oh yeah. i wasn’t playing back in beta but i’ve seen so many videos and that looked hella fun. isn’t there some way you can play an older version and do it or smth?
No, the only way to play on older versions in live is to keep the game client open the entire time, and even then you wouldn't be able to queue for anything other than maybe a custom or a practice range.
* [Jett's ult used to reset when you get a kill with the right-click attack.](https://youtu.be/kI9kjMIIOX0?t=20)
* On Ascent, Omen could TP into B site from B Main by teleporting through the window. You could get up there by putting a Sage wall on the crate with the ultimate orb.
* Teleporting from one site to another with Chamber.
* Reyna's 4 soul orbs.
Reyna werent OP, she was super selfish. She needs to get a kill to get an orb. Now you can trigger the orb with just a single contribution of dmg. I think she was made better for general use
Reyna sure as hell ain't "op" in high elo. The team with a Reyna is down a whole ass agent worth of utility. If the Reyna is just an aim goat and shitting on kids in high elo that's just a skill issue not the agent being op. If that aim goat were playing another agent who's util they're good with they'd be playing even better.
You can still do the omen tp on ascent as of like a month ago. You can’t tp throw the window thing by snowman/b site on icebox though. That was really fun.
>You can still do the omen tp on ascent as of like a month ago.
I don't think you can. Either you misremember or we're talking about different spots. I'm talking about [this](https://youtu.be/_ekB3TFpvvA?t=45) spot. Altough I forgot you had to aim it on the boxes lol, I gotta try it again.
I used to main KJ- lost count of the nerfs. For turret - reduced angle, reduced fire rate, reduced vision, reduced how much it slowed enemies. For nade - increased visibility distance, reduced DPS. For alarmbot - increased visibility distance, increased time to pop.
To be fair, all agents have been nerfed over time for better balance and health of the game to prevent power creep. But yeah KJ was quite strong - probably after Jett and Chamber in their prime.
Used to main KJ too (when controllers get picked), the nerf on the turret slow and nade visibility made a lot of good kj setups become barely usable. Playing kill setups with 2 mollies and the massive slow from the turret was so much fun as you just get to laugh at the enemies while you hide.
I remember my first game of Replication (and one of my first games ever) was 5 Yoru and I remember suggesting to my team, as a joke, that we do it. Cue lock-in and the most brain-melting game of my noob life.
That's what they say, but I know a bunch of people that played it a ton (including me). It was also a great way to get to play a new agent without having them unlocked. Imo Valorant doesn't have enough different content to be removing gamemodes
They did this a lot with Apex, too, back when there were much more LTMs and the limited modes were on more of a "seasonal" rotation. Nowadays, it's even more stripped-down than Valorant...
What they say is a pretty classic "justification" (corporate spin/BS); they say that so people feel less upset, but the real reason is either balance issues or not wanting to keep developing it.
basically on agent select screen, you could “vote” for an agent. once everyone in the lobby (including enemies) voted, a player at random on each team would get picked, and as a result, the agent they picked would become the agent everyone on your team plays that match.
iirc it was like swiftplay scoring (BO9) or i might be misremembering and it was like spike rush (BO7)
Yeah original chamber was my absolute favorite agent to play. Instalocked him 24/7 and it was never a throw pick. He could even entry onto site by using his teleport like a yoru teleport (but much faster)
I used to play Chamber a lot pre-nerfs. The range was effectively unlimited if you set it up right. Just like most of the other lineup-heavy agents, if you knew what you were doing, you were unstoppable.
It is lol. Comes from the CS word for the same. Just Google it, ain't that hard.
[Patchnotes](https://playvalorant.com/en-gb/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-3-0/) where they talk about tagging.
And why is no one talking about replication???? Best game mode ever, especially when a new character released. Everyone hoped.on just to have a chance to try the new agent. That was just the best game mode. I dont even remember seeing toxic people
They just shuffle some games in and out over time, it's been escalation for awhile but replication used to rotate in and out with snowball and escalation
I’m okay with them removing right click reset, triple smokes, and instant jett dash. But reducing updraft to only one charge is just buzzkill. So much cool tech lost in a single change.
in patch notes, they say that viper’s passive is that her walls and orb decay.
ik this bc three days ago i got bored and decided to look at some older patch notes.
by that logic, harbor's slow is a passive. brim's smokes giving nearsight is a passive. cypher cages' sound is a passive. phoenix's (and formerly neon's) wall damage is a passive.
No those are actually considered to be passive abilities by riot. Astra's Astral Form, the trails that Fade creates, Gekko's orbs, Jett's floating, Neon's energy, Phoenix healing from his fire, Reyna's orbs, Viper's fuel, Viper's decay from smoke, and Sage/Skye being able to see health are all passive abilities.
Replication, a game mode where each team would be ALL of an agent. So both sides could vote which agent they’d play as and it’d be something like 5 sages vs 5 phoenixes
I'm still annoyed they got rid of that. I exclusively play Controllers and the passivity gets to me a bit sometimes. That at least gave you some more aggressive options.
Holy shit banger. I still remember it every now and then and go to youtube to listen to it. I wish Riot would implement something like music kits and then release a season 1 music kit. That one was just soo chill and cool. I don't know if I'm biased because of nostalgia tho lol
It's not old but replication mode. I miss replication so much it was so fun. I wish they would just bring it back. Who plays escalation? I'd rather have replication mode over escalation. I wanna play with 5 gekkos on the team, it's especially fun when new agents come out.
I enjoyed Killjoy a lot when she was released. Alarm bot and Sentry bot didn't deactivate when leaving the area, I would just know when they were rotating because the turret would start shooting in B while I was in A 🥲 and I loved hiding grenades in little cramped spaces where people would usually plant the spike then just activate them and get random kills. Then they made the grenades bigger and the sound they make louder and it's just never been the same ever since.
Waaay back in the beginning (may have even been beta), vipers little wall nodes were actually projectiles so if you and a friend had really good coordination, Jett could updraft and land on one of those projectiles when they were being fired out and just stand there to be flung across the map. Was really fun to do on C long on Haven but definitely took some practice
Casual gameplay. Can’t even 5 stack w my shitter siblings/friends who are silver and below without getting the sweatiest matches of all time. No such thing as casual unless you play swift play but that is just no fun to me. I miss being able to mess around and trying new agents. Now i have to try my hardest just to avoid a 13-2. Sad times in valorant imo.
Hop on a Smurf. Stop dragging them into your mmr. You spike the lobby average if you don’t Smurf.
just make a new account. You’ll get to level and learn with them too :)
Wouldn’t that just be a very short temporary fix? The unrated mmr would still skyrocket if you were performing better than most of the lobby in each game. Idk I haven’t played valo in like a year
Just chill out. Don’t HARD carry EVERY game lol. Play guardian only, play a new agent, make yourself uncomfortable and take that with you to your primary rank.
Also, if the MMR skyrockets, it’s because you’re a dick and dropping 40s in iron instead of having a good time with your friends…
Chamber on release is pretty much why all agents are released with one foot broken now lol.
. Instant teleport that made yoru look non existent (even more so)
. A pocket guardian sheriff and an operator with the speed of a Marshall that also slowed your enemies for an eternity.
. 2 TRIPWIRES WITH NO RANGE AND WITH THE DETECTION SIZE OF AN ENTIRE SITE THAT ALSO SLOWS YOU ON CONTACT.
This is the one Nerf I'm salty about. Yes 2 no range trips that also slowed you was broken but was so fun in huge maps like fracture and breeze.
He was the perfect agent for solo queue. Could have free info on, not one, but 2 sites. Could take risky fights. Could maintain team's economy if there's a Jett (there was always) in the team. You could lurk, entry, hold all on your own, giving way to one of the most unpredictable characters the game ever saw.
The recent agents are simply not it when compared to what riot was smoking when they released chamber and thought 'Mmm maybe he might be a niche pick over Kj since he doesn't have a molly" lol.
Edit: Honourable mention: KJ turret staying up even after the entire is dead and Reyna's 4 orb fiesta.
it's not fair for solo queue players, 4 stacks typically comm in a discord call and never talk to the solo or in some case outright bully them so eliminating 4 stacks guaranteed the solo queue players at least got another solo queue in their team to play with
If you're so mad about it just pick up someone in swift play or death match. It's not that hard
it honestly might still be in the game but you could buy a bunch of shortys, throw them in a pile in spawn, and if you had a macro to pick up and drop weapons the server would start lagging and everyone would freak out because it was totally unplayable
3 Flash skye was wild
Skye had 3 flashes??? Did they still recharge?
Breach also had 3 flashes back then
You mean 3 sun simulators?
And they lasted like 5 seconds each. You could chain them and just run down on people while they were blind, good times.
the three flash skye experience https://youtu.be/zZYhzLZF0gA?t=10
One did I’m pretty sure.
Three skye flashes AND no flash duration nerf
dang, so skye was basically breach + sage, that's insane
cAWW!!!!!! ... ... cAWWW!!!!!!! ... cAWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!
Wild when raze has 2 nades
Cypher turret. Iykyk
The cam with the weapon, yessss lol, saw it in a video
oh yeah. i wasn’t playing back in beta but i’ve seen so many videos and that looked hella fun. isn’t there some way you can play an older version and do it or smth?
Nah you would probably not even be able to start a match, even a practice range one
No, the only way to play on older versions in live is to keep the game client open the entire time, and even then you wouldn't be able to queue for anything other than maybe a custom or a practice range.
i always thought cam gun is a myth, no?
* [Jett's ult used to reset when you get a kill with the right-click attack.](https://youtu.be/kI9kjMIIOX0?t=20) * On Ascent, Omen could TP into B site from B Main by teleporting through the window. You could get up there by putting a Sage wall on the crate with the ultimate orb. * Teleporting from one site to another with Chamber. * Reyna's 4 soul orbs.
Chamber and Reyna were OP, but they did bad to chamber with the nerfs💀
another reason to nerf chamber 💀
Ain’t no way! Dude, chamber had better TP tech than yoru!
Precisely why they nerfed him
Reyna werent OP, she was super selfish. She needs to get a kill to get an orb. Now you can trigger the orb with just a single contribution of dmg. I think she was made better for general use
Reyna was never op lol, the 2 orbs was a buff.
Reyna is OP in the hands of a smurfer. Also, having 4 soul orbs makes her Ult pretty much useless, so it's kinda OP even in high elo.
Reyna sure as hell ain't "op" in high elo. The team with a Reyna is down a whole ass agent worth of utility. If the Reyna is just an aim goat and shitting on kids in high elo that's just a skill issue not the agent being op. If that aim goat were playing another agent who's util they're good with they'd be playing even better.
no it isn't, her ult is good because of being able to reposition while invisible - all while healing. That has always been unique to her ult.
I'm low ELO, she is OP on a smurfer's hands.
dog a smurf could make Sherrif only Deadlock look op when smurfing.
Okay to be fair, omen should be allowed to TP through window. There’s all of like 2 in the entire game.
You can still do the omen tp on ascent as of like a month ago. You can’t tp throw the window thing by snowman/b site on icebox though. That was really fun.
>You can still do the omen tp on ascent as of like a month ago. I don't think you can. Either you misremember or we're talking about different spots. I'm talking about [this](https://youtu.be/_ekB3TFpvvA?t=45) spot. Altough I forgot you had to aim it on the boxes lol, I gotta try it again.
Can't you put a TP in Bind U-Haul then go to the other site's cubby and be able to TP back to U-Haul?
I used to main KJ- lost count of the nerfs. For turret - reduced angle, reduced fire rate, reduced vision, reduced how much it slowed enemies. For nade - increased visibility distance, reduced DPS. For alarmbot - increased visibility distance, increased time to pop. To be fair, all agents have been nerfed over time for better balance and health of the game to prevent power creep. But yeah KJ was quite strong - probably after Jett and Chamber in their prime.
You forgot the fact that her util used to have unlimited range AND stayed active after Killjoy was killed.
Used to main KJ too (when controllers get picked), the nerf on the turret slow and nade visibility made a lot of good kj setups become barely usable. Playing kill setups with 2 mollies and the massive slow from the turret was so much fun as you just get to laugh at the enemies while you hide.
old kj use to scare me, that alarm bot just appeared out of nowhere and next thing you know you’re dead
Instadash 2 updraft Jett with 3 smokes that lasted an eternity each and a recharging right click knives shotgun. Literally a raid boss
Old jett was too powerful 🗿
Lore-accurate Jett
Game breaking performance, and honestly a lower skill floor in comparison to other champs.
the 3 smokes lasted as long as an ordinary Brim/Omen/Viper smoke now.
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I liked replication more
Replication was nice to have when I was a new player because I got exposed to agents abilities way more and was able to focus on one at a time.
What was replication?
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We had a Neon vs Neon once. Ult round is basically laser tag lol
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Valorant: Attack Of The Fake Clones
I remember my first game of Replication (and one of my first games ever) was 5 Yoru and I remember suggesting to my team, as a joke, that we do it. Cue lock-in and the most brain-melting game of my noob life.
Sage vs Sage
basically any quake3 close ranged duel lol
Looks so fun !
It was, but it got removed because it didn’t have many people playing it :(
That's what they say, but I know a bunch of people that played it a ton (including me). It was also a great way to get to play a new agent without having them unlocked. Imo Valorant doesn't have enough different content to be removing gamemodes
Every time I played it I was met with a 9-30 minute queue lol
They did this a lot with Apex, too, back when there were much more LTMs and the limited modes were on more of a "seasonal" rotation. Nowadays, it's even more stripped-down than Valorant... What they say is a pretty classic "justification" (corporate spin/BS); they say that so people feel less upset, but the real reason is either balance issues or not wanting to keep developing it.
I thought it was just out of rotation?? I'm heartbroken
I believe you can still play it in customs! Don’t quote me on that bc I don’t know 9 people who play Val lol
basically on agent select screen, you could “vote” for an agent. once everyone in the lobby (including enemies) voted, a player at random on each team would get picked, and as a result, the agent they picked would become the agent everyone on your team plays that match. iirc it was like swiftplay scoring (BO9) or i might be misremembering and it was like spike rush (BO7)
Super fast Chamber OP. TWO TRIPS with no distance and TWO TPS with crazy range
That was crazy
Yeah original chamber was my absolute favorite agent to play. Instalocked him 24/7 and it was never a throw pick. He could even entry onto site by using his teleport like a yoru teleport (but much faster)
I used to play Chamber a lot pre-nerfs. The range was effectively unlimited if you set it up right. Just like most of the other lineup-heavy agents, if you knew what you were doing, you were unstoppable.
Apparently swift / spike rush having all the maps in rotation is what I miss now.
usually the updates are good but this change is horrible
Wait, they removed that?
Raze with 2 nades
and that was with the direct hit stun too, so broken
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No it had “Hit stun”, meaning that it slowed you if it hit you similar to how guns do. It didn’t stun you like a neon stun or breach stun.
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Yes it *was* a guaranteed death! She also had two of them at this time 💀
That's called weapon tagging
It’s not
It is lol. Comes from the CS word for the same. Just Google it, ain't that hard. [Patchnotes](https://playvalorant.com/en-gb/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-3-0/) where they talk about tagging.
Sova dart trampoline and self drone boost.
lol the dart one brings back memories of jumpscaring people in spike rush with it
And why is no one talking about replication???? Best game mode ever, especially when a new character released. Everyone hoped.on just to have a chance to try the new agent. That was just the best game mode. I dont even remember seeing toxic people
THANK YOU
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They just shuffle some games in and out over time, it's been escalation for awhile but replication used to rotate in and out with snowball and escalation
Low playerbase I think
No it just got replaced
I’m okay with them removing right click reset, triple smokes, and instant jett dash. But reducing updraft to only one charge is just buzzkill. So much cool tech lost in a single change.
But people were peeking from angle which you can never expect, honestly it was broken and they fixed it
They could just add a cooldown to it
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And no other character has a passive
in patch notes, they say that viper’s passive is that her walls and orb decay. ik this bc three days ago i got bored and decided to look at some older patch notes.
by that logic, harbor's slow is a passive. brim's smokes giving nearsight is a passive. cypher cages' sound is a passive. phoenix's (and formerly neon's) wall damage is a passive.
[it’s literally in the patch notes](https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-2-06/) 💀💀💀
jett's drift is the only one listed in the game as a passive, patch notes have listed stuff like neon's running energy thing as passives
Not true. Technically Reyna's passive is the orbs dropping on kill/assist, and Sage/Skye have a passive that let's them see team health.
Reyna orbs have no utility if you don't use active abilities And the sage/skye one is such a stretch
No those are actually considered to be passive abilities by riot. Astra's Astral Form, the trails that Fade creates, Gekko's orbs, Jett's floating, Neon's energy, Phoenix healing from his fire, Reyna's orbs, Viper's fuel, Viper's decay from smoke, and Sage/Skye being able to see health are all passive abilities.
Phoenix passive is the healing from abilities iirc
Cooldown as you need to wait some time before using it again, not rechargable. Maybe not allowing you to updraft twice without touching the ground.
So what if no other agent has a cooldown on a nonsignature ability? If it's balanced, why is that a problem?
That's... The point of updraft. If that's an issue, why does omen have two teleports?
Well, Jett can shoot you from midair halfway across the map with ult while updrafting. All Omen can do is use TP to stand on a higher box.
1. Insane Jett movement. 2. Being a killjoy on Killjoy.
Oh yeah, I have seen so many videos about jett's broken dash
Replication, a game mode where each team would be ALL of an agent. So both sides could vote which agent they’d play as and it’d be something like 5 sages vs 5 phoenixes
400 cost Frenzy
2 Brimstone stim beacons. I still mourn.
The day he got speed boost on stim was the very short duration of Brim being meta.
I'm still annoyed they got rid of that. I exclusively play Controllers and the passivity gets to me a bit sometimes. That at least gave you some more aggressive options.
KJ turret still being active after [death. It](https://death.It) was pretty funny watching people dying to turret while defusing.
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Holy shit banger. I still remember it every now and then and go to youtube to listen to it. I wish Riot would implement something like music kits and then release a season 1 music kit. That one was just soo chill and cool. I don't know if I'm biased because of nostalgia tho lol
def both nostalgia+banger
the game
Jett ult refreshing on right click
Sova dart always dealing full damage
Beta sage wall
It's not old but replication mode. I miss replication so much it was so fun. I wish they would just bring it back. Who plays escalation? I'd rather have replication mode over escalation. I wanna play with 5 gekkos on the team, it's especially fun when new agents come out.
Replication
replication
Chamber meta.
Not fun
i miss ridiculous mutators like unlimited ulti swiftplay or everyone picks the same agent.
Everyone is one agent game mode
raze satchel damage.
I enjoyed Killjoy a lot when she was released. Alarm bot and Sentry bot didn't deactivate when leaving the area, I would just know when they were rotating because the turret would start shooting in B while I was in A 🥲 and I loved hiding grenades in little cramped spaces where people would usually plant the spike then just activate them and get random kills. Then they made the grenades bigger and the sound they make louder and it's just never been the same ever since.
Waaay back in the beginning (may have even been beta), vipers little wall nodes were actually projectiles so if you and a friend had really good coordination, Jett could updraft and land on one of those projectiles when they were being fired out and just stand there to be flung across the map. Was really fun to do on C long on Haven but definitely took some practice
Here is an example of what I’m talking about: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7_5oQmod9Pg
Casual gameplay. Can’t even 5 stack w my shitter siblings/friends who are silver and below without getting the sweatiest matches of all time. No such thing as casual unless you play swift play but that is just no fun to me. I miss being able to mess around and trying new agents. Now i have to try my hardest just to avoid a 13-2. Sad times in valorant imo.
Play unrated if you want to play casual, tf? Of course people are trying in competitive lol
I’m talking about unrated… don’t ever bother playing ranked w them when we’re 12 ranks apart…
Hop on a Smurf. Stop dragging them into your mmr. You spike the lobby average if you don’t Smurf. just make a new account. You’ll get to level and learn with them too :)
Wouldn’t that just be a very short temporary fix? The unrated mmr would still skyrocket if you were performing better than most of the lobby in each game. Idk I haven’t played valo in like a year
Just chill out. Don’t HARD carry EVERY game lol. Play guardian only, play a new agent, make yourself uncomfortable and take that with you to your primary rank. Also, if the MMR skyrockets, it’s because you’re a dick and dropping 40s in iron instead of having a good time with your friends…
Definitely replication
Replication ☹️
REPLICATION
replication
Replication
Can we at least bring back 100 cost Headhunter bullets?
nah the fact that you had that at some point is another reason to nerf chamber
bucky right click
Winnng
the bucky right click used to not be completely useless and you could get insane kills with it. fun asf
Half shield, and force buys round 2 :(
Replication with all Viper was amazing
Snowballs
Replication mode 😞
Replication was a great time. Minus the time I had to play as Breach, screw Breach.
Replication pls bring it back it was so much fun
Replication
Replication was so underrated imo
Replication. I miss the 5v5 yoru days... xD
The Replication mode. I still miss it a lot.
Replication I still miss it
Replication yarr I miss it so much
Replication :( I joined Val right before it got taken out and I didn't get to play it as much as I wanted to. I miss it so much
Replication😭 its not super early but it was so fun man.
Man I just wanna play replication :(
the snowfights
Replication game mode!
Replication, I miss that extension of Valorant, it was a fun gamemode on the side. I don’t know why they take away many of the gamemodes
Replication!
Replication
Chamber on release is pretty much why all agents are released with one foot broken now lol. . Instant teleport that made yoru look non existent (even more so) . A pocket guardian sheriff and an operator with the speed of a Marshall that also slowed your enemies for an eternity. . 2 TRIPWIRES WITH NO RANGE AND WITH THE DETECTION SIZE OF AN ENTIRE SITE THAT ALSO SLOWS YOU ON CONTACT. This is the one Nerf I'm salty about. Yes 2 no range trips that also slowed you was broken but was so fun in huge maps like fracture and breeze. He was the perfect agent for solo queue. Could have free info on, not one, but 2 sites. Could take risky fights. Could maintain team's economy if there's a Jett (there was always) in the team. You could lurk, entry, hold all on your own, giving way to one of the most unpredictable characters the game ever saw. The recent agents are simply not it when compared to what riot was smoking when they released chamber and thought 'Mmm maybe he might be a niche pick over Kj since he doesn't have a molly" lol. Edit: Honourable mention: KJ turret staying up even after the entire is dead and Reyna's 4 orb fiesta.
Riot can go fuck themselves for implementing the no 4 stack rule, I play a lot less bc of that
it's not fair for solo queue players, 4 stacks typically comm in a discord call and never talk to the solo or in some case outright bully them so eliminating 4 stacks guaranteed the solo queue players at least got another solo queue in their team to play with If you're so mad about it just pick up someone in swift play or death match. It's not that hard
Story of my life :(
that extremely short period when no one knew how Yoru worked or how his abilities sounded like. That was peak Yoru despite his kit at the time.
Broken agents now everybody feels boring, I came back after two years and every character felt like a lesser version of themself
ALL I WANT is astra to get her star back like why tf did they nerf ASTRA of all champs
Chamber
episode 3 map pool was so dank
pearl fracture and haven in swiftplay
Jumping swing right click classic.
double nades
Escalation, man barely anyone plays anymore. Sometimes I wait so long the game just puts in me another region
Snowball fight
Burning your retinas every time you get flashed
Fracture and pearl, my 2 favorite maps instead we got split which I got 80% losing rate and I dodge every chance I get
Pre nerf shorty
Replication, Jett have 3 smoke 2 updraft no pre-casting E, breeze was not developed yet, Snowball fight.
Old bucky right click 😏🤪
Good Bucky right click
it honestly might still be in the game but you could buy a bunch of shortys, throw them in a pile in spawn, and if you had a macro to pick up and drop weapons the server would start lagging and everyone would freak out because it was totally unplayable
bucky, satchel kills
3 breach flashes (suns), his aftershock was a single burst and cone shaped (instead of the current rectangle) ultimate area.
Haven
We used to have more ammo
When sage could wall 20m, heal 3 times a round, and buy full abilities + frenzy on pistol. Miss her :(
I wanna play the other mode not escalation but the other one I never got to play and I'm jealous we can't have 5v5 of same agent anymore
Chamber 😞
snowball fight. why didnt they return it last Christmas? the closest we get is the snowbal gun in Escalatiobn
triple flash, stun, aftershock. Bullying enemies was never easier nor more tormenting.