Valorant is now live and free for everyone to play! As of June 2, 2020, you can just go down to PlayValorant.com and download the highly anticipated 5v5 tactical first-person shooter.
Valorant is a competitive first-person shooter with an emphasis on pinpoint accuracy and skill management. It'll appeal to both Overwatch and Counter-Strike fans alike.
The way Valorant plays is it puts two teams together - with attackers and defenders going up against each other in a best of 24 rounds. Supposedly, it can work on a potato, essentially.
Recommended Specs - 60 frames per second:
- CPU: Intel i3-4150
- GPU: Geforce GT 730
High-end Specs - 144+ frames per second:
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz
- GPU: GTX 1050 Ti
Minimum Spec - 30 frames per second:
- CPU: Intel i3-370M
- GPU: Intel HD 4000
PC hardware recommendations:
- Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
- 4GB RAM
- 1GB of VRAM
And since this is Riot, a company very known for its competitive games, so they know what it takes to keep an environment free of cheating (well, as much as possible). Supposedly, on day 1, their proprietary anti-cheat system is deployed.
A fast-paced competitive game like this needs very good servers. Riot is launching with 128-tick servers in most major cities all over the world. That allows the servers to upsample all player movement to 128 fps. That means even if you're playing at 60 fps, your movement is shown as 128 fps to other players. And if you're living in South East Asia, like I am, take comfort in the fact that Riot has said their goal is to get everyone under 35ms ping for at least 70% of all players globally. How realistic that'll be is another question. Right now, they're working on deploying servers in Warsaw, Madrid, London, Atlanta, and Dallas. Additionally, they are looking into improving latency conditions in Colombia, Argentina, and Eastern Europe.