The Chronoshift dev message included a link to an image showing the Discord conversation between Chronoshift developer 'Lord Lothendran' and 'zed', who identifies themselves via an email as a member of "the Riot Games Security team". A Riot rep confirmed to PC Gamer that the conversation took place but denied extortion. Last night, the site had been taken down and replaced by a message from the development team explaining the project's closure and alleging that the "Riot Games security department has contacted us, and tried to extort us into handing over our code and website to them". Who knows? Next time you log in to Valorant, the opposing team just might be Zedd and his crew.At the time of writing, the Chronoshift website is prompting a warning in Chrome that the site is insecure. While Zedd assembles what will be his third studio album (and the first since 2015’s True Colors), fans can get to work honing their skills with his custom-designed gun skins. I didn’t feel in the right mindset to make an album, so now that shows are coming back, I feel the energy I need to create the best album I’ve ever created.” “I wanted to release the album this year, but I’m of the school however long it takes to be incredible is however long it takes… The pandemic has been pretty crushing on my inspiration. “Now that this is finished, I’m going to go straight back into album mode,” he says. (Zaslavski produced the score for National Geographic’s 2018 series One Strange Rock.) Serving as a creative breath of fresh air, the collab also made Zaslavski more excited to finish his next big project. At some point, I decided to only do things that I’m passionate about, and this is one of those collaborations where - because I know the game so well - I know exactly what I want the guns to feel, sound and look like.”įor the Grammy-winning producer, the project was a massive learning experience, and one he says was even more detailed and specific than his work scoring films and writing soundtracks. “It’s a little cringe-worthy when I see certain collaborations that just don’t make any sense. “At no point did we think, Let’s just slap my logo on this,’” he says. His aim was to respect the platform and craft something players who don’t really know, or care about, Zedd’s music could still really vie for. Zaslavski says, however, that these are the kind of things hardcore Valorant players like himself are really going to appreciate. And even as the pandemic has waned and the producer has gotten back to playing shows - his residency at Las Vegas’ newly opened Zouk Nightclub and Ayu Dayclub launched recently - he’s spent a lot of late nights and a lot of attention on extremely tiny game details. The resulting collaboration marks Riot’s first time working with a musician to design and develop in-game content. Zaslavski and Riot started working on this project this past December, after Zaslavski approached the Los Angeles-based video game developer and publisher on ways they might collaborate. It spins in the sky and the whole map starts lighting up in colors.” It changes the look of the whole map and it projects this Zedd logo with the Valorant logo right underneath it as one. “I think it’s the coolest thing they’ve ever done. “Then the Riot team made this insane finisher,” Zaslavski says. “I think I made five different sounds that are slightly different,” Zaslavski says, “so when you shoot back to back, it’s not repeating the same exact sample, but actually repeating randomized sounds.” The music that plays in the background changes ever so slightly, depending on the weapon you’re inspecting, as do the sounds each makes when you fire one off. There’s even a see-through “Z” on each of the guns, and the knife features the actual waveform of the Spectrum theme song along the side of the hilt. The Spectrum skin package features four guns and a knife. I just wanted the skin to sound very clean, as little reverb as possible while still maintaining the competitive integrity, so it’s not better than others.”Īs soon as you enter the Valorant store, you can feel Zedd’s influence, as he created an original tune to play in the background while you inspect the set of weapons, “so when you go to buy the skin, it puts you in a different mood than the regular store music.” “I did my own analysis on what feels good and what doesn’t feel good and applied how I mix my records. “The sound of the gun is really important to how the guns feel, because ultimately all the skins are the same in terms of their capability, but they feel different,” Zaslavski says.
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