It took Riot 5 Years to Build the VALORANT Ascent Map?

It took Riot 5 Years to Build the VALORANT Ascent Map? What took you so long? Map Ascent is the newest map to enter the VALORANT game. Of course, the players have tried playing in this game. But of course, not many gamers know how much effort the development team had to spend to make this one map. In order to be released in public, it took Riot Games 5 years for this Ascent map.

In fact, Ascent is the first folder designed by the VALORANT team, according to news from the Riot Developer Blog. This is also a map where the VALORANT team developed and perfected many of the important gameplay elements played by gamers today.

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If there wasn’t this Ascent map, maybe the VALORANT game wouldn’t exist today, because Ascent provided the foundation for this game. The goal for this map is to make a gameplay experience that’s tactical but also fun, like adding mechanical doors and windows that can be broken down.

After creating the basic idea, the development team entered a phase called Greybox. Riot builds a rough map model in the program engine, manages all the core gameplay elements, adds a few new elements, and then sends the game to trial players to ensure that every area of the map is satisfactory and bug free.

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The next phase is Block-in, which allows Riot to know how to enter a more detailed design and layout, in this phase they can also find out how the game on this map will run. To make some areas easier for the players to remember or know about, Riot added designs such as landmarks and several sculptures and murals.

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For other games, this process usually takes about a year to complete. But since the Ascent map continued to evolve as the game was being formed, Riot said that it would take them five years to mature the final form of this map. With great care and great detail, Ascent has become the most important map for VALORANT.

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