Riot Video games is planning to change Valorant, its in style first-person tactical hero shooter, over to Unreal Engine 5 in July. The engine improve from Unreal Engine 4 is a part of a lot of new modifications coming to the shooter over the approaching months, together with a replay system in September.
Valorant has been operating on Unreal Engine 4 since a beta of the sport initially launched in 2020, and Riot Video games has been utilizing Unreal 4 for greater than 10 years to construct the sport. The improve to Unreal 5 will arrive with patch 11.02 on the finish of July, and Riot is promising it shouldn’t disrupt gameplay.
The sport’s total feel and look ought to be comparable, and Riot says the engine improve will enhance framerate efficiency and make patch downloads quicker sooner or later. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see what else this engine improve unlocks, significantly whether or not Riot will enhance character fashions and animations sooner or later. Valorant gamers that log in whereas patch 11.02 is stay will get a particular gun buddy to commemorate the improve.
The second massive improve coming to Valorant later this yr is the long-requested replay system. It’ll arrive on PC first with patch 11.06 in September, adopted by a launch on console later this yr. The replay system will allow you to analyze lately performed aggressive video games at launch, and Riot is taking a look at including extra modes later.
The replay system ought to assist gamers report dishonest or unhealthy participant habits in Valorant, and Riot can be including multi-factor authentication to the sport to assist with smurfing within the aggressive modes — the place greater ranked gamers log into accounts to spice up them. You’ll additionally quickly be capable of report accounts which might be abusing rank or matchmaking.
Valorant’s upcoming 11.0 patch later this month may also add a brand new map to the sport, and will probably be accessible within the aggressive mode on day one. In the course of the preliminary patch cycle of two weeks, rank score (RR) losses on this new map will likely be minimize by 50 % whereas Valorant gamers get used to taking part in this new map.