I don’t know why so many people like this game so much. I found it unfathomably boring, slow and repetitive.
I started playing back in 2021 because of a friend, he loved the game and asked me and another friend to play with him.
Gave the game a chance and it was absolutely atrocious, I didn’t feel the character skills were interesting enough to spice the movement and shooting mechanics. Like, they do so little for the gameplay. And I was falling asleep when they locked-in and stopped talking while playing.
Comparisons are unfair but I don’t know exactly why I disliked this game so much when I’ve always loved Counter Strike.
I cannot play anymore because my OS of choice doesn’t allow kernel level anti-cheat but I really believe nothing of worth was lost.
I think its because Counterstrike really does fit this “most basic multiplayer” where its just a game of “click on someone else faster”
The entrypoint to playing is pretty low, easy to setup during a LAN, easy to jump in with friends without huge commitments, conceptually it takes one game to just “get it”
But Valorant kind of breaks a few of those rules because it adds chaotic abilities and roles for agents, new things can show up in later games, maybe just enough for some to hate it and others to enjoy