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The following is a list of changes made in patch v0.49.
Agent Updates[]
Breach[]
- General
Updated visuals
Cypher[]
Cyber Cage
- Fixed a bug where Cyber Cage would be selected at a larger range than intended
Omen[]
- From the Shadows
- Omen now immediately becomes vulnerable and no longer appears dark after he leaves his alternate shadow form
- Attenuation radius of the arrival sound reduced to 2250
- General
- Updated visuals
Phoenix[]
Sage[]
- Barrier Orb
- Will only spawn a chunk of the barrier if it is supported by the ground
- Can no longer be placed on "small" pieces of geometry
Viper[]
- Toxic Screen
- Updated the appearance on the minimap to show gaps in the wall
- Viper's Pit
- Fixed ability to animation-cancel Viper's Pit
Weapon Updates[]
- Shotguns
- Moved the crosshair’s center dot by 1px to center it on the screen
- Bucky
- Applies instantaneous hitscan damage instead of shooting a projectile
Map Updates[]
- Added curtains to the top of double doors on Haven
- Fixed issue with Cypher camera being placed on the Haven A Main boxes
- Multiple fixes to the geometry on Haven, Bind, and Split to fix exploits and help optimize gameplay
- Updated materials on Bind and Haven to make surfaces more consistent overall
- Changed color of Radianite crates in order to unify overall visuals
Mode Updates[]
- Added Competitive mode and ranked matchmaking, to go live in the near future
Other Updates[]
Observer Mode[]
- Added “Ghost cheat” as an option to custom games with cheats enabled, allowing you to fly around the map in no-clip mode
- Ability HUD no longer displays when entering drone camera as an observer
- Exiting drone camera will now swap back to the most recently viewed player if they’re still a valid view target
- Swapping through players to view will now iterate through an entire team before going to players on the other team
HUD & UI[]
- In-game
- New directional damage indicator visual
- New low health and low ammo visuals
- Removed character portrait from player’s minimap icon to better distinguish player icon
- Voice activity is now shown above allies’ heads
- Added color to spike icon above ally’s head to make it easier to see
- Fixed the ultimate ability icon above teammates’ heads showing as charged after gaining 1 ult point instead of when actually charged
- Ping elements now fade when under player aim; previously only text faded
- Prevent “Spike Planted” announcement from playing after a round has ended and hiding the round end announcement
- Fixed Bomb Carrier Killed announcement from also showing Ally Defusing
- Fixed a rare issue where players’ weapons would float in front of them
- Fixed a rare issue where third-person player models could get desynced from the server when double tapping a defuse, causing some shots to miss
- Fixed aim issue that caused some players who were using low sensitivity to have small mouse movements dropped
- Fixed issue where canceling a plant or orb pickup could sometimes play the wrong (slower) re-equip animation
- Fixed map region names as they appear below the minimap from not localizing properly
- Smoothed out movement during player-to-player collisions
- Fixed a bug where item UI prompt in the game world would appear to block bullets
- Fixed a bug where the Z ping wheel could be opened alongside the map ping wheel
- Fixed a bug where ping wheel wouldn’t show disabled when direct bound pings were used to reach usage limit
- Fixed a rare bug where either team could win a round by elimination on the same frame that the spike was defused, granting two points for that round
- Fixed overlap in ally planting announcement
- Fixed a bug where the VO radial wheel would hit the rate limit by opening and closing it without selecting a VO option
- Minimap will no longer randomly hide for all players in a game
- Line of sight is no longer required to pick up the spike when overlapped by a player
- Fixed network stability indicator sometimes appearing when setting was disabled
- Fixed issue where the spike would sometimes become unretrievable
- Out-of-game
- Relocated Find Match button from social panel to Play screen; renamed to Start
- Relocated Practice button from social panel to Play screen
- Added Play Again button to End of Game screen
- Made the flyouts on the nav progression widget clickable
- Made main navigation button click targets easier to click
- Added an option to orient the fixed minimap so that player’s starting side is always at the bottom
- Adjusted all map assets so that full fixed orientations consistently place attackers at bottom and defenders at top
- Added hover tooltips to thumbnails in the Collections view to show item name
- Scroll speed tweaked to make scrolling social panel smoother
- Made crosshair preview in Settings shorter to make more room for controls
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to purchase items not available in their respective store
- Fixed an issue that let players equip content they didn't own
- Fixed issue where display settings would get re-applied when joining/leaving games, which could move the window or change display mode in rare cases
- Fixed various connection issues with voice chat
- Fixed various connection issues with text chat
- Fixed an issue preventing some player reports from submitting
- Fixed various issues with player state being incorrect in social panel
- Fixed an issue where some players could not requeue after a game without relogging
- Fixed issues with receiving party invitations
- Fixed transparent player card icons in Custom Game lobbies
- Fixed resetting controls for Voice Chat in settings
- Fixed voice defaulting to automatic transmission for Custom Games
- Fixed voice being interrupted when navigating Custom Game options
- Fixed a handful of localization issues across menu screens
Quality of Life[]
- Added the ability to abandon a multiplayer Custom Game
- Using the “Leave match” button in the ESC menu will allow you to permanently leave the match without penalty
- Leaving the custom game in any other way will still allow you to return to the match
- Updated the audio occlusion system to help players better differentiate audio distancing cues
- Players who abandon matchmade games, or dodge agent selects, will now experience penalties that prevent them from queuing for a period of time
- Frequent offenders will experience higher queue time penalties
- Enabled the ability to see VALORANT players online in Riot games
- Adjusted play flow UX moving queue buttons into lobby screens
- Adjusted social panel UX to accommodate additional space
- Adjusted End of Game UX to clean up design of various widgets
- Adjusted chat disconnect error state to be less… intimidating
- Spawn practice bots option in the shooting range moved from the F3 menu to an in-world shootable switch