Shots in all directions, a very nervous but colorful game, and in the end, exults players. It is a fairly typical scene of a first -person competitive shooting game (FPS). Valurant, Like others, it vibrates to electronic sports fans, but also those who play there. They are not Zerator and Loupriote who will say otherwise.
Like many lovers of the genre, they fought in the summer of 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and at the end of confinement, when Riot Games launched his last tactical sp fps. “It was the spiritual continuation of a game that I played much earlier, Strike Strike. TO Counter Refreshing and modern, “reminds Tech & co adrien” Zerator “Nougaret.” It happened at the right time. It was a free, shared and competitive game when we were confined. I went there immediately. “
Zerator and Loupiot or Valiant in the trigger
For Lou Hanguelle, it is an adventure in the same line, but in the form of a real ray like a bonus. The one we now know under the name of Loupionte had never put his hands in a PC game. “I am not a player at the base. I discovered the game at that time thanks to the friends of the high school with whom I was lying at night in Discord while playing Counter-Strike, Fortnite, etc “She explains.” I really wanted to play it, but at home it was quite forbidden. It is not the thing of a girl ‘… “
Then he went to study in Lille and inherits a computer as a gift. She can finally try it and successfully. “I am very faithful as a couple with Brave During the last five years, “says Loupionte, laughing.” There is no other game that interests me. “It should be said that, as in any relationship, Loupion admits that the game brought it a lot on a personal level. He discovered a competitive spirit, the desire to go further.” Thanks to BraveI learned to play, comment, create content, coach. It is a game that made me more legitimate, more visible, “excites the one who shares his time between Science Po, his career as a professional player and his transmissions.
Zerator also recognizes that this game has changed his life. E-Sport emblematic figure found a kind of fresh blow with Valurant. “I played a lot for Counter In my youth and I felt what I said, “he says.” With BraveI immediately saw the competitive potential. “To the point of creating its own structure, mandate, which will be launched in competitions against 5 in Brave. “First we create a community site and wait a year and a half to see how riot games get involved,” explains Zerator. “We went there, because there was everything to build and it was more affordable than in other games.”
“We went there because there was everything to build”
Today, Brave Record about 35 million active players per month, on PC and now on consoles, and millions of transmission spectators. Players of all ages, former followers of Counter and FPS lovers. “He manages especially to attract more young, more women and even people for whom it is the first FPS. The free, colorful and less realistic side, makes it more cozy than Counter-Strike “Analyze the Montpellier, but a former star player. And loupio to greet the participation of the editor in communication around his game, support for newcomers, streamers who also appreciate having to compose teams with specific agents to be competitive. “Create several situations and how unexpected that pleasure to the spectators,” he says.
And the Northerner also welcomes to help Brave A much more feminine scene than in other games. “Riot established a very early female scene with the game exchangers (Official competition with a female tournament, editor’s note). Change everything! “, I win the player who considers the game as” a permanent show with his failures, his screams, his spontaneous interactions. “A game that wants to open a form of female emancipation in video games and offered him a professional career.
If the two players are still so enthusiastic five years after their beginnings in BraveIt is thanks “to the sustained rhythm of the updates” that “does not alter the integrity of the game”. This will guarantee its sustainability and its inheritance with the Esport scene that Riot Games has stabilized and high. “The circuit placed even pushed Counter To modify the structure of their own tournaments, “he analyzes Zerator, who states that the game has changed his eSport vision by making him a much more involved team leader.
A successful game in the steps of counter-Strike
If the game appreciates a lot, Zerator retains a certain lucidity. “There are more similarities than the differences between Counter AND Valurant. Many players have changed from one game to another. The specialty of Riot Games is to invent anything, but sublimate what works, “he laughs to slip, while acknowledging that the” crucible “inspired by several games will leave a mark on the games for his competitive ecosystem, but also his ability to attract new players to the FPS and retain them.
Like Zerator, who has changed to eSports in a new way, Loupion knows that he must also have a lot of game in his personal and professional development. But with a more negative point that remains confronted despite the efforts of the riots against this: toxicity in the game. “We still face sexist insults, because the community Brave He is also very committed to social networks. These are still hard evidence to overcome for women who just want to have a good time after their day, “he regrets.” It would take more diversity, perhaps imposing quotas on the teams. There was this idea, it was abandoned, but it is still relevant to develop the scene. “
A possible road map to have riot games Brave still in the next five years and beyond to walk a little more in the steps of CounterSustainability Model to follow.
Source: BFM TV
