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[Truw @SoTruw]

@mleQT_ HBD! Manifesting with u <3

[Truw @SoTruw]

@mleQT_ You'll figure it out, you always do Take your time. Rooting for u as always.

[Martin "Anderzz" Schelasin @AnderzzTV]

A change like this would be effectively spitting in the face of the most defining characteristic of the tactical side of VAL; a move that runs entirely contrary to any understanding of what makes the game great and unique strategically.

Tejo's biggest failure was that his tag line premise - "Move or Die" - never materialized: he lacked sufficient counterplay and made unacceptable micro checkmates to the point it really just became "Never be here in the first place or Die." I warned of as much before I ever touched him in a server.

What Veto and a CD change will do to this game is an error of far greater severity. First and foremost, it fails to understand one of the core separating elements between VAL and other TacFPS. In CS, statically available util doesn't put any guard rails or restrictions on round flow. The cost being that utility can never really be strong or novel past generic nades/flashes/smokes less you risk making the game too overwhelming and inaccessible for casual play (sorry R6). In VAL, CDs cause a distinct, multi-staged round flow that creates meaningful timing-based opportunity costs for the use of each piece of utility. This comes at the cost of needing strong duel-facilitating mechanisms that can be leveraged between those cycles in the round flow to counter raw contact play - untradeability, op, odin, judge. This is why we're currently in the healthiest era of VAL's history. The pieces are all already in place for a great game, and the balance outliers are specific instances of agent overtuning or maps requiring soft-wall changes. I don't know how anyone can look at the game right now and think there are sweeping systemic flaws. By releasing an agent like Veto and changing CDs, we'd be shattering that equilibrium and swinging egregiously in the other direction: untradeability and the least interactive weapons in the game become bar none the best tools at anyone's disposal. You won't need to "Hit Your Shot" you'll need to "Pray their untradeable oper loses duels where they're objectively favoured," "Pray that your opp didn't buy an untradeable judge despite you no longer having reasonable means of denying their best in slot positions," "Pray that you catch the timing gap in your opp's Odin spam or that they're not smart enough to hold their spam timing for the extremely limited scaling windows you now have," ... Best yet having to pray for more than one at the same time every round.

Instead of the flawed premise we got with Tejo that led to low counterplay micro checkmates, we now have a flawed premise that will lead to low counterplay macro checkmates - instead of moments of low quality interaction, we'll have entire rounds, halves, maps, and even series of it.

[Truw @SoTruw]

@mleQT_ Holy fuck ur old. Happy birthday 🎉

[Truw @SoTruw]

@mleQT_ @fluctraa Ur gay in 2 ways and I love that for you 🏳️‍🌈

[Truw @SoTruw]

@ciaolyx In the end I'm glad you got to tell the truth and walk away from this.

Keep enjoying life. ppl here aren't worth your time.

[Truw @SoTruw]

@starriebun In esports you don't pay for people's time, you pay for results.

The biggest hurdle is convincing an org why their investment would be worthwhile.

[Truw @SoTruw]

@AnderzzTV @joshrt Your dedication was finally rewarded, congrats 👏

[Truw @SoTruw]

@AnderzzTV Teams decided they want to win now eh?

[Truw @SoTruw]

@mleQT_ You wish you had ops

[Truw @SoTruw]

@JTayy_ @G2VALORANT Im feeling a little deja vu 🤔

[Truw @SoTruw]

@mleQT_ @Vansilli @GoldenboyFTW Really good job 👏

[Truw @SoTruw]

@mleQT_ @NaomiFPS You've never had a bad take 🙂‍↕️

[Truw @SoTruw]

@karnthc @ShopifyRebels Congrats 👏

[Truw @SoTruw]

@M80gg @drewspark Wrap it up, they won

[Truw @SoTruw]

@ImJoviGG @TALON_VALORANT @FrosTvsYou Massive congrats brother 👏

[TenZ @TenZOfficial]

Iso, neon and clove just completely ruined the ranked experience

[Truw @SoTruw]

@toxicyaksha Flor will be T1 but I think people forget the gravity of the position she holds. She is THE rep for all of GC rn.
The GOAT.
The all star.

If she fails for ANY reason on the T1 stage, all of GC is cooked. It's not just fuel for the haters, it's nuclear warheads. Don't rush this.

[Truw @SoTruw]

@lala2wavy Scrims were 2 years ago lala. I expect 10 laps around breeze asap.

[Truw @SoTruw]

@Jackkval_ @smlinden Who tf let this guy loose