Run and gun, the cause, spread awareness

Posted by Steve

Tuesday, May 18, 2021 9:09 AM

Alright I am making this topic as many don't seem aware of this issue. The reason this is happening is due to some accounts having really bad netsettings, hence people will see you much earlier than you can see them.

I have this issue on my main account, where people will instantly headshot me by peeking around a corner and seemingly run and gun me every single time, however on my roomates account this does not happen. I tested his and my account and noticed that the game is running noticably different on his account, it runs much more responsive despite being on the same PC and network. When I created another account to test this, again, the new account had no such issues, only when logging to my main account this happens consistently.

Now there is a small workaround for this. Switch back and fort the network buffering setting from minimum to max back to minimum. Play for 1-2minutes and wait for a microstutter to happen if it doesnt happen, minimum, max, back to minimum play for 1-2minutes, after that the game should run noticably more smooth despite having same ping + FPS, however people will now stop run and gunning you and stop making these impossible shots. This will remain for the rest of the session, the moment you have to restart or log off, you will once again have to do the same thing to trigger the microlag fixing whatever is causing the network settings to be the way they are.

I hope this post gets enough attention so that devs get to fix this netsetting problem so that people can stop getting run and gunned because of netsettings on the cloud the user cannot access. Don't bother asking support, they have no idea and cannot help as they have no access to the cloud server.

If you get a lot of impossible shots and run and gunned nonstop, try the method above or create a new account to compare, it should be instantly noticable by the game being more responsive and more fluid, it should stop jittering for instance when u walk behind a teammate.

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/ndse2h/run_and_gun_the_cause_spread_awareness/
  • https://reddit.com/ndse2h

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