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Valorant’s new Gun Game-inspired mode, Escalation, arrives tomorrowThe more kills you get, the worse your weapons get

The more kills you get, the worse your weapons get

Team Deathmatch is a bit vanilla isn’t it? Personally, I like the edge of rum and raisin, something with a bit of flavour.Valorant’snew game mode, Escalation, should do the trick. It’s a team-based affair where players are given powerful guns at the start of a match. As they rack up kills, their weapons are downgraded to make things trickier. And it arrives tomorrow, Thursday the 17th of February.

Unleash Your Arsenal // Escalation Game Mode Trailer - VALORANTWatch on YouTube

Unleash Your Arsenal // Escalation Game Mode Trailer - VALORANT

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More often than not, this weapon will be a knife, and the idea of a five person squad hoofing it around the map looking for a slice sounds like a lot of fun.

If you’ve played CS:Source,CS:GO, or most multiplayer shooters nowadays, Escalation may sound mighty similar to Gun Game. A mode in which you also race opponents through a set number of weapons. And that’s because it is.