Riot have modified up the beta key dropping course of for his or her upcoming tactical shooter, Valorant, making it so anybody who streams the game on Twitch can allow drops for his or her viewers. For these of you continue to making an attempt to get entry to the coveted closed beta, it mainly means you don’t have to look at the identical handful of official streams to get one.
This doesn’t enhance the variety of drops Riot are giving out thoughts you, it simply means there are extra streams you’ll be able to watch now to get your arms on one.
Previously you might solely get entry from watching specific massive title streamers like OnScreen, Pokimane, TimTheTatman, and a bunch of others. So this information might be finest for smaller streamers who’ve managed to pay money for Valorant themselves, and may now steal away a handful of the hundreds viewers at the moment making an attempt to get their very own drops.
At the time of writing, Valorant continues to be prime of the board on Twitch, with 666okay viewers (400okay above the following hottest game, which is, in fact, Riot’s League Of Legends). It’s already breaking Twitch viewer records – final week the game pulled in 1.7 million viewers, matching Fortnite’s report for the variety of folks watching a single game on the identical time.
Riot additionally talked about in their post about the changes that they’ve already banned account sellers making an attempt to make a fast buck off of followers determined to get into the beta. So in case you are fortunate sufficient to get a drop, don’t be that man.
And if you happen to do get in, preserve your eyes peeled for our Matt. He’s managed to get video evidence that he’s quite good at Valorant, pulling off some sneaky performs to wipe complete groups.
