So I was playing a normal game of valorant right. It was at the beginning of the second round of a casual unrated game and I went to buy myself the operator with the 5000 creds I had. Like any self-respecting player I started to smash my knife into walls and of course into the spawn barriers. However, I still had time left before the round started. I then remembered that pro players inspected their weapons. Because I'm trying to be a pro player, I spammed the inspect button on all 3 of my weapons (knife, classic, and operator). Everything was going as planned. However, once I inspected my operator, I noticed something odd. I had to play the animation a couple times over to see exactly what, and then I noticed it. I'll give a recreated screenshot to let you guess as well as a couple screenshots that zoom into the problem.

So it's there. Clear as day. The bolt handle model goes THROUGH THE GUN MODEL. This is not something you would expect from Riot Games. However, something I also noticed was that this glaring problem is alleviated in skins for the operator. (I don't have screenshots because I don't have the skin and I'm not planning to get them soon. The inspects in the previews are also smaller so they can't be seen clearly.) This is yet another example of skin-to-win. I can definitively say that this is one of the reasons why I am missing my very easy-to-hit op shots and losing rounds. However, I do have a suggestion to fix this.

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If we add a notch, we add more space for the bolt handle to fit. We can also curve the bolt handle just a little bit to make the notch so intrusive to the gun's internal components. A space is also added to the top so that the bolt handle can rotate a full 90 degrees and load another round easily. This would make the operator a more viable option, I think, especially considering the massive price.