Valorant closed beta bug megathread.

- EU  
- ANTICHEAT
- ANTICHEAT wont let you boot the pc after you open the game
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-fT_uDi6qI 
- Open game. then restart and your pc will be stuck on bootmod (just because of one of the drivers) 
- Not booting
- ...
- Reproduction rate: always
- **System specs: i7 - GTX1070 - Z170-HD3-CF (Motherboard) - Windows 7

Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Vanguard Error

• Description: Launch the game, 5 seconds goes by, "Vanguard has encountered a error, please restart the client to resume Anti-Cheat function."

• Insert Video / Screenshot of the incident

• Reproduction rate: Every time I log in, have tried restarting, still occurs.

• Steps to reproduce: Try to launch the game

• Expected result: Being able to utilize the in game menus.

• Observed result: Having to exit the game.

• System Specs: Intel i7 6700k, Windows 10, Zotac GTX 1080

- Region:NA West-

Type of Bug:Gun Model-

Description: Gun does not ADS In Open range diffusal practice after entering portal and COVERS whole screen with back of gun! Game breaking (Picture shows this happening with Vandal, but works with any gun.

-Video / Screenshot: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/515318845565829140/697661499631730738/BUG_VALORANT.png

- Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch into Open Range

2. Have ANY WEAPON IN HAND!

3. Walk through the portal that leads to diffusal practice WITH the weapon in your hand

4. With that same weapon in your hand, Shoot start

5. DON'T Buy a WEAPON! Used the weapon in your inventory, it wont let you ADS unless you buy a weapon, you can't use the weapon you already had

6. And there you go, the vandal will not ADS and the Gun will pop up in your face in a few seconds

- Reproduction rate: Everytime

- System specs: i9 9900k, 16gb 3600 mhz ram, ssd 128 gb, Nvidia 1080, Water cooler (Not a temp problem)

EDIT: I been testing it out, it does this everytime if you follow the steps, You pretty much just walk into the portal and if you use a weapon that is already in your inventory and don't buy from the menu that pops up when you click start, your bugged. Ask if you need more explaining.

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: RIOT VANGUARD

• Description: Anti-Cheat is encountering an error and is telling me to relaunch the client.

• Video / Screenshot: https://gyazo.com/22b3067bc0c44e70b9077fc7fb6355ae

• Steps to reproduce: Relaunch the game.

• Expected result: No Anti-Cheat errors, game launches smoothly.

• Observed result: Same error occurs with the Anti-Cheat

• Reproduction rate: Happens every time, usually after the fresh install I am able to stay in the opening tutorial for 5-7 minutes then it kicks me from the tutorial and shows the said error.

• System specs: i5-4690, GTX 960, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD/ 120GB SSD (Valorant and Vanguard have been installed and tried on both).

EDIT: THIS HAS BEEN PATCHED ON EU. NA TOMORROW.

- **Region:** EUW

- **Type of Bug:** In-game

- **Description:** You can give your pistol to Cypher's camera and shoot.

- ** Video / Screenshot:** https://i.imgur.com/2Pg4DBH.mp4

- **Steps to reproduce:** Put down your camera. Enter the camera. Leave the camera. Give it your pistol. Enter the camera. Click 2 as if equipping your pistol. Pew pew.

- **Expected result:** Pistol should just, you know, not be equipped on the camera.

- **Observed result:** Camera becomes a killing machine. They'll never expect it.

- **Reproduction rate:** 100%.

- **System specs:** 1070 + 9700k. Irrelevant and not system related.

• Region: NA-E

• Type of Bug: Network

• Description: Game fails to connect to platform

• Steps to reproduce: Launching game client

• Expected result: Game launches

• Observed result: Error code 43; game failed to connect to platform

• Reproduction rate: Every time

• System specs: i5-9600f 3.70GHz, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, 16gb DDR4 Ram

• Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OUJ-NjyrDKqayIMlxVEDM6O4VHHZC5RQ/view?usp=sharing

• Region: NA (East)

• Type of Bug: In Game Bug

• Description: "Restart client: Error Code 7" When booting up the game

• Steps to reproduce: Open Game Client after reboot

• Expected result: Game connects to servers and starts

• Observed result: Game comes to error page and makes me quit

• Reproduction rate: 100%

• System specs: i7 7700k, 1080ti, 32gb RAM, Win 10 1909

• Region: EU

• Type of Bug: Vanguard

• Description: Frame drops in other games such as Wow and Escape From Tarkov. Valorant itself runs smoothly. Had none of these before installing Valorant and Vanguard.

• Reproduction rate: Happens all the time

• Steps to reproduce: Play a game of Valorant and then any other game after that

• Expected result: Frame drops and games seem to stutter

• Observed result: Frame drops and games seem to stutter

• System Specs: i9-9900K, GTX1080ti, 16gb ram

• Region: EU

• Type of Bug: Connection

• Description: Error Code 43

• Insert Video / Screenshot of the incident : https://i.imgur.com/Fe8dUyP.png (in french, sorry about that)

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• Steps to reproduce: Try to launch the game

• Expected result: Client landing page

• Observed result: Error Code 43

• System Specs: AMD FX-6300, Windows 10, Radeon RX470

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Error Code 7

• Description: Error Code 7 when starting game after installation, unable to proceed to menu, instructed by client to close and restart.

• Screenshot:

• Steps to reproduce: 1.) Launch the game.

• Expected result: Successful game launch.

• Observed result: As stated in the description, game will not launch.

• Reproduction rate: 100%

• System specs: I5-8600k, Win10, Nvidia GTX 1080Ti, 16GB DDR4 RAM, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming Motherboard

Is anyone having trouble with the anti cheat? I get an error 3/4 times I launch the game.

To everyone replying please see this edit:

Right click the game and run it as an administrator. I have been in the game for about 20 mins without getting booted. May be a fix worth trying.

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Error Code: 43, failure to connect to the platform

• Description: On launching the client, after 30-40 seconds of loading. I am sent directly to the error message: "NOT YET, There was an error connecting to the platform. Please restart. Error Code: 43" I have attempted to fix the issue by restarting the client several times over the last hour and restarting my PC once. I also made sure my internet was working properly (loaded streams and other games just fine) and that my nvidia drivers were up to date.

• Steps to reproduce: Simply launching the client and waiting.

• Expected result: Loading into the game

• Observed results: Error Code: 43

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• System specs: Ryzen 5 3600, 1 tb SSD, 2070 Super, 16gb RAM, Windows 10 Home x64

Region: EU

• Type of Bug: In Game Bug

• Description: When you survive and go into the next round with armor left, if you rebuy armor but change your mind and reverse the purchase, the armor that you had vanishes.

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• Region:EU

• Type of Bug:Technical

• Description:Menus are in 1080p/16:9 and fine but the game itself is in 4:3 and changing resolution/ being fullscreen/borderless doesnt fix it

• **Video / Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/QaAezou **

• Steps to reproduce: Run the game

• Expected result: Game to be full resolution

• Observed result: Game is not full resolution

• Reproduction rate: 100%

• System specs: AMD RX 580, 16GB ddr3, intel i5-4690K, latest drivers

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Starting game

• Description: Game will not start up, the one time it did it said that I could not connect to server.

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• Steps to reproduce: Clicking desktop icon, run as administrator or through the files

• Expected result: The game starts up.

• Observed result: The game doesn't startup.

• System Specs: i7 8700k, 1080 ti, windows 10

• Region: NA Central

• Type of Bug: Login Issues

• Description: Error Code 7 when starting game after installation, unable to proceed to menu, instructed by client to close and restart.

• Steps to reproduce: 1.) Launch the game.

• Expected result: Successful game launch.

• Observed result: As stated in the description, game will not launch.

• Reproduction rate: 100%

• System specs: AMD 3600x Processor, Win10, Nvidia RTX 2070S, 16GB DDR4 RAM, MSI B450 Tomahaxk Max Motherboard

Region: EU

Type of bug: ADS bug in Practice map

Description: Everytime I use a scope in "defuse spike training" with a gun I had bought before I shoot Start button the scope will show texture blocking my sight.

Video: https://youtu.be/axBRn2sLvMI

Steps to reproduce: Go to the defuse spike training, buy a gun with scope, shoot the Start button, use scope button.

Expected result: Gun will use its scope.

Observed result: Gun/hand model blocking the view.

Reproduction rate: 10/10 (Everything is fine until the Start button is shot)

System Specs: i5 4690k, GTX 970, 8gb, HDD, Win 10, no OC

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug:Vanguard Error

• Description: Repeatedly kicked out of game, with an anticheat error message.

• Video / Screenshot:https://imgur.com/FIV9Ktp

• Steps to reproduce: Play the game whatsoever

• Expected result: The game will run.

• Observed result: I get booted immediately

• Reproduction rate: 100%

• System specs: i7 8700k, gtx 1080ti

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Vanguard Error

• Description: Repeatedly kicked out of game, with an anticheat error message.

• Video / Screenshot: https://i.gyazo.com/e3614d34ddf26c0a5426b5aefc7d3b3c.png

• Steps to reproduce: Join a match

• Expected result: Join the match and play

• Observed result: I get this error after character selection

• Reproduction rate: 100%

• System specs: i5 4590, gtx 970

edit: fixed the problem.

- Region: EU

-Type of Bug:Anti-cheat

- Description: logged off now when i log on i get an anti cheat error

- Video / Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ns9pPN3

-Steps to reproduce: Load up VALORANT and wait a min or two

- Expected result: Destroy more kids on VALORANT

- Observed result:Brain doesn't have power to understand what this means but i cant play the game

- Reproduction rate: 100%

- System specs: i7-7700k/1050ti/12gb ram

- **Region:** NA

- **Type of Bug:** Client Bug

- **Description:** Logging In

- **Video / Screenshot:** https://imgur.com/KYYtZTs

- **Steps to reproduce:** Click on Valorant, wait for it to open, boom there it is.

- **Expected result:** Able to log in to Valorant and play it.

- **Observed result:** Error Code 7 and only able to exit game.

- **Reproduction rate:** 100%

- **System specs:** CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor GPU AMD Radeon RX 5700 16 GB RAM

Region: NA, (cst)

• Type of Bug: In Game Bug

• Description: "Restart client: Error Code 7" When opening the game after download

• Steps to reproduce: Open the game

• Expected result: The game should open lol

• Reproduction rate: 5/5

Region: NA, (cst)

• Type of Bug: In Game Bug

• Description: "Restart client: Error Code 7" When opening the game after download

• Steps to reproduce: Open the game

• Expected result: The game should open lol

• Reproduction rate: 5/5

NA Region.
Error code 7 . cant get past launch screen

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: No Connection to Server

• Description: When launching game, it says cannot connect to server, error code 7. Please restart your game server

• Video / Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/vi4WAMo

• Steps to reproduce: launch game

• Expected result: play game

• Observed result: no game

• Reproduction rate: 100%

• System specs: Ryzen 2700x, gtx2070 super, 16gb ram

Region: NA

• Type of Bug: In Game Bug

• Description: "Restart client: Error Code 7" When booting up the game

• Steps to reproduce: Open the game

• Expected result: Game should LET ME IN

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• Observed result: Stuck at "Restart client: Error Code 7" screen and can only close the game.

• System Specs: i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz, GeForce RTX 2060, 16GB RAM, Windows 10

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Client Bug

• Description: I finished the tutorial, then saw I wasn't online so I restarted the client. When I did, I got this error message. Every time I open the client I get this error message.

• Video / Screenshot: https://imgur.com/G2pv47x

• Steps to reproduce: I finished the tutorial, then saw I wasn't online so I restarted the client. When I did, I got this error message. Every time I open the client I get this error message.

• Expected result: The client loads up, connected to the internet.

• Observed result: Error code 7.

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• System specs: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s), NVidia GEForce GTX 960M, 16GB RAM

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Client Bug

• Description: Describe what was the bug that occurred.

• Video / Screenshot: https://gyazo.com/cce36ec2ad9d40fd3fead63d824a3ccb

• Steps to reproduce: Try to launch the game.

• Expected result: The client loads up, connected to the internet.

• Observed result: Error code 7.

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• System specs: N/A

• Region: EU

• Type of Bug: Crashing

• Description: Game crashes when I press ctrl or shift on my keyboard

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• Steps to reproduce: restarted pc and game multiple times

• Expected result: pressing shift and ctrl without crashing

• Observed result: game crashing

• System Specs: Intel i5-4690 3,5 GHz, Windows 10 64-bit, 8GB Ram, Nvidia geforce gtx 970

- **Region:** NA

- **Type of Bug:** The game Will Not Boot Up

- **Description:** When I start my PC the game starts up just fine, but if I exit the game and try to get back on later nothing I do launches the game. Running as admin doesn't work. Task manager doesn't even show it trying to open. I just restart my PC and it works again.

- **Video / Screenshot:**

- **Steps to reproduce:** Don't restart my PC and attempt to launch.

- **Expected result:** The game would launch.

- **Observed result:** The game does not.

- **Reproduction rate:** 3 times today, 4/7/2020

- **System specs:** i5-7500 3.4 GHz, Windows 10, GTX 1060

• Region: Central EU

• Type of Bug: Gameplay Bug

• Description: When pressing left ctrl (by default crouch button) the game just shuts down.

• Video / Screenshot: I can't really do that. The game just shuts off right when i press ctrl.

• Reproduction rate: 4/4.

• System specs: intel i5-3470 3.20GHz, AMD Radeon RX 570, SSD 476GB, HDD 1TB, Ram 16GB.

Region: EU

• Type of Bug: Launcher

• Description: When i click install, after installing it says " We couldn't install a required dependency" I dont have the riot vanguard and i dont get it when i install valorant.

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• Steps to reproduce: launching the game

• Expected result: starting the game

• Observed result: not starting the game

• System Specs: Intel i7 Processor, Windows 10, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti.

- Region: EUW
- Type of Bug: Voice talk
- Description: Not being able to talk in-game
- Video / Screenshot: Not quite possible to take screenshot/video of this
- Steps to reproduce: When team switch is about to happen, hold push-to-talk button and alt+tab. This is what did it for me
- Expected result: You should be able to talk ingame/party chat
- Observed result: You won't be able to talk in-game/party chat but you'll be able to hear what your teammates says. Restarting the game and going admin mode dosen't solve the problem. Changing the the push to talk key didn't solve it either
- Reproduction rate: Not sure as i can not fix it.
- System specs: Intel Core i9-9900kf, Windows 10, 16gb DDR4-3200, RTX 2080 Super

(Edit 1)
Things I've tried:
- Reinstalling the game
- Completely removed the game and it's associated files with "Everything"
- Completely removed everything associated with riot games (LoL, LoR and Valorant) INCLUDING the riot client by using "Everything"

(Edit 2)
I fixed it
Seems like the game is conflicting with other programs. I read on another post with the same issue that they fixed it by closing their monitoring software. In my case, NZXT Cam conflicted with it. Closing it solved the issue

• Region: NA

• Type of Bug: Audio/communication Bug

• Description: Team Chat and Party Chat binds not working

• Steps to reproduce: Unsure, but restarted computer and doesn't work still even though it worked yesterday

• Expected result: Mic works when pressing bind

• Observed result: Mic is working fine but not working for team chat or party chat

• Reproduction rate: 10/10

• **System specs: i5 9500k, gtx 960, 32gb corsair ddr4 ram, 1tb seagate hdd **