Riot Video games has introduced that VALORANT will transfer from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.
The announcement was made by SVP and Head of VALORANT Studios, Anna Donlan, who stated “we [Riot Games] have squeezed actually each ounce of the whole lot we might get out of UE 4, so now we make the transfer to UE5, and that isn’t a simple feat when your recreation is a reside service recreation however it’s vital.”
Donlon continued, “This improve shouldn’t be going to considerably change how Valorant seems or performs, a minimum of not straight away.”
Donlon went on to tease that builders are “very excited what about UE5 can do for us [Riot Games] sooner or later” and that “perhaps these devs are engaged on one thing I can’t discuss and perhaps these devs are interested by methods to develop the Val universe into new playable experiences.”
It stays to be seen what these “new playable experiences” are, however such feedback are positive to get the Valorant group speculating on the chances.
For now although, Valorant continues to be an enormous success for Riot Video games since its launch in June 2020. Final yr, it was revealed that Valorant has 28 million gamers, 70% of that are Gen Z.
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