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Riot Games: Valorant goes into closed beta


Valorant will be playable for the first time from April 7th. We explain what the players can expect from the new tactical shooter and how they can get the coveted beta tickets.

Riot Games is expanding its repertoire again and would like to with the latest project Valorant hijack another video game genre: the first-person shooter (FPS). As is so often the case, Riot does not reinvent the wheel, but could still cause a lot of fuss in the scene. marriage Teamfight Tactics (TFT) Released in June 2019, League of Legends was the only driving force behind the California developer studio. With TFT, Riot competed directly with Dota Underlords, the Auto Battler of Valve Corporation, and halved the number of players after the release. The open beta phase of the trading card game followed in January 2020 Legends of Runeterrathat makes itself comfortable between the top dogs Hearthstone (Blizzard Entertainment) and Magic: The Gathering Arena (Wizards of the Coast). Valorant now follows: Riot announced the start of the closed beta for April 7th on Monday (March 30th). The tactical FPS is already being compared to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO), the king of the shooter genre.

If you watch gameplay videos that have already been published, you will quickly see why these parallels are drawn: The game is also played in short 5vs5 rounds, one team has to plant the bomb, the other side defends the bomb spots. The structure and rather poor appearance of the maps are similar to the known maps from Counter-Strike. In general, Valorant uses common tactical shooter mechanics: no respawn, change of sides after half of the rounds and deadly headshots. The different characters have a special feature. You can acquire skills such as fire grenades or small “wall hacks” at the beginning of the round in the shop. The shooter is very tactical and competitive, which suggests a conclusion: Riot and Valorant want to shake CS: GO’s eSports throne.

Beta tickets in the Twitch streams

From April 7, the community can get a picture of Valorant in the closed beta. If you want to get a beta ticket, you must first create a riot account or use an existing account on the Valorant homepage Sign in. This account must then be connected to Twitch. The tickets will be given to viewers of the Valorant streams at random. To do this, Riot works with a number of streamers, whose channels are marked.


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