Patch Notes

The Agent of your dreams is here, ready to turn them into nightmares. Patch 4.08 introduces the next Initiator Agent, Fade, to the roster, you get new tiers of exclusives in the Battlepass, and access to a skinline that pops.

The VALORANT Agents have been busy with a pretty frightening problem. Explore around the Shooting Range to find out what they're up to.

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This is the start of VALORANT Episode 4 Act II, the one focused on cleaning house. It starts with the promised Yoru overhaul, a reshaping of the Controller role, and a renovation to Icebox (don’t skip that Ascent update though).

We’ve been collecting player feedback on DM these past few months and are introducing a few changes to address some of the main points of frustration around the spawning system:

Improved latency for Windowed Fullscreen mode to match closer to Fullscreen Exclusive These improvements should play well with in-game overlays, however, having another program’s window on top of your gameplay window will negate these benefits.

Muted Words List added to the settings

[Editor’s Note: These notes previously mentioned changes to the melee—also listed in the highlights image—but will instead ship with Patch 4.01]

Light one to close the year so you can go home and be a family person.

After a brief delay we’re happy to get the newest Agent, Chamber, into your game. Also, 5-stacks for all ranks in the Competitive queue is added with a few conditions in place that impact how much or how little Ranked Rating a group of five will earn. We highly recommend you read those below, along with our Competitive Producers notes.

Along with the new VALORANT Act III Battlepass and Competitive refresh (there’s also that new Agent arriving later), we put the Classic through some honing and rearranged some furniture on Fracture.

No Agents were harmed in the making of Patch 3.08. Instead, you can thank your local dev for those less flashy but important changes coming to VALORANT today. Report feedback, hidden Account Levels, and more are listed below.

I hope the last patch was enough excitement for one patch cycle. Patch 3.07 is all about fixing a number of common crashes some of you may have experienced in the past.

This round of balance changes targets two Initiators: Skye and KAY/O. Skye’s benefitted from some quick movement shortly after her flashes and frequent Seekers, so we’ve slowed her down a tad and bumped the cost of her ult. For KAY/O, he should be better at hiding his FLASH/drive pitches.

VALORANT Episode 3 continues with Act II, with new features all collected in this article for easy reading (Fracture map, fresh Battlepass, Spectrum skinline!).

Patch 3.04 rolls deep with the gameplay tech and esports features updates along with copious amounts of bug fixes among Agents and other areas.

Hey! Let’s start with a quick note on Yoru from our Character Producer, John Goscicki:

More bug fixes in this patch while we continue to evaluate those large Episode 3 changes—especially KAY/O’s overall impact.

Patch 3.0 was like an over-sized meal, where now we sit and let the food settle.

Aside from the below, don’t forget the rest that is coming as part of Episode 3 Act I, which you can read about in our summary. Now a word from our design leads: