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VALORANT's Raze is proving to be quite divisive among beta players. Even some streamer🌠s have jumped on the Raze hate train.
Gameplay in VALORANT is essentially a re-imagining of the mechanics in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Riot Games tweaked Valve's formula plenty so that it's a wholly unique game, but its template, so to speak, is undeniably Counter-Strike. Its biggest departure from CS:GO's gunplay, however, is its addition of playable heroes (called agents in the parlance of VALORANT). Each agent comes equipped with their own unique abilities, like in Overwatch before it and the MOBA genre before that. For the most part, VALORANT's agent-oriented tactical shooter formula has caught on with the FPS community 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in a big way.ღ One agent, though—the explosives specialist Raze—has players and streamers alike into distinct camps.
Anti-Raze sentiment first crystallized following a live match that pitted professional streamers against VALORANT's development team. The deve⛎lopers won handily, thanks in part to some big Raze plays. Summit1g, a member of the streamers team, was not happy about that, expressing his discontentment with the character both on stream and on Twitter afterword.
Those opposed to Raze's current state find her abilities overpowered in the sense that they can be relied upon entirely, with no mechanically-demanding gunplay necessary to play her successfully. While such a complaint would be null in a game like Overwatch, the VALORANT developers that abilities would remain supplementary to gunplay. Raze, however, comes equipped wi꧋th powerful grenades, landmines that can be attached to a mobile robot, and a rocket launcher that can be fired while airborne following a boost fro💝m one of said landmines.
That said, the entirety of the VALORANT player base doesn't necessarily share this sentiment. Shroud, himself a popular streamer, expressed on that he finds Raze to be mostly balanced. Replies from other streamers were decidedly mixed, with some thankful for his opinion that runs contrary to the now popular anti-Raze s💫entiment, and others re𝓡maining firmly in the opposition camp.
Were VALORANT's developers to release a patch today, it's likely Raze would receive some signific🐠ant nerfs to address widespread complaints. However, it's also possible that an optimal play-style has yet to be widely understood—it's a brand new game after all—and once a meta emerges, reports of Raze's strength may turn out to be greatly exaggerated.
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