Valorant 7.04 Patch Notes: Main Agent Steadiness Modifications

Valorant patch 7.04 is all set to launch on August 29, and it’ll carry a model new battle cross, Act, skinline, and rather more. Along with this, the patch will implement among the largest nerfs to a complete of 11 brokers within the sport with a view to scale back the stress of dodging and countering talents.

“VALORANT asks you to make powerful choices when interacting with enemy utility—capturing, dodging, and timing your second to take a decisive motion. We would like everybody to come back away from rounds feeling like that they had the opportunity of making a greater play if solely they had been just a little quicker or smarter.”

“The workforce has seen that when confronted with a number of items of utility or a few of bigger scale ultimates, your avenues for counterplay can generally be overloaded, main you to really feel uncertain of what is taking place or what you possibly can do in another way subsequent time,” mentioned June Cuervo, Agent Designer.

Riot has revealed the preliminary patch notes for the Valorant 7.04 replace with the entire ones coming subsequent week detailing all of the agent steadiness modifications, and you may take a look at them under.

Valorant 7.04 Patch Notes

Brokers

Whereas Patch 7.04 contains modifications to over half of the roster, the modifications are sharply targeted on rising sport state readability by making the next changes:

• Lowering the frequency of huge space of impact of ultimates
• Lowering the period of time utility is energetic on the planet
• Lowering the HP of shootable utility
• We additionally consider the Final value updates under higher align giant space, high-impact ults with the stress they place on the enemy, creating each a greater pacing of the round-defining talents and a clearer alternative competitors between excessive and low value ults.

Although many of those modifications are delicate, We hope all collectively they enhance gamestate readability and the sense that you’ve much more alternatives on your ability to shine via. —June Cuervo, Agent Designer

Breach

• Aftershock (C)
  • Ticks diminished from 3 to 2
  • Harm elevated from 60 per tick to 80
• Rolling Thunder (X)
  • Final factors elevated 8>>>9

Brimstone

• Orbital Strike (X)
  • Final factors elevated 7>>>8

Fade

• Prowler (C)
  • Time to re-equip gun takes barely longer after utilizing the power

Gekko

• Mosh Pit (C)
  • The impacted space does 10 harm per second earlier than exploding
• Wingman (Q)
• Thrash (X)
  • Thrash’s explosion had just a little makeover to make it simpler to see and perceive the world it has affected (on prime of being lovely)

Killjoy 

• Lockdown (X)
  • Final factors elevated 8>>>9

Omen

• Paranoia (Q)
  • No motion velocity imparted when casting

Skye

• Guiding Mild (E)
  • Max period whereas casting diminished 2.5s >>>2s
• Trailblazer (Q)
• Seekers (X)
  • Final Factors elevated 7 >>>8
  • Seeker Well being decreased 150>>>120

Sova

• Recon Bolt (E)
  • Whole variety of scans diminished 3>>>2

Viper

• Viper’s Pit (X)
  • Final factors elevated 8>>>9

Astra

• Gravity Effectively (C)
  • Startup time elevated .6>>>1.25
  • Gravity time period decreased 2.75>>>2.0
• Nova Pulse (Q)
  • Startup time decreased from 1.25>>>1.0
• Cosmic Divide (X)
  • Audio now could be blocked utterly by the wall moderately than muffled

Jett

• Tailwind (E)
  • Sprint window decreased 12s>>>7.5s
    • At 12s, Jett might usually discover worth activating her sprint with out clear intention or make incorrect calls however nonetheless have time to seek out one other use for the sprint. Shortening this window pushes Jett to be extra deliberate along with her calls and reduces Tailwind’s energy at defensively holding angles, whereas minimally impacting her capacity to proactively use the sprint to interrupt onto a website.
  • Activation windup elevated 0.75s>>>1s
    • Rising Tailwind’s windup ought to promote proactive use by lowering Jett’s capacity to activate it reactively when caught off guard or in the midst of a battle and efficiently escape.
• Cloudburst (C)
  • Length decreased 4.5s>>>2.5s
  • Time to re-equip gun takes barely longer after utilizing the power.
    • We wish to scale back among the persistent security Jett will get dashing into or escaping with smokes, sharpening Cloudburst to be a quick however highly effective device that forces gamers to be fast and exact with their choices.
• Updraft (Q)
  • Prices decreased 2>>>1
    • With two Updrafts, we’ve seen moments the place Jett escapes conditions the place they’ve been tactically outplayed by throwing enemies off by counting on Updraft’s unpredictable motion. We hope to cut back among the unhealthy motion extremes Updraft can produce and improve the significance of utilizing it on the proper time.
• Blade Storm (X)
  • Final factors elevated 7>>>8
    • Jett’s final has confirmed one of the versatile, dependable and economically highly effective gun substitute Ultimates due to its lack of a timer, reset on kills, and concord with Jett’s motion. This transformation ought to carry Blade Storm as much as the identical value of comparable weapon ults, such because the Tour De Drive and Showstopper.