The main characteristics
– Located on the bottom of the sea
– Map of 3 roads
– The attacking side landed in the area of the defense
– Set in Omega Earth
– Displaying murals from Portuguese murals in real life
– Introducing Fado music – Portugal's traditional music presented by Portuguese artists
FAQs with development team
– What is the goal of the team when designing Pearl?
Screening Specialist – Joe Lansford: After Icebox, Breeze and Fracture, we want to create a slightly more direct map. Pearl requires real fighting without going around or mobile support elements such as doors, vines or moving gates. What you get will be a seemingly simple map, tactical. However, there will still be breakthroughs and depths you expect from a Valorant map.
– Where did the team inspire and want to convey any special message to Pearl?
The leader of the image, idea – Brian Yam: Inspired Pearl started with an old outline idea on the topic under the water, then combined with a new outline revolving around a city flooded with climate change. The ideas were given to explore those two topics and when we put this location in Portugal, we all felt excited because of the image potential of history and architecture. Because Pearl is placed in the “Omega world”, we want to discover the way the Omega kingdom approaches the issue of climate change and the way we will describe this. The idea of cities that can survive in the water seems to be the correct direction that all agree. This is an interesting comparison of images between works from Kingdom Industries and ancient architecture of Portugal.
Game designer – Joe Lansford: I have heard the body a lot when Pearl design. Especially the article “Nothing Stirs”. It inspired a specific position on the map. To see if you can guess anywhere.
– Is there any interesting challenges or stories when designing Pearl?
Game Design Specialist – Joe Lansford: Pearl's internal development name is “Pitt”. Do you see the underground cylinder in the mid? Initially it was a big hole, a real hole that players could fall down and my life. In an original version, it is located in the middle of Zone B. We have removed this direction because it is not really suitable for the goal.
