VALORANT Reveals Newest Agent, Fade, Teases Cinematic

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Riot Games revealed VALORANT’s newest agent, Fade, confirming that the cinematic and official gameplay trailer will drop soon. VALORANT is Riot Games’s first foray into the shooter genre, blending CS:GO’s competitive FPS gameplay with characters equipped with unique tactical abilities, much like League of Legends. The list of characters is one of the things that make the FPS unique, though creating VALORANT’s agents and differentiating their personalities has been one of the major challenges for the developers.

VALORANT currently has eighteen agents in each of four different categories. Duelists, Initiators, Controllers, and Sentinels have a variety of abilities that change the nature of each match, adding strategic levels to Riot’s competitive FPS. Each new VALORANT agent offers distinctive gameplay elements that set it apart from the rest. Considering that VALORANT’s last agent dropped in January, many fans are anxiously awaiting the next hero. Neon was a fast-paced Duelist with the ability to increase their speed and fire a lightning beam with high movement accuracy. Before Neon, VALORANT released Chamber, a dripped out teleporting Sentinel that summons powerful weapons to their aid.

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In a new announcement from Riot Games, VALORANT revealed its newest agent, Fade, teasing a gameplay trailer and cinematic dropping next week. The post attached short gifs of VALORANT’s new agent. Each short clip contained a different existing agent – Cypher, Breach, Jett, and KAY/O among them – shrouded in black smoke. In one clip, Sova looks angry as presumably Fade’s black and red smoke seemingly consumes him. The announcement did not reveal any