It’s been only a day since Riot introduced Outlaw inValorantand players are already arguing the new sniper is unhealthy for the game.
ValorantEpisode 8 Act 1has officially initiated along with anew stage of Premieron the way to test players’ excellence to the maximum. The new Act also marks the arrival of the first new weapon since the game’s launch in the form of anew snipersitting right between the Marshal and Operator, Outlaw.
At the time of writing, it’s been only a day sinceOutlawmade its way into Valorant, and the community has already started to argue about the gun’s position in the meta.
Players think Outlaw is unhealthy for Valorant
Starting adiscussion on Reddit, a player said he feels the Outlaw doesn’t belong to Valorant claiming they “enjoyed this game a lot less today” than they did during pre-patch and “most of it is the annoyance at this gun.”
“This gun makes second round feel even MORE skewed toward the team that won the first round.” Some players think Outlaw is outright “bad” and “you are dead peaking into a vandal round 3.” Players would rather “buy a guardian” instead.
Some players argued against this claim and said: “You must be joking, you can one-shot anyone who has no shield with a much cheaper option Marshal.”
On the other hand, another part of the community thinks “the entire point of the gun is to eliminate the half-armor meta in high ranked/pro play, and it’s very good at doing so.” They also believe the gun’s damage “could be nerfed to like 125-130 for the body shot which still achieves the desired effect.”
Considering it’s been only a day since Outlaw’s debut in Valorant, one-half of the community believes “the sample size is not anywhere close to large enough for anyone to have a solid opinion about the weapon yet.”
While Riot is known to buff and nerf its Agents and weapons from time to time, it’ll be interesting to see how they balance this new sniper in futurepatch updates.
Sourav Banik was a Games Writer on Dexerto’s UK team, specializing in FPS games. He is an expert in Call of Duty, Valorant, XDefiant, The Finals, Rainbow Six, Baldurs Gate, Diablo, and Apex Legends. He also has bylines at Sportskeeda.
