Valorant Update 3.08 Patch Notes (Valorant 3.08) – Oct 19, 2021

A new Valorant update 3.08 (Oct 19, 2021) is now available to download on PC. According to the official Valorant patch notes, the latest update added a number of fixes and changes. Apart from this, the latest Valorant patch 3.08 also includes stability fixes.

Previously, a big update added various balancing, map changes, and bug fixes. Unfortunately, many players are still experiencing a number of issues when trying to play the game online.

Today’s Valorant version 3.08 will fix a few of these issues.

What is new in Valorant patch 3.08 notes? – October 19, 2021

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.

Download free Valorant update 3.08 on PC.

Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson
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