VALORANT Patch 811

Overview

Hi friends! Alice here with Patch 8.11, and this one is a bigger one. We’ve got some updates to some Duelists, these are the same that we shared last week. We also have a new map rotation, and a new map, Abyss… just make sure to watch your step. Additionally this will be the first patch our new friends on console will get to enjoy, we have some new features for them, and are excited to welcome them into our community!

We can’t wait to see your clips on Abyss (please show us your creative ways of knocking someone off, we’ve been dying to see them since we started developing this map), and hear your overall feedback for this patch, so please send it our way. Good luck in your matches and enjoy Patch 8.11.

ISO

Iso is receiving strictly buffs this patch because he’s underperforming across all skill brackets. Leaning into increasing Iso’s signature ability output is intended to make Iso more reliable at challenging contested spaces and winning opening duels by granting his shield immediately after channeling the ability. Iso’s buff will also remain active and orbs will still spawn should he lose his shield and secure a kill during Double Tap’s uptime. Shooting the orbs will refresh the duration of the buff and the shield.

Iso can now recast Double Tap while it’s active to refresh the duration of the shield.

• Double Tap (E)
• Charges 2 >>> 1
• Kill reset added to Double Tap (Iso gets a charge back if he gets 2 kills).
• Iso now receives a Wall Penetration tag instead of a standard Heavy Penetration tag when the shield is broken. This means he’s slowed less upon his shield breaking.
• Iso can now recast Double Tap while it’s active to refresh the duration of the shield.

NEON

We want to sharpen Neon as an Agent who excels at taking mobile fights directly to her opponents by buffing the unique value she brings to the table. We’ve made her slide more effective at sliding directly into opponents by making it more combat-ready, and by removing all weapon movement error when sliding as well as a few other changes. The updates to her Fast Lane (C) are intended to make fights around her wall dropping feel more intuitive for Neon’s allies while reducing the visual noise it creates in game.

Sharpening her Relay Bolt (Q) to be a more premium and reliable one-charge ability is intended to allow Neon to have more success when she does decide to commit to a fight with her slide, as well as make some room for the second slide charge.

• Fast Lane (C)
• Wall Duration 6s >>> 4s
• Wall Dissolve Duration 1s >>> 2s
• High Gear (E)
• Time until Full Fuel Regen 60s >>> 20s
• Slide
• Neon now removes all weapon movement error when sliding.
• Second Slide Cost: 150
• Equips out of slide: Fast >>> Instant
• Relay Bolt (Q)
• Windup delay 1.1s >>> .8s
• Concuss Duration 3.0s >>> 3.5s

REYNA

Reyna is receiving both buffs and nerfs this patch to reshape the power of her kit. The goal of the changes is to reduce the level of dominance she can achieve in Ranked, especially at low and mid ranks when outperforming her enemies, while pushing some of her value in coordinated settings:

We’ll be tracking how these updates affect Reyna across all the different skill levels and settings of play.

• Healing has proven very strong statistically in Ranked with higher impact at low and mid ranks. This change should reduce her ability to snowball round-over-round in these settings.
• Removing the time restrictions on her Devour (Q) and Empress (X) should allow you more flexibility to play at your team’s pace and increase the baseline value of both in coordinated play where rounds play out slower.
• Dismiss (E) has been re-tuned to provide a greater movement speed boost, but has a shorter duration. This should reward decisive and skillful Reyna players by unlocking faster and more powerful combat repositioning.
• Devour (Q)
• Full heal time reduced from 3s >>> 2s
• Overheal of armor no longer decays after a timer.
• Dismiss (E)
• Total duration of Dismiss reduced from 2s >>> 1.5s
• Empress (X)

RAZE

As we’ve seen you get better and better at Raze’s satchel mobility, we’ve found that her total speed and movement potential can undermine the tactical loop. These changes are intended to allow you to more reasonably counterplay Raze, whether through your own utility or gunplay. While we still want to maintain the sandbox movement fantasy of Raze’s satchels, she should not be as surprising when not supported by allied utility.

• Blast Pack (Q)
• Raze’s horizontal velocity when satcheling has been slowed.
• Satchel explosion audio has been updated to be audible farther away to ensure enemies can hear the first satchel when a Raze double satchels.

CLOVE

While we’re excited with how Clove has been immediately relevant in Ranked and how much you’re enjoying playing them, their performance in ranked play is stronger than we’d like. We’re trimming some extraneous power from their selfish, Duelist-oriented outputs while preserving the Controller-leaning power in their kit.

We’ve also added a new VO line for Omen and for Clove when starting a match on Abyss.

• Pick-Me-Up (C)
• Duration 10s >>> 8s
• Damaging Assist Time to activate 10s >>> 6s
• Not Dead Yet (X)
• Unequip Delay .7 >>> .8s
• BUG FIX: Clove’s ultimate will no longer survive the fighting state if they get a smoke assist.
• We’ve also added a new VO line for Omen and for Clove when starting a match on Abyss.
• Esports Hub Team Page Improvements
• We’ve added blurbs highlighting the personality and accomplishments for teams in VCT Americas and VCT Pacific, with more on the way!

ALL PLATFORMS

• Radio Command Wheels
• These changes add specificity & clarity to the existing communication tools and add new ways for teammates to strategize and communicate:
• Unique Strategy Wheels for Attackers and Defenders
• New Commands Wheel on the Megamap
• Updated options on existing Command Wheels
• Updated VO on existing Commands Menu (PC only)
• Streamlined Wheels to feature our most important command options

CONSOLE

• New Player Tips
• Our New Player Tips have been built from the ground up for Console Limited Beta to give you more opportunities to skill-up and learn VALORANT faster via:
• Tips that level up with you as you learn the fundamentals of VALORANT gameplay, from beginner to advanced strategies
• If you’re a returning player, New Player Tips won't show up, since you already have a good grasp of the fundamentals. If they do pop up, and you’d like them to stop, you can always switch them off in Settings

PC

Starting in patch 8.11, Unrated, Swift Play, Spike Rush, & Escalation will move to an OPEN map pool. All maps (including ABYSS) will be available in these queues.

Please continue to share feedback as we work through improving the map pool experience. And keep an eye out, because we’ll be sharing more about map pools in the future!

• NEW MAP: ABYSS
• Abyss is our newest map and features three lanes and two sites.
• MAP POOL UPDATES
• ABYSS will enter the premier pool in patch 9.02.
• BREEZE and SPLIT have been removed from the above map pools.
• Stage E8A3 playoffs for Premier will have the E8A3 map pool: BIND, LOTUS, ASCENT, SUNSET, BREEZE, SPLIT, and ICEBOX.
• Week 6 of Premier will still be played on SPLIT.
• Starting in patch 8.11, Unrated, Swift Play, Spike Rush, & Escalation will move to an OPEN map pool. All maps (including ABYSS) will be available in these queues.
• Please continue to share feedback as we work through improving the map pool experience. And keep an eye out, because we’ll be sharing more about map pools in the future!

CONSOLE

All Team Deathmatch maps will be available for console beta

All 11 VALORANT spike mode maps will be available in custom game mode.

• CONSOLE MAP POOLS
• A new map will be added on every patch starting with 9.0
• There will also be a limited number of modes queues for console Beta (please see “mode updates” section)
• All Team Deathmatch maps will be available for console beta
• All 11 VALORANT spike mode maps will be available in custom game mode.
• OPEN RANGE
• Visual updates to in-world UI panels (bot shooting range & practice target)
• Practice target has moved to a new location
• Portal & playable mini training modules have been removed from the environment

PC

• ABYSS QUEUE (PC ONLY)
• Abyss Only games will use the Unrated mode format.

CONSOLE

NEW BASIC TRAINING TUTORIAL (CONSOLE ONLY)

Note: All new training content will be coming to PC on a later patch.

• CONSOLE MODE QUEUES
• Console Limited Beta players will have access to:
• Swift Play
• Deathmatch
• Team Deathmatch
• Custom Games
• NEW BASIC TRAINING TUTORIAL (CONSOLE ONLY)
• NEW BOT TRAINING MATCH (CONSOLE ONLY)
• The bot training match is a full Swift Play match on Haven.
• NEW PRACTICE OPTIONS (CONSOLE ONLY)
• Replay Tutorial (ability to replay new tutorial experience)
• Removed old training modules from practice menu
• Note: All new training content will be coming to PC on a later patch.

PC

• We’ve updated our threading behavior to improve performance on 2-core machines. This will result in better in-game performance for and shorter loading times.

ALL PLATFORMS

• In Patch 8.11, we will be implementing an intermediate change to mitigate an exploit around remakes. Previously, matches that ended in a remake weren't being acted upon appropriately by our systems allowing players to attempt repeated remakes without seeing any enforcement. Now, we’ve increased the intervention severity for AFKs resulting in a remade match. This means players will immediately encounter an intervention in this scenario, which will increase through repeated occurrences. We're still exploring this space, so please keep providing us with your feedback.

PC

• We’ve updated the friends list to display VALORANT console players. This means any of your Riot friends who are playing on console will appear under “other games” in your friends list.

CONSOLE

• We’ve changed the default behavior of voice chat to prioritize team voice. Now when you connect to a team voice channel, you will automatically be speaking to your whole team, not just party members.

PC

If you’re on a team that earned a promotion, your division icon on the Premier hub and Premier Team page will have a promotion indicator for the rest of Stage E8A3.

• After playoffs on June 23, teams that performed well enough will get promotion notifications!
• If you’re in the Contender Division, finish in the top 32 teams and you’ll see a notification the first time you visit the Premier hub after the standings finalization time.
• If you’re on a team that earned a promotion, your division icon on the Premier hub and Premier Team page will have a promotion indicator for the rest of Stage E8A3.
• If you’re in the Contender Division, you’ll be placed into the new Invite Division, where you’ll compete for an opportunity to make it into a Challengers League.

PC

• The Store has had a visual update to increase clarity and quality of the buy phase experience.
• Remaining armor is now visualized as a fill in the UI.
• Holistically added animations to increase clarity around affordability, requesting and weapon purchases.
• Item states have gone through a visual pass to improve readability.
• Agent
• Fixed issues where Clove could play the incorrect animation or slide along the ground during a skin finisher if they were the last player alive and had their ultimate available.
• Fixed an issue where players inside Clove’s smoke forming location were at a disadvantage compared to players on the outside of the smoke.
• Fixed an issue where Clove’s Pick-Me-Up (C) could not proc on training range bots
• Fixed an issue where Clove’s Not Dead Yet (X) allowed smoke assists to allow them to survive
• Gameplay Systems
• Fixed some issues with Combat Report Player Info not populating properly with information on death
• Fixed bullet tracers still being visible after being turned off in settings when player fires at certain angles away from the map
• Fixed issues where agent abilities that attach to walls can be shot through impenetrable surfaces
• Fixed tooltips not updating after rebinding while an agent ability is equipped
• Fixed Arabic language format errors when using Gekko Wingman (Q) or picking up a Weapon
• Fixed longer crosshair profile names extending the Delete/Duplicate Profile popup in settings
• Premier