VALORANT PATCH UPDATE
VALORANT PATCH SKIN
VALORANT PATCH PATCH

VALORANT PATCH PATCH

Note that these changes were all taken from the VALORANT 5.07 PBE Patch Notes and may not reflect Patch 5.07 once it hits live servers in a couple of weeks. This is a feature that has been increasingly requested as the number of the skins in the game increased.

VALORANT PATCH SKIN

Equipping a Random Favorite skin on a gun will give you a random skin from your selected favorites, including all of the variants that you own. On the less gameplay side of things, you can now set some gun skins as your Favorite.

Skye’s Guiding Light will receive a rebalance, and KAY/O’s pop flash will receive some nerfs while his overhand flash receives buffs. On the other side of the coin, the Initiators Skye and KAY/O will have their effectiveness by themselves tuned down. Reyna and Yoru will receive some nice buffs on their respective blinds and flashes, with Reyna’s Leer no longer having a distance restriction and Yoru’s Blindside having a longer duration, among other changes.

This has been added to the following game modes: Unrated, Competitive, Spike Rush, and Replication, with more game modes to follow in the near future.VALORANT’s Public Beta Environment, or PBE, updated to Patch 5.07 with changes to flashes and a feature that players have been requesting since release.

We've introduced a feature that will show at the end of game screen, which players have been detected for engaging in disruptive gameplay-based behavior.

Disruptive Gameplay-based Behavior Indicator.

The cubby on the right will also shrink slightly to keep it from being too deep. By tightening the choke by a margin, we hope to make smoking easier and give a small buff to defenders (i.e, a new utility spot).

A Main to A Site - This spot was unnecessarily tough to smoke effectively.

A Main - Removing a cut out on the wall of A Main to simplify the space, which should also make this area slightly easier for defenders to aggro into ( although really, you should hold site).

The stack of boxes cover closer to the site will shift from the left side to the right, to simplify the number of angles approaching players need to consider, as well as close a difficult sightline to B Hall. We’re keeping a little attacker-side power, but making it easier for defenders to manage.

B Link - This box provides a good piece of cover for attackers pushing B link, but it’s been tough to re-clear for defenders.

We’re simplifying the space so there are fewer areas to check.

A Art - We noticed the difficulty both sides have had moving effectively through A Art.

This should make it slightly easier for defenders to challenge mid.

Mid Top - Mid currently favors attackers so we've pushed in a wall on Mid Top, to remove a 50-50 check.

Mid Shops to Mid Plaza - This is another spot on Mid Shops that’s proven to be painful to clear when trying to move through mid.

By extending the platform, we're still keeping some of the holding power for attackers, but making it easier to push this area.

Mid Shops - Clearing this area in Mid Shops is harder than we intended.

B Main - Lowered waist-high wall on the left side of B Main so that it can no longer completely hide anyone.

Pearl is getting a handful of small updates that aim to reduce some complexity and make it easier to move through a few areas for both attackers and defenders.

For an option that's about being more accurate, it felt like the first shot had more variance than we'd like, especially at the ranges you'd want to use the burst fire mode.

Alt Fire first shot error adjusted from.

Lowering the top spread should make it feel more reliable at the appropriate range once you’ve overcome the learning curve of the recoil.

Our goal for the Stinger is to feel controllable and appropriately lethal at short ranges, but currently, even in close-quarters, it can feel out-of-control.

Primary Fire error adjusted from 1.6 error after 7 bullets > 1.3 error after 6 bullets.

The Stinger is also dropping from the rafters with some new facepaint, in the form of primary and alt-fire changes. There are some good bones here, it just needed a quick fixer upper.

VALORANT PATCH UPDATE

Since the launch of Pearl in the summer, the map team has put in work based on months-worth of feedback to make the first major update to the underwater map.

Valorant patch