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Re:Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020) by wyldberry on Monday October 06, 2025 @07:30PM (#45497496)
Good thing they thought of that. Disclaimer: I was at Riot During some of the Valorant dev cycle and the stated goal in this tech blog [0] was a huge goal (keeping latency < 35ms).

This was only really doable because Riot has invested significantly in buying dark fiber and peering at major locations worldwide [1][2]

[0] - https://technology.riotgames.com/news/peeking-valorants-netc... [1] - https://technology.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-t... [2] - https://technology.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-t...

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Re:Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020) by combyn8tor on Monday October 06, 2025 @11:32PM (#45499127)
I've read those articles a couple of times over the years and always found it fascinating they actually built a backbone with dark fibre. That was ten years ago so it would be interesting to see an update.
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Re:Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020) by baxuz on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:30AM (#45501078)
This is excellent material!
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