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2 years

Best crosshair for new patch: 0;c;1;s;1;P;c;8;u;CBE0AFFF;t;2;o;1;d;1;b;1;m;1;0b;0;1b;0;S;b;1;c;8;t;CBE0AFFF;s;0.75;o;1

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Riot Nu (Marcus Reid)

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Riot Nu (Marcus Reid)

@RiotNu

13 days

Back in early 2020, the VALORANT launcher's key art was a stick figure Jett flying and throwing knives at a stick figure Phoenix. Saw it again today and was filled with joy.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Yes! It's a bug, and we can fix it. Games are built on approximations of the real world for performance reasons. VALORANT doesn't simulate the physics of a real explosion. This bug is a case where our approximation falls short. (1/9)

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@melanji

3 years

can anyone explain this 🙂

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@RiotNu

3 years

The Sova bug was caused by an incorrect selection in a drop-down box. It's like the henchman of my arch nemesis, the incorrectly ticked checkbox.

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2 years

Today a colleague reminded me of my week long journey to rename “ShooterGame.exe” to “VALORANT.exe” before launch. And friends, let me tell you, it was truly an adventure.

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@RiotNu

3 years

I've been getting a bunch of questions about what "updating the engine" actually means. VALORANT is built on a heavily modified version of Unreal Engine 4. Epic continuously improves UE4 with features, tools and fixes. We leverage their hard work to make our game better. (1/14)

VALORANT

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3 years

Periodically, we have to update the engine for our game. Due to the nature of these updates, we want to give ourselves plenty of testing time and a stabilization period before shipping it to you. So, there will be no Patch 2.10. The next update will be Patch 2.11, around June 8.

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2 years

Genuinely curious: Why do players of some shooters dislike skill-based matchmaking? Is it a desire to stomp? Not have sweaty close games? Some other motivation entirely?

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@RiotNu

3 years

Yo @Hiko congrats on the win. Call me when you’re ready to get started on that Spike Rush team.

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@RiotNu

2 years

You might think I’d be most excited about Phoenix buffs, but nah, hugging buffs are where it’s at.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Tried to explain VALORANT to my parents. Struggling. “What are those blue ghosts?” “So what exactly do you do?”

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@RiotNu

2 years

Today marks five years I've been working on VALORANT. It's the longest I've ever worked on one product. I remain super grateful to get to contribute to a game that players enjoy and that I get to work with such a cracked team of game devs. Next five years are going to be wild.

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@RiotNu

2 years

New VALORANT strat. Don't play for two weeks. Sleep for a full night. Become a god of destruction in your first warmup game.

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@RiotNu

3 years

While I am quite fond of R6S, I do not work on it. I am unable to assist with your Siege feature requests. Constructive suggestions and praise for Siege would be better directed to their team.

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Riot Nu (Marcus Reid)

@RiotNu

3 years

I know everyone says “we’re just getting started” but it’s really true. I am so hyped for VALORANT’s long term potential, and we have tons of cool stuff we want to build for players. Thank you all for making it possible.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Finished my deep dive into system latency! This was my holiday project, and I finished it right under the wire. 😅 Summary of results threaded below; full details in the video. If you care about latency, definitely check out the video. (1/15)

ULTIMATE GUIDE to Reducing System Latency in VALORANT

Testing everything that matters for system latency in VALORANT. This is a nerdy one full of numbers.🔴 Subscribe for more game development videos: https://ww...

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@RiotNu

3 years

Been thinking a lot about the robots of VALORANT. I made a tier list. Alarmbot - S Tier: Dutifully alerts you to the presence of approaching enemies and calls out their exact location. Happily baits for your team; by far the most supportive robot.

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I accidentally reproduced a VALORANT bug that had been bothering me on and off for more than 3 years (process hangs around after shutdown) and I think I finally have the diagnostic information needed to fix it. I’m a dork but I am ridiculously excited.

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2 years

@PlayVALORANT That map seems cool too.

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@RiotNu

4 years

Let's talk about this bug. It should have never reached players, but it does have an interesting root cause and game dev lesson. The defect was live for several hours on Tuesday morning in NA, LATAM, and BR after we patched 1.11. We rolled back to 1.10 to mitigate. (1/21)

steel

@JoshNissan

4 years

New live patch for first strike Killjoy > nerfbuff Cypher > nerf Skye > w/e Sova > nerfed.................................. watch:

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@RiotNu

2 years

Finally have time to do some system latency science on current builds. Going to figure out all the right knobs to tune.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Let's talk about client performance in video games. What actually determines your Frames Per Second? (1/13)

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1 year

^w^

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4 years

Early Singularity prototype

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2 years

Best feature

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1 year

Six years working on VAL 🥳 Can’t believe the team still puts up with my nonsense tbh, but I’ll take the W

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2 years

We fixed this. Windowed Fullscreen now has latency comparable to Fullscreen in patch 4.02. Rerunning the display mode experiments over lunch. Will share new numbers tonight or tomorrow morning.

Riot Nu (Marcus Reid)

@RiotNu

2 years

Exclusive Fullscreen makes Alt + Tab slower, but it shaves off nearly 10 ms of system latency on my machine. Thats 7x the latency of turning all Graphics Quality settings from Low to High. It's like going from a 240 Hz monitor to a 60 Hz monitor. Absolutely massive. (13/15)

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@RiotNu

2 years

@aEvilcat ty, this bug has been reported and will be prioritized immediately

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@RiotNu

3 years

@ValorLeaks Performance is a game of inches!

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4 years

I'm regularly asked what a typical day looks like for an engine programmer. Sometimes it's six hours of reading code to ultimately click a checkbox. 1/16

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@RiotNu

11 months

Placed ridiculously low, but can't argue with the +43 RR wins.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Just accidentally spat coffee all over my desk, mousepad, monitors, mice, controller, stream deck, and phone dock. Ask me anything.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Made a video showing what each graphics quality setting does. Chapter markers included. Hope you find it useful!

EVERY VALORANT Graphics Quality Setting Explained

Every VALORANT Graphics Quality setting explained in under ten minutes. Use the chapter markers below if you want to quickly reference individual settings.🔴...

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Riot Nu (Marcus Reid)

@RiotNu

3 years

Found out some family follows me on Twitter. Going to need you all to be cool and vouch that I am a very serious professional.

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@RiotNu

2 years

My parents are visiting for Christmas. Soon we will begin our annual tradition of me trying and failing to explain what I do for work.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Local dad gamer reaches Diamond. Played 15 games starting from Plat 2 today; went 5-2 solo, 6-2 with friends. More matches today than I've played all month.

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@RiotNu

2 years

@PlayVALORANT I'm not really comfortable with Cypher watching me miss all the bots.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Leaks

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@RiotNu

3 years

The fix here is to either adjust the collision settings on the problematic pallet or to adjust the logic driving the visibility checks to better handle small spaces. (9/9)

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@RiotNu

2 years

This is actually huge. Give me all the frames.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Already found a bug that needs fixing. 🤗

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@RiotNu

1 year

I am a very serious professional and definitely won’t be sneaking swiftplay games in between meetings.

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1 year

@ericdoa @PlayVALORANT Logging a bug real quick. This is not okay.

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1 year

the only S-tier collection in VALORANT, no debate

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@RiotNu

3 years

Game developers deeply appreciate their players. Why else would developers spend so much of their time and energy making games? Folks suggesting otherwise are full of it.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Tried to convince my wife that Valentine’s Day was the perfect time to learn to play VALORANT with me and she just laughed at me. 😩

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@RiotNu

2 years

@ValorantEsports @Crashies Yo thanks for the bug report. We'll make sure to get the finisher falling looked at.

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@RiotNu

2 years

I don’t know who needs to hear it, but Shift + Escape marks all messages read in Slack.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Please inform @ValorLeaks that 84 degrees ain't it.

Mike | Valorant Leaks & News

@ValorLeaks

2 years

Yo, so what is the avg temperature in your room?

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3 years

Players within the outer radius that are outside the inner radius take damage that diminishes as they get further away from the center of the explosion. In this screenshot, the inner/outer radius sizes are visualized by the black/cyan spheres. (3/9)

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3 years

All explosions in the game have an inner radius and an outer radius that can be tuned by designers. Think of the inner radius as the center of the explosion. Players take full damage from the explosion within the inner radius and no damage outside the outer radius. (2/9)

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4 months

7 years working on VALORANT 🥳

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3 years

This approach usually works. In very tight spaces like under the pallet in Mel's video, the visibility check fails and the player does not take damage. The pallet effectively eats the explosion. It's a bit more difficult to see; I've circled the failing visibility checks. (8/9)

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Riot Nu (Marcus Reid)

@RiotNu

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Back in early 2020, the VALORANT launcher's key art was a stick figure Jett flying and throwing knives at a stick figure Phoenix. Saw it again today and was filled with joy.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Starting a campaign to delete it from the game.

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@RiotNu

2 years

Thinking back to beta where a specific piece of printer software killed the VALORANT process if you tried to shift walk.

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@RiotNu

2 years

@Nurfed We are looking at this. Not working as intended.

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@RiotNu

2 years

This tweet is doing numbers for reasons that I don't really understand, but I genuinely hope y'all enjoy the crispy one taps that this crosshair makes free.

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@RiotNu

11 months

Thanks a lot @LotharHS

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2 years

Played VALORANT with a friend that hadn’t played since beta. All of our teammates were nice while he was learning. 🤗

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@RiotNu

3 years

Turret - S Tier: Good friend that's just a little bit overwhelmed in your high skill disparity game. Focuses on doing their one job to the best of their ability. Rarely gets a kill but really lights up when it happens. Working on confidence to run around corners and entry frag.

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2 years

Weird downside of being a dev: Can load in on new patch during maintenance without realizing there’s no one to matchmake against yet.

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Boom Bot - S Tier: Suffers from tunnel vision but sometimes makes absolutely incredible plays. Can't figure out how to walk, but somehow is able to sprint faster than anyone else. 11/10 for hustle and positive vibes.

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@RiotNu

1 year

I swear I'm not smurfing intentionally

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2 years

So when do today’s VCT games start? 😭😭😭

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@RiotNu

3 years

The first step of computing explosion damage is sweeping the outer radius for any players that could be hit. Players outside the outer radius can be safely ignored as they will always take 0 damage. (4/9)

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@RiotNu

3 years

While it’s true that Windows is case-insensitive and case changes aren’t honored on existing build nodes that already have sync’d files, the real reason for casing changes in the files is that I personally like messing with data miners and manually flip casing each patch.

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2 years

Something minor leaked and I'm not sure if I'm the source of the leak. There needs to be a word for this feeling.😵‍💫

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Owl Drone - S Tier: Somewhat aloof but has fantastic situational awareness and gives good comms. Natural IGL, but could stand to work on their fundamentals. Always seems a bit shaky on moving and shooting. Still, solid teammate.

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Game was a bit different back then.

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no bs tho old killjoy looking like KAY/O😳

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The visibility check traces a line from a few different starting points inside the inner radius and tries to find an unobstructed path to the player. In this case, it finds a path (the green line), and the player takes full damage. (6/9)

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@RiotNu

2 years

@PlayVALORANT Sorry everyone I spilled my drink on the server.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Next, the game checks visibility from the center of the explosion to potential targets. Explosions don't deal damage through walls. If the explosion can't "see" a player, the player doesn't take damage. (5/9)

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@RiotNu

2 years

@ValorLeaks quickly, everyone, hide all the good stuff

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@RiotNu

2 years

Yo @ValorLeaks how many likes does my crosshair need for you to delete your account?

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@RiotNu

1 year

I will die for him

mel 🇭🇰

@melanie_mhs

1 year

This MF is gonna be your new VALORANT duo 😭

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@RiotNu

2 years

Watched a bunch of tape from my deathmatch games today, and I don’t think I ever dipped under 300 fps. Feels good. Need a 360 hz monitor now.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Sometimes you mess up a merge conflict deep in the guts of your engine's post-processing code and then your crosshair no longer lines up with the game viewport. Pour one out for that curly brace.

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@RiotNu

3 years

But in this case, the explosion is blocked by the crates. It fails to find a path to the player and does no damage. You can see all the attempts the game made to find a path visualized as red lines. Had even one of them reached the player, the player would take damage. (7/9)

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1 year

playlist buff

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1 year

@Johnny_Kay24 @PlayVALORANT Thanks for the report. We'll take a look.

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@RiotNu

2 years

“So the game is free? How do they pay your salary?”

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@RiotNu

1 year

@yay We’re tracking this. Thanks for the report.

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@RiotNu

2 years

The team shipped major server performance improvements in the last few patches. Hope your games are feeling crisp.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Epic releases a new "minor version" of UE4 a few times a year. These updates have all sorts of treats for developers. See UE 4.25's patch notes for concrete examples -- they're 213 pages long. (2/14)

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@RiotNu

3 years

Certainly not.

Chambraigne Socialist

@bombsfall

3 years

Game devs who have released a game: do you have any notable examples of placeholder assets that stayed in for a very long time during production

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3 years

Happy Friday to all you engineers working on upgrading your studio to a new minor version of UE4.

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@RiotNu

2 years

@ItsGamerDoc I can’t believe you just tweeted out the balance changes.

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@RiotNu

3 years

Our goal with an engine update is parity. There will be some fixes that are player-facing (one of our top crashes is resolved!), but for the most part it's behind-the-scenes. We're upgrading the foundation the game is built on to unlock future improvements. (14/14)

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1 year

@vladk0r_vlr Thanks for the report!

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@RiotNu

2 years

There’s a forum post from 2015 about how to rename Unreal C++ projects. Step 1 is renaming the main project folder (which contains all the files for the project). This isn’t an option for a project with a large team… such a rename would be hugely disruptive for all pending work.