Protocol 🇨🇦

Won the @NoStyleEsports Toronto Marvel Rivals LAN as a part of team Last Second ⏱️First real tournament dub, ready for more :D

@RealStrongLegs You don't think the extra flash bumps skye up to A?

my generalized tier list until the next major patch obvs some agents are operator dependent but this is what i feel atm for VCT/VCL NICHE = can be good on some maps in some instances some arguments can be made for Miks to be in B, but his boomboxes are too ez to counter

@KorverAintMe @ShyoWager There are tons of people who buy radianite. Again still better than another buddy. There is already collusion, look at Mooda. I’m sure there’s a way legally. If not everything else I mentioned still is better than what they’re doing now

@ProtocolYT @ShyoWager Radiante is in the battle pass, hardly a prize. Cash prizing for tournaments is different than having a prize pool for a whole entire season. Also breeds collusion which is hard enough to deal with. Valorant points have monetary value, figured lottery laws etc would be an issue

"everyone's going to be radiant man oh my god" I believe these changes were made to incentivize people to tryhard in ranked, and have something to play for. The reality is a lot of people have either left the game at this top 10k - 500 level, moved onto other ranked systems, or haven't had something to play for, hardstuck trolling games inside the 0-400rr bracket. This change does 2 things. 1: Gives people who still play this game something attainable to reach for. I understand you are lowering the threshold overall which means less skilled players get into Radiant, but allow me to introduce this next point! 2: Changes the narrative inside Radiant. We can understand what low RR Radiant and high RR radiant mean, and will develop a new culture around it, much like how it is in League with Challenger 0lp vs 500lp vs 1K lp. Nothing is being taken away from you if you're good at this game and already at that level. Now is your "tag" of Radiant allowing a lesser skill bracket into the fray? Is that being tarnished a slight bit? Yes. Will that make more people play the game so its worth it just for you to lose a little bit of that default prestige, with now the new added context of you're a high RR Radiant so you still get to keep almost the entirety of what defines the rank? YEAH! its a WIN WIN. 3: GUYS its STILL THE TOP 500! This just adds more people into the queues, gives them the incentive to play, and before you know it this threshold might even thoom back up to the 400s and 500s with how many people make the cut (by default it'll already be over 500 within a few days) This is healthy for the game. We can contextualize if people's Radiant tag is "fradulent" or not (if you honestly even care at this point). It just gives the people another reason to queue at the most dedicated of ranks, which is a GOOD THING!

@KorverAintMe @ShyoWager Marvel Rivals host ingame tournaments with cash prizing. Too much of a nightmare for Riot but not for NetEase? Why would Valorant Points be an Issue? What about Radianite, I see 0 issue with that? Additional cosmetics is at least something more than your 8th radiant buddy.

@ProtocolYT @ShyoWager Why would anyone feel more incentivized by additional cosmetics not to troll/not care? Adding Valorant point and cash prizing just makes your game a global legal nightmare, it's unrealistic to expect something like that

@KorverAintMe @ShyoWager They could try literally anything. - Playercards with your leaderboard # - Unique titles - Gun Skins - Radianite Points - Valorant Points - Cash Prizing

@ProtocolYT @ShyoWager What game has high value incentives for those who reach the highest rank on the ranked ladder? Is there actually a game out there that makes something so great every season that people are dying to get to the top rank?

@ShyoWager The lack of incentive to hit radiant more than once is why high elo is plagued with people not trying and/or playing on alt accounts. This leads to an awful ranked experience since nobody cares. Now today you can't even get 500 people to grind enough RR to get top 500

@ShyoWager The actual fix was to give a real incentive to players who have already hit radiant to want to hit it again. Been said for literal years at this point. Feels like a slap in the face to just make it easier to obtain instead.

@AJets1 Of course

@ProtocolYT "looks fun af" he will NOT touch the game tho

looks fun af

@Tony_Totinos I’m not playing that shit 😭

@ProtocolYT get ready to collect another one

Decided to queue one tonight and point has been proved lol

New Valorant patch looks awful -Nerfed cloves utility not healing or ult, will still get spam picked but will provide even less to the team -Yoru needed to be nerfed but they completely killed him, unplayable -Senti still a dead role -Neon untouched, still full acc while moving

Outpost is literally so much more fun with Destroyed Wing disabled. I honestly don't know if it needs a way to be opened at all.

@tyminski_marek A good trailer will make me interested to learn more. Gameplay is what will make me buy/play

Among official videos from the dev studio what convinces you the most to want to play a new game?

@Plague_Reaper1 People only play the characters that shoot gun good. If they dont nerf the shoot gun good part people will still pick them cause they shoot gun good

@ProtocolYT Im plat, can you dumb it down for me?

How to fix IMO: Cut cloves heal in half, add another ult point for the ult Make cypher kill trips viable again Add a small slow to KJ molly Give vyze info on her flash again Veto doesn't need changes, he's just bad because barely anyone uses util in ranked

I barely play the game anymore and I think clove is one of the biggest reasons why. Every game is just 2x duelist chamber clove, so essentially 4 duelist. Then someone fills the meta initiator on that map. No room for doing anything creative.

@tdawggVAL I was watching that video wtf man

Bring back gatekeeping in gaming. I wanna see your steam hours and your gameplay footage in the background if you're going to talk about video games. Sloptubers need to be stopped

@WonderChefCooks Yeah for just questing that doesn't require exfil solo works well enough. I really think that mode would benefit from solo only balance changes to health and TTK as well as USEC spawns. I do understand though that bungie doesn't want to make solos more profitable than normal play

@ProtocolYT Having the same experience, that solo mode is better than filling randoms for me, but neither feels good at all to me.

I want to play more Marathon but no duo queue makes it harder than it should be. Solo queue is an awful experience. Its completely random who you will get. Free Kit players No Mics Duo who just does their own quests and treats you like an npc Cont.

Solution: When queuing fill you should be put in a list for players to choose from. Show contracts so you can choose people with similar goals. Can only pick players with equal or lower loadout value. This would hopefully encourage cooperation. Solo just needs balance changes

If you queue the actual solos mode the game becomes completely different. From 3-5 enemy teams around the map to 10+ NPC fights aren't balanced around solo queue at all Being a rat is the most profitable playstyle with TTK this short Extract camping Cont.