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Original story (published on May 31, 2021) follows:
Valorant recently revealed a lore cinematic called Duality that provided more insight into the world of Valorant and the fight for Radianite.
This cinematic was accompanied by a new freebie – the Duality player card that is only available for the next 48 hours. It shows Jett, Yoru, Phoenix, Viper, and Cypher ascending into some portal and looks pretty cool.
To grab the card, players must visit the redeem.playvalorant.com website, login to their Riot Games account, and enter the “YTILAUD” code.
However, as it stands, the Valorant Redeem site is currently not working at all. After getting stuck on loading for a while, it redirects to a “BrowserUnsupported” page and throws the “503 Service Unavailable” error.
For the uninitiated, the 503 Service Unavailable Error is an HTTP response code indicating that a server is down or is temporarily unable to handle a request.
It could be possible that a huge surge of visitors has resulted in heavy congestion which has caused the Valorant Redeem website to go down.
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any sign of an official acknowledgment as of the time of this article’s writing so it’s unclear as to when the issue will be fixed.
There is just a 2-day window to get the Valorant Duality Player Card so waiting for Riot Games to sort this mess out is definitely not a plausible option.
Instead, you can try alternative methods to visit the site yourself. A couple of users have reported that they managed to access the site by using a VPN:
If that doesn’t work, then your best bet could simply be refreshing the site over and over again until it finally loads:
Some users have also reported issues after redeeming the code. In such a case, you might want to simply head over to your inventory as the player card should already be there.
Update 1 (June 01)
11:25 pm (IST): Valorant has finally acknowledged the down time of the Valorant redeem website and issued a statement:
Update 2 (June 02)
11:25 am (IST): While the issue has been officially acknowledged, Riot Games has now mentioned there’s no ETA for the fix.
Update 3 (June 03)
The website is back into action, but addressing the glitch will still take time. Here’s what Valorant has to say:
For players who tried to redeem the code and got an error, we’re still working on a fix.
Update 4 (June 04)
Incoming is the latest status update on the matter according to which Valorant is still not able to manage the traffic in case of code redemption. Here’s what they have to say:
They also added:
Apart from this ongoing issue, many are encountering ‘Chat Room Not Connected‘ error.
Those affected can try to fix the glitch by restarting or reinstalling the game, updating the WiFi router, running Valorant as an administrator, or can checkout the basic troubleshooting steps here.
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