Some known faces won Fnatic’s first VALORANT event, the Fnatic Proving Grounds: VALORANT Open. Team Prodigy, named after the esports “Prodigy Agency” which represents the players, won without losing a single map and came out on top in today’s cup. Prodigy’s stacked line-up of current and former professional CSGO, R6S and Overwatch players: Prodigy secured…
Vanguard is VALORANT’s anti-cheat system. If the game tells you that it is not initialized, it means their usually did go something wrong during the Vanguard installation, the last reboot or potentially, it seems this error code can always show up when Vanguard is out-of-date and recently got updated. Thankfully there are a couple of…
Time for another update of Vanguard, VALORANT’s anti cheat. Vanguards first update introduced the Vanguard Tray, a little app that provides a tray icon in your task-bar to easily exit and uninstall Vanguard, which did help with the user experience, but did not tackle any of the criticism of Vanguard’s invasive and aggressive driver blocking….
This error happens when you try to launch VALORANT. But no worries, if you run into the VALORANT error “Couldn’t Start … CreateProcess() returned 5”, then the solution might be easier than you think. Full Error Message: Try one of the potential fixes for this problem. Potential fixes for: Couldn’t Start – CreateProcess() returned 5…
Phase 2 of the VALORANT beta officially launched, adding South Korea, Latin America and Brazil as regions. Anna Donlon (Supercakes), Executive Producer of VALORANT, already announced on May 1st that Korea, Latin America and Brazil will be added on May 5th – and without any delay or problems – all three new regions had a…
Update April 6th:The same streamers will also be the streamers with enabled VALORANT beta drops on April 7th. Today the first VALORANT beta invites will be dropped on Twitch at 10am PDT. Don’t forget, there are no VALORANT beta keys! Your Riot Account (which you connected to Twitch first) will be whitelisted for the closed…
We saw many of you having problems out there and curated a list of potential fixes for different VALORANT beta sign-up issues. Can’t connect your Riot Account to Twitch? Get an error while signing up for the VALORANT beta? “Failed to connect. Please try again later.” A common error that you can experience during the…
The closed beta for VALORANT is close, but so far only NA and EU will get to play. At least Brazilian players can breathe a sigh of relief now. Riot Games announced on Twitter that Brazil will also get a closed beta with local servers and that as soon as possible. The delay is caused…
Being able to practice and warmup is important in a tactical FPS – that’s why VALORANT comes with four different practice modes. In this post we’ll introduce them to you. VALORANT will launch with a big practice map which accommodates not only targets around the map, but also three distinct trainings modes. VALORANT Trainings Modes…
Where most of the world only got two official blog posts about VALORANT today, Russian players got an additional post. In this post Riot talks a bit about netcode and high ping mitigation, how they tested pings, gives tips for better connection quality and also announces that Russian players won’t get servers hosted in their…