VALORANT PATCH NOTES 5.07 - Full List

With the new patch in VALORANT, several agents, Skye, KAY/O, and Reyna, were updated. The Fracture map has also undergone changes.

Agent Updates

The VALORANT Character Design team is constantly discussing the state of the Agent meta, and wanted to make some changes to sharpen some of our Agents and role definitions. We’re in a more stable state since Champions, and Game Changers teams will have decent time to acclimate before the Game Changers World Championships takes place.

When it comes to Duelists with a flash ability, many of them have been outclassed by some of our Initiators when it comes to generating kills for themselves off their flashes. Skye and KAY/O are often better at taking aggressive 1v1s than Agents that we expect to be able to thrive in those scenarios like Yoru, Phoenix, or Reyna.

These changes are intended to increase the total teamplay output of Skye and KAY/O when they coordinate plays with their teammates, and decrease some of their efficacy when played alone. We also hope to increase the reward for putting more time into mastering their flash abilities. We believe that Initiators should still be able to make solo plays, but they should ideally be weaker than their Duelist counterparts in these scenarios. —Dan “penguin” Hardison, Designer

Skye

Guiding Light (E) flashbang scaling paradigm changed

• The max flash duration of Skye's Guiding Light now scales from 1s to 2.25s over a .75s charge up after being cast
• Guiding Light can no longer be shot and destroyed
• New VFX, UI, and sounds added to communicate new gameplay intent
• Unequip Delay out of Guiding Light increased .75s >>> .85s

KAY/O

Flash/Drive (Q)

• Underhand (right-click) flashbang max duration decreased 2s>>>1.25s
• Overhand (left-click) flashbang max duration increased 2s>>>2.25s
• Unequip Delay out of both flashes increased .6s >>> .85s

Reyna

Leer (C)

• Wind-up of nearsight effect decreased .6s >>> .4s
• Range Restriction on Leer removed
• Nearsight unequip delay decreased: .7 >>> .5
• Duration decreased 2.6s >>> 2.0s

Yoru

• Blindside (Q) duration increased 1.5s >>>1.75s

Flash Visual Updates

• 3P visuals for flashed enemies and allies now render behind the player’s head the moment that the flash starts to fade. This should give a clearer indication if players are full flashed or if the flash has started to fade.
• 1P visuals when fully flashed now shrink overtime to give a better indication of when the full flash will end and the flash fading out will begin.
• Increased the window for awarding assists on flashes, nearsights and concusses from 1 >>> 3 seconds after the debuff starts to fade.
• We felt the assist window on these debuffs didn’t reflect their actual duration of impact, and want to make sure the supportive players are more often recognized and rewarded for setting up situations their teammates capitalize on.

Map Updates

Fracture

Arcade - Opened a cubby here to make it easier for Attacking side to hold against Defender aggression from both directions.

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B Site - “Jump” up has been changed to a ramp directly onto the site platform, which should make moving around that space more straightforward.

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B Generator - Space here tightened slightly to make smoking this spot easier. A small corner has also been removed to simplify attempts to re-clear the site.

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Defender Spawn - Removed a small cubby to slightly simplify those retakes.

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A Halls - Improved movement and simplified the space in A Halls by removing a corner.

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A Site - A minor simplification of the space as part of the overall changes to the surrounding areas.

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A Dish - The dish is intact but removed the far path to make moving through this space more direct for both sides. We found trying to watch/control these spaces simultaneously was unnecessarily difficult for all. The team hopes the changes here and on A Drop will encourage everyone to use this route more often.

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A Drop - The drop down is no longer a 50/50 check when entering, which should make it a little more appealing as a way for Attackers to squeeze A site from two sides.

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A Rope - This path has been a little too easy for Attackers to control with a single smoke. The adjustments should give Defenders more options for both the initial hold and retaking A. Watch your step.

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Progression Updates

Below are features that we’ve wanted to make for a while just as much as you’ve wanted them. We’ll admit, there’s still so much more that we can do, like inclusion of additional filtering options, a search function, expansion of the random feature to other content types, and more. The team wants it and are working on it—but we didn’t want to wait until every possible option was covered for us to release the changes here. Better a version of something than not having it at all.

This team shares the same belief as the rest of VALORANT: that the value of a “live service” game means we can develop with you and improve over time. It does mean that sometimes new stuff may seem bare bones as we vet a feature’s value, incrementally. As we push forward with both Favorites, Filters, and Randomizer (along with other QoL) we’re taking this step by step approach. Give us your feedback so we can improve this game together. —Micah Worsham, Manager, Game Production

Can now mark Favorites in Collection: These Favorites will persist for your account until you change them and allow you to filter down to the items that represent your style best.

• Weapon skins
• Player Cards
• Sprays
• Gun Buddies
• Account Level Borders

Added ability to equip a “Random Favorite” for every weapon type

• Equipping this particular weapon will make it so that in each game you play, you get one of your favorite weapons (along with one of the variants you own) at random each time you enter a match.

Added the ability to filter your Collection

• Weapon Skins
• Favorites / Non-Favorites
• Owned / Unowned
• Tiers

Player Cards, Sprays, Gun Buddies, Level Borders

• Favorites / Non-Favorites
• Owned / Unowned

Bug Updates

Agents

• Fixed issue where KAY/O’s NULL/CMD disabled Killjoy’s Turret if the turret is hit by a pulse but Killjoy is not
• Fixed issue where Killjoy’s Turret fires straight forward after firing at an enemy and then losing sight of them
• Fixed issue where Killjoy’s Turret would fire with no target when coming online if it was disabled while firing at a target
• Fixed a bug where Phoenix would not automatically re-equip a weapon at the end of Run It Back
• Fixed Breach’s Rolling Thunder showing dead enemies hit in the combat report
• Fixed issue where if a player was deafened by multiple sources, when the first deafen ended it removed the deafening effect completely