TLDR; Choose’ Ems for Champs, penalties for stream sniping and instalock instruments, and future adjustments to the Agent Gear system so ensure to grind it out and get all of the gadgets now!
Heyo, it’s Ash and we’ve bought a small-ish patch for you with largely bug fixes. We’re prepping for a fairly beefy subsequent patch in 13.06 so extra to come back!
Let’s get it.
ALL PLATFORMS
COSMETICS UPDATES
- Sound Sprays
- Primarily based in your suggestions, we have adjusted the sound attenuation for all sound sprays so you may solely be capable to hear the sounds in case you’re close by to make sure groups can talk successfully. This will likely be a normal for all future audio sprays.
ESPORTS FEATURES
- Choose’Ems have returned for Champions Shanghai! Beginning on September 10, you should have entry to the Group Stage in-client and on the net. Predict the advancing groups for factors, incomes further factors for accurately guessing the precise placement. You’ll additionally earn rewards only for collaborating. Get your picks in earlier than Teams kickoff on September twenty fourth!
PLAYER BEHAVIOR UPDATES
- We have began rolling out penalties if we detect utilization of stream sniping and instalock instruments. Gamers discovered utilizing these instruments will likely be topic to short-term recreation bans that may escalate to everlasting with repeated utilization.
PROGRESSION UPDATES
- Agent Gear
- Heads up, avid gamers! With the discharge of Patch 13.06 on September 22, we’ll be revamping the Agent Gear system and the best way you unlock gadgets on that development monitor. You’ll nonetheless preserve the gear you have already earned, and you will proceed to make use of Kingdom Credit to unlock future gear. However after Patch 13.06, each bit of drugs will likely be tied on to how a lot you play the related Agent. So in case you’re at the moment grinding for Agent Gear on any Brokers you do not often play, now’s your likelihood to lock in and get these unlocks.
BUG FIXES
- Agent
- Common
- Fastened a difficulty the place Agent Final voiceover might proceed taking part in from an enemy’s perspective after the Agent casting the Final was killed.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Fight Report incorrectly displayed “Enemies Blinded” for sure talents that do not apply Blind.
- Fastened a difficulty the place smokes would block flashes after dissipating.
- We’ve higher timed the dissipation for the smokes on Astra, Brimstone, Clove, Miks, and Omen to repair a difficulty the place their smokes might proceed blocking flashes and different line-of-sight-dependent talents whereas the smoke was dissipating.
- Chamber
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger efficiency drops the primary time Chamber geared up, aimed, or fired Headhunter throughout a spherical.
- Cypher
- Fastened a difficulty the place Cypher’s Trapwire debuff might persist indefinitely on a brand new goal if the preliminary goal was killed simply earlier than the Trapwire triggered.
- Fastened a difficulty the place Cypher’s Cyber Cage might incorrectly block flashes, detection, and different line-of-sight-dependent talents.
- Impasse
- Fastened a difficulty the place casting Impasse’s GravNet might briefly show unintended VFX on display screen.
- Fade
- Fastened a difficulty the place Fade’s Seize wouldn’t show its hazard indicator to enemies in sure places on Lotus.
- KAY/O
- Fastened a difficulty the place KAY/O’s NULL/cmd might trigger client-side framerate drops with every pulse.
- Omen
- Fastened a difficulty the place Omen’s Darkish Cowl might obscure a participant’s imaginative and prescient after the smoke has dissipated.
- Sage
- Fastened a difficulty the place Sage’s Therapeutic Orb skill tooltips might be lacking from the HUD when equipping the power.
- Waylay
- Fastened a difficulty the place vision-blocking talents might forestall Waylay’s Saturate from making use of Hinder to gamers inside its space of impact.
- Fastened a difficulty the place Waylay’s Refract might trigger snapshots of dynamic map objects to stay seen after the power ended.
- Fastened a difficulty the place Waylay’s Saturate might apply Hinder to Brokers whereas they have been intangible.
- Common
PC ONLY
GENERAL UPDATES
- Default Bot Depend in Vary Apply Mode
- An possibility for 10, 5, or 1 bot to spawn has been added within the Vary follow mode.
- The default variety of bots spawned is now 5.
- You may regulate this quantity within the Vary settings.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the shut button was not useful after buying VALORANT Factors.