Why can't Cypher pick his camera up without line-of-sight?

Posted by Steve

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 12:31 AM

So, I'll start off by pointing out I'm not the highest ranked person, nor do I keep up with pro play and the meta to a T. I average around gold/plat nowadays, and play pretty casually -- a couple matches a week.

So, I get into a match the other day, and decide to lock in Cypher, and man oh man, my one complaint I had playing him was that in over half of the rounds, and especially on attack, I'd be left with a useless camera for the end of the round purely because it was stuck in one spot, and I had no chance to retrieve it. Let's say attacking on Haven, if I were to leave it in A lobby to see if anyone's flanking or pushing A long, and we go C, I'm now stuck with a camera on the opposite side of the map because I would have to go all the way back to grab it for post plant.

I understand not being able to grab trip wires across the map, but man, having your signature ability locked behind whether or not you have the chance to physically grab it to use for the latter half of the round feels bad. I don't know how significant of a buff this would be if he were to get it, but it almost made it feel punishing to use my camera for a spot that was any further out than I was, both attack and defense. Even if doing so gave less of a cooldown refund (say, a 20 or 25 second cooldown) and grabbing it with LOS gave the same refund as now (15 seconds), that would feel better than having your camera be completely useless.

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/tj4dxh/why_cant_cypher_pick_his_camera_up_without/
  • https://reddit.com/tj4dxh

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