VALORANT Patch 7.08
Released 17 October 2023 during ACT II. Where there's smoke, there's… Brimstone?
Structured from Riot's official patch notes. The bullets below are the announced changes; anything VALDB detected in the game files beyond them lives on the detected changes feed and is never mixed into this page.
Overview
We’ve got some updates under the Agent Updates section regarding smoke visuals and ability equipping audio. Also, your Level Border and Player Card collections are going to look a little different. You can read about these and more below.
And we always welcome your feedback so don’t hesitate to send it our way. Thank you!
GENERAL UPDATES
- We made a slight adjustment to the rows of Agents you can select from at the bottom of the screen in order to make room for future Agents.
AGENT UPDATES
- Smoke Visual Update
- Brimstone
- Omen
- Ability equipping sounds are no longer audible to your Allies.
Premier Playoffs Tournament Queue Changes
- The Playoffs Tournament Queue is now only 15 minutes instead of 1 hour. If you don’t queue up and stay queued within the 15 minute window, your team will not be able to play in the Tournament.
- At the end of the waiting period, all teams that are still in the queue will be matched at one time into evenly distributed brackets seeded by Premier Score.
- This change ensures that having a better regular season record gives you a higher seeding in your tournament.
STORE UPDATES
- Your Level Borders and Player Card collection UI is getting an upgrade! You’ll now be able to search, navigate, and equip your Level Borders and Player Cards using our grid UI.
Agent
- Deadlock
- Annihilation (X) can no longer open Breeze’s Mid Chute trapdoor from below.
- Neon
General
- Fixed a bug where the music would hitch/skip while loading into a map or the Range.
- Fixed a bug where shooting range bots would not reset their hitbox position properly when respawning.
Player Behavior
- Fixed a bug so that you’ll receive the correct Ranked Rating penalties for disruptive behavior.
Weapons
- Fixed a bug where killbanner audio was playing too quietly.