Riot Temporarily Disables Valorant Ranked Queues

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Riot Games has temporarily disabled Valorant Ranked Queues to address an issue affecting settings and keybindings. The causes of the error and what it can cause are explained in detail in our article.

Riot Games discovered a bug where a player's custom settings, mounts, and reticles were reverting to default, and on top of that, developers disabled Valorant Ranked Queues to fix the bug affecting settings and keybindings .

Valorant is an FPS game that requires the use of multiple keys when skill and shooting are both equally important, and customizing settings and keybindings is an important part of Valorant. Each player has personal preferences for the control scheme and how the crosshair will appear on the screen. Any minor changes to these settings can significantly impair the player's muscle memory, potentially causing them to lose ammo or gunfights.

You may have seen your crosshair, key binding, and other saved settings being reset.

We're aware of the issue and are investigating. Stay tuned!
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) February 10, 2021

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Why Was Valorant Ranked Queue Disabled?

Bug: As Deathmatch and other mods seem to work fine, players would not know about the issue until they entered the game (in Ranked or Unrated Match). It would also be too late when players actually realize that the keys have been changed, and the early round buy phase time is not enough to get your settings back to normal. Several players reported that entire lobbies were facing issues, which changed the outcome of the first few rounds and created an atmosphere of unfair competition for both sides.

We know your custom settings are key to the competitive experience. We're disabling ranked queues temporarily until we can get the settings issue resolved.
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) February 10, 2021

Temporarily removing ranked queues will help prevent the bug from affecting the rankings or results of important matches. While the Valorant community is discussing this issue, some players say that there is no need to disable ranked queues, while some players think that the right decision has been made to eliminate this inconvenience.

Riot Games had similarly disabled Sequential Modes to fix an audio bug it encountered in the past, and within a few hours it found the source of the bug and fixed it. Likewise, we believe that this error will be resolved in a short time.

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