Why do people always compare any new fps game and try to claim its OW killer when these games arent even cliaming they are?
I hope i dont see someone say Animal Crossing is an OW killer soon.
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Iāve already dug a hole next to my copy of LawBreakers, just in case. 
Even if Velourpants succeeds where LawBreakers did not, Iām still not sure itās gonna āfitā me. 
However, I hope lots of DPS aim-elitists are attracted to its style and gameplay and therefore queue times shorten as a result of their leaving. 
Look the genre is FPS multiplayer, be it CoD, csgo, apex, warzone w/e as long as it is a FPS game it will turn fps players heads. New players will not magically appear in droves. While their is always growth in the market, and also losses, but on the whole definitely a net growth, some games will take up more of that market space than others, and since there is a limited amount of players available, yes they will be effected. Everyone will be a effected, and to be honest, right now OW is quite far down the pecking order already.
The initial pull of valorant gonna be massive and everyone gonna feel it in their numbers for sure, how things balance out along the way we will see, but do not expect OW to come out as a winner, they have already been suffering and seem to have zero countermeasure. I reckon most other developers will have new shiny patches coming out soon as for OW whom knows. OW 2 still in limbo it seems and the current game is just frozen in terms of development.
Apex and Fornite will definitely have big stuff coming couple of weeks after the valorent honey moon period is starting to run out and CoD will have new game coming okt-nov, obviously it is also activision but still. CS:GO probably planing their next big patch around the same time, and by the looks of things we will not get a date for OW 2 until blizzcon and from there probably 4-6 months forward so early next year at best. They might pull a flash release and āavailable nowā at blizzcon, but seriously doubt it.
Correction. Tanks and Supports in OW who try to go to Valorant will be disappointed. Widow, Genji, and Soldier mains who can aim will probably have a blast and not want to come back.
Iām not worried, because I know I canāt play it. It doesnāt seem to be coming to console as far as I can tell. And even if it did I know Iād be terrible at it lol.
Given that theyāre taking 0 ring access to your computer, in game cheaters would not be the hackers I would worry about in Valorant.
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Yeah I was gonna say that. Hardcore hitscan players will probably adjust to Valorant easier.
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I wonder if it will be enough players to notably alter DPS queue times or not?
Id compare it more to Apex.
Lawbreakers is dead dead. Actual dead. That game from conception was a bad idea, and the guy behind it is one of the biggest most arrogant jerks in the gaming industry.
Apex had its 60 seconds of fame the same way Valorant is. By paying as many streamers as possible to get it to the front page of streaming sites. When those deals end, Valorant will drop down and find itself a sustainable playerbase.
Depends on the player and their main heroes. I canāt imagine many projectile players would move permanently, but I can definitely see hardcore hitscan enthusiasts going.
A lot of rose tinted glasses floating around hereā¦ guess streamers can make anything look good just by playing it and having a good time
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I have to say that I used to think it was also just another lawbreakers but after seeing some gameplay I think they are in for the long run and even worse comes the fact that a lot of the competitive people who plays OW will most definitely start playing valorant
The OWL as great as it is will start losing players in favor of valorant and before we know it the game will lose external support, there will only be casual players around which isnāt all that bad I guess but the esports nature of the game will be forever gone
some see this as a blessing but I do worry
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Out of curiosity, what is the deal with the guy behind Lawbreakers? I heard about it, but Iām not sure.
As for the game, itās really not my type. Not much of a fan of Cs:go style of games, and it seems slow-paced. Probably will try, but I canāt see myself getting addicted/enjoying it as much as OW.
Plus, itās good to have competition on the market, so the devs of the games donāt get stale with patches and stuff.
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Unfortunately for me CSGO turned into a free to play cheater infested hell hole a month after I bought it.
Besides, overwatch has spoiled me, i need pretty graphics and abilities in ny shooters.
Valorant is almost nothing like Overwatch, so transfer of skill between the two is pretty much non existent.
If Overwatch is your first FPS and you havenāt played CS, you arenāt going to be good at the game at the start, nor find it to be necessarily your cup of tea.
Doesnāt look much like Overwatch to me tbh. There doesnāt appear to be tanking, shields or barriers or huge damage sponging heroes, they all appear to be DPS heroes with some tactical, defensive or healing abilities. It doesnāt have payload pushing, objective-capturing, looks mostly like wandering and killing. Most of the gameplay seems to be a lot of sneaking, slow poking from cover/gas walls, with very little of it being frenetic high mobility team on team action. There doesnāt seem to be much in the way of counterplay since the time to kill is so short, itās like most times people are just being insta-kill burst down by surprise.
If itās like anything in Overwatch, Iād say it seems more like arcade Deathmatch than Overwatch comp. At least from what Iāve seen.
Of course no one says that. Animal crossing is to mechanically intensive for the average ow player.
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The difference is Valorant has RIOT behind them, who are already a massive studio with one of the largest games in the world under their belt. And LawBreakers was made by a much smaller team headed by a guy from Epic Games.
Personally, I think the biggest flaw with the game was that:
- It wasnāt F2P despite originally being planned to be so
- It released basically right as Overwatch did. And we all know what happened to literally every hero shooter other than Paladins that tried to compete with the launch of Overwatch.
What does a tactical Mms and a classic Afps have in common. The 2 are nothing alike at all.
Its visuals are closer to Overwatch and Team Fortress than to Call of Duty or Battlefield. Any further discussion on gameplay would be moot if the opinions (that you have to play to understand how it performs) are ātrueā.
āApparentlyā, Valorantās gameplay shown via videos wonāt grant a player much insight to the Valorant experience.
What if WEāRE on the clown car?