VALORANT 10.04 PATCH NOTES

• Refract

• INSTANTLY create a beacon of light on the floor. REACTIVATE to speed back to your beacon as a mote of pure light. You are invulnerable as you travel.

• Light Speed

• EQUIP to prepare for a burst of speed. FIRE to dash forward twice. ALT FIRE to dash once. Only your first dash can send you upward.

• Saturate

• INSTANTLY throw a cluster of light that explodes upon contact with the ground, HINDERING nearby players with a powerful movement and weapon slow.

• Hinder

• Applies a debuff that SLOWS which impacts:
• Fire Rate
• Recoil Recovery
• Equip Time
• Reload Speed
• Movement Speed
• Jump Speed

• Convergent Paths

• EQUIP to focus your prismatic power. FIRE to create an afterimage of yourself that projects a beam of light. After a brief delay, you gain a powerful speed boost and the beam expands, HINDERING other players in the area.

Clove

• Meddle

1. No longer explodes after a 1.3 second timer after casting. Explodes after contact with the ground after a 0.75s timer.
2. Projectile audio has been updated to fit this new behavior.

• Ruse

1. Cooldown duration increased from 30s >>> 40s

• Pick Me Up

1. Health buff duration increased from 8s >>> 10s
2. Move speed duration reduced from 8s >>> 3s

Deadlock

• Barrier Mesh

1. Changed to a non-signature ability
2. Cost: Free >>> 400 credits

• GravNet

1. Changed to a signature ability with 40s cooldown
2. Total Size decreased from 16m >>> 13m
3. Gravnet’s Projectile audio loop has been updated to increase its gameplay clarity.
4. When an enemy removes the net, the audio cue of the net breaking now plays for all players.

Iso

• We’re reverting Iso’s Double Tap tagging change, as trying to kill Iso through his shield is already a highly frustrating and powerful moment.
• Changes to Kill Contract are intended to ensure that won duels in the arena always spawn an orb.

• Undercut

1. Reduced charges from 2 >>> 1
2. Cost increased from 200 >>> 300 credits
3. Now applies Suppression alongside Vulnerability for the same duration (4s) on players hit.

• Contingency

1. Now has an Alt-Fire cast that makes the wall move at half the speed
2. This does not affect the duration of Contingency.

• Double Tap

1. Iso now receives a Heavy Penetration tag rather than a Wall Penetration tag when the shield is broken. This means he’s slowed more upon his shield breaking.

• Kill Contract

1. BUGFIX: If Iso DOES NOT have Double Tap’s buff applied, the ultimate will now automatically apply it so that won ultimate duels always spawn an orb.

Neon

• Guided Salvo

1. Damage decreased from 70 >>> 65
2. Guided Salvo now does 50% damage to non-player objects.

MAP UPDATES

• Map Rotation

1. Ascent and Icebox are back IN the COMPETITIVE and DEATHMATCH queues.
2. Abyss and Bind are OUT of the COMPETITIVE and DEATHMATCH queues.

Ascent

While bullet penetration is a meaningful system that rewards map knowledge and situational execution, we feel like the weapon spam here at barrier drop is currently creating unhealthy gameplay and frustrating experiences. This change will give Attackers some added safety at barrier drop when first approaching B Main.

 

 

• B Main
• Changed part of the B Main wall along B Lane to non-pennable.

GAMEPLAY SYSTEMS UPDATES

1. Combat Report
2. Overhauled visuals of the detailed damage breakdown panel to be more organized and intuitive.

BUG FIXES

• Neon

• Checked in a more systemic fix to an issue where Neon could jiggle her head up and down while sliding if mashing strafing inputs.

• Fade

• Fixed an issue where Fade’s hands got stuck in place if she crouched while holding Nightfall out.

Competitive

• Fixed an issue where the Rank Shield icon on the Match History page would disappear after playing a non-Competitive game.

• General

• There is a bug where the first person camera angle may be slightly offset from the expected player point of view while spectating another player.

• Generally speaking, we believe that the best version of VAL is true across all platforms. As a result, we only look to make console-specific changes when absolutely necessary. We’d like to take this opportunity to adjust any changes that may no longer be needed. If you’re curious, we approach this problem by taking a look at data and community feedback to evaluate performance on each platform.

Neon

• We’ve been paying close attention to Neon for a long time on console… After her nerfs in patch 9.11, we looked at her current power-profile and are comfortable in increasing some of her potential.
• Overdrive
• Head Damage Multiplier increased 2.5 >>> 3.0 (Standardizing to PC)
• Body Damage Multiplier: 1.0 (unchanged, already same as PC)
• Leg Damage Multiplier increased 0.75 >>> 0.85 (Standardizing to PC)
• Sprint
• Fuel Drain Per Second: 0.11 >>> 0.1 (Standardizing to PC)

Yoru

• Dimensional Drift

• Unequip delay decreased 1.2s >>> 0.8s (Standardizing to PC)

• Fakeout

• Max flash duration increased 2.0s >>> 3.0s (Standardizing to PC)
• Flash explosion delay increased: 0.6s >>> 0.8s
• Note: We’re keeping the console-specific counterplay added to Yoru’s Fakeout.

• Blindside

• Max Flash Duration increased from 1.25s >>> 1.75s (Standardizing to PC)
• Flash Explosion Delay: 0.7s >>> 0.6s (Standardizing to PC)

Reyna

• Reyna’s Leer is relatively weaker than we expected over time.
• Leer Health increased 40 >>> 100 (Standardizing to PC)
• Note: Similar to Yoru’s Decoy Flash, Leer continues to have a slightly longer (+0.2s) activation time and duration. This patch does not change that.