LoL makers unveil first-person shooter. Finally, it has a name: Project A is officially called Valorant and is based on an already known game.

• Riot Games unveils new game: Valorant.
• Valorant is a first-person shooter with custom characters and abilities.
• Producer reveals contents of the game in a first gameplay demo.

Los Angeles/USA – Riot Games announces a new game for the summer of 2020. Valorant promises a mixture of CS:GO and Rainbow Six: Siege with characters that have individual abilities. We have all the information about the first-person shooter for you at a glance.

Riot Games: Valorant as a character-based tactical shooter

After Legends of Runeterra and Teamfight Tactics comes in the Summer 2020 a new work of art rolled out of the headquarters of Riot Games in Los Angeles. For months was at Riot Games of Project A, now the game has a name: Valorant. This has developer Riot Games has now been announced with a first trailer that reveals details about the gameplay.

Valorant is to be a character-based, tactical shooter in which 10 players each compete against each other in teams of five. A game lasts a total of 24 rounds and a team needs 13 victories to win the match. At the beginning of the match you choose an “agent” with individual skills and appearance. You then try to defeat your opponents with this agent. According to Riot Games shall Valorant will be highly competitive and resemble a mixture of CS:GO and Rainbow Six: Siege.

The game is played on Earth, but in a futuristic setting. After various events have happened that have changed the Earth and the government, characters with supernatural abilities emerge. This is how executive producer Anna Dolan describes the new game in the latest trailer.

The agents have joined forces and the game organization Valorant Founded. With a small story on all popular social media channels from Riot Games and Valorant the developers want to provide insights into life on the future Earth. For this purpose, certain speech utterances of the characters complement the campaign in the game.

Valorant’s new main mode with a familiar gameplay pattern

The new main mode at Riot Games: Valorant will already be familiar to players of other shooters. Similar to the bomb defusing mode in CS:GO, there will be a Valorant There will be one team that attacks and one that defends.

The bomb at Valorant is called Spike and, as in well-known bomb defuser modes, the gameplay will take place in such a way that attackers will have to place the bomb and defenders will have to defuse it. In the process, the attackers defend the placed bomb.

Generally, each player has only one life in each round. If everyone from the defense team is dead, the attackers win. If the bomb is not planted and all attackers are dead, the defenders win. The defenders also win if all attackers are dead and the bomb has been defused. There is always a round time.

Also a Battle Pass for Valorant according to the developer Riot Games will be released. This will include cosmetic changes to characters and weapons. The game has a low minimum requirement, which is the performance of the computer. Playable is Valorant with 30 FPS on an Intel Core i3-370M CPU and Intel 3000 graphics with integrated GPU. And for all non-hardware freaks: The game is still smoothly playable on a very old laptop. So, Riot Games follows in the footsteps of League of Legends here.

Individual characters, weapons and cards at Valorant

Valorant is used according to statements by Riot Games include various game characters, so-called agents. These have their own unique abilities, both defensive and offensive. Some can throw smoke grenades, others heal or even revive allied players. Some characters can also build walls and make short jumps in one direction. Thus, it comes to an individual gameplay, in which you have to think for yourself, strategy is best suited.

At Valorant interaction between classic shooter mechanics and the use of these skills is inevitable. Even the best shooter will not be able to win without teamwork and his skills. But good aim will also be irreplaceable. Skills alone won’t lead to victory in the new first-person shooter from Riot Games.

There will also be new weapons in Valorant will give. First screenshots of the weapon inventory give a glimpse of what is available at Riot Games upcoming new game will be available. At the beginning of the round, each player buys his weapons with an available budget calculated from the previous rounds. If you don’t die the previous round, you keep your purchased weapons. The parallels to CS:GO are obvious. In addition, there will also be cosmetic items that can be unlocked with the so-called Valorant Points.

According to Riot Games there will be assault rifles, sniper rifles, SMGs, machine guns and other weapon classes. In the game, most players are supposed to die instantly when shot in the head, which can lead to short and quick rounds. The game made even shorter work of a pro player recently, whom loading his smartphone cost him beta access.

That boredom does not arise is to be ensured by various maps in Valorant are guaranteed to be given. So far Riot Games talked about two different cards. Once a map with three places to place the bomb. And on the other hand a map with one teleporter and without a middle area. It is unclear whether Riot Games new cards to Valorant will add over time.

Riot Games releases new game towards summer 2020

In the summer of 2020 should Valorant will finally appear. However, the game has no place for cheaters. With its own anti-cheat program from Riots, the company is declaring war on cheaters. Executive Producer Anna Dolan from Valorant reports in a first insight to the new game:

“…build competitive tactical shooter: precise shooting, lethal weapons and strategic execution”.

Above all, it focuses on the individuality between each character, similar to that of Riot Games most popular game, League of Legends. There are now over 150 champions, all of which can use different abilities.

But Valorant isn’t the only novelty in the online gaming industry. The Resident Evil franchise is now following suit and is also launching its own online multiplayer. This will be released in March 2020.

The game is also supposed to serve a large competitive scene. Some pros have even hung up their CS:Go careers for it. Can be played the free Riot Games shooter Valorant After the Closed-Beta started in April, Riot Games has announced that the Valorant set a Twitch world record. Now fans are complaining about the similarity to Overwatch. Meanwhile Riot Games is offering a reward to all players who can find loopholes in Valorant’s anti-cheat system.