Hello all!

This is Lisa Ohanian, writing on behalf of the Modes team on VALORANT. You might know us from such hits as Spike Rush, Deathmatch, Snowball Fight, and now Escalation — which is what we’re here to answer questions about today! This was one of our most highly-requested modes, so we’re really excited for this one to go live to you.

While we’ll focus on Escalation today, questions about other modes (current or past) are fair game for this AMA. You’re also welcome to ask about the future... but we reserve the right to keep a few surprises up our sleeve.

This is your time to give us all your thoughts on Escalation so far - including first impressions, funny stories, and any questions about how the mode works or why we approached it the way we did. We’d also love to hear about other things you’d like to see from the Modes team, and what you love/hate most about our other modes... although please keep the hate minimal and team-oriented so I don’t have to spend my day cheering up a sad dev team ;)

We’ll answer your questions from now until about 11am Pacific Time, and we will update this post to let you know when we’re heading out.

Here’s the team for today:

• CrushBreeze - David Baack (Engineering)
• Darkhorse4Life - Jared Berbach (Production)
• LastMinesweeper - Isaac Schaaf (Engineering)
• ManWolfAxeBoss - Joe Lansford (Design)
• RiotPwnieride - Lisa Ohanian (Production)
• RiotRectifyer - Sebastian Dalby (Quality)
• RiotTKDJoe - Joey Messick (Insights)
• RiotWrekz - Jordan Anton (Design)
• tehleach - Kyle Leach (Design & Engineering)
• TraxCode - Paolo Trocchia (Quality)

UPDATE: We're loving all the questions! Some of us have a hard out at 11am unfortunately, but a few of us (myself, Kyle, David, Sebastian) will be sticking around for another 30min- ish to continue answering questions.

UPDATE 2: We're heading out for now, but a few of us will try to pop back in throughout the day to answer a few more of these. Thanks everyone, we had a great time and hope you did too!