Just to add, the game will launch in the US Summer and it is estimated to be somewhere between June and September. However, you can sign-up now to reserve your username and or clan tag. The beta is being slowly rolled out, but I see the Twitch people are given priority.

Here is how to change or reserve your Valorant username:

 
Shirou said:
Does anyone know if we will have a chance to get selected into the Closed Beta? I am watching summit on Twitch and have my riot account enabled for drops, but they did mention only EU/NA... but it's slightly confusing as South Africa Don't have servers and we normally play on EU West when playing LoL.
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They gave the answer here in their dev diary:


The USA, Canada and Europe, their regions are prioritised, but according to Riot, the game will be globally rolled out.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
They gave the answer here in their dev diary:


The USA, Canada and Europe, their regions are prioritised, but according to Riot, the game will be globally rolled out.
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Yea, that is the video I've watched reason for my question, I guess they don't then mean EU West servers but more specific if your Riot Account region on your account shows EU/NA etc... so in this case it will show South Africa so we won't be selected for now.

Because my Riot Account is on EU West servers reason for the confusion.
 
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This excludes the Google (YouTube), Facebook and other numbers though they should all compete with Mixer more or less. The viewer numbers look good. First day and all, and it will balance out once the hype settles.
 
They had over 1.7 Viewers on Twitch yesterday, matching the record with the "Black Hole" Event with Fortnite, haha
 
Shirou said:
Yea, that is the video I've watched reason for my question, I guess they don't then mean EU West servers but more specific if your Riot Account region on your account shows EU/NA etc... so in this case it will show South Africa so we won't be selected for now.

Because my Riot Account is on EU West servers reason for the confusion.
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I guess there is a chance that we may get servers in 2020, but maybe Q1 2021, but I have been wrong many times with these rollouts :X3:

I know that all Valorant servers will be hosted by themselves, hence no private servers allowed, and I have no idea how and with who Riot Games' deploy servers or instances. Some early reviewers did say that Riot allows custom sessions which are nice.

We will need to wait... and see.
 
Shirou said:
Update from them just now on Day 1 after Closed BETA

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Day 1 Closed Beta in EU/NA and moving forward

Anna and Joe reflect on yesterday’s Closed Beta launch in EU/NA, clarify some concerns, and talk next steps.
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I am going to try and get a key, but I doubt that I will be allowed to matchmake seeing that they want to sustain 35ms localised ping.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I am going to try and get a key, but I doubt that I will be allowed to matchmake seeing that they want to sustain 35ms localised ping.
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Yea, been trying since yesterday, been watching Streams on Twitch, but not sure if I'll get one because South Africa.. and they only allow EU/NA for now.

So if anyone is lucky... please let us know if anyone gets in.
 
As much as I like a new competitive e-sports title I see that both Valorant and LoL is dominating the gaming streams. Valorant demolished CSGO's all-time record within one day. Riot needs to open up about the view botting going on... oh,

We’re aware of all the viewbotting going on, and do want to reassure you that both us, and Twitch have filters in place to distinguish bots vs. people.
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these marketing tactics are getting dirtier by the day. At least the sincere streamers like the game, so that is a valid approval.
 
Shirou said:
Yea, been trying since yesterday, been watching Streams on Twitch, but not sure if I'll get one because South Africa.. and they only allow EU/NA for now.

So if anyone is lucky... please let us know if anyone gets in.
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I have received a key.
You're region is locked depending on the IP you used to sign up.
I used a netherlands VPN to sign up, connected twitch and didnt need to turn on VPN again after signup and i received the key this morning at 5 AM when i was not even watching any streams but watched around 10h or so previously.

You can see your region here after logging in

if its South Africa, then you will not receive drops, so i suggest create another account using a vpn since its impossible to change location without going through support.

here is proof:
https://imgur.com/a/pATH51Q
 
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yamero said:
I have received a key.
You're region is locked depending on the IP you used to sign up.
I used a netherlands VPN to sign up, connected twitch and didnt need to turn on VPN again after signup and i received the key this morning at 5 AM when i was not even watching any streams but watched around 10h or so previously.

You can see your region here after logging in

if its South Africa, then you will not receive drops, so i suggest create another account using a vpn since its impossible to change location without going through support.

here is proof:
https://imgur.com/a/pATH51Q
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oh, awesome! I did actually create another account yesterday using VPN, but was using Germany as the location so now my account shows Germany as Region, surely that also falls under EU? so hope to get one :)

Account progress don't carry over anyway when Closed Beta is over so making an additional account to try to get in Beta now is not a train smash.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
There will be. I have never seen a game get this much support prior to launch. The LoL peeps will also be interested. The moment this competes with CS in the e-sports scene then orgs and clans will want to sign-up ASAP, and I don't believe that they, Riot Games', will want to exclude us.
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I understand your arguement here but same can be said about LoL, the game has been out for about 11 years now. Still no SA servers if I'm not mistaken. To my knowledge there's quite a few players in SA that play this game and it's a solid competitor to Dota, is it not?

I'm not one to actually play LoL but it's just like Riot doesn't even think SA wants local servers here. If it takes them 11+ years to realise this then I guess we'll get there eventually.
 
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First clips of Valorant hackers emerge two days into closed beta - Dexerto

Valorant hackers are slowly starting to creep into the game’s closed beta, but Riot is getting ready to clamp down.
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First clips of Valorant hackers emerge two days into closed beta
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The fight has “kicked off,” says Valorant developers, as the first videos of players using cheats have emerged just two days into the FPS’ closed beta.

Valorant’s anti-cheat was hyped up ahead of its closed beta, and now it will be put to the test.

The first clips of Valorant hackers are popping up, just two days after the game’s public launch, but Riot are ready to tackle the problem.
Well it didn't take long, this guys just walking around full on aimlocking dropping big bombs @Slasher pic.twitter.com/QhbA9CrVG9
— phantasy (@phantasyftw) April 9, 2020
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A clip shared by ‘phantasyftw’ has gone viral on Twitter after the former Call of Duty and PUBG pro encountered an aim-hacker within 48 hours of the game’s release.

The player, who was on his team, just ran around the map, making it almost impossible for the enemies to get out of spawn. He described him as “full on aimlocking” as the Sova racked up kill after kill.

Riot responded to the clip directly, and took action. “It sucks, but today we had to ban our first cheater, and it looks like more bans are on the horizon,” said developer Paul ‘arkem’ Chamberlain.
Well it sucks, but today we had to ban our first cheater (and it looks like more bans are on the horizon).

I was hoping for a little more time before this fight kicked off but we're in it now and we're ready.
— Paul Chamberlain (@arkem) April 9, 2020
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It’s only the beginning of Valorant’s war on cheaters. Riot hyped up their anti-cheat development as part of the FPS’ launch, saying they’ve got a number of fail-safes to protect the competitive integrity of their game.

This included a ‘Fog of War’ system meant to resist wallhacks, omitting information about “player locations until just before line of sight contact.”

Down the line, the Vanguard anti-cheat system will automatically detect cheats as the game wears on, and “any game with a cheater detected will be ended immediately and forgiven for all other players.”
If issues exist with those systems in these stages of Early Beta, I'm comfortable taking reports directly. I won't be able to say the outcomes from review for privacy reasons but I am willing to help facilitate these directly at this time as well.
— Matt Paoletti (@mjpaol) April 9, 2020
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If you encounter a cheater in Valorant’s closed beta, there are two ways to get the developer’s attention. You can report hackers in-game using the Report function, which is the most efficient way.

However, if reporting them in-game isn’t working, some of Valorant’s anti-cheat developers are taking direct reporting.

“If issues exist with those systems in these stages of Early Beta, I'm comfortable taking reports directly,” said Valorant dev Matt Paoletti on Twitter.

“I won't be able to say the outcomes from review for privacy reasons but I am willing to help facilitate these directly at this time as well.”
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