Valorant developer Riot Games has released a brand new update for the free-to-play PC game. Valorant update 7.08 makes massive improvements to the Playoffs Tournament Queue, which is now only 15 minutes compared to an hour. In better news for fans, Riot Games has made slight adjustments to the rows of Agents, adding more space for fiuture characters to be released. Elsewhere, Smokes have been given a visual update, while Ability equipping sounds are no longer audible to your Allies.
GENERAL UPDATES
● We made a slight adjustment to the rows of Agents you can select from at the bottom of the screen in order to make room for future Agents.
AGENT UPDATES
● Smoke Visual Update
• Some of the key smokes can manipulate the play space for a good chunk of time and we feel it is important to be able to make the right decisions in the moment. We’ve added audio and visual cues at the end of our longer lasting smokes to give you a bit of a heads up for when the smoke will disappear.
• Smokes play an audio and visual cue 1.5 seconds before they are about to fade. The following Agents’ smokes have been affected…
– Astra
– Brimstone
– Omen
– Ability equipping sounds are no longer audible to your Allies.
– Previously, the sound of you equipping abilities as certain Agents could be heard by allies that were very close to you.
– Hearing this audio was inconsistent with equipping guns, which are silent to allies, and resulted in confusion around if enemies were able to hear these sounds.
– We hope this change will make the rules around equipping gun and ability audio more consistent and make what can be heard by enemies easier to learn and understand.
PREMIER UPDATES
Premier Playoffs Tournament Queue Changes
● The Playoffs Tournament Queue is now only 15 minutes instead of 1 hour. If you don’t queue up and stay queued within the 15 minute window, your team will not be able to play in the Tournament.
● At the end of the waiting period, all teams that are still in the queue will be matched at one time into evenly distributed brackets seeded by Premier Score.
● This change ensures that having a better regular season record gives you a higher seeding in your tournament.
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STORE UPDATES
● Your Level Borders and Player Card collection UI is getting an upgrade! You’ll now be able to search, navigate, and equip your Level Borders and Player Cards using our grid UI.
BUG FIXES
Agent
● Deadlock
– Annihilation (X) can no longer open Bind’s automatic doors from outside the teleporter rooms.
– Annihilation (X) can no longer open Breeze’s Mid Chute trapdoor from below. ● Neon
– Fast Lane (C) now more reliably fully extends through Fracture’s A Door when cast from the outside, behaving the same as when used from inside A Hall.
General
● Fixed a bug where the music would hitch/skip while loading into a map or the Range.
● Fixed a bug where shooting range bots would not reset their hitbox position properly when respawning.
Player Behavior
● Fixed a bug so that you’ll receive the correct Ranked Rating penalties for disruptive behavior.
Weapons
● Fixed a bug where killbanner audio was playing too quietly.
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