Hello guys,

since the current popular topic is that the recoil time is longer than it should be and it takes away certain skill by basically forcing you to pray and spray, I've noticed that there is other thing that takes skill and replaces it with RNG.

It is the first shot inaccuracy, which means that even though you have your crosshair centered on your opponents head, there is a chance that the shot will miss.

I went to the practice range, sent the bot to 50 m, bought operator, centered the crosshair on his "eye" and then bought vandal. I had shooting bound to keyboard to prevent any unnecessary mouse movement and the result is that:

Out of the 20 shots that I took with crosshair perfectly centered over the bots head, only 9 of them counted as headshot. That's 45% accuracy.

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Keep in mind that this is with crosshair perfectly centered, so to chance to miss goes up if your aim is sllightly off. I can imagine that if you aim at the left third of the head hitbox, you will get even worse numbers.

This means that Riot decided that they want to equalize the playing field by replacing a portion of your skill with RNG. No matter how good your aim is, you might still not get the kill and on the other hand thanks to that the guy on the other side, despite not aiming at your head might actually headshot you.

Why does it bother me so much? Because the way Valorant presents itself is "competitive shooter" with "competitive integrity" as its focus. RNG has no place in any of these and it is my opinion that individual skill should be the deciding factor, not RNG.

It seems Valorant instead tries to blur the lines a bit to make the game more newbie friendly in order to maximize player base. And with the number of skins that are being pushed out, it feels like Valorant tries to be the next Fortnite rather than the next CSGO.