Riot Games has implemented a fix in Valorant for a bug which displayed the enemy players’ positions to coaches.
The bug mainly consisted of esports coaches in the spectator slot able to see dots on the minimap representing the enemy team’s location.
The bug has been in the game since the start of the year, and has happened several times in the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT), reported George Geddes for Dot Esports on the Valorant coaching bug on Thursday June 30th 2022.
However, Riot was quick to implement a fix following publication of the article. The Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Twitter account posted the following update yesterday evening:
What did coaches have to say about the Valorant minimap bug?
Before the Valorant minimap bug was fixed, several esports coaches took to Twitter to share their opinion on it, including UK coach Ian ‘Immi’ Harding, formerly of CSGO.
TSM FTX In0X said the bug was a “huge liability for tournaments”.
He added: “I feel like this is even worse than the coaching bug in CS since you can see info across the entire map, although a little less accurately.
“I don’t know what triggered it, sometimes someone disconnects and that’s why it happens, other times no one disconnects and it happens.”
He later said after Riot fixed the bug: “Thank god, really impressed with the riot devs to fix this fast.”
In other recent Valorant esports news, Fnatic won the Valorant VCT EMEA Stage 2 Challengers to claim their first top-place finish, as Guild finished third.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
