Agent 21 in VALORANT will likely be a controller in line with an official weblog entry. There are additionally new, clear clues concerning the origin and his skills.
The upcoming agent in VALORANT will likely be a controller. This was confirmed by John Goscicki, Senior Character Producer at Riot Video games, in a (blog entry on the official VALORANT website) on Tuesday. Within the weblog entry, Goscicki additionally positioned fairly apparent hints concerning the origin and skills of the brand new agent.
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Agent 21 lastly has a reputation
After a very long time of Riot Video games withholding extra detailed details about the brand new agent, the event studio lastly introduced the identify.
The brand new agent is known as Harbor and VALORANT has now additionally revealed the primary photographs.
The YouTube account VALORANT Hub already posted a brand new teaser for Harbor on 09 October.
Within the video, Astra, Omen and Skye are on a quest to seek out the brand new agent earlier than REALM does.
The brokers observe huge quantities of water, though no water supply might be discovered close by. This once more confirms the rumours concerning the agent”s water skills.
It can be assumed that Harbor may have a defend of some form, because the brokers noticed within the video that spent bullets fell to the bottom in a semi-circular form – successfully as if that they had hit a defend.
Harbor would be the fifth controller within the sport alongside Viper, Omen, Brimstone and Astra.
Authentic article from 09/15:
Agent 21 with water capabilities?
So allusions to water hold hiding within the weblog entry concerning the new VALORANT agent. “We”ve seen that controllers are in a little bit of a drought,” the producer writes, amongst different issues. “I don”t need to flood you with an excessive amount of data” and “the introduction of controllers is a blue ocean of prospects” present additional clues to the theme. The group subsequently speculates that Agent 21”s skills in VALORANT will revolve across the component of water.
Agent 21 in VALORANT presumably from India
Even clearer are the clues to the origin and id of the brand new VALORANT agent. Presumably, the brand new character comes from India. That is indicated by the image John Goscicki inserted within the weblog entry. It exhibits a pocket book with a map of India and the phrase “Mumbai” written in it.
Time for the Indian in me to point out off.
Easter eggs 🧵
That is photograph from Mumbai, India. That is seen via the construction within the high left which is a well-liked website within the metropolis referred to as as “Gateway of India”! https://t.co/khdvvixApI pic.twitter.com/MK6HjrkDVq
– Incorrect Valorant Quotes (@IncorrectValo) September 13, 2022
There are a lot of extra little hints of the nation India hidden within the image, as Twitter person “IncorrectValo” summarised in a thread. The hints of the nation and the component of water may additionally verify the presumed identify of Agent 21. Again in August, the identify “Varun Batra” had surfaced in a VALORANT message, which many attributed to the brand new Agent 21. Varuna is an Indian deity intently related to water.
The weblog entry ends with a sentence in Hindi: “Jald hello milte hain”. This implies one thing like “See you quickly”. So the discharge of Agent 21 in VALORANT could possibly be quickly.
