Now, Riot Games did talk in-depth about how they are working on left-hand support for Valorant. However, that was all the way back during the first week of July.
Weeks and months have passed since any new updates on the matter, but in their latest Ask Valorant #8, Riot did take up the issue once again and talked about some of the problems that they need to deal with before they patch out a left-hand support to the live servers.
Valorant will be getting a left-hand view mode in future patches
In the Ask Valorant #8 blog, the Senior Producer at Riot Games, Steven Eldredge, addressed the question which read, “Are there any updates regarding a “Left Hand View model”?
He replied:
By ‘competitive and artistic front,’ Eldredge means that a left-handed view should not ruin the competitive integrity of the game, while at the same time the weapon cosmetics, as well as the right-handed mode, does.
When talking about the weapon cosmetic support, he says:
Competitive integrity is a core part of Valorant’s future model as a global esport, and jeopardizing that at the cost of providing a new view mode is not something that Riot will be willing to do.
But that being said, the valorant devs are hard at work in making the left-hand support comply with the existing dynamics of the game, and Eldredge ends his comment by saying:
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