Wow who is that handsome featured person

6:43 exactly the same with me, i dont play valorant anymore but still watch valorant content creators and tournaments

NEXT ONE WITH RIBY???

The over nerf is for a reason so they get feedback and find the sweet spot for a buff

Really liked this vid and the comp perspective from a fellow colleague. The fashion and loadout was also very fun. As a dagger lover I totally agree on the positioning being key (please for the love of dog people, get on comms and stop mindlessly throwing yourselves 😭). I disagree on the part about listening to high elo/comp (~top 20%) over casual (majority) however. I understand that the game is called the finals, and being in the podium is a goal, but the ranked side and the tournament mode is just a mode and a part of the theme of the game, not exclusively the focus of the lore or overarching seasonal story beats. Most often in shooters the regulars/casuals/low to mid mmr players are the majority of the population. Also they’re the ones who onboard new players and help them stick around. That works out better for embark, streamers and revenue for the game overall. Don’t get me wrong I agree on getting better through experience, data backed balancing and learning counters; but when metas start to form at the level that he plays, metas are optimized to the milliseconds and they make anything different risky or unfavorable. I do agree that some clases/gadgets need adjustment to have equity against others, but not at the cost of enjoyment for the majority of the population. Especially if the majority of the population has to get to the highest levels of skill to be heard or to feel like they have a chance.

I love the goofy skins they have such as the stick bundle and aluminum foil goo gun. Its hilarious, and I would love to see them continue goofy skins like that.

Good stuff. That is my favorite xp-54 skin too.

Big brain idea here, what if because light is smaller than heavy and medium , they take a little less damage from explosions. Maby like 15% less and med 7% less. Then they could also increase the damage of some of these explosive weapons to make them more effective against heavy but still remain the same for light. This of course does not fix the fact that lights would be annoying for casual players but would be a nice buff for ranked players.

I feel like the only way a light benefits the team right now is by just killing people. Its got very minimal utility that helps the team as a whole (pretty much only the gateway) and therefore little versatility compared to other classes. For example on medium you can both play strictly support with heal beam, deffibs and maybe a bit of movement or just an entirely offensive role with dematerializer and full movement. And heavy can both play strictly shields for providing cover or otherwise do goo gun or charge and slam with sledge or autoshotty to play a sort of dive build, or like a more offtank role (like in overwatch when it was still 6v6). Theres just so much versatility with both defense and offence on medium and heavy, where as light is only good for 1 thing. In its current state light just hardly fits into that kind of team dynamic and it will keep being that way untill they add more team-oriented gadgets for it. Anyway, thanks for reading my full 6 page essay. Great content as awlays!

As a heavy that uses charge n slam as much as possible, i think the stun gun should counter it. At least lock you in the direction your going. Also Heal and shield meta is so boring.

Not gonna lie, I have 500 hours with Dash XP alone, solo q diamond, and have around 3500-4000 games played but Xdefiant is calling my name because it’s actually a balanced game. Not the greatest but I can’t stand the finals being so slow with the changes and then nerfing stun because of complaints yet in open beta stun gun was actually OP, however last season stun was not. Community is ruining the game for us. I may not be the “best” light player but I definitely have the experience and have my montages to prove myself. Great vid👍

GIVE LIGHT THE DEMATERIALIZER!! it should of been a light thing from the start!! they can quicky go behind teams or tanks to drain their hps quick and use to steal cashouts from under

revert cloak to open beta, with all the other nerfs i think its balanced

nothing for casual players to grind for? My man. There’s all the circuits with free items… I’ll agree stun gun is a crutch. What’s far more likely is heavy nerfs or stun gun becoming a ‘glitch’ gun. I can’t accept light class needing buffs when I go 25:2 in casual but 8:7 in ranked.

Good podcast. I think Cash Out being the competitive mode for this game will be its demise for the simple fact that it is impossible to get a kill or make plays without 2 other skilled people on comms, which then immediately excludes most of the casual player base from getting into it because of the hard ceiling for progression. In counter strike and other competitive games you can make 1v3 plays happen with headshots and strategy. In the finals, you can’t make 1v3 happen in 99% of scenarios because of the mechanics of the game. It’s such a heavy emphasis on constant team play management which kills the casual fun for anyone going up against 1 good team with comms.

Oooh, my two favorite gamers

The game looks great

This guy HAS to be from Sweden with that accent 🇸🇪 🫶

Top player or not, stun change made melee more viable

What was the other two light players name that PIGGY mentioned ?

I would also bring up the complete gutting of putting ANY gadgets on map objects- not explosives. You cannot throw Turrets or APS at people or positions now, and I think thats a bit sad.

I don’t have much time to post anything interesting but wanted to chime in saying I love this game so much I hope it makes whatever changes are needed to bring some folks back. It’s just so damn awesome!

I was light main for the longest time, but I was doing some challenges with heavy and medium and made realize. I can do the same results for a lot less effort. Your brain is at peak when playing light smartly, with the others, not so much

"the only reason to use stun is to stop abilities" "c4 needs to be rebuffed - there's no point running c4" How about stopping steals?

Have separate game balance for casual and ranked

Are the lights he mentioned to be the best have youtube videos?

I feel like they need to do less hard nerds and instead more light nerfs and light buffs.

PIGGY Is Just a chad by keep playing light even After all the nerfs (those didn't work he Is still too strong 🗿)

I could enter CB1 Thanks tp you ! Thank you again

The light just seems like it’s going to be a high skill gap class and we are going to accept that however there are ways to balance a gun/ability like they did with the fcar

Sadly balance team in dev play game less then player. They dont know what is happening after patch.

they are diluting their game so much to the point where everything is easy and not skilled to the point where they can add robots to the game and they will have a chance to win the finals

Ranked is not in a good state there is so many people who are plat 1 and diamond 4 that should be gold or lower there is to many people being carried, my last tournament I had a guy only contributed 2 kills the whole tournament and yet we won from carrying them and the guy was diamond 4

Needs 👏 more 👏 subs

I hope season 3 fixes the class balance

5:22 it seems like in this part hes implying the competitive players are more important that casual, 'casual players were complaining, but competitive players werent' why should the devs ignore casual players and listen to competitive players?

HAHA, FINALLY

I recommend making a 2nd channel for podcasts, I personally don't like going to other apps

I'm happy this game is dying.

were is he from?

At least give them faster health regen or 175 hp

Yooo vid drop

Not even kidding I've played against this guy in casual quick cash and mopped on him. He doesn't know what to do when a team is organized and has a good heavy.

Ayo ottr next🥶🥶🥶💯?

Bad things start happening when you start listening to what competitive players do or don't complain about. They do not need to do that.

That’s what I’m saying. All they have to do is just buff lights gadgets. Maybe give like a faster, healthy gem. And obviously buff cloak a little bit.

With cheaters like this being praised, it's no wonder people just say: "No, this game sucks." Embark should focus on streamers and content creators, that's where the cheats are.

Wait.. I just noticed the glitch grenade looks like a bong 😂

I play light, i die..

Piggy? More like Goaty