In a recent blog post VALORANT developers Riot Games talked about some changes coming to competitive play, most notably focusing on ranked matches and climbing between ranks. With the blog post (Ask VALORANT) the developers address some of the complaints they’ve received from players regarding the ranking system.
First and foremost the developers acknowledged the problem with ranking up being difficult and demoting too easy. “We’ve been feeling this ourselves, and we’ve made some changes to address this with Patch 1.14 and more substantive changes will follow at the start of the year with the launch of Episode 2.” It seems like VALORANT might get a more substantial change to the ranking system next year.
It’s time for another Ask VALORANT. This week, you asked about plans for rank system changes, another surrender vote, and story mode.
Read our answers here: https://t.co/6RS1Xk6b7R pic.twitter.com/gcBAJNGsCP
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) December 24, 2020
Not much is known about these possible changes but data miners might have found some information in some strings of code, hinting at the possibilities of a point/number system. Alongside the long awaited leaderboards we have a lot to look forward to when it comes to early 2021.
Single player experience?
To close things out the developers also talked about a possible single-player ‘story’ mode for VALORANT. “It’s definitely our goal for players to discover more about Agents and their stories in the future. Right now, some of those details are seeded into the game itself, in Player Cards, Character VO, etc. —there are a lot of places where you can find and piece together snippets! However, a traditional story mode is not in our current plans but….never say never.”
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