Interview: A Chat With Valorant's Max Grossman On Killjoy, And Riot's Design Philosophy For New Agents

** Max Grossman: ** When we think about the characters we're making, we tend to first look at player fantasies. So the idea of playing with a turret is something that many players want. We can look at many different games to learn and dissect how similar types of player fantasies exist in other games. I don't think we want to be derivative necessarily, but I also think it would be ridiculous for us to claim that we came up with the turret first as if it's this genius idea since that's not the case. It's more like "there's a turret in Overwatch. How does it work? There's a turret in Team Fortress. How does it work? Rainbow Six has turret-like gadgets." We can compare how abilities work within the context of those games and use it to inform our design. It was hard to figure out how a turret would function in Valor


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** Max Grossman: ** I think "frees us" is too strongly stated. But it gives us a healthy release valve because everybody at the very least has the same guns. With everyone having that shared primary mechanic of "hey, you all have guns, you all move the same," there are many shared behaviors. It gives us a lot of leeway with how our abilities can work. We never want that to be the case in Valorant. We believe in much more soft-counters when it comes to balancing different Age


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