With Valorant from Riot Games, another multiplayer shooter is entering the stage, which would like to make life a little more difficult for established competitors such as CS: GO or Rainbow Six: Siege. Valorant relies on fast-paced 5-against-5 matches as well as special abilities of the playable agents to stand out from the competition.
From summer as Free2Play for all PC players
Valorant is scheduled to be released in summer 2020 and will be completely free to play on PC. In early April, the shooter offered selected players the opportunity to get a first impression as part of a closed beta. With the Free2Play shooter, Riot Games is targeting a particularly large target group and is advertising on the official homepage that Valorant also achieves a performance of 30 frames per second on older PCs.
Owners of newer PCs are said to be able to look forward to up to 144 FPS. In addition, a good distribution of data centers around the world is to ensure low latencies. Valorant is oriented towards classic tactical shooters despite its comic-like graphics, which will probably make you think of Blizzard's Overwatch immediately, and focuses primarily on the skills and tactical sophistication of the players.
Gameplay Preview - VALORANT
Agents with special abilities
The shooter's largest USP are certainly the agents, who are equipped with individual abilities and thus provide additional options. Currently, ten agents are confirmed, whose specialties are widely varied. For example, depending on the agent, you can use fireballs or poison clouds, or rely on the support of drones or traps. Other agents are equipped with healing abilities or can teleport. In the shooter's main game mode, two teams of five agents face each other.
It all revolves around a bomb that the attackers have to plant and defend while the other team does everything to prevent the explosion. The game rounds are designed for 100 seconds, so there is always a need for speed. If the bomb explodes within the time, the round goes to the attacking team. Otherwise, the defenders win the round. If it is possible to deactivate all enemy agents within one pass, this is also won.
In Valorant, Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, relies on an interesting mix of proven and new elements and garnishes the whole thing with a modern comic-like graphics. Since it is mainly the abilities of the players that decide a round, even old-established tactical shooter fans can look forward to the release in summer 2020. Keyfuchs.de keeps you up to date on the game and also offers you the chance to compare prices for Valorant points for cosmetic items.
