Valorant developers made adjustments in the Version 1.03 smaller than past updates as to make the meta form naturally. However, the Guardian had its price reduced and rate of fire reduced to help the weapon carve out its own niche in the current Valorant meta as an economic long-range option for players.
As for being able to surrender easier, before this update it took all players on your team to agree to quit in Unrated matches. Now, it’ll take 80 percent of your team to agree to surrender.
Here are the complete patch notes for Valorant version 1.03:
VALORANT VERSION 1.03 PATCH NOTES
WEAPON UPDATES
Guardian
Price reduced from 2700 »> 2500Rate of Fire reduced from 6. 5 »> 4. 75Penetration power increased from Medium »> HeavyInput queue updated from 0. 083 »> 0. 1175Up until now, the Guardian has lived in a strange position in the arsenal. Price-wise, it remained close to the premium rifles while not adequately competing with their power, making it too pricey as an alternate economic option, but not powerful enough to be considered as a premiere weapon choice. Its fast fire rate made it more powerful in close range situations than we’d like, given our goals for the weapon’s long-range, precision shot fantasy, and—despite its semi-automatic, heavy-hitting firing style—it matched other rifles in terms of penetrating power. We hope these changes will sharpen the Guardian’s identity as a long-range, versatile weapon, with its heavy penetration values and lower price providing some more nuanced choice competition to the rifle category of the arsenal.
MAP UPDATES
Haven
Removed spot where Spike was unable to be retrieved once dropped.
All Maps
Fixed multiple spots where players were able to clip inside level geometryRemoved more locations where Sova’s sensor arrow was able to go through walls
MODE UPDATES
Spike Rush
New Orb: Twin HuntersCapturing the orb releases two hunting wolves to track down the two nearest enemies (from orb location, they will not change targets after spawning). Wolves speed up when they spot an enemy and dash at them when close, slowing and near-sighting for 4 seconds upon impact. Wolves have 150 HP and can be damagedWolves will time out at 15 seconds, or when their target is killed
Split: Orb LocationMid defender side orb has been moved onto mid platform to make it slightly less defender favored
QUALITY OF LIFE
Surrender changes
Unrated Mode vote requirements to pass changed from 100% to 80%Competitive Mode vote requirements to pass remains at 100%You can now call a surrender vote starting with round 5 versus round 8A new button in the in-game menu has been added to call a surrender voteWe know it can be at times challenging to get a surrender vote to pass given it has historically required an unanimous vote. For Unrated Mode , which is meant to be lower stakes than Competitive (no rank on the line), we have made adjustments so if the vast majority of the team wants to surrender (80%) they can now opt out of that match and find a fairer fight sooner. For Competitive Mode we plan to keep the vote requirement as unanimous, because surrendering has an impact on your rank (all unplayed rounds count as loss credit), we want to make sure the team is in full agreement before a decision is made that will negatively impact a player’s rank. We’ve also slightly reduced the minimum rounds needed to be played so that if players have a particularly bad start, they can opt out of that match earlier.
In the Collection screens, there is now a checkbox to toggle between showing all items or only owned ones (additional options and improvements for managing your collection will be coming in future patches)Fixed a bug where the mission “You or your ally plant/defuse spikes” sometimes did not take into account plants and defuses by alliesTransition screens and startup screens are now letterboxedFixed text overlap issues in the Battlepass and Contract screens in some languagesPlayers in custom games with cheats enabled can select a different Agent to use on the next round in the cheats menu. Removing a friend will now prompt a confirmation dialoguePressing Escape while typing in the chat box will clear the messageRevised layout of confirmation dialogs to make primary action larger and always on the left; applied color in various places, like using red for destructive actions; revised the locations of some confirmation and cancel buttons for consistencyMinor fixes for visual artifacts on Bind on Intel GPUsMinor render improvements for modern hardwareAdded an error popup for crashes on startup linking to troubleshooting guide for crasheshttps://support-valorant. riotgames. com/hc/en-us/articles/360050789953Patch notes and payment windows will scale correctly on 4K monitorsIME input on payment windows will now work correctly (Japanese/Chinese)Players can now view individual skin levels in the collections and store viewUpdates to censored hit impact effects for better readabilityAdded Agent silhouettes for observersImproved render performance for silhouettesAgent health bars are now visible to observersFulfilling a buy request while moving will no longer interrupt your movementCustom Games Tournament Mode:Custom games can now be set to Tournament Mode. This allows every player in the game to have access to the Toggle Match Timer cheat in game without having all other cheats enabled. It also allows observers to be flagged as moderators, which grants them access to additional cheats that they can use as necessary. Regular observers cannot use cheats anymore. We’ll be looking at expanding the list of moderator cheats in future patches.
BUG FIXES
Fixed a Cypher bug where traps that were placed such that they were on the inside of a doorway, would not trigger when someone walked through themFixed an issue with the Match Timer hitching under unstable network conditionsFixed an issue where players couldn’t jump off ascenders if jump was bound to the mousewheelFixed some visual issues that could occur when reconnecting to the game while deadFixed Barrier phase announcement showing up in normal games for observersFixed various UI issues on observer scoreboard
Valorant is free to download and play on PC.
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