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Riot Games reveal Valorant, their multiplayer tactical FPSCounter-Strike meets Overwatch
Counter-Strike meets Overwatch
Riot Games, the gang behind League Of Legends, today gave the big reveal-o to their mysterious multiplayer shooter formerly known asProject A- their one upcoming game not based on League.Valorantis its name, and ‘Counter-Strike meetsOverwatch’ is its game. A reductive comparison, sure, but an unavoidable one after Riot released a gameplay video showing one full round.Valorantwill launch free-to-play sometime this year, and for now we have this video:
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While it is crass to talk about a game in terms of the other games it looks like, this is all we have for now - and people even walk around swinging their knives, for goodness' sake.
Riot say they’re serious about the technoguts to support a competitive shooter. They claim they have 128-tick dedicated servers positioned to give “less than 35 millisecond ping for at least 70% of players globally”, and say their anti-cheat tech includes bits making it “impossible for a player to cheat in game-defying ways, like speed hacks or teleportation hacks.” I’ll be surprised if cheatmakers don’t find a way around it but hey, that’s an endless arms race in video games.
Valorant will be free-to-play when it launches later in 2020. Its websiteis this-a-way. ‘Valorant’ sounds like a YouTube channel but I can’t pin down exactly what it is they rant about.
Riot have a squillion LoL-based games coming too. We’re gettinga fighting game, an esports manager, and an action-RPG-sorta thingas well asa platformer and a turn-based RPG, plus there there card gameLegends Of Runeterra.
