Fresh Valorant Leak Teases a Game-Changing Addition Inspired by Fortnite
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Valorant fans received a ton of new updates today when Riot Games uploaded a new set of patch notes for the game’s Public Beta Environment. Alongside an official announcement for some exciting buffs and disheartening nerfs, informants revealed some intriguing speculations, expected to appear in the future.
As it happens, Valorant players will soon be able to express their feelings in-game with emotes. Upon this revelation, several fans pointed out how Riot Games is planning on following the footsteps of some successful shooter games. The most prominent examples would be of Apex Legends and Overwatch.
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Riot’s successful tactical shooter IP is in its second year, with its initial release in April 2020. The growth associated with the free-to-play first-person shooter game is immense. Apart from its experience on PC, Valorant will also receive a port for mobile devices soon.
Emotes consists of a popular feature in most shooter video games, and Valorant will surely be a better place with a bunch of those agent-exclusive titillating animations.
Valorant may receive agent-exclusive emotes soon
A Valorant leaker of the name ‘floxay’ seems to have found a game file that shows a popular agent from the game showcasing an emote.
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Floxay also mentioned that the emotes are similar to that of Fortnite’s, and are in third-person. A player will reportedly not be able to move or jump while using those emotes.
Few files related to Emotes, from what I can gather just by a quick look is that it's similar to Fortnite's.
Thirdperson, can't move, jump etc."Emotes are coming?"
Who knows, if they add these in the future then I'm pretty sure they limit these to round end/buy phase. pic.twitter.com/cxIJMQzg86— floxay (@floxayyy) July 29, 2022
Floxay also gave the possibility of Riot restricting the usage of emotes to Round End or Buy Phase only. Moreover, players will possibly have an emote wheel, from which they will be able to choose the emote.
Valorant Emotes | #VALORANT
~ Emotes SEEM to be coming to VALORANT
~ 3rd Person, Can't Move, Fortnite-Like.
~ You will have a wheel in-game where you can select the emote to use. (Possibly Spray as well)pic.twitter.com/g1gYe9AJ1Z— ValorLeaks | Valorant Leaks & Info (@ValorLeaks) July 30, 2022
As it happens, not much is known regarding the speculated emotes bundle. The leaked video from floxay featured Jett, a popular duelist agent in the game, displaying two emotes. While it seems very convincing, emotes in Valorant are still a part of speculation. So, fans are better off taking it with a grain of salt.
to be fair tho, they got emotes in league too and a spray wheel. it was bound to happen 😭
now there's gonna be bm with emotes
— OpTic yay (@yayFPS) July 30, 2022
WHAAAAAAT I WANNA DO ORANGE JUSTICE ON OMEN
— NRG Flexinja (@flexinja) July 30, 2022
viper needs a twerking emote pic.twitter.com/cjMWQXwkVp
— Aki (@spacecadetaki) July 30, 2022
@HUYNH_CS i s2g if you emote instead of defusing…
— GHOST kaplan (@itskaplan) July 30, 2022
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While the fate of emotes in Valorant is presently unknown, the latest PBE patch has come with a lot of interesting changes. The most recent changes deployed in the PBE include a disheartening second nerf to the popular Sentinel agent, Chamber, and slight changes to Neon and Jett’s kits. Moreover, the agent UI screens also received a pleasant overhaul!
If the feedback at the end of the PBE is positive, Riot will deploy the changes to the global version.
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Edited by:
Jito Tenson