Riot Video games has teased plans for “new playable experiences” within the Valorant universe.
Talking at Unreal Fest this week, Valorant studio head Anna Donlon stated the sport is presently on model 4.27 of Epic’s Unreal Engine, however that it will likely be transitioning to UE5.
“Now we have squeezed actually each ounce of all the pieces we might out of Unreal 4, so now we make the transfer to UE5. That’s not a simple feat when your sport is a dwell service sport nevertheless it’s obligatory for certain.
“And this improve is just not going to considerably change how Valorant appears to be like or performs, at the least not immediately, however right here’s what I can say,” she continued. “There are lots of builders again at Riot who’re extremely grateful for what Unreal has allowed us to do for gamers, and there are various builders again at Riot who’re very enthusiastic about what UE5 can do for us sooner or later.
“Possibly these devs are engaged on one thing I can’t speak about. Possibly these devs are fascinated by methods to develop the Valorant universe into new playable experiences.
“Possibly we really feel very lucky to have all the pieces UE5 can supply at our disposal, and perhaps we really feel tremendous stoked that as a result of we selected Unreal for Valorant we are able to transfer our devs round and our tech round and our all the pieces round actually, actually simply to discover these completely hypothetical new playable experiences.
“So perhaps you’ll me or another person from my group up right here sooner or later with a really totally different type of presentation.”
Originally launched for PC in June 2020, the free-to-play, 5v5 character-based shooter was launched for PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S in August.
Valorant has 35 million gamers per 30 days , in response to Donlon.
