CS: GO with superpowers: live gameplay Valorant (Project A) with new details about the game

By: Igor Nikitin | 02.03.2020, 14:15

Now officially: Project A by Riot Games is called Valorant. The developers revealed the official name of the game together with the first gameplay video which shows a complete match.

What is known

According to Riot Games, Valorant is a tactical shooter 5×5 with unique characters, where your ingenuity is main weapon. Among the additional features of the project developers highlight 128 Hz tickrate for all players, 30FPS even for10-year-old computers and minimal response delay.

"Raiders" position Valorant as a new eSports shooter, which will be the next competition platform. According to the developers, the ability to shoot accurately and act tactically will be decisive in the game, as they are quickly killed, and there are not so many lethal abilities.

The matches themselves begin with the standard procurement phase, where players choose their weapons and equipment. They can't run at once to the enemy, because zones at the start are separated by a barrier, which will disappear with the beginning of the fight. The rest in Valorant reminds CS: GO, and even physics of shooting may seem familiar to the fans.

We will be able to play it already this summer. But the Riot Games did not specify, if it would be a full release or just a launch of beta.