Well, have you always been eager to have skins in Valorant? Or better yet, have you ever asked for more freedom in their customization? Well, it appears that Riot Games has heard the public and announced that patch 3.08 will be released today in the US, while the EU will follow up shortly (tomorrow, October 20). With that said, let’s take a look at all of the surprises coming to the game.
This week’s Valorant update, patch 3.08, will be released later today. While it doesn’t seem like a significant update, there are still some notable changes. For example, players now have the option of equipping whichever skin tier they want instead of being forced to keep up with what’s been upgraded from within their arsenal.
But it’s not as simple as the update provides a couple of bug fixes, profession, store changes, and will also add a new Esports Feature that will allow Coaching ability to swap between players. There’s a little secret as well that obscures the Karambit knife that would allow players to switch between its animations.
For the complete list of patch notes, make sure you read the list below:
VALORANT PATCH NOTES 3.08
SOCIAL UPDATES
Persistent Report Feedback
- Your reports matter, and we want you to know that! You will now be notified if we took action on one of your reports, whether you are offline or not.
- If your client is up and running, you’ll receive a notification. If you’re offline at the time of action, fret not! You’ll receive your notification upon your return.
- Thanks for making VALORANT a safer place through your reports. Keep them coming!
PROGRESSION UPDATES
Level Border Customization
- You will be able to equip any Account Level Border that has been unlocked
- A tab has been added to Playercard selection.
Hide Account Level
- It’s now possible to hide your Account Level when in a match with others who are not your friends
- To enable, uncheck the box located in the Level Border tab.
STORE UPDATES
Equippable Skin Levels
- You should be able to equip any skin level except on variants, which will always default to the max skin level.
PERFORMANCE UPDATES
- Reduced instances where UI is invalidated
- Basically, lowered the amount of times the UI needed to update itself, thus saving performance costs.
- Optimized Viper’s Poison Cloud 1P HUD
- Optimized Viper’s Pit 1P HUD
- Optimized weapon and ability clipping plane calculations
- You got us, this actually went out with Patch 3.07.
ESPORTS FEATURES
- Coaches now have the ability to swap to players with keybinds
- Keybinds are 1-5 from left to right across the top HUD.
- Coaches will now see a visual Picture-in-Picture (PIP) on the top player HUD to indicate who they are spectating
- Coaches now inherit the setting to see player keybindings on the minimap, similar to Observers
BUGS
AGENTS
- The valves on Viper’s gloves now appear on the correct side of her hands in Left Hand Mode
WEAPONS
- Weapon skins should now appear correctly in-game
- You may have occasionally seen some funkiness with Skins over the past few weeks. This was occurring, rarely, when playing on a slower connection due to an extended loading period.
MAPS
- Attackers at A Lobby in Split could previously hear gunshots from the A Ramps during the buy phase—this was unintended and is now fixed
- Viper’s Ultimate will no longer spawn incorrectly when placed on top of the shipping crates on B site located on Icebox
GENERAL
- You may have noticed if you shot certain walls repeatedly a blinding orb would appear—this was caused by bloom stacking infinitely and should now be fixed
- Observers can now correctly see player outlines through barriers
PERFORMANCE
- Fixed hitch that could occur when Barrier Orb breaks
- Fixed hitches for certain input prompts
GAME SYSTEM
- Fixed a bug where using Ping (Z) while defusing caused you to stop defusing
MISC.
- The giant bug under your bed.
