The new tactical shooter Valorant from Riot Games continues to take shape. A new gameplay trailer presents Agent Phoenix and his fiery abilities in detail.
At the beginning of March, Rio Games finally announced Valorant, the company’s own tactical shooter that will take on Counter-Strike and Overwatch on the PC in summer 2020.
In the character-based multiplayer shooter, two teams of five players each fight for victory, while the player slips into the skin of an agent who has access to four unique abilities. A total of eight of these characters will be available at the planned launch in the summer of 2020. The developers now presented Phoenix in detail via Twitter and showed fresh gameplay scenes from the game.
Phoenix – First agent for Valorant presented in detail
The first character from the Valorant roster, which Riot Games presents in detail, is Phoenix – a strong warrior from Great Britain, who goes into battle with fire magic. Visually, the agent reminds a bit of supporter Baptiste from Blizzard’s hero shooter Overwatch, but from a gameplay perspective, the two don’t have much in common.
These are the abilities of Phoenix
Each agent in Valorant has a total of four unique abilities. Two of them can be bought during the game: Similar to Counter-Strike, you can buy different weapons and also skills at the start of a round.
In addition, each agent has a signature skill that can be used in every round, as well as an ultimate skill that must first be recharged. In the case of Phoenix, the skills are composed of offensive and support talents:
- Ability 1: Hot Hands – Throws a fireball that explodes after a short delay or contact. Deals damage and heals Phoenix.
- Ability 2: Blaze – Creates a wall of flames that blocks vision and deals damage to all who cross it.
- Signature Ability: Curveball – Throws a flare that explodes after a short delay, briefly blinding anyone looking into it. Can even be thrown around corners with left and right twists.
- Ultimate Ability: Run it back – Marks your current position. If you die while the ability is active or if it expires, you will wake up again at the selected point with full life energy reveal days and week. You can find a good overview of all characters and skills in our
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Agents are the playable characters in Valorant. Each agent belongs to one of four possible classes and has four abilities. In addition, almost every agent represents a country.
There are nineteen agents in total, although in the earliest versions of the game there were only eight. The rest were added gradually.
There are four different classes: Duelist, Initiator, Controller, and Sentinel.
Agents have one Signature Ability which they get free of charge each round.
The riot was meaning to send off the game with 12 agents, however, just 8 were accessible in the early press constructs. On March 29, 2020, a confidential occasion presented Breach. Since the Closed Beta send-off on April 7, 2020, Raze was added alongside the guide Split, bringing the Agent complete to 10. Five agents are accessible at the first send-off, with two more that can be effortlessly opened by stepping up in the game. More agents can be opened by taking Contracts and assembling XP on them.
Agents have base well-being of 100; Light Shields carry the most extreme well-being to 125 and Heavy Shields to 150.
It is the goal of the designers that another specialist be delivered around once per act. New agents require 12-15 months to create, and their plan is engaged around focuses, for example, what’s absent from the game’s current playstyles, are there any imminent thematics that present large open doors, and what’s required for better game wellbeing.
Roles
Every specialist satisfies one of four jobs, characterized by their capacities and playstyle:
- Controller agents are specialists in cutting up perilous domains to get their group in a good position.
- Duelist agents are independent fraggers who their group anticipates, through capacities and abilities, to get high frags and search out commitment first.
- Initiator agents challenge points by setting up their group to enter the challenging ground and push safeguards away.
- Sentinel agents are protective specialists who can secure regions and watch flanks, both on assailant and protector adjusts.
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