Valorant has always been a popular title since its arrival in 2020. With its exciting tactical gameplay and diverse character roster, it easily built a huge player base. However, console players were exempted from this rule as the game was only available on PC.
But Riot Games recently announced at the Summer Game Fest 2024 that this 5v5 shooter is coming to PlayStation and Xbox. Not only that, but the ranked mode of the game has also surfaced on consoles. But will it be easy to play a fast-paced team-based tactical shooter like this game with the controllers?
Valorant Ranked Mode Is Here in Consoles, But Will It Be Easy to Cope Up With?
The ranked game mode of Valorant on consoles is now live with the recent Episode 9 Act 1 update. However, this is only in the beta phase, and players who have access to the game’s console during the beta phase will only get to play the ranked matches on the console.
CONSOLE RANKED. LIVE NOW. pic.twitter.com/1X6vReCXWn
— VALORANT (@VALORANT) June 26, 2024
Now the question arises: how are console players going to take on the challenge of playing a fast-paced title like this game with the controllers, as sometimes it becomes hard with the keyboard and mouse? That’s why a fan thinks that, just like PC players throw their mouse and keyboards into the screen, there are going to be a lot of instances of that with the controllers as well.
let the controllers start flying into TVs & breaking into pieces
— GGG Zatakster (@ZataksterGG) June 26, 2024
Although the fan isn’t totally wrong, To play this game, precise crosshair placement is the key. And if you can do it swiftly with a mouse, doing it with a controller might not be impossible, but it is going to be very difficult.
However, Riot has put a feature on consoles called Focus Mode. This is not as accurate as ADS but way more precise than Hipfire. Since hipfire on PC is way smoother, that’s why developers have added the Focus mode to smoothen the hipfire experience via controllers.
More about Valorant Ranked in Consoles
Not everyone has access to the beta key for Valorant on consoles. So, the rest of the players have one question: when is the beta going to end? However, according to the FAQ page of Riot Games, there is no specific date for how many days the closed beta of the game on console is going to run.
The game will be fully released when the developers feel like it’s ready to be on consoles. Now talking about the start, the beta phase of the ranked mode on consoles will start at the following times in these regions only:
- NA: 8:30 AM PT
- JP: 4:30 PM PT
- EU: 10:30 PM PT
Another important point to remember, which players have been asking a lot, is that if any player has a certain rank in their Riot account, then they can carry on their ranked gameplay from the same rank on consoles in the closed beta.
In the map pool, only Abyss, Ascent, Bind, Haven, and Sunset are available right now in this closed beta phase, whereas Lotus and Icebox will arrive on July 9 and 23, respectively.
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