Riot on new VALORANT agent Chamber: ‘We started by thinking about different ways to approach the Sentinel role’

Riot Video games officially unveiled Chamber, a brand new VALORANT agent, right now. He’s a well-dressed French gentleman and well-armed weapons designer who will be a part of the tactical shooter in mid-November alongside Patch 3.10.

Chamber is a sentinel, however he’s completely different from the opposite sentinels out there in VALORANT proper now (Sage, Killjoy, and Cypher) since he’ll have the gear to carry his personal in fights. The brand new agent has a capability known as Headhunter that equips a heavy pistol and his ult, known as Tour de France, summons a strong customized sniper rifler that can kill an enemy with one shot.

His other abilities, Trademark and Rendezvous, place a entice that scans for enemies and two teleport anchors, respectively. They’re much less about dealing harm and extra about getting info and offering sustainability in a combat. The thought course of behind Chamber was to create an agent able to defending areas by securing kills.

“We began by occupied with alternative ways to method the Sentinel position,” VALORANT character producer John Goscicki mentioned in a press launch. “Early on, our thought course of wrapped across the concept of ‘somebody that bunkers down, and holds a location by getting frags.’ As we labored on Chamber, the evolution of somebody who can maintain down a web site with an array of weapons emerged. Between your loadout, his pistol/ult, and devices, a participant ought to be capable of maintain down a location—however it’s as much as you to make use of the instruments appropriately and creatively.”

Chamber is the 18th agent launched to VALORANT and he’ll be a part of the tactical shooter 5 months after the addition of KAY/O, who hasn’t turn into a well-liked choice, a minimum of not within the skilled panorama.

Though Chamber is a sentinel, a kind of agent that’s typically nice at holding bombsites and supporting the workforce with their devices, it appears to be like just like the French agent might be able to carrying some matches.

“We took lots of inspiration from the archetype of ‘the gentleman murderer,’ Goscicki mentioned. “As we dove deeper into creating Chamber, it turned clear that his gameplay revolved round extremely deadly, pinpoint accuracy. That feeling was the core of his thematic: the concept the space of the shot, the breeze within the wind, the kind of powder within the ammo, all these superb particulars should be taken into consideration to land the right hit.”

Chamber and Patch 3.10 might be launched to VALORANT in mid-November, whereas the Episode Three, Act Three battle go will land on Nov. 2.

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