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but when people say CS is valorant for edgy preteens
valarante child game.... look to cartoon grapfix to make kid player happy like children show.. valarante cartoon world with rainbow unlike counter strike with dark corridorr and raelistic gun.. valarante like playhouse. valarant playor run from csgo fear of dark world and realism so need child game to relax
I'm imagining this in a thick Russian accent, anyone else?
Actually helped it read better
I think the original post was by a Russian. idk tho, I just remembered seeing it on youtube.
Jesus that was hard to read
Aome 2020 copypasta
if they want to use slurs and have a swastika pfp yeah it is lol
having to make animal noises to get someone to plant isn't much of an alternative if we're being honest
That's also true
But 1 came out first
Yes the one for edgy tweens
RIOT copied Valve IPs across the bord,
Dota was first, then LoL = a dota clone
CS 1.6 was first, then Valo = a CS 1.6 clone with overwatch abilities
EDIT: Why am i getting downvoted for stating facts? :D the state of reddit 2024...well this community never ceases to amaze me with the cringe circlejerk
Yes and guess what, they are the best at copying things. They all turned out to be good games. Even tft. Well idk what happened with runterra card game it kinda tried too many new things and got 0 marketing.
you are right, i am not denying it, Valve had the ideas and creativity, RIOT has the community relationship and love for it and continued support which Valve lacks.
Valve only original ideas are Half-Life (but you can still argue if it's a Quake copy), Left 4 Dead (but it wasn't actually developed by Valve), Ricochet and maybe Artifact
Other games are either mods they acquired or games they liked, hired original creators and reimplemented
So neither Counter-Strike nor Dota is Valve's original idea. Dota wasn't even in Valve's hands years after the release of LoL
You do know that og Dota was a wc3 mod right?
Dota wasn't a Valve creation
Dota also came from Warcraft it wasn’t an original game
I mean you can say Valve is a copy cat since they just aquire the rights to mods:
DotA was a Warcraft 3 mod.
Counterstrike was a Half Life mod.
Team Fortress was a Quake mod.
Hearthstone / Artifact / Legends of Runeterra, etc.
Well I'm downvoting you cuz you're wrong. Though true, LoL was a copy of dota, dota was a mod in Warcraft 3 first. It was not a standalone game owned by Valve until well after LoL came out. Riot was just the first to jump on the opportunity.
And it's not like Valorant is a CS ripoff. Gun mechanics, movement mechanics, maps, agents and abilities, and guns are all different. There are certainly similarities, but again, Riot jumped on an opportunity that any other company could have for years.
when you want to play csgo but their fits and skins look too ass and unfashionable.
the skins are subjective, some like them, some don't
sure but the fits are ass. would you rather dress like a terrorist or dress like chamber?
Before CS GO in CS Source and all previous CS titles users could create and download whatever skins/player models/sound effects/maps/sprays they wanted for free. Those were the days.
cs skins do kinda look worse, but i like that their value don't drop to 0 bucks the second i buy them like in valo.
It IS gay CSGO. But I still play it.
for a reason hell yeah brother lube me up
username checks out
are you all in middle school?
My friends are like that too. Try to find friends in-game.
we mesh well on every game we play, our games range from mlb the show, madden, ea spirts pga golf, overwatch, rainbow six siege, for honor, multiversus, dead by daylight, idk why they are against valorant, they nustvhave seen some cringe tiktok
wait so they play overwatch but think val is gay ? XD
not anymore but we used to play it a lot, and ones a mercy kiriko player and has dropped hella money on them, so idk wtf it is
A Kiriko player has no right to call ANYTHING gay
any support player* has no right to call anything gay
FTFY
(unless its lucio, lucio players are based)
Nope Lucio is definitely bi you can not be straight and own Rollerblades that was part of the deal when we legalized gay marriage
Another casualty of the gay agenda smh my head
Wait why? R kiriko players known for being gay
pretty much yeah
Oh my god is that why I like men?
Pretty much, yeah
That was my first thought, I was like I play val and think overwatch is gay
PGA golf but not Val??
thank god i don't have such a fragile ego
(ignore the user flair)
The flair is based dw
Iron III and having fun? Definitely based.
I peaked Plat and I'm not sure if I'm having fun with the game or with complaining. lmao
You start having fun once you realise that your in game rank doesnt matter much and there are other IRL things which can give you prolonged happiness than a virtual ranked system
Own it G
don’t val bad
your friends might be gay and in denial if they won’t try new things and call them “gay”
guess theyre scared that if. they play valorant they’ll lose their cocks
Or worse... get more cocks.
In them
Can confirm, my cock is gone
In someone?
It’s inverted now. Idk there might be a word for it.
Wait I thought u were joking. I have been off valorant for few months now maybe I should come back
Your penis should be slowly returning. If you return to the game now, your duck might never recover
It’s called an “innie”
They don't wanna play because they think it's gay? Then i say we're better off for it. We have enough toxic people like that in this game as is we don't need more, let them stick to csgo.
If they don't want you can't. Everybody prefers their own thing, maybe they prefer CS2 more & frankly i do too. But i also play valorant. But not all people are open to everything so just let them be, find people who already play valo if you want to queue up with someone.
theyve never touched cs2 or go, they. just see the cover and dont wanna try it but will try other stuff
So they don't play CS or Valorant?! It is a hard game to get good at and have fun in.
Lmao, its just choo choo hate train then, try your best but don't force em hahaha.
They're not wrong
If they don't wanna then don't care
Eventually they'll see some cool shit and get sucked into val
I saw temet and grumpy and decided I would only play val from that day. Before that I called Val "counter strike : league of legends"
i mean we’ve played overwatch for a good chunk of time, it looks competitive and interesting with the abilites
btw overwatch and valorant isnt even remotely similiar
Lmao gay csgo
Having less homophobic friends is a start
Based name
After playing it for a few years I don’t blame them
Sounds like instead of trying to convince shit people to play a game you enjoy, you just need new friends.
its not a game i enjoy bc ive never played it, looks fun so i wanted to try it out, it def looks like fun tho and im pretty sure imma enjoy it
You don't need to only play games with your friends, try games you want to try. I did it. I hated Val during season/episode 1. Then a friend told me to try it, he thought I'd be good at it. So I did. I got hooked, met a ton of cool people, hit top 10k of players in NA. I was so hesitant but I gave it a chance, and I fell in love with it. It's community is great, and once youre in it you get that, then you can tell your friends how it is, and they can try it!
yea i just wanted to see if they would play to see how we all feel, so that we dont judge before axtually playing.
Thankfully playing unrated is a great stress free way to get into the game without committing to a ranked game mode. Majority of the time people in unrated are just trying to have a good time, lots of goofing around, trying different agents and abilities, getting wrecked by decent players and feeling the skill gap 😂 I think showing your friends the creativity of the community and agent specific plays is a huge draw to new players, I myself fell in love with the aggressive Omen playstyle early on, and that agent took me all the way to to immortal, it fit my playstyle and thankfully that's available to everyone in everyone in different ways. For instance the aggressive raze style has huge appeal. Send some videos to people that you find cool, tons of content on YouTube for them to get intrigued by.
I don't know how old you and your friends are, but I cannot stress this enough. If people are insulting something you want to give a try without ever having tried it themselves, they will eventually not be worth the effort to be around. Trust. Negativity for no reason is draining as hell the older you get.
Just give it a try and if they don't want to play that shouldn't affect your enjoyment.
His friends are shitty people because they don't wanna play valorant? Please be for real.
If I dropped people for not wanting to play my specific games… gonna have a pretty short list of friends.
No they're shit for insulting something he wants to try. They can hate it all they want.
You know that isn't what makes them shitty, but sure.
if your friends dismiss something because "it's gay", please find new friends
Try to get some cool looking clips, but without too many difficult-to-comprehend abilities in action. Clips with aiming n such.
That might convince them that it isn't "gay csgo" lol
If they are using gay as a derogatory term then they should probably shouldn't be playing Valo, or any online game frankly, and do a bit of growing up. Also if a game having gay characters seems to be a deal-breaker, then unfortunately aren't going to have many games to play. Representation and acceptance is becoming the norm, so they will probably need to adjust, as even Rainbow 6 Siege has several open LGBT characters.
I have friends that I often get responses similar to that. Usually, I just try to start playing it first and if it’s cool try to invite one by one my friends until it kinda just sets in.
yea imma play solo and hope it gets into their head
Tell them that viper is thicc and show them viper cosplay pics
Tell them rainbow six siege is gay splatoon
It’s toxic csgo
it pretty much is
I’ve been playing on n off valorant since beta and I’ve never come across one cringy e dater couple
lucky bastard lmao
Yep, I play on average about 3-5 games a day and I'd say I usually see one every day or two.
Spotted the swift player
Yessir.
wtf
Swiftplay or casual i assume?
Swift mostly yeah. The odd unrated here and there. It's hard to commit to such a long game when 99% of teammates don't talk or instalock Reyna and Jett.
I've been playing since a couple of years and same
Sincerely, you should push back on the use of gay as an insult. It's not acceptable.
I wont lie, if they are the type to call games that (and use the term as a derogatory statement) then personally id rather your friends not be part of the community. I can only imagine how toxic and weird they are as players let alone people. Get new friends dude, and don't let your current friends decide what you do or dont play.
not much you can do, they have inflated pride and egos
good idea ill tell them that they have egos and just listen to them be in denial
Your friends sound like children.
To each their own though. If they don’t want to play it for whatever reason just do your own thing and find friends in game if you really like the game
ignore them, they're in a bubble and don't want said bubble to be popped and risk hurting their pride and ego
Pretty sure girls would rather play valo with you than csgo. Your friends preferring sausage fests says more about them tbh
Honestly u can't do much if they so convinced on the fact that valorant is "gay csgo", every game has its own things and u have alot of different content coming out from them, if they are convinced on the cringe side of content from valorant well u can just let them consume that and leave it to that cause well idk why they would only get convinced on how the game is by just that, read the other comments and saw that u said they have played other competitive games so they should honestly just give it a try but if they are that butt hurt into not even trying based on what they have consumed then brother just leave it, u enjoy the game u want to and play the others with them when they online.
if they don’t wanna play then it is what it is gang
they are kinda right tho
i just went to my friends house and downloaded valorant on his pc and made him play
All of my older friends have no problem with valorant, But I also have a younger friend group I play games with alot. Theyre all early 20s that watch tiktok. They go all in on brain rot ohio skibidi valorant gay.
The next time they call it gay csgo I want you to make eye contact with them and say “why would that be a bad thing?” They won’t be able to respond and you will be victorious.
it’s very important you don’t break eye contact and maintain it as long as possible
Lol, just call csgo gay valorant, problem solved. And do it out of spite either, do it like you mean it.
Valorant isn’t for everyone. Like if they are aware of Valorant and don’t like it then they are never going to like it.. p.s. It literally is gay csgo tho like verbatim
tell them they'll one tap instead of spraying
Valorant's bad rep on social media being an UWU ECOUPLE simulator poisoned the cover of the title when all of that is pretty rare (at least based on my experience).
it is gay csgo
you can try to get them interested in spike rush/swift play first. i play valorant alot and im usually tired after playing one unranked/comp games bc i find it more boring than the other shorter modes.
Dont
Some of the comments here are so imbecilic that I feel the urge to quit valorant just to avoid lowering my intelligence
Time to be an adult : Play cs with them
Joke aside , when you re a group of friends you can try to convince them but if you can t follow them . Otherwise another guy will play apex , one cod one xdefiant and there s no group anymore
The sole fact that they identify certain agents in a certain way says when there's absolutely no need for the lore says a lot. Mechanically wise, valorant is easier than cs
You can't force people to play games that don't align with their sexuality. Let them play professional rounders.
Did they try to force you to play Playboy The Mansion on the PlayStation?
/s
Honestly, if your friends don’t want to play valorant just find someone else to play with. What’s the big problem here
Tell ‘em if they don’t play they are gay
Tell them 50% are girl gamers in Val. I also thought it was too cartoony but after a week of playing it I haven't been back to cs
I can play. Pm your id
This is how I got my friends to play league of legends, you can try something similar
All my friends are FPS enjoyers R6 and CS mainly. At that time in League there was an event mission which required you to play with a pre made team of 4/3 players to complete. So I asked my friends to help me with this mission. I told them they won’t have to play the game after my mission is completed. They agreed and all (5) downloaded the game. And needless to say they enjoyed the session.
It’s been 4 years and we still play league together. You can tell your friends that you just want to chill in valorant as it’s less competitive than CS, or you just want to hang out with them in customs. Make it look like a short time transaction. Once they start playing they will find it enjoyable.
Yes valorant is more played than csgo, as csgo no longer really exists. However cs2 is more popular and played than valorant
Maybe finish high school and look for different friends as well as a grammar tutor buddy
You don't. Valorant is a much more gross version of counter strike. Why would anyone want to deal with 80 flashback characters
They needs to understand the game to play it. Valorant is first and foremost is nothing like CS or overwatch, it is its own game so the thought that " its gay CSGO " is corrupt. In cs everyone can be anything by what they buy in the buy phase.
In Valorant you have to chose your style of playing, not anyone can throw smokes or Molotov or a grenade or a flash grenade like CS, which makes the game a team play style. But even so just like most games if u get one tapped u out tho XD so skill is also a big part of it.
And if you are bad with gun fights. Chose a support agent and help your team. For example since the addition of the agent Gekko, he removed one of THE most stressful things in 5v5 bomb planting games . That is he has an ability that sends a helper to plant the bomb which makes u focusing on helping ur team at securing the site . The same ability can be used to defuse the bomb while u engage in battle.
Although there are skills that seem unusual in FPS games, like sage revive and cloves immortal And phoenix run it back. But that is what makes the game unique and different from other games.
Another small thing to mention, the game only has 13 primary weapons ( 2 SMG . 2 shotguns . 4 AR . 3 snipers . 2 heavy) and 4 secondary weapons. Which does not give you a limited variety to choose from ( but also not limit you to 2 guns like overwatch lol ) but makes your learning curve not wide and not narrow.
The only worse thing about the game is the community. A lot of ideal players who afk a lot of people who disconnected mid or early game. A lot of toxic players who might just start trolling mid game cuz u provoked them ( ffs )
But also a lot of lovely people which bcz of them why I still continue playing for 4 years now ❤️
It is a gay csgo but the movement/gun play is allot better imo. If they had a version of valorant with the same mechanics without abilities I'd move to that
Let me get this straight. RAINBOW six siege is not gay, but Valorant is gay?
This is a bad patch to try and convince them otherwise
You can't convince them.
I don't think any tac shooter purist will enjoy valorant with dumb shit like raze/neon and jett existing in this game making it overwatch light
"They think its gay csgo" I mean yeah it is, if you cant sell them on that you need new friends.
Don’t. Valorant sucks
If they're really convinced that it's "gay"/uncool, you can't. Unless you're willing to do whatever to press them into it
I have pretty much the same situation with my friends playing BGMI, I don't spend my time on BGMI anymore and they also have the same reaction. Just move on bro, you'll only be wasting your energy changing person's perspective that they don't want to change.
Your only option is to pay them, and even then i still doubt it, i mean i played cs my whole life i was excited for valorant i hit diamond then i stopped caring about the game with amount of nonsense that game has, so now im only cs
Valorant is absolutely gay csgo (it is a completely different game)
People just see all those edits on tik tok and assume the game is filled with edaters.
It's sort of true if you play unrated, swiftplay or low level ranked. But when you go up in rank all the edaters just disappear.
I am immortal 2 myself and valorant is really interesting at the higher levels. I find it much more interesting than CS because of the abilities, new content coming out, more affordable and unique skins (yes, you can get skins for a few cents in CS but you're not touching anything premium, while in Val the most expensive skins are about 50$).
I prefer CS's gunplay and movement but everything else is better in valorant.
Just show them you playing and they’ll get into it. My mates did the same thing until they see play.
My friend refuses to play because he says it’s all e girls and children lmao
CS is for edge lords for sure. You can not make them want to play CS. My friends are the same, they have spent too much time trying to figure out lineups and other nonsense in CS. They don't like that in Valorant that these things are easy.
They probably also spent insane amounts of money on skins and don't want to buy more in Valorant.
Sounds like your friends are close minded and toxic af.
It sucks they dont want to play, I actually dont even like valorant really, Id rather play quake or overwatch but alot of my friends play this game so I play occasionally. Pretty much any game is more fun with friends.
Rs here: I'd just tell them "it is gay CS, but you're not gonna get called slurs for every mistake"
Also, you don't have to mention this, but everyone I've played with that has a good amount of time in the game has only run into a handful of edaters.
Why do you hate them that much?
I don’t think Riot release player numbers for Val. CS2 is consistently at 1.2M+ players so I’m not sure if Val is actually more popular.
Make them watch you play
Bro everyone telling him to get new friends are mad sensitive. They just don't wanna play a game, ya'll tweaking
The game IS literally gay csgo
It’s a mostly female, ethnically diverse roster, with multiple gay/sexually ambiguous characters. Your friends are right lol.
It is gay CSGO!! 🤣 but the servers on consoles are horrendous. I’m in US East and my ping is a consistent 150-300 and packet loss between 1000-2000. Checked my internet service during all my matches and it wasn’t on my end. I won’t be playing this anymore due to the server performance. Rather play XDefiant 🤷🏻♂️
To be honest, let it be that way, Valorant is already full of toxic players like that, we don't need more of them.
Tell them to play a couple games and if they dont like it, then whatever, but if they enjoy it :D
But wait isn’t csgo also gay
Valorant looks like a child’s game but in reality it’s much more in depth than csgo. Csgo is fun for a few rounds if all you are looking to do is shoot people in a faster paced game that isn’t cod. Valorant is more akin to siege with its strategic gameplay
your friends are fragile pussies. it is gay csgo and it is awesome. tell them to suck it up and try it.
dont
Show them the video of ohnepixel reaction first time playing. He known as the "CSGO player that HATE Valorant". He then find the game fun and fine, he even asks the community and the players he played with about the cringe videos (like the every kill uwu) and he found out the community themself hate those kinds of videos.
It's a great game but definitely a worse community than any other game I have ever played. 70% of my teammates will be so sensitive that they offend themselves. At this point I play with the entire lobby muted and I will still see a change mid game where my team goes from trying to win to straight up throwing. I do not recommend this game.
it is gay csgo
i feel you. im not that convincing enough for my friends to try out new things. i end up trying out their things instead
You can’t get people to do something they don’t want to
Man, I love your post!
I was in the same place as you 5 months ago. We were a 5 stack on CS2 and the guys didn't want to make the move. It's the repeated cheaters who made us change! And none of my guys have played CS again since... They're in love with Valorant.
my argument is to touch on a few things that valorant has over cs (imo)
armour vs kevlar&helmet means it’s far easier to balance pistols across different economy levels
in cs every teammate is equal - everyone has access to same util (smoke molly etc) whereas in valorant it matters where you put your agents and has more depth as a result
128 tick
active support
this is coming from a cs player, i played a lot of valorant a couple of years ago but haven’t for a little while so perhaps take with a pinch of salt
Tell them it’s free lol
valorant more popular than csgo? what are you smoking
Chances are you won’t be able to get them to play let alone try Valorant. I am a peak gold 3 and the game is pretty hard but when I play against my friend in cs2 who has more hours on cs then I do, I crush him he blames it on something else but either way still do better then him. Valorant is hard in rank in the instance that RR isn’t balanced the way it’s given. secondly it’s a 5v5 so unless your a smurf or having a rlly good game (or the opposing team is brain dead) the game is still gonna be difficult. I bet if a Valorant player and a CS player 1v1ed in cs and in valorant the valorant had a higher chance. The only difference really in games is the maps and that valorant had abilities. In my opinion cs did come first but there’s so many tactical shooter games who cares what comes first. Arguing about what game is gay or not makes you gay tf
what’s it like Being 14
Tell them: do you ever wanted to play a game where your shots fly everywhere but not on the enemy? This is valorant and luck based shooter.
get them to watch a vct game or sum
it is unethical to encourage committing crime so i wont answer
Why would you do such a thing to your friends?
Your friend are right
I just say that its better than cs2 but worse than cs:go. You gotta like what you have if you cant have what you want.
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it is gay csgo wdym