Muting gamers in a aggressive on-line sport like VALORANT isn’t sufficient to cease toxicity throughout matches. Earlier than Patch 6.06, the sport would nonetheless show pings from gamers you had muted, which the griefers might theoretically abuse to maintain affecting your expertise in a damaging means.
That ought to now not be an issue, as Riot Video games eliminated the one VALORANT software griefers bought of their possession after being muted. “Mounted a bug inflicting ping icons to be displayed even when somebody was muted,” the Patch 6.06 notes learn. “Muting somebody will now correctly suppress ping icons.”
This bug repair will stop gamers which were muted from annoying their teammates with ping spamming throughout matches. Now, must you mute somebody, that particular person gained’t be capable of talk with you inside the sport in any means by any means and subsequently can’t hassle you anymore.
Though the bug allowed decided griefers to damage the expertise of different gamers, eradicating their capability to ping the map after being muted is also problematic, in keeping with one participant in VALORANT‘s official subreddit.
“I’m truly unsure how I really feel about ping icons being muted when somebody is muted,” the participant said. “Usually instances I mute teammates who’re poisonous or annoying as a result of I can belief that if nothing else they’ll nonetheless be capable of ping a spot on the map.”
Riot fastened plenty of different social bugs as properly in VALORANT Patch 6.06, on prime of including balancing modifications to Gekko, the game’s latest agent. The initiator’s Mosh Pit (C) injury to things has been noticeably nerfed as a result of it was performing “inconsistently” in comparison with talents like FRAG/ment (C) from KAY/O and Aftershock (C) from Breach, whereas Wingman (Q) has been buffed. Transferring ahead, Gekko’s companion will now not at all times die when he’s the final one alive.
