Valorant: This is how you easily gain an unfair advantage

Usually, fans of competitive shooter games like “Valorant“(2020) have only one thing in mind when determining their settings: they want to get the maximum FPS, i.e. the rate at which the images flicker across the screen per second. The aim is to make sure that no opponent escapes or hits his target faster than they would like. However, with quite unusual but completely legal “valorant” tips and tricks that affect these very settings, you currently gain decisive advantages in the game, which nevertheless seem unfair.

“Valorant”: How to get advantages through the settings

As mentioned at the beginning, it is also common in “Valorant” to reduce graphical effects like fleeting shadows or shining sun particles to a minimum in order to achieve an even higher frames per second value. Shooter veterans even completely reduce everything that could cost them the precious FPS, and so brand-new games sometimes look as if they had sprung from a past decade. Consequently, there are also a lot of “valorant” tips that are supposed to optimize just that.

However, in Riot Games’ “Counter Strike” competitor, which tries to combine popular elements from the successful “League of Legends” (2009) with a shooter, the reality is different. Here you have clear and direct advantages if you turn up the graphics. It can even cost you the victory not to activate the high graphics settings, because they have decisive advantages.

These are the advantages of the high graphics settings

Once you’ve turned up the graphics of Valorant, you’re ready to go. As you may have already noticed, shots on the map “Ascent” sometimes leave their mark, even if you fire them into the air. The reason for this is as curious as it is simple to explain: There’s actually a clothesline with clothes to dry hanging above the street canyons, but you can only see it with those same high graphic settings.

Surely you are wondering why the visibility of a few wet rags should decide whether you win or lose the next game of “Valorant”. The fascinating thing about this clothesline is that it counts as a physical element in the game, which means that with some agents you’ll have all sorts of possibilities to use it.

Cypher is able to attach one of his spy cams “in the air”.
With Viper you can use crazy effects of her poison mist.
Sova, on the other hand, can place his sonar arrows on the clothesline for reconnaissance.

However, the clothesline is only one of the invisible objects in “Valorant” and the tricks we have mentioned will surely be joined by more in the near future, as players are known to be extremely creative when it comes to exploiting certain game mechanics. For example, a similar location has already been discovered in the “Split” map, but it hasn’t revealed any potentially game-changing advantages yet.

Therefore, the advantages are unfair to other “Valorant” players

The answer to this is obvious: if you play “Valorant” with lower settings, you won’t see the objects that are “invisible” in this way, and consequently you won’t be able to use them to implement your tactics. Many players might resent this, since most of them probably don’t have a computer that can handle the requirements. Especially in a game like Valorant, which is supposed to make it possible for players from all over the world to play in a competitive environment where you are less dependent on hardware than on skill, something like this has an unpleasant aftertaste.

In general, it’s questionable why a decorative element should have any impact on gameplay at all. Whether Riot will now remove the element from “Valorant” altogether, or at least no longer allow the collision, remains to be seen. Although the new skins in “Valorant” have visual advantages, they don’t affect the gameplay. We’ll also tell you when “Valorant” will finally be released for Xbox One and PS4.