The fact is, people seem to really love Valorant.
It offers players a much more digestible introduction into the tactical FPS genre than, say, Counter-Strike.
But, just like most games, Valorant is filled with various cosmetic microtransactions. From player cards, to gun buddies, and even gun skins, players are able to express themselves in a number of different ways.
But there’s something odd about Valorant’s gun skins in particular. You see, for some weird reason, the community thinks that they’re pay to win.
So why is it that so many pro players, content creators and even casual players, all agree on this point? Hell, even Valorant’s devs are playing along, but is there any truth behind this ridiculous claim?
Written by: Niall McCrossan (@niallmccrossan)
Hosted by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta) & Colten Gowan (@TheOnlyZoltan)
Edited by: Colten Gowan (@TheOnlyZoltan)
Produced by: Keith Capstick (@KeithCapstick), Niall McCrossan (@niallmccrossan) and Miles Hackett (@miles_hackett)
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Okay, which skin is YOUR pay 2 win skin?
It's a weird conmbination between a placebo effect from the audio effects, and bcuz of bullet trail colors.
wait, FoxA switched games?
One word, PLACEBO!
white reaver vandal with the white tracer bullets through smoke do help ngl
5:24 so who tf decided the undercity bundle was something people would buy
This growing trend or mentality where we should respect people saying something which is clearly wrong just baffles me.
"It's pay to win"……. yep and the earth is flat.
Me chilling with no skins except new shorty skin from battle pass lmao
ion sheriff 100% pay to win, i had never killed one person with a sheriff but got 2 headshot kills with the ion? yeah ill take it but im just sayin im not the best player in the game
Valorant in my mind is pay to win because if you see your favorite content creators or any of that such playing with that skin and hitting really nice shots it tricks your brain into thinking oh this skin is pay to win but I am not sure at all. I think its just boosting your confidence thats all I think it is.
Mate black is op
The elderflame vandal starts screaming in horror once you start spraying with it to make you stop, pay 2 win
5:15 i guess ur voting system is rigged xD like u really voted on !! Under city bundle ???
I think valve should take lessons from riot of how to manage a game.
I can confirm that the sound makes big difference. For example I've been playing from start with defaults and almost all the time when I pick up any skin and hear different sound I'm always surprised and in that time I usually die.
Even cosmetic microtransactions erode consumer trust.
I play on a dogshit monitor so I literally cannot see the phantom's bullet tracers if its default skin. Its really hard to spray with the phantom , even harder than the vandal for me so….I guess its p2w?
Oh yeah, not to mention. I usually play in solo queue. Getting great team makes you win. Borrowing skins from the randomest teammate and it somehow builds a relationship. Oh yeah I play in low ELO rank.
Glitch pop OP is pay to lose stg
i don't have any skins but i still win. wtf
Hear me out. Valorants spray past the first couple bullets is RNG. When a skin is released they minimize the RNG for that skin so when you pick it up you feel better. Then tune back to normal. Rinse and repeat.
I like how Colten has Bao in the background lol
YALL REALLY RAN OUT OF IDEAS HUH
the best part of this video happens at 3:53
i have prime vandal and classic in my shop but i’m broke rn
4:02
For me it was the Horizon Vandal. Don't like any of the other Horizon skins much, but I will never remove that Vandal skin now that I finally have it
Dr. madison is a cutie