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VALORANT is Moving to Unreal Engine 5 With “New Playable Experiences”

Riot Games has announced that VALORANT will move from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.

The announcement was made by SVP and Head of VALORANT Studios, Anna Donlan, who said “we [Riot Games] have squeezed literally every ounce of everything we could get out of UE 4, so now we make the move to UE5, and that is not an easy feat when your game is a live service game but it is necessary.”

Donlon continued, “This upgrade is not going to significantly change how Valorant looks or performs, at least not right away.”

Donlon went on to tease that developers are “very excited what about UE5 can do for us [Riot Games] in the future” and that “maybe those devs are working on something I can’t talk about and maybe those devs are thinking about ways to expand the Val universe into new playable experiences.”

It remains to be seen what these “new playable experiences” are, but such comments are sure to get the Valorant community speculating on the possibilities.

For now though, Valorant continues to be a huge success for Riot Games since its release in June 2020. Last year, it was revealed that Valorant has 28 million players, 70% of which are Gen Z.

What do you think of Valorant moving to Unreal Engine 5? And what do you think what these “new experiences” are? Let us know in our community forums!


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@Tom Henderson Riot Games has dabbled with some small single player experiences in their worlds (League of Legends stories). That could be "player experiences" but do you know how those smaller single-player focused experiences have performed and what expectations Riot Games has on them?

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Riot Games has announced that VALORANT will move from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.

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This has got to be a huge undertaking!

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Haven't played Valorant since it released, but I'm curious what does this mean for the game? What will exactly get changed and if it's for the better?

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Haven't played Valorant since it released, but I'm curious what does this mean for the game? What will exactly get changed and if it's for the better?

I’m curious about that too. I would say for one thing, it means they are committed to the game long term!

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Riot Games has announced that VALORANT will move from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.

Read the full article here...

That's good to hear... Even though it's not my type of game so am I still looking forward to how it'll look like and stuff like that.

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That's good to hear... Even though it's not my type of game so am I still looking forward to how it'll look like and stuff like that.

Same!

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Wonder which version of UE5? Hopefully for the game's performance it's a newer version as older versions feel performance wise UE5 was very undercooked and rushed out.

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Same!

Exactly and I hope it's the newest version of Unreal Engine 5 (Unreal Engine 5.5) and it'll also be PS5 Pro Enhanced!

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Haven't played Valorant since it released, but I'm curious what does this mean for the game? What will exactly get changed and if it's for the better?

Haven’t played Valorant since it released too. 🙂

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