Valorant Update 4.08: New Agent, Balancing Changes, and More

You now have a very good reason to play Valorant again as developer Riot Games released a major update recently. Update 4.08 brings a new agent, Fade. Several other agents like Jett, Neon, and Sova are tweaked as well. The patch also gave some love to Competitive 5-stacks and fixed a handful of bugs.

Changes made to all agents are mentioned below:

• See her abilities on our Agents page.
• See Fade’s debut trailer. You’ll wake up screaming.

• Upon pressing E, Jett consumes her Tailwind charge and after a .75 second delay, activates a 12-second window where she’s able to dash on next key press
• Jett’s Tailwind charge can still be regained with 2 kills
• To keep parity with the changes to Jett dash, the functionality for Dash during Knife rounds in Escalation will be adjusted

• Battery energy received upon killing an enemy increased 25% > 100%

• Slide cannot be cast during equip delay
• Velocity restriction removed
• Neon can now slide sideways and forward, and only requires that she is moving
• Energy drain increased 6.7/s > 10/s

• Wall damage removed

• Duration reduced 10 > 7 seconds.
• Health reduced 125 > 100
• Dart Reveal
  • Number of reveal pings reduced 3 > 2
• Initial delay before first ping reveals increased 1.2 > 1.6 seconds. Delay between the first and second ping remains 1.2 seconds.
• Quality of Life
  • Changed crosshair color to green to better stand out against the white HUD
  • Removed delay on [Target Hit] confirmation text
  • [Target Hit] confirmation text now remains on the player HUD when transitioning out of Owl Drone.
  • [Target Hit] confirmation text now remains on screen for 2 seconds, previously 1 second.
  • Adjusted audio on drone dart hits for both Sova, and the player hit, to make confirmations more noticeable
• Fixed a bug with Owl Drone, where the Dart Cooldown UI element would not properly update after tagging an opponent.

• Max Damage decreased 90 > 75
  • Radial damage has been scaled in accordance with new max damage.

• Jett’s Bladestorm, Raze’s Showstopper, and Sova’s Hunter’s Fury will now show how much ammo they have left when equipped

You can read the patch notes in great detail via the official site.