Valorant’s current act is coming to an end, and Riot has revealed what to expect from the next one. Episode 2 Act 2 begins on March 2, featuring a new character with some really cool skills. Astra is a controller who goes to a strange space kingdom to place stars that she can use to activate various abilities. I think she has one of the best designs for a Valorant character we’ve seen so far, and her kit sounds very different from everything the game has so far.
“The Ghanaian agent Astra uses the energies of the cosmos to remodel the battlefields according to her whims”, says her character’s biography. “With total mastery of her astral form and talent for a deep strategic vision, she is always eons ahead of her enemy’s next move.”
All of Astra’s abilities revolve around placing stars on the map, which she can display with different abilities. Your C skill creates a Gravity Pit, sucking out enemies and applying the vulnerable status effect when it explodes. Your Q is called a New Pulse, and it concusses players caught in it. So your E skill is Nebula, a smoke that looks like a beautiful purple and gold galaxy.
His ultimate, however, is probably the most interesting of all. It allows Astra to place a wall that cuts across the map, blocking the view and bullets, and heavily dampening the audio. It looks very powerful and it will be interesting to see how players will use it. Honestly, it seems a little scary to me, I trust Valorant so much in audio – please don’t take that away from me.
“With Astra, we wanted to make a controller that thought of the whole map. Its global presence was there from the beginning,” said game designer Jordan Anton in a press release. “We wanted the expression of your skill to be to gather information and turn it into a plan, where the execution phase was less about the precise goal of a grenade launch and more about how to see if your reading about the enemy came along with you. expected. ”
Astra makes his debut at Valorant on March 2, followed by a new battle pass to Act 2 the next day.
If you haven’t played Valorant in a while, the new Act looks like a good time to come back. 1) to try out this cool new character, and 2) to try out the new Gun Game style, which is a chaotic and excellent time.