Why is spraying so random in this game?

Posted by Steve

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 4:21 AM

Basically title. Before reading this, please keep in mind I'm not hating on the game. Quite the opposite I like it, and I want to play this over CS:GO, but I can't, because gunplay frustrates me and I feel like it will never hold a candle to CS:GO in its current state. Allow me to explain why.

In a nutshell, game feels like one glorified ''one tap'' contest with slower movement speeds making flickshots and ferrari-peeking easier. I've reached Diamond by basically spam buying one tap weapons (ghost, sheriff, vandal, operator). In my efforts to get better at spraying, forcing myself to a different playstyle, I actually ranked down back to Platinum because of my poor performance. But what frustrates me is not that I ranked down but spraying in any way shape or form simply felt obsolete. Feels like with assault rifles after my 4th bullet there is a big vertical increase in recoil which I understand compensate properly but there is also a huge amount of horizontal, random spread aswell. Notice that I'm not complaining about the 3rd part of the spray where recoil goes from mostly vertical to horizontal. I'm experiencing horizontal randomness at the second and even first part of my sprays.

What makes matters worse is that the time it takes to reset your spray is far too long, which is why as I said in my first sentence, game feels like a glorified one tap contest. Am I missing some key step here? I can spray with confidence in CS:GO but in this game, I actively avoid it and go for effortless one-two taps. So in a nutshell guns go from really accurate to completely random real fast. And if my spray started inaccurate, the rest of it will also be really inaccurate no matter how well I compensate.

With this being the case, how do people enjoy gunplay part of the game? Maybe this game is simply not for me, or does the gunplay need some work?

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/mpaq09/why_is_spraying_so_random_in_this_game/
  • https://reddit.com/mpaq09

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