Valorant experience: the new experience is good FPS+MOBA perfect combination

【CNMO】After two rounds of testing, "Valorant", which has been long-awaited by many national server players, officially launched at 9 a.m. on July 12. Since its launch in 2020, "Valorant" has gained a large number of fans overseas with its game quality and popular events, and many players in China are willing to go to overseas regional servers.

Now, with the national service finally online, we can finally easily play this new game of Riot that has attracted global attention. I believe that everyone can't wait to turn on the computer and enter the game to open the "tile", but before you start playing, you must know some basic information.

Character class

Valorant features 16 heroes from four branches with different functions: Duel, Field, Vanguard, and Sentinel. Heroes with solo combat power who use skills to deal damage to the team or provide opportunities to actively fight, including: Jetwind, Immortal Bird, Rez, Reina, Neon; Heroes with the ability to change the situation on the battlefield, they are experts in changing and exploiting the terrain of the battlefield, and creating favorable conditions for the victory of the team through skills, including: Viper, Purgatory, Phantom, Poseidon .

Heroes who use their skills to open the way in the team, they can open up situations for the team, help teammates enter the battle zone and expel enemy defenses, including: Hunter, Iron Arm, Skye; Heroes with strong defensive performance, they can block areas for the team or keep an eye on the bag, and can play an important role in both offensive and defensive rounds, including: Zero, Kill, Sage, and Chambler.

Gameplay

Valorant currently has 5 modes, namely:

Normal Mode (Non-Ranked Mode): Standard mode in Valorant, which takes turns attacking and defending deployment areas, placing or removing blasters, and winning 13 rounds to win. The time spent in this mode will be a bit long, about 30 minutes, which is about the same time as playing "League of Legends".

Competitive Mode: The game mechanics are the same as in Normal Mode, but winning or losing will affect your Ranked Match ranking, and players need to reach level 10 (reverting to level 20 after the limited-time Ranked Reduction event) to participate in this mode.

Speed Mode: The first team to win 5 rounds wins, the game mechanics are the same as normal mode, but the economy is simplified. This is fast-paced, with a game length of 10-15 minutes.

Brawl Mode: A fast-paced single-player brawl mode that's great for practicing Valorant's gun sense, disabling skills, and winning for players who first achieve 40 defeats.

Team Brawl: This fast-paced mode is a team brawl game where players fight alongside their teammates in a specific map, and can use skills to win by taking 100 defeats first or defeating a larger number of teams at the end of time.

A combination of FPS games and MOBA games

I also experienced Valorant for myself. At the beginning, I actually played a few games, the experience was not very bad, but "the more dishes the more I like to play", the matched players, regardless of enemies and friends, are actually very good to get along with, there is no swearing or anything, and they will not quit the game in the middle of the game.

In the opening purchase stage, the range of activities of the offensive and defensive sides is very large, the spawn point distance is very close, and the tactical game and line after the opening game are basically concentrated in several important corridors between the spawn points. Because there are fewer obstacles, it is not too difficult to memorize maps and search points, and it does not matter if you can't find the north.

The role of skills in the game is rich and varied, and it is not limited to the traditional "fireworks and thunder". Players can release ice walls, walls of fire, poison gas, gun emplacements, jam tactical points, or lay laser mixtures and nano traps, learn information in time when enemies sneak up from behind, and even use skills common in MOBA games such as displacement, teleportation, silence, and resurrection of teammates to surprise opponents.

Since there are so many heroes, I haven't tried all the hero skills yet (mainly because I don't have the money to buy them), but I have to say that it is these skills that distinguish Valorant from traditional FPS on a tactical level, and the fancy skill combinations also add new fun to traditional demolition gameplay. Each hero has 4 skills, which is a bit like taking a gun and playing League of Legends.

Skills are similar to items or throws in traditional FPS, with some costs money to buy and others waiting for cooldown. Each hero has an ultimate skill that often has to wait several rounds to use, or pick up energy orbs scattered around the map to cool down.

Even skills with traditional effects are differentiated into different casting methods. For example, "Immortal Bird", his "flash curveball" will throw a ball with a blinding effect in a horizontal arc, press the left mouse button to throw to the left, press the right button to throw to the right, with the corner use, without showing the head can flash the enemy's eyes. The other is "Purgatory", whose smoke grenades are dropped from high-altitude orbits and marked on the map, without even calculating the throwing curve.

In addition, Valorant's weapons and ballistic systems are more traditional, such as shooting at the sight of people, hitting while running, jumping twice from time to time, etc., and must be shot at point, squat, or more advanced emergency stop shooting skills. Because Valorant uses random ballistics, which is more random than CS:GO. The trajectory of the latter has at least one fixed trajectory, in which the bullet is randomly dispersed; In the former, even the trajectory is random, and the effort to press the gun simply does not work.

After a few games, the experience is not bad, and you can still play back and forth between Mengxin, as long as you don't meet old players, you encounter the next one, shoot or something, it's completely too late.

Regarding the delay problem, I have opened a total of three, and the delay will not exceed 30ms. If you are playing with an external server, open a dedicated paid accelerator to connect to the external server, and the delay of 50ms is basically the lowest limit, not to mention that occasionally forget to open the accelerator, the delay is 150ms away, which is simply impossible to play.

It is worth mentioning that in order to allow novice players to catch up with relatively mature old players, the game has a variety of built-in auxiliary plug-ins. In the interface of selecting the agent, players can easily see the agent's skill demonstration video, which is simply not too convenient compared to reading the text description on the spot in the overseas version.

In addition, there are skin systems that everyone pays more attention to, and the most anticipated is the weapon skin set "Zique Jinlang" that first appeared in the national uniform and the commemorative national style melee weapon skin unique to the national uniform - away from the fire blade, the appearance party and collector ecstasy. Good looking is good looking, the price is not cheap - 3280 intrepid bonds, equivalent to 328 yuan.

Write at the end

"Fearless" can also be said to be a big move by Tencent, and if it is properly operated, it may become the next "League of Legends". This game not only has the shooting charm of FPS games, but also the unique essence of MOBA games, and the graphics, gameplay and gameplay all make this game a masterpiece. The diversity of character classes brings more fun to the game, and for those who like esports, this game will bring you an unprecedented gaming experience.