After a brief scare on the competitive ladder, VALORANT has announced its latest patch jam-packed with agent updates. In patch 1.04, Viper finally received what hopes to be the necessary buffs to get her to a competitive level. As always, there are some more bug fixes and quality of life changes.
[Related: VALORANT Agent Tier List Patch 1.03: Vision is King]
Check out the
full patch notes here.
Agent Changes
Brimstone
- Orbital Strike cost changed from 6 to 7 points
- Stim Beacon no longer buffs enemies and no longer shows its effect radius to enemies
- Brimstone’s arms look nicer
Cypher
- Cyber Cage can now be picked up during the buy phase
Raze
- Showstopper cost changed from 6 to 7 points
Viper
- Viper’s Pit
- Max duration outside of her ultimate before it collapses increased from 5 to 12 seconds.
- Viper can hold the ability key to drop the ultimate early
- Enemies in Viper’s Pit have their minimap obscured and do not provide minimap detection to their allies
- Increased the brightness of the red enemy glow at the edge of Viper’s near-sight
- Decay
- Enemy decay per second increased from 10 to 15 from all sources
- After exiting Viper’s smoke, enemy decay sustains for 2.5 seconds before starting to fade
- Fuel
- Having both Poison Cloud and Toxic Screen active does not consume additional fuel beyond the cost of having one active
Weapon Changes
Classic
- Fixed a bug where running inaccuracy on the right-click was much higher than intended
- Fixed a bug where jumping had no inaccuracy penalty
- Running spread is changed from 3.4 to 2.1
- Walking spread changed from 1.9 to 1.95
- Added a 10% bonus to accuracy when crouching or stationary
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where Reyna had to look at Soul Orbs to activate them and maintain her healing
- Fixed one-way Brimstone smokes when the player’s camera was around the top of the smoke
- Shortened the text on photosensitivity warning screen
- Fixed Breach’s Aftershock not properly applying damage when multiple people were affected by it
- Fixed jittering when reaching the max height for Sova’s drone
- Equip button no longer stays greyed out when purchasing a skin variant that is being previewed
- Fixed Marshall bug where weapon maintained accuracy while walking
- Fixed a typo in Brimstone’s biography
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