Valorant developer Riot Games has launched a model new replace for the free-to-play PC recreation. Valorant replace 7.08 makes large enhancements to the Playoffs Tournament Queue, which is now solely quarter-hour in comparison with an hour. In higher news for followers, Riot Games has made slight changes to the rows of Agents, including more room for fiuture characters to be launched. Elsewhere, Smokes have been given a visible replace, whereas Ability equipping sounds are not audible to your Allies.

GENERAL UPDATES

● We made a slight adjustment to the rows of Agents you may choose from on the backside of the display in an effort to make room for future Agents.

AGENT UPDATES

● Smoke Visual Update

• Some of the important thing smokes can manipulate the play house for chunk of time and we really feel it is very important have the ability to make the appropriate choices within the second. We’ve added audio and visible cues on the finish of our longer lasting smokes to present you a little bit of a heads up for when the smoke will disappear.

• Smokes play an audio and visible cue 1.5 seconds earlier than they're about to fade. The following Agents’ smokes have been affected...

 - Astra

 - Brimstone

 - Omen

 - Ability equipping sounds are not audible to your Allies.

 - Previously, the sound of you equipping talents as sure Agents could possibly be heard by allies that had been very near you.

 - Hearing this audio was inconsistent with equipping weapons, that are silent to allies, and resulted in confusion round if enemies had been capable of hear these sounds.

 - We hope this modification will make the principles round equipping gun and talent audio extra constant and make what could be heard by enemies simpler to study and perceive.

PREMIER UPDATES

Premier Playoffs Tournament Queue Changes

● The Playoffs Tournament Queue is now solely quarter-hour as a substitute of 1 hour. If you don’t queue up and keep queued inside the 15 minute window, your workforce will be unable to play within the Tournament.

● At the tip of the ready interval, all groups which might be nonetheless within the queue will probably be matched at one time into evenly distributed brackets seeded by Premier Score.

● This change ensures that having a greater common season document provides you a better seeding in your match.

STORE UPDATES

● Your Level Borders and Player Card assortment UI is getting an improve! You’ll now have the ability to search, navigate, and equip your Level Borders and Player Cards utilizing our grid UI.

BUG FIXES

Agent

● Deadlock

 - Annihilation (X) can not open Bind’s automated doorways from outdoors the teleporter rooms.

 - Annihilation (X) can not open Breeze’s Mid Chute trapdoor from under. ● Neon

 - Fast Lane (C) now extra reliably totally extends by way of Fracture’s A Door when forged from the skin, behaving the identical as when used from inside A Hall.

General

● Fixed a bug the place the music would hitch/skip whereas loading right into a map or the Range.

● Fixed a bug the place capturing vary bots wouldn't reset their hitbox place correctly when respawning.

Player Behavior

● Fixed a bug so that you just’ll obtain the right Ranked Rating penalties for disruptive conduct.

Weapons

● Fixed a bug the place killbanner audio was taking part in too quietly.