Valorant
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Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
Developers | |
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Riot Games | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 2, 2020 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 80 |
OpenCritic | 81 |
IGDB | 78 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | Free-to-play |
Microtransactions | Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Free-to-grind, Unlock |
Modes | Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Shooter |
Art styles | Stylized |
Themes | Sci-fi |
Warnings
- This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Official website | ||||
Epic Games Store | ||||
Microsoft Store | Included exclusively with Xbox Game Pass for PC. |
- Requires a Riot Games account.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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Free-to-play | The game is free-to-play with microtransactions in the form of currency purchases. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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Cosmetic | Cosmetic skins can be purchased for weapons using Valorant Points or earned as rewards for the purchasable Battle Pass every season.[1] |
Currency | Valorant Points can be purchased with real money. Radianite Points can be obtained using Valorant Points or from seasonal Battle Pass completion.[1] |
Free-to-grind | All additional characters can be unlocked through gameplay, with an option to skip the "contract" by purchasing with Valorant Points.[1] |
Infinite spend | There is no limit to how much currency can be purchased. |
Unlock | Valorant Points can be used to purchase additional characters.[1] |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\VALORANT\Saved\Config |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | Tied to riot games account | |
Xbox Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Pillarboxed.[2] Use Valorant Ultrawide Fix for Vert- FOV. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Locked to 103°[3] | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16x | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | 2x MSAA, 4x MSAA or FXAA | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Disabled by default. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives. | ||
Color blind mode | Tritanopia, Deuteranopia and Protanopia |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | Separate value for scoped view sensitivity | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, Sound Effects, Voice-over, Video, All Music, Menu & Lobby Music and Agent Select Music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Only music can be toggled to mute when game focus is lost | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Indonesian | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Thai | ||||
Turkish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | ||||
Online play | 10 | Versus 128-tickrate servers |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Issues fixed
Valorant Support Center
- Official knowledge base covering issues with the game, such as error codes and troubleshooting, and the Vanguard anti-cheat software.
Troubleshoot the issue according to Riot Games Support's Valorant support center[4] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Anti-cheat | Riot Vanguard | Vanguard autostarts with Windows. While it can be disabled post-boot, it requires a reboot of the computer before allowing play again.[5] |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7, 8, 10 | 10 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 | Intel Core i5-4460 |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 12 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Intel HD Graphics 3000 1GB of VRAM | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 How microtransactions work in VALORANT - last accessed on 2020-09-11
- ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-04-21
- Tested the game on a 3440x1440 monitor
- ↑ VALORANT - Supported Games - Mouse Sensitivity Community - last accessed on 2020-08-14
- ↑ Verified by User:Shadowstealer7 on 2020-08-14
- ↑ What is Vanguard? - last accessed on 21.04.2020