• Riot announced eight (8) playable characters, they’ve added a new one called Breach, the ninth (9th).
• His abilities are (Q) Aftershock, (E) Flashpoint/Fault Line. His ultimate ability is called Rolling Thunder, it’s said that deals quite a lot of damage.
• Agents like Viper, Sova and Sage were highly praised in the playtests.
• Omen has got his ultimate nerfed, as playtesters told Dotesports. Most of the playtesters thought he was too weak post-nerf.
• You can unlock a new agent for free just by playing a few matches.
• There are cosmetics as weapon skins, keychains and sprays. No character skins for now. Just like in CS:GO, there is the same skin for different weapons.
• Valorant has a ranked  system. Ranks are called Mercenary, Soldier, Veteran, Hero,  Legend, Mythic, Immortal and VALORANT, from lowest to highest.
• No banning system for agents for now.
• There is an Overtime system.
• There is a Practice mode where you will be able to practice your aim, weapons, among other stuff.
• Weapons are very similar to CS:GO in terms of skill and precision, a playtester told Dotesports.
• There is a map available when pressing “M” shortcut. You can use pings on that map (see next).
• There is a ping system available, just like in LoL, but adapted for FPS. It looks like it is close to what pinging system is in Apex Legends.
• The Spike (C4 in CS:GO) defusal timer doesn’t get reset when you stop defusing; instead, can exit the animation at any time and when they come back, the difusal bar will keep the progress from earlier attempts.
• Custom servers are already in, and they function as private 10-man matches.

This information will be updated periodically. Stay tuned!

Interesting words coming from AlphaCast, a french overwatch player that playtested the game in Dublin and he currently has access to the beta. It has been translated by a french redditor, Source available here

• Losing 90% of the 1vs1’s vs players that come from CS or have a CS background.
• Dying often because Overwatch taught us to be aggressive (too aggressive).
• Dying stupidly while you cast a spell thinking you have time, except that in this game the spells take so much time to cast, and the weapons are extremely lethal.
• From time to time making a galaxy brain play with your spells used perfectly and clutch.
• “Overall, I’m telling you, holding the lines, peeking etc… If you have zero experience on CS, you will be s*** (bad). I’m absolutely garbage, still managed to improve during this weekend but as soon as we play against players with a CS background I got dumbstered. In short, we will have to work really hard.”
• “Anyway, I am realistic with all of you, CSGO players will have a massive head start they have habits that will help them enormously on the game. The mechanics learned and gamesense coming from OW unfortunately do not transition well for us on Valorant.”