Valorant, Riot’s FPS, has been a resounding success since its release in 2020, thanks to its unique blend of tactical shooting mechanics and ability-based gameplay along with a wide selection of incredible-looking cosmetics that indeed have enticed the player-base to grind the game out.
Most recently, a Reddit thread implied that Riot should revamp their weapon cosmetic line and should gather ideas from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
As we all know, weapon skins in Counter-Strike are backed by a plethora of workshop submissions where the players and the community showcase their ideas, further redeemed in the form of a weapon case.
The weapon skins are then voted off to be featured in the game, giving a fair chance to the community.
With the above being said, the Redditor calls out Riot’s cosmetic development team to acquire ideas going forward where he writes
“They need to start using the community because these past few skin sets they have released and are releasing are painfully so average. Having people submit skins concepts and having the player base vote on them would be so much better than what they’re doing now. The Protocol skin set was a huge miss for me personally. Tigris? Under City? LOL, really Riot?”
Unlike Valorant, Counter Strike does have a plethora of weapon finishes ranging from Industrial Grade until Covert and every tier has a unique pallet irrespective of how it would look in-game. Similarly, the need to introduce different loadouts across each of the attackers and defenders has been lately a fresh bid to the Developers of Riot.
“Honestly, even continuation skin sets highly praised by many would be better than the stuff they released lately. Such as Oni, Ion, and Magepunk. I just think they could easily delegate some of the creativity to the community cause I have seen some amazing concepts posted here that they should have used. If you have the same devs working on skin sets it’s inevitable they will experience burnout, especially with the rate they like to make new skin sets.”
Well only time would tell us what’s next in the store for the skin line in Valorant as the Episode 4 Act 2 is about to bring you all a “Community-powered Battlepass” which would indeed have cosmetic ideas inspired and contributed by the players and other members. Each battle pass will also be region-specific based on the votes received from across.
