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Valorant update 1.01 adds new orbs but it’s still just “shootergame.exe” on the insideMade of the same stuff
Made of the same stuff
Riot Games say one of the high points of the update is that new mode Spike Rush gets several new ultimate ability orbs to play with. The flashiest among them seems to be the one shot one kill Golden Gun which also increases a player’s speed while in use.
You can peep the rest of the performance updates, quality of life changes, and bug fixes in Riot’sValorant 1.01 patch notes.
As for the “ShooterGame” bit, Twitter user Ben Peck happened to spot that Valorant’s still has a directory that might be very familiar to other Unreal Engine developers. Peck says it’s the example project template that ships with Unreal.
Peck says that it “makes sense to build off that template, just funny that it probably became a big headache to consider starting a new UE4 project with a fancier name.” Other folks have chimed in thatArk: Survival Evolvedand ye olde Plunkbat are the same way. I dug into my local files and sure enough, Ark does indeed have a “ShooterGame” directory, though PUBG’s appears to be called “TslGame”.
If you’ve ever been in game development—big project or small—you’re probably plenty familiar with how some things on a project just, ah, never get changed no matter how many times everyone says “we’ll get to that eventually.” As Peck says, from humble beginnings and all.
If you’re still working out who to main in Valorant, RPS’sValorant characters guidecan help ya with an overview on abilities and tips.
