The shooter from Riot Games continues to evolve, and the developers regularly introduce many innovations to the game. However, there are some of them that have been waiting for years. Riot Games is currently on a short vacation, and therefore, major updates with new content will be released in 2025. That is why this is the best time to build assumptions and theories about what the future holds. Today, our editorial team has created an article in which we will tell you what we think players can expect to see in Valorant in 2025.

Replay system

The first, and probably the most anticipated innovation is the replay system, and according to rumors, it should definitely appear in Valorant in 2025. It should be noted that replays are an integral part of any competitive game. With the help of the replay system, players can analyze their mistakes after the match, look for bugs and game problems, or simply share interesting and funny moments. This was the main argument in favor of the developers adding the replay system. But in the 4 years since the game's release, Riot Games has only promised to add it, and the first information about replays has only recently appeared. In May 2024, a video was released on the official Valorant YouTube channel in which the developers showed a prototype of the replay system.

After 10 minutes of the video, you can see what the future replay system and its partial functionality will look like. But despite the fact that information about replays appeared in the middle of the year, it is already the end of 2024, and we still haven't seen the replay system. From this, we can conclude that it will be released next year, and in 2025, players will finally get what they have been waiting for.

Valorant's transition to Unreal Engine 5

An equally important event that is likely to take place in 2025 is the transition of Valorant to Unreal Engine 5. Currently, the shooter from Riot runs on Unreal Engine 4, but relatively recently it became known that the developers want to move it to the next version. Anna Donlon, one of the developers of Valorant, gave an interview a few months ago in which she told about the company's plans to port the game to the 5th generation engine. Although there is still very little information about this, players are already beginning to assume that this can both improve the gameplay component of Valorant and vice versa. You can find out more about the transition to the new engine in our article - All the details about Valorant's transition to Unreal Engine 5.

The release of Valorant Mobile

In 2024, Riot Games released Valorant on PS5 and XBOX consoles quite unexpectedly for everyone, but another part of the players never got to see it. We are talking about the mobile version of the game, which in the past was called Project C, or simply Valorant Mobile.

In 2024, beta testing was launched for players from the Chinese region, but it never made it to the open beta. Subsequently, the executive producer of Valorant said that the official release of the mobile version of the game would definitely not be in 2024. According to her, there is still a lot of work to be done with the shooter because Valorant Mobile will have many new features, such as unique MVP animation. We also want to note that the long-awaited replay system will definitely be in the mobile version of the game. You can find out what features and issues Valorant Mobile is already known to have by reading our article - Valorant Mobile: leaked features, skins, and more.

Important changes to the Challengers tier 2 scene

Valorant's eSports scene is generally functioning very well when it comes to the VCT scene, but the Challengers tier-2 league is in complete decline. Professional players regularly end their careers due to the lack of prospects, organizations dissolve their tier-2 rosters, tournament operators do not pay prize money and close down. All these problems reached their peak in 2024, and the tournament scene is literally bursting at the seams. This has been repeatedly stated by both professional players and analysts, who called on Riot Games to rectify the situation. According to them, the decline of the tier-2 scene will lead to the decline of VCT, because new talents will not be able to develop and prove themselves. Although Riot Games and the head of the esports division, Leo Faria, are aware of the problem, there have been no necessary fixes so far, so we can only expect that the problem will be resolved in 2025.

Gift system

Another item that the community expects to see in 2025 is the gift system. Currently, you can't give skins or other accessories to your friend in Valorant, and you only have to buy gift cards with codes. But this is very inconvenient, and the surprise factor is lost. That's why players have been asking developers to add a gift system to the game for years now, so that they can buy the desired skin in the store and send it to their friend right away. So far, there has been no information about such an innovation, but players continue to hope.

Even more interesting agents and unusual locations

In conclusion, we would like to summarize what players expect in 2025. Of course, new agents and maps remain the main interest, and we expect to see them in the future. In 2024, the developers added an unusual map called Abyss, which has almost no textures, making it truly unique. Also in the same year, the agent Clove was released, the only one of the 25 available characters that can use skills after his death. Riot Games surprises players every time, so the Valorant community hopes that in 2025, the developers will outdo themselves and add even more unique content.