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Since the launch of Riot’s First person tactical shooter, the interests of every FPS enthusiast have been taken by storm. After a successful closed beta stint, Valorant did attract a plethora of streamers and players from across various FPS titles which does includes Valve’s famous CS:GO.

After being released across the globe, Riot fields Valorant on PC for now but upon being asked about its launch on Consoles, it didn’t show any signs of dismissal for the same which does makes the chances of it happening to go rocket high. In an interview with GameSpot executive producer, Anna Donlon discussed the same where she did mention the launch of Valorant for consoles to be a part of their plan but not entirely successfully.

She added, “There’s a way to play this game and there’s a way to experience this game that we’re not entirely sure translates completely to console play. If we feel like we can deliver this experience on those platforms, we absolutely will. But we really want Valorant to stand for a certain type of gameplay and a certain type of experience.”

If the acquisition for the current project comes out to be a success, we might see the players come across a couple of disadvantages where the Aim assist mechanism might seem to favor the PC players if Riot decided to introduce the Cross-Play option. In addition to this, Riot itself feels worried about the fact that Valorant may not culminate its entire mechanics and gameplay in a perfect manner to the consoles unlike its version for the PC.

However, Anne has hinted about their ideas being implemented on a prototype for the Console version where the developers deny guaranteeing anything worth the potential for now.

It has only been a few days since the official launch of VALORANT on June 2, and cheaters have already started revealing their frustration after effectively receiving permanent bans from the game.

Long before the closed beta of Riot’s competitive shooter started on April 7th, they had promised fans that keeping the game free from cheaters would be their top priority. It looks like they’re delivering their promise to the community, as more and more cheaters are reportedly getting permanent bans from the game with each passing day.

On June 3rd, just a day after the official VALORANT launch, Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent had shared a screenshot of the messages of a frustrated cheater through his official Twitter handle. He confirmed that players who used cheats in the closed beta of VALORANT would not be unbanned after launch. “Sorry, no second chance for cheaters,” Laurent said.

While the news was certain to sadden the cheaters, the community greatly appreciated this move taken by Riot. However, some innocent gamers who use cloud PCs for playing may have been caught in the crossfire.

However, the biggest cause of concern for the cheaters might be the fact that these delivered bans are all HWID bans. To put it simply, if a banned user wants to be able to play the game again, creating a new account won’t be of any use. The only way to bypass a hardware ban is to buy a new computer, which is a huge pinch in the pocket to pay as a price for cheating.

The Twitter handle of Anti-Cheat Police Department has shared screenshots of some cheaters who were caught in the ban-wave. The attached link claims 200+ users being banned from a pixelbot in VALORANT and shows the conversation between the cheaters.

Early in the closed beta, we had reported instances of cheaters blatantly using hacks in the game without giving a care for Vanguard. It appears that this huge ban-wave might just be enough to scare them off from continuing to cheat, and that too only if they didn’t already get banned.

Since the launch of Riot’s first-person tactical shooter, the community has shown some prominent efforts in luring the developers of the same to launch Deathmatch servers as in to warm up for their Unrated and Ranked matches. The Deathmatch game mode has always been a boon for the fellow FPS players as they get to ease their aim and refine their reflexes so as to gain an upper hand over their oppositions while in a competitive game.

While Valorant was in its closed beta access, players who did participate in the same felt the need of having the deathmatch servers already as the game did promise the community with some amazing FPS tactics which is considered to be a fusion of Valve’s CS:GO and Blizzard’s Overwatch.

In a FAQ, Jared Berbach, Producer and product lead for game modes on VALORANT along with veteran designer Bobby Prochnow did state about their upcoming projects where they added,

“We’re already hearing our beta audience clamor pretty loudly for a Deathmatch style mode. While I can’t commit to a specific launch date yet, I can say this is a player desire that our team hears loud and clear, and we’re starting to build out some of the necessary technology we’d need to support a Deathmatch-type mode.”

“The desire for a game type that translates heavily to warming up, fragging out, gun skill, and shooting at “live targets” to improve your aim resonates with us both as competitors and as developers.”

This might finally the answer the prayers of the FPS enthusiasts from the Valorant community who are looking forward to lay their dominance in the same where some might pursue it as their careers in Esports.
To know more about the FAQ set up by the developers, you can find out about the entire details over here (https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/spike-rush-new-game-modes/