Riot Games has announced the launch of the new Valorant 1.06 patch today, which is available now across all regions.
Confirming the changes made, Riot Games released a set of update notes that reveal wholesale tweaks have been made to shotguns.
“While shotguns are doing well in situations they are supposed to, there have been overly frustrating moments where people are accurate with these weapons while in the air,” a message from Riot explains.
“We hope to curb some of those encounters while still making them possible if you catch an opponent at a short distance. We’ll also be investigating more potential changes to shotguns now that we’re rested.”
The good news is that many of the changes released today have been limited to the Shotgun, but others have also been announced and include the following changes:
AGENT UPDATES
- The audio and visuals for blinding effects (Phoenix Curveball and Breach Flashpoint) should better indicate when to turn away, and when it’s safe to look again
WEAPON UPDATES
- All shotguns updated to be less accurate when fired while in the air
- Spread penalty when in air increased .5 >>> 1.25
QUALITY OF LIFE
- In Collection menu screens, the “Show Owned Only” toggle now persists between screens and client restarts.
BUG FIXES
- Potential fix for the bug where the player’s HUD sometimes disappears.
- Fixed a bug in deathmatch match history & match details where ties between 3 or more players were not displaying as a tie, instead showing the lowest rank as if they were not tied (so a 3 way tie for 2nd would show 4TH PLACE instead of 2ND PLACE (TIED)).
- Fixed a bug that allowed progress towards competitive matchmaking for new players by forfeiting unrated games.
- Forfeited games will not count towards the Competitive requirement for the team who forfeited.
- Fixed a bug where ‘’ would appear in the chat log.
- Fixed a bug where strange player names could appear in chat when managing party invites
- Fixed a bug where some players were missing rewards after reaching the end of Agent Contracts or the Act Battlepass. Playing a game should grant the missing rewards, including missing rewards from Act 1.
Another update is expected to land this week, although this will be mainly focused on the game store.
And these new changes might not be the only ones fans will notice in-game this week.
According to dataminers looking into the game files, a new Nebula skins collection is being primed for release.
This is expected to land later this week and may even be ready to launch and buy on August 21.
The Nebula Collection is spaced themed and will dominated by a swirling space dust design.
If this new collection is ready to launch this week, expect to find out more about it in the coming 24-hours.
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