March 29, 2024

Valorant new update 2.05: AFK Detection, Agent, Bug fix, and more

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Valorant Update

Valorant Update

Valorant new update 2.05: AFK Detection, Agent, Bug fix, and more. The new update focuses on a lot of things. Right from Agent update to AFK detection to bug fixes and Competitive updates. One major challenge players see is Players being AFK, this update focuses on Penalizing these players.

Valorant 2.05 Patch Notes:

Valorant Patch Notes
Valorant Patch Notes

Agent Updates:

  1. SOVA – Added unique keybinds to the option menu for flying up and down when using Owl Drone
  2. ASTRA – Added unique keybinds to the option menu for flying up and down in Astral Form

Competitive Updates:

  1. The Career: Act Rank tab now has a toggle which allows you to choose to enable or disable your Act Rank
  2. The default is on, but if you don’t want to flex your skills, you can always turn it off
  3. The Match History tab now allows you to filter your matches per mode
  4. We know sometimes you just want to look at your Competitive matches
  5. Players will receive a small rank rating penalty for dodging Competitive games.
  6. For more context on this change see this post.
  7. Tuned Radiant Rank Rating gains and losses to be more consistent with Immortal rank rating behavior
  8. Custom Games layout and visuals have been updated

Social Updates:

  1. Improved AFK Detection
  2. Updated Penalties for AFK offenses
  3. This includes warnings, queue restrictions, XP denial, Competitive queue bans, and game bans
  4. Updated Penalties for chat-based offenses
  5. This includes warnings, chat restrictions, Competitive queue restrictions, and game bans
  6. Reminder that zero tolerance offenses will result in game bans automatically
  7. You can read more about our work to address issues and opportunities with player behavior in our past breakdown.

Bugs Fixed – 1:

  1. Fixed a bug where Ranked game icons were misaligned in Match History
  2. Astra now starts Spike Rush games with all 5 star charges
  3. Killjoy can’t place Lockdown off the ground by jumping and placing it on cosmetic pieces of geo on the walls anymore
  4. Sova Drone and Astra ascend/descend binds now properly respect changed jump/crouch keybinds
  5. The defuse range circle indicator that shows after planting the Spike again displays properly.
  6. Fixed a rare bug that could leave players unable to move or process inputs until they died when entering or returning from Astra’s astral form, Sova’s drone, Skye’s scout, or Cypher’s Spy Camera.
  7. We previously addressed some causes of this bug last patch, this fix should address the remaining known causes.
  8. Fixed an issue where the Stinger’s stock would appear detached on the ground
  9. Improved readability of player names in Observer

Bugs Fixed -2:

  1. Skye’s seekers did not visibly move on Brimstone’s tactical map
  2. Scoreboard color doesn’t appropriately swap at side swap for Observers
  3. Bug that would cause the “Network Problem” icon to appear when no network issues were present
  4. Cypher’s Spycam dart could sometimes hit players that were on the other side of a wall
  5. Killjoy not getting charges from her Alarmbot and Turret back if they are recalled after she is resurrected
  6. Dead enemies being counted as flashed enemies in the combat report
  7. Astra’s “Out of charges” VO not playing for her abilities while in Astral Form
  8. The deafening effect on nearsights not playing if Astra is in the game
  9. Cypher’s Spycam targeting going through Sage’s wall
  10. Astra having trouble placing Stars on the defender side boxes of Icebox mid from the A site

Valorant is getting a lot of updates. Esports is a very critical part and regular updates do help and build confidence among the Gaming community. Every game face bugs and cheating issues, critical and regular update is the only solution to keep things rolling. Lately, games like PUBG and FreeFire are sharing the level of things they are doing to keep hackers and cheaters away from the game.

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