Valorant leaks reveal stormy new finisher in the upcoming Kuronami skin bundle
The Kuronami skin features a unique floating animation, loading bullets without direct contact. It draws comparisons to the Reaver collection due to similar reload animations and cloud-like bullets.
A standout feature is the finishing animation where a bullet creates a cloud around enemies, followed by a thunderstorm. This cloud can be shot and burst, a first in Valorant.
The skin collection offers four color variants: White, Black, Purple, and Blue.
The melee skin, inspired by the "kusarigama," has a contactless equip animation and a spinning propeller inspect animation.
The Kuronami skin collection includes the Melee (Kuronami no Yaiba), Vandal, Sheriff, Spectre, and Marshal. An exclusive livestream event will showcase these skins on Valorant's Twitch channel hosted by Shannon Williams, the voice actor for Jett, on January 8, 2024, at 10 am PT / 7 pm CET / 11:30 pm IST. Patch 8.0, part of Episode 8 Act 1, will introduce this collection on January 9 or January 10, 2024, adjusted for regional release times.
I told myself I wouldn’t spend a dime on another game other than Genshin. I don’t even buy anything for HSR anymore now because I try to be more mindful about my game spending. And yet here I am, swiping my card to get my first ever Valorant skin.
Tbh I have friends who have skin in Valorant. And I personally suck at this game so I don’t see any reason why I need to purchase any accessories as if it helps me with my skill. Eventho I do admit some skin gives better recoil and control which then results in better shots fired but at the end of the day it’s still my skill that defines the result.
A couple days ago I was scrolling down on Youtube and found a video talking about the upcoming Chinese New Year skin bundle. I fell in love right away because the design looks super sleek and futuristic without looking too rough like Kuronami. But I was really hesitate to get it because everyone on the internet seemed to hate it, saying that it’s a meh, and doesn’t look creative as if Riot is running out of ideas. The XEROFANG skin does remind me of Araxys, which is why I love it. I don’t know when Araxys is gonna show up on my doorstep, so might as well get its twin!
I woke up really early today just to check this bundle out lmaooo. It’s really beautiful, smooth and sleek, still looking clean but with a touch of badass. I was shaking when I hit that purchase button. I was so scared I bought the wrong item lmaooo.
I didn’t get the entire bundle because it would be too expensive. But I could snatch 2 of the weapons, Vandal and Ghost. I use those 2 the most during matches so the skin won’t go to waste. I can care less about the rest of the bundle (especially the melee lol).
sorry the new bundle (kuronami) has awesome sounds, animations, and a great finisher but the skins themselves are very lackluster if you ask me, and certainly not worth $95. i get why they priced radiant entertainment so high but they cant keep getting away with this. it made sense for RES to be priced so high as each color variant had a completely unique finisher and inspect music. kuronami has the same finisher for each color variant and the melee is honestly the best part of the bundle
I had the idea of a Remnant yearbook. A yearbook of all students of all years and all staff from all 4 four academies during Team RWBY's freshman year. But then I thought, how many teams are there in each year? We really don't know. We only know that there are at least 3 per year per school.
A yearbook is an amazing idea and I absolutely loathe that we never got anything even remotely like it. Can you imagine all of the cool or interesting things the show could have done with that? Like, Tai unshelving his old yearbook, and showing it off to his kids. Or Team CFVY pulling out a copy of theirs from first-year in order to prove some dubious fact (“I swear, Professor Oobleck used to have a beard. Look, here’s the picture—”).
Or, for something a little more somber: A third-year team who lost a teammate, and occasionally, one of the students stares quietly at the photo taken from the year before, back when their team was still whole.
There’s so much application for a yearbook in this setting and I am gutted we’ll never get to see any of it. What a waste.
Your second point warrants investigation, because the size of the student body always puzzled me, too. On a whim, I pulled up “The First Step” and rewatched the initiation scene. Here’s what I found:
The launch site that overlooks the Emerald Forest. | Source: RWBY Wiki contributor user:Maki Kuronami.
Total number of people: 16. Number of blacked-out silhouettes: 7.
All of JNPR is in this shot. We see three members of RWBY and two members of CRDL, which means that three of the silhouettes in the lineup belong to Blake, Sky, and Dove. That leaves four people unaccounted for, who presumably went on to form a fourth, unnamed team.
(Mind you, this is working under the assumption that the omission of Blake et al wasn’t an animation error. Which given the track record of V1 – V3, is a distinct possibility.)
This means that at the time Ruby entered Beacon, there were possibly four first-year teams.
On a superficial level, the math checks out. Sixteen entrants means that everyone gets neatly sorted onto a team without there being any stragglers.
But you’re right to wonder how many teams there are in each year, because when you think about how the enrollment system works, it doesn’t make any sense. Like, what happens if there are 22 applicants that year, and all of them come with glowing recommendations? Is Ozpin going to arbitrarily refuse two of those students because they would be two people shy of having another four-person team? Huntsmen are a non-negotiable part of the kingdoms’ survival, and training new batches of them is Ozpin’s job. Is he seriously going to turn away eligible students, and compromise the future security of his country, just because he’s adhering to a precedent derived from a fairy tale?
I wish I was kidding. Like, no joke, the (totally-not-a-retcon) reason why the academies assign students to four-person teams is because the King of Vale was inspired by a Mistrali folk story, The Hunter’s Children.
As V5 showed us, the kingdoms can—and sometimes do—face Huntsman shortages when a sudden, large number of them are killed off. That is a very real, very possible threat. Therefore, the idea that an academy might deny someone entry on the basis of four-person teams (and thereby contribute to a future shortage) is indicative of a dangerously flawed system.
Granted, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing from a story-telling perspective. For starters, plenty of real-world colleges and universities have waitlists because there are only so many students they can accommodate at a time. And there’s nothing wrong with including flaws in your work, if your plan as a writer is to point out and deconstruct those flaws within the story.
But RWBY doesn’t do this. It doesn’t tell us if the academies can only accept a certain number of students per year, or if that number has to be a multiple of four. It doesn’t tell us if they have a waitlist, or if there’s a vetting process for deciding which applicants get to enroll that year. It doesn’t take the time to draw attention to how tradition might actually make things worse, or have the characters propose new ideas in its stead.
But, yes. A yearbook would be a lovely idea. Perhaps we could use it to bludgeon the show to death.
@valohabercisi's leaks on X suggest the Kuronami collection might feature Melee, Vandal, and Sheriff in White, Black, Purple, and Green. The community sees similarities to the Reaver skins. The Kuronami no Yaiba melee skin resembles a kusarigama, with a spinning chain design discussed by @valohabercisi on X. Expected around December 28, 2023, coinciding with the Exclusive tier Overdrive bundle expiration.
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