The tactical FPS genre has been dominated by titles like Counter-Strike for years, and Riot Games’ looked to challenge the titan with its newest title, Valorant. Much like Counter-Strike, Valorant places players in a 5v5 plant-and-defuse setting, however, what separates the latter from the former is the characters. Valorant takes a page from hero shooters like Overwatch and gives players unique abilities to turn the tides in their favor. At its core, the abilities have similar functions to Counter-Strike’s utilities with smokes and flashes being unique abilities for characters with the newest game-breaker targeting flashes.

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Discovered by Sentinels professional player, Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro, the game-breaking bug targets flashes and negates their effect. By going into the settings menu and toggling “Hide User Interface In Game” any and all incoming flashes are completely rendered useless. Zellsis tried it with a teammate in between rounds with a fellow Skye on his team with no effect rendered, and then tried it with an enemy Phoenix which also had no effect. Sentinels head coach, Shane “Rawkus” Flaherty, can be heard in the background being utterly shocked while Zellsis seemingly jokes as to why his flashes never work due to players possibly having knowledge on this exploit.

Within hours, Zellsis’ video received a ton of viewing time with Riot Games taking immediate notice of the game-breaking bug. Riot turned to disabling the competitive queues in order to fix the bug which is standard protocol for the Valorant developer in order to preserve integrity at the highest levels. While game-breaking bugs are a detractor from the overall experience, this isn’t the first time Valorant has faced issues like this in the past, yet Riot has proven to be quite hasty at correcting them.

Five hours after shutting down the competitive queues, Riot announced the issue was fixed and that Valorant competitive was up and running. Hopefully, this is the last time players see or experience a bug of this nature with.

Valorant is available now on PC.

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