Valorant Patch Notes (Today, May 11): New Game Mode, Viper Nerf
Everything we know about Valorant s latest update.
Riot Games recently released the much-awaited Patch 2.09 for Valorant, and here’s everything you need to know about today’s update.
Valorant is one of the most popular multiplayer first-person shooter games right now. Millions of worldwide players love grinding in the game for hours because of its competitive approach. Unlike other FPS games like CS:GO, Valorant flaunts multiple agents with unique abilities.
Riot devs regularly release new updates to give players some new content while also fixing some in-game bugs/glitches. And today (May 11th, 2021), the developers released another update.
Valorant Update 2.05 (Today, March 16) - Patch Notes and AFK Changes
Going AFK will put you in trouble.
Riot Games has released the
Valorantpatch 2.05 and has added unique keybinds for various agents and along with this, improvements have been made to the competitive and AFK penalty system. A bunch of bugs have been fixed as well to enhance the gameplay experience for players. Here you can find the complete patch notes of the
Valorant 2.05 update:
Valorant Update 2.05 Patch Notes
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Sova
Astra
Competitive Updates
The Career: Act Rank tab now has a toggle which allows you to choose to enable or disable your Act Rank. The default is on, but if you don’t want to flex your skills, you can always turn it off.
Valorant Patch 2.05 official notes bring massive competitive changes to clamp down on disruptive behavior
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Valorant patch 2.05 is right around the corner, and the official notes reveal that the new update will not be as massive as the previous one.
Sova and Astra will be getting some minor tweaks to their kit to give them a bit more quality of life. That’s more or less the only Agent changes that Valorant players can look forward to this time around.
The Competitive mode will be receiving some much-needed changes this time around as Riot is bent on penalizing disruptive behavior.
The trade off of moving and shooting in
Valorant has been a frequent target of balance adjustments for Riot so far. Punishing movement too much can make the game feel unnecessarily slow and can lead to firefights that feel clunky. But not punishing movement enough causes the game to lose some of the tension and careful movement that helps make a tactical shooter like
On top of the changes to shooting, this patch also brings a fix for the Omen bug that caused his teleport to get stuck on the corners of certain objects. Now Omen players should have an easier time teleporting exactly where they mean to, instead of directly into the enemy’s crosshairs.
Valorant 2.02 Patch Notes Are Live Now
Riot s FPS is getting changes to rifle movement accuracy and Competitive mode, along with the usual bug fixes. The 2.02 patch for Valorant aims to start the process of fixing running accuracy, along with shifts to the Competitive system to help ensure players are reaching the proper rank faster while stabilizing the battle for top ranks.
One of the first things the patch is touching up is rifle movement accuracy. All rifles now have a much higher amount of error when moving and shooting. This is to help combat the sensation of running kills gained using rifles, and will make getting kills with rifles while moving more difficult (but not impossible if you can get close enough).