Valorant has always been a game of proper team-based tactics. And without relentless communication, implementing tactics is not possible at all. Despite the need to communicate with their teammates throughout the match, some players decide to stay tight-lipped.
In these kinds of situations, gameplay and rank hamper to a huge extent. Due to the inability of using the comms by only one player, the rest of the team suffers. Riot Games hasn’t done anything significant to sort this out, but a fan has some advice for the company.
Riot Should Implement Opt-In Comms in Valorant
Using comms in the game is a matter of choice. Some players don’t use it because of the unavailability of microphones; others don’t deliberately. In both situations, games get hampered. And communicating through the chatbox—that too, typing in a crunch situation is absolutely not possible. That’s why a fan has come up with a solution in these kinds of scenarios.
Opt-In comms matches. Please just implement them.
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This fan on Reddit has asked Riot to implement the option to opt-in to comms at the time of matchmaking. Yeah, this way, the matchmaking process will take longer, but the fan is happy to sit at the matchmaking screen for 5 minutes if he gets to match up only with players who will use their microphones.
He has stated that he has to hear a lot of complaints from Reyna instalocks who got stabbed by flanking Vipers because the player didn’t get the hint that this controller was lurking. However, as Reyna wasn’t using a microphone, there was no way the fan was going to have an idea of a flank.
He has also stated that losing a match 15-17 after a strong battle is absolutely ok, as every single player on the team was comming and talking to each other. But losing in a game where everyone is mute is so frustrating. However, the evergrowing toxicity in the game is another reason players are not using microphones very often.
Why Are Comms Important in Valorant?
Not only in Valorant, communication is extremely important in any tactical game these days. In this Riot 5v5 shooter, all the teammates need to communicate communicatively all the time to know what’s going on on each other’s sites.
For example, you and your teams are attacking in Bind, and you let one of your teammates take a fake entry at the B site, while the rest of your four are slowly stacking at the A site. Now, there is a high chance that most of the defenders of A will rotate to the B site, hearing all the noises outside it.
Then, you four can take charge of the rest of the two defenders on the A site, giving you a free plant. You can also call the 5th teammate to rotate on A site to join you, leaving a hard 5v3 retake situation. Amidst all of these, if there is no mic involved, then there is no way this will work.
Neither you can get the information from the B site, nor you can ask the player to rotate. Also, for giving lurking information, or like fast rotations, without comms, acing the game is nearly impossible.
What’s your take on using comms in Valorant? Let us know in the comment section.
