Valorant is lastly including replays and upgrading to Unreal Engine 5

The vastly standard first-person shooter sport Valorant is getting some long-awaited upgrades as the sport approaches its 5-year anniversary. Within the , the Valorant crew introduced the long-anticipated replay function. They’ll operate about the identical as replays in different on-line shooters like Counter-Strike 2, permitting gamers to revisit their earlier matches and watch them from the angle of any participant within the sport or from a free-roaming digital camera. Replays will initially launch on PC with patch 11.06 in September and can come to consoles later within the yr.

After initially creating and updating the sport in Unreal Engine 4 for greater than ten years, the dev crew introduced a port to with patch 11.02 across the finish of July. The Valorant devs say it will convey increased body charges and quicker future patch downloads with out altering the present gameplay really feel. In , the crew teased that shifting to Unreal 5 will allow an entire host of potentialities sooner or later.

Aggressive gamers will take explicit notice of recent anti-smurfing initiatives. Smurfing is the apply of higher-ranked gamers utilizing lower-ranked accounts to achieve a aggressive benefit by enjoying in opposition to gamers far under their talent degree. In an try to additional curb this habits, Valorant can be asking suspicious accounts to finish multi-factor authentication and is exploring requiring it on all aggressive accounts. These guardrails will launch later this yr with extra particulars to return. Moreover, customers who want to report different gamers for smurfing can now choose a particular “Rank/Matchmaking Abuse” class to assist the higher determine these accounts.

The replace additionally showcased some gameplay balancing measures involving character talents, teased a brand new aggressive map and highlighted the crew’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Valorant in esports.