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VALORANT Patch 1.07 Has Major Agent Updates

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Another VALORANT patch is finally here! VALORANT Patch 1.07 is the second update since the release of Act 2 and has a lot of new changes. Killjoy gets her first update, and Viper, Breach, Sova, and Sage also get some tweaks.

Agent Updates

SAGE

  • Heal reduced from 100 over 5 seconds >>> 60 over 5 seconds  
  • Self heal reduced from 100 over 5 seconds >>> 60 over 10 seconds
  • Slow Orb size reduced by 30%
  • Barrier Orb cost reduced from 400 >>> 300
  • Fortifying Barrier: Wall forms at 400 HP—after a 3 second delay, the wall becomes fortified to 800 HP

KILLJOY

  • Brief windup before Nanoswarm damage begins
  • DPS reduced from 60 >>> 40
  • Visual effects have been added to make it easier to spot the grenade on the ground Stealth audio range has been slightly increased
  • Turret no longer revealed by Sova’s Recon Bolt  
  • Turret more effectively shoots at an enemy’s last known location

VIPER

  • Toxic Screen can now be placed during the buy phase of rounds, through spawn barriers
  • Toxic Screen now goes up faster along it’s full length, once it starts to form
  • Decay on all smoke abilities no longer affects allies
  • The area of Viper’s Pit is now shown on her team’s minimap when deployed

BREACH

  •  Flashes now match the behaviour of other flashes in the game and apply a minimum amount of flash more aggressively
  • Charges increased from 2 >>> 3
  • Reduced flash windup time from 0.6 seconds >>> 0.5 seconds
  • Rolling Thunder detonation delay between blasts decreased from 0.3 >>> 0.255
  • Concuss now de-scopes players and prevents re-scoping

SOVA

  • Updated the physics on Sova’s cape so that it should wiggle outside his hitbox less frequently  
  • Polish work on Sova’s 1P hands to bring them up to the fidelity bar of the rest of our agents

Weapon Updates

All Shotguns

  • When getting headshot by a shotgun, the aimpunch will be lower than all the other weapons
  • Hitting an enemy past 10 meters will apply a different tagging value to them instead of the standard tagging
  • New tagging: 30% slow for .5s on a smooth curve going back to normal speed

The goal of these changes is to improve the feel of playing against shotguns and to ensure that they don’t end up doing odd things. For example, tagging or aimpunching people from longer than expected ranges and then a teammate ends up killing someone who’s debuffed, or makes it hard to fight back against a weapon that should be deadly up close but fairly non-threatening outside its effective range

Riot Games

SHORTY

  • 1st falloff range reduced from 9m >>> 7m
  • Updated headshot multiplier from 3x >>> 2x (now the same as Judge and Bucky).

JUDGE

  • Price increased from 1500 >>> 1600

VANDAL

  • Increased firing rate from 9.25 >>> 9.75
  • Increased damage from 39 >>> 40

Goal is to bring the Vandal in closer competition with the Phantom. We believe these weapons aren’t that far off in competition and hope these changes will do that.

Riot Games

Hit Impact VFX Update

  • Server hit VFX confirms will now spawn at the location of the hit on the character and stay attached to that position (previously, it spawned at the game space location and stayed there)
  • An additional client-predicted small spark VFX now spawns immediately at the game space location of a hit
  • Adjusted the sparks hit VFX colouring and shape adjusted to more closely resemble blood VFX shape
  • Adjusted the size of headshot VFX, where both blood and sparks are scaled-down slightly

Competitive Updates

  • Remake match: When a match begins with a 4v5 (or more lopsided teams), players will now have the option to end the game they’re in and queue for a new one.
  • If any player is disconnected at the start of the match (beginning of buy phase) through the entire first round, a remake call may be triggered at the start of the second round by typing /remake in chat.
  • All connected players on the team that called the remake may vote to remake the game— It’s required that all connected players agree to remake the game
  • If the vote is successfully passed and the game is remade, all players who voted do not receive any XP or MMR adjustments for the match. The match will also not show up in match history. All disconnected players not part of the vote will take a full MMR loss for the game, and receive a leaver penalty equivalent to disconnecting from a full match.
  • Act Ranks visuals have been updated to better differentiate wins at different rank tiers
  • Changed some potentially misleading verbiage in the restriction message for players who need to play more unrated games to unlock competitive play

Quality Of Life

  • Observers can toggle aim lines for players (default bind: R)
  • Observers can change which teams outline are visible (defaults: H – All, J – Friendly to spectated player, K – Enemies of spectates players, L – None)
  • Corpse markers shown when corpses are disabled now obey colorblind settings
  • Hotkey order for selecting players for observers should no longer shuffle in overtime
  • Observers should now see the money on the HUD for the player they are spectating
  • Added a setting for disabling the in-game UI (General -> Hide User Interface In Game)
  • Added a setting for disabling the cross-hair (Crosshair -> Disable Crosshair)
  • Observers can hide first person character arms. (General -> Hide First Person Arms)
  • Observers can toggle team-based crosshair coloring for spectated targets via the settings menu (General -> Use Team Color for Crosshair Color)
  • Improved framerate by allowing a wider variety of VFX to be multi-threaded, examples include Brimstone’ Sky Smokes and Breach’s Rolling Thunder
  • For anyone who’d rather keep their identity private in-game, we’ve added these features:
  • Hide my name from non-party members (agent name will be used)
  • Hide the names of others in my game who aren’t in my party (agent names will be shown)
  • Hit impact VFX improvements (see dedicated section for breakdown)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where if both teams try to call a surrender vote, the team who called it second wouldn’t get the option to vote
  • Fixed a bug that displayed the Act Rank tooltip in English only when another language was selected

That’s all for this weeks VALORANT patch 1.07. Make sure to check out more of the latest VALORANT news and guides on Gamezo, the new and upcoming gaming site. Also, make sure to follow us on TwitterInstagram and YouTube.

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