VALORANT UPDATE 3.08 NEW UPDATE: SKIN CHANGES & More!

 

SOCIAL UPDATES

• 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.

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 PIP (a small demarcated dot) 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

• 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.