Riot teases bigger plans for VALORANT’s Replay system, promises it’s reviewing feedback

VALORANT players finally have an official Replay system after years of waiting, but the lack of critical features has left the community frustrated, inviting massive backlash. Amid criticism over missing tools, especially the sharing function and Custom mode support, Riot has assured that it’s looking into feedback.

Riot Nu, tech lead for VALORANT, took to X (formerly Twitter) to explain that the current Replay system is only its “first version.” “We knew Replays would be regularly used by a subset of dedicated players, even though social chatter has always been high,” Nu said. Based on this idea, the dev team “researched” which features regular Replay users would likely want and prioritized those for the initial launch.