10 Features Of Valorant That Set It Apart From Counter-Strike

10. Shorter Games

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Matches in Counter-Strike are won when the first team scores 16 points. In Valorant, this has been reduced to 13 points, which may seem rather insignificant at first but makes more of a difference than one might think.

Through the efforts of their design team, Riot Games has similarly decreased the average length of matches in League of Legends to 35 minutes as opposed to DotA where matches can easily last double that. It is evident that they are striving for that sweet spot where their games do not require so great a time commitment and yet are long enough to keep the players satisfied.

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Ever since I saw BJ grin as he picked up the chain gun in Wolfenstein 3D, I've been hooked on video games. My first love, however, was Counter-Strike 1.3 and I would beg my mom to take me to Internet cafés just so I could play it. The other two games that captured my heart were World of Warcraft and Quake, though I play all sorts of games (especially of the competitive multiplayer type). Oh, and I love dwarves and write fantasy stories about them in my free time.