Valorant Shooting Range Not Working

Riot shuts down Valorant custom lobbies and shooting range due to matchmaking issues

The developers mentioned that many players are sticking to the practice modes, negatively impacting the matchmaking experience elsewhere.

Riot shuts down Valorant custom lobbies and shooting range due to matchmaking issues

Published on January 12th, 2022

Riot Games has taken the odd decision to shut downward practice style and custom games from Valorant amid issues impacting matchmaking queues to beginning Episode 4.

With the launch of a new Episode combined with massive weapon and map changes on height of the release of a new Agent, Neon, the game seem poised to receive a healthy influx of players jumping into unrated, ranked, and all the other multiplayer modes the game offers.

It seems that users are sticking to refining their aim in social club to beginning Episode 4 Human activity 1 with the correct foot, making things slower for those queuing up direct into matches.

Riot shuts down do and shooting range

valorant shooting range offline — No, it's non your connectedness to the servers. (Picture: Riot Games)

Via social media, the Valorant devs mentioned that they were disabling custom games as well every bit the shooting range to aid with issues affecting matchmaking queues.

Now, don't misfile custom games with lobbies, as they are nonetheless accessible at the moment of writing. In fact, the Riot server status website only lists exercise style and shooting range as the two disabled modes.

There are and so many of you in the Shooting Range and custom games that it'due south actually negatively impacting matchmaking queues.

We're going to temporarily disable those ii modes (for NA/BR/LATAM regions) to help articulate some room.

— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) January 12, 2022

Confusion stems from wording utilised in Riot's social media announcement, but remainder assured all lobbies are functional at the moment of writing.

When is shooting range coming back online?

Riot didn't share any ETA when it comes to shooting range and practice mode. So players that are looking to warm up against bots only choice is to do so in coincidental game modes like Deathmatch or Escalation against other players.

We volition update this page appropriately to let you lot know when both do and shooting range are back online.

As a reminder, this is non the just issue affecting Valorant at the moment, albeit it's the biggest one. In that location's also a leaderboard bug listed on the server status folio.

"We're aware of an issue that is affecting the display of various leaderboard standings. We're currently working on a set."

Read more: Riot to target Valorant insta-lockers by introducing cascading Agent select

Featured image courtesy of Riot Games.

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