Files found included in the new Valorant v2.05 update suggest a timeout, similar to that found in CS:GO, is coming to Riot’s tactical shooter.<\/p>\n
The files, discovered by prominent Valorant data miner @ValorLeaks, reveal that players will be able to type “\/to” or “\/timeout” into chat which will prompt a vote at the start of the next round.<\/p>\n
\nTimeout Information | #VALORANT<\/a> <\/p>\n
Commands: \/to or \/timeout
Description: “Call a vote to trigger a time out at the start of the next round.”<\/p>\nThere is a max number of timeouts you can use for each team. You cannot call a timeout right after another timeout.<\/p>\n
— Valorant Leaks (@ValorLeaks) March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Players in your team will be able to vote for a timeout. Teams will not be able to vote for a timeout directly after one has been called and there will be a maximum, as yet unidentified, number of timeouts in any one game.<\/p>\n
Such a feature has long been mooted and it seems that its arrival is imminent though, at least according to the v2.05 patch notes<\/a>, it won’t be in the coming update.<\/p>\n
Riot is currently running a bi-weekly update schedule so the earliest we are likely to see this is on the 30th of March.<\/p>\n
The developers have been continually looking at quality-of-life changes and additions that could be made to the game and in a similar vein introduced overtime and a match draw system back in July, interesting to note that addition also missed being in the original patch notes<\/a> before being included in the next available update.<\/p>\n