Riot Games Teases Exciting New Update In Valorant

Published 04/21/2020, 4:13 PM EDT

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Valorant closed beta made history by crossing Fortnite’s viewership within the first two weeks of its release. Twitch is booming with streamers playing Valorant giving out drop keys. Right now, the gaming community is rampaging through Valorant. It is no surprise that the game was initially tagged as a CS:GO ‘killer.’

However, to hardcore CS:GO fans, the realistic feel cannot be replaced by special abilities. Valorant is perhaps a mixture of a lot of games out there. Overwatch and CS:GO being two of them. The in-game cosmetic, however, is a class apart from all other games. 

Riot Adding New Knife Skins On Valorant?

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From Gun-skins to knives, Riot Games did not spare any extent to reach their goals to please fans. The character and their abilities are indeed an attraction in and of themselves. Although one cannot but agree that the weapon finishes, knife designs, cosmetics play a considerable part while alluring gamers. 

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Recently a tweet from Eduardo Alemán, tagging Valorant game director Ziegler, asked if there were new upcoming skins for knives. The response certainly caught our attention. Ziegler teased about it by saying, “Oooh, man, you have no idea.” Most definitely, this is a good sigh. Who wouldn’t want custom knife skins with different animations, eh?

The four knives available right now include – Reaver, Luxe, Prism, and Imperium. All four of these have a different feel to it and look like they are specifically designed for some characters. So we can expect the upcoming knives to have designs based on other characters. Wouldnt it be great if we had a blazing knife made after Phoenix? 

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Riot Still Needs To Change Few Things

This definitely is one of the primary ways to keep the audience loyal to the game. However, Riot has to make specific changes to endure this relationship with the gamers. Firstly, the big debate surrounding the anti-cheat system with a kernel-level debugger. It still seems the answers provided by Paul Chamberlain are not being enough for the gaming community. Even the bounty offered for people who could break past their anti-cheat system doesn’t seem like a permanent solution. Next comes, the saturation point for viewership, it has started, Valorant is already dropping in that aspect. We can only hope that Riot Games will come up with answers for all these questions.

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