I'm not one to post much as I'm just a voice in the crowd. I don't have the voice in the community for anyone to listen and most of the time I just feel like my opinions are simply noise. That being said, I have had plenty of small dissenting opinions with Valorants current state.

I plan to create a series based on various Valorant systems if there is any reception to this. That or I can sink back into the crowd if it appears the general public doesn't agree with my sentiments.

Deathmatch

Purpose:
Current objective

• “A gamemode that creates an opportunity for both those practicing and those desiring a fun, quick and relaxed game”

Desired objective

• “Deathmatch is aimed at creating a space for players to focus on gun skills, such as aiming, controlling sprays and crosshair placement”

Peaking off sound

• The second anyone makes a sound, three people, hiding, peak them
• Spawning creates a sound that players sit and wait to peak

Gun selection

• Everyone loves a lobby with 4 op’s
• Different people want to practice different guns, that’s fine
• Combine this with delta between current play and desired play adds to frustration

Amount of players

• 12 is too much for most maps
• This exacerbates multiple peaking off the sound of one footstep
• Tagging makes it very penalizing to engage in multiple gun fights from multiple angles at one time
  • Tagging is in the game, like it or not
  • Deathmatch should simulate game conditions and movement as close as possible
  • I don’t advocate for removing tagging for this reason
  • I do however advocate for less players to mitigate the issue
• The sound of getting tagged in the back, unable to move, over and over makes me cum in my pants

Spawns

• Why is the guy I just killed spawning right behind me?
• Why is the guy I just killed spawning close in front of me?
  • He knows where I am and I do not.
  • Why not spawn him as far away as possible, in an open area
  • This just creates back and forth situations where people get momentarily stuck in an area
  • Once stuck in an area three players peak your back
• If the argument is, that’s the open area on a map, then you have too many players per map

Scoring

• This all comes down to the objective of the game mode. If you try to create a gamemode that tries to be too many things at once you end up being none of them.
• If you want deathmatch to be “creating a space for players to focus on gun skills, such as aiming, controlling sprays and crosshair placement” then it is not currently accomplishing that
  • Eliminate scoring all together or create a system that does not encourage camping
  • In my mind “winning” and creating an atmosphere that encourages players to try and win defeats the point of deathmatch
  • Allow deathmatch to be drop in/drop out
  • Longer or limitless time per “match”