VALORANT gamers agree: By no means belief an ‘AFK’ message in chat

Throughout a one-vs-one clutch state of affairs in VALORANT, you’re seemingly not going to be trying on the textual content chat window in any respect, except you’re anticipating callouts out of your group there. However in case you do see an “AFK” message from the enemy group, do the correct factor and ignore it.

Most if not all of the teammates you come throughout in aggressive and unrated will assist you and imagine you in case you doubt the legitimacy of an enemy “AFK” message, particularly in a one-vs-one. Time and time once more, VALORANT gamers have raced to spawn trying to decide off enemy gamers away from their keyboards, solely to be suckered right into a entice that prices them their rifles or will get them knifed.

That’s the reason it’s so absurd that one participant who did the correct factor by calling the enemy “AFK” message as a bluff was supposedly scolded by their teammates when the enemy participant really did turn into AFK. A participant on the VALORANT subreddit asked in the event that they had been within the fallacious for not biting on an “afk base” message from the opposite group, saying that their total group received mad at them for not believing it.

This supposedly occurred throughout a one-vs-one state of affairs in a aggressive match, after the participant had planted the spike. The response to the participant’s query from members of the group was overwhelming: No, they didn’t do something fallacious, they usually had been proper to not belief the chat message.

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All kinds of situations might have unfolded had the participant foolishly believed the message, most of which characteristic undesirable outcomes. By leaving the positioning to go chase an AFK participant in spawn, the enemy participant might really be hiding and both sneak a defuse or get a free kill. Supposedly, chasing down the AFK enemy would have granted the participant an ace, however respectably, they appear to care extra about successful than private glory.

With an perspective like that, they need to have the ability to climb their means out of low Silver.

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Scott Robertson

VALORANT lead employees author, additionally overlaying CS:GO, FPS video games, different titles, and the broader esports trade. Watching and writing esports since 2014. Beforehand wrote for Dexerto, Upcomer, Splyce, and in some way MySpace. Jack of all video games, grasp of none.

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