TLDR; Choose’ Ems for Champs, penalties for stream sniping and instalock instruments, and future modifications to the Agent Gear system so be certain that to grind it out and get all of the gadgets now!
Heyo, it’s Ash and we’ve acquired a small-ish patch for you with largely bug fixes. We’re prepping for a reasonably beefy subsequent patch in 13.06 so extra to return!
Let’s get it.
ALL PLATFORMS
COSMETICS UPDATES
- Sound Sprays
- Based mostly in your suggestions, we have adjusted the sound attenuation for all sound sprays so you may solely be capable to hear the sounds for those who’re close by to make sure groups can talk successfully. This shall be a typical 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 additional factors for appropriately 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 shall be topic to momentary sport bans that can 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 maintain the gear you have already earned, and you may proceed to make use of Kingdom Credit to unlock future gear. However after Patch 13.06, every bit of drugs shall be tied on to how a lot you play the related Agent. So for those who’re at present grinding for Agent Gear on any Brokers you do not often play, now’s your probability to lock in and get these unlocks.
BUG FIXES
- Agent
- Common
- Fastened a difficulty the place Agent Final voiceover might proceed enjoying 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 skills 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 skills whereas the smoke was dissipating.
- Chamber
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger efficiency drops the primary time Chamber outfitted, 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 skills.
- Impasse
- Fastened a difficulty the place casting Impasse’s GravNet might briefly show unintended VFX on display.
- Fade
- Fastened a difficulty the place Fade’s Seize wouldn’t show its hazard indicator to enemies in sure areas 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 capacity tooltips may very well be lacking from the HUD when equipping the power.
- Waylay
- Fastened a difficulty the place vision-blocking skills might stop 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 had been intangible.
- Common
PC ONLY
GENERAL UPDATES
- Default Bot Rely in Vary Apply Mode
- An choice 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 possibly can regulate this quantity within the Vary settings.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the shut button was not practical after buying VALORANT Factors.