Riot Games has just made it easier to scoop a place in the FPS game's dev has now extended this wider, so "all Twitch streams can drop closed beta access" – as long as the streamers are actively playing the game.
That's according to a new update post from Riot taking a look at "more lessons learned" from the Valorant beta so far. The studio says: "While we're still running closed beta drops 24/7, please note that this change doesn't increase the number of drops". It just means, starting from now, "you can watch any Valorant stream to be eligible".
The studio reminds players, however, that it has already "increased our current closed beta server loads by +25% to meet demand and are ramping up even more", and it's also manually handed out access to the beta to "a few thousand of the most engaged Valorant stream viewers" as a "thank you" for "your internet and your eyeballs". Sweet.
In addition, the studio adds a reminder that it's already issued "a pile" of Valorant bans to sellers and is "actively tracking more to ban".
https://twitter.com/PlayVALORANT/status/1250184046086205440
"We know there's a lot of demand, and it can be frustrating not to get access after a few days of watching. There are many of you, and we're trying!" the studio explains in the post. Riot also advises Valorant streamers to "be sure to enable in-game drops through your Twitch " if you're keen to be eligible to give them away.
In other news, Riot's also recently talked a bit about how Valorant cheaters have now been banned following the beta's launch on April 7.
There's no fixed multiplayer game's due to arrive sometime this summer.