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Riot Opens Riyadh and Mumbai as Temporary VALORANT Options
A mid-level report on the outage, the rerouting, and the temporary workaround.
Based on source story: VALORANT enables Riyadh and Mumbai servers for Middle East region amid outages from Dot Esports
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Riot Games has opened Riyadh and Mumbai as temporary VALORANT server options for the Middle East after a long hit the usual Bahrain and Dubai nodes. The move is designed to reduce connection problems while the company waits for the main to recover.
The disruption began in early March after damage to AWS data-center in the UAE. During the many players were to European servers and had to deal with high ping, packet loss, and unstable games. Riot publicly acknowledged the problem on March 10 but offered no timeline for a full repair.
Players can now manually select Riyadh or Mumbai from the server list. Riyadh is expected to suit much of the Gulf, while Mumbai may work better for South Asia and the eastern Middle East. Riot says the arrangement is an emergency measure, not a permanent replacement for Bahrain and Dubai.
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