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Valorant update 5.0 & Server Maintenance time :
Developers Riot Games has confirmed that they will be rolling out Valorant update 5.0 to North American servers starting at 6am PT, fans will have to wait until the servers come back online later on June 22.
With Riot Games confirming in a new statement : “The game will be unavailable for an upcoming patch deploy at 06/22/2022 20:00 PDT. This Act’s Competitive queue is ending soon. Check your Act Rank tab for specific times.” Valorant update 5.0 will be going live on European servers later this week
Valorant update 5.0 will will bring a new Pearl map, Ascendant Rank, map rotation and more. In addition to this, the Episode 5 Act 1 Battle Pass will also be available where you can level up to unlock tons of rewards, it will run for 10 weeks – until 31st August .
In Episode 5 Act 1, Ascendant ranks will be added to the mix to help further identify abilities and even out ranks.
There’s a lot to see under the sea. What part of Pearl are you most excited to explore? pic.twitter.com/dBLeM4w5OP
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) June 20, 2022
Valorant Episode 5 Act 1 Battle Pass Rewards
There’s a new Battle Pass to accompany Act 1 of Episode 5. Anyone who wants the pass will need to spend 1,000 VP, which is nothing new for a Battle Pass. It offer rewards for both free and paid tracks, as we have listed below.
Free Rewards
- Shimmer Classic
- Operation: Vacation Player Card
- That’s a Blowout Spray
- Perfect Pattern Gun Buddy
Paid Rewards
- Task Force 809 Knife
- Task Force 809 Phantom
- Spitfire Operator
- Enter the Duelists Player Card
- Never Forget Leg Day Spray
- Cat Tactics Gun Buddy
New Valorant map – The Underwater City – Pearl
The upcoming season will see the addition of a new map, an underwater city called Pearl, the game developer announced with the release of the new map trailer.
Join us for Dia do Santuário–a celebration of PEARL: The wonder beneath the waves. pic.twitter.com/7zR9zMiuY5
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) June 16, 2022
Valorant Pearl map – Layout and sites
ValorLeaks has shared a top-down view of the map similar to what you’ll potentially see on the Pearl minimap.
Here’s the full Valorant Patch Notes 5.0 :
Map Updates
New Map Pearl
- Pearl-only queue
- This queue is a standard, Unrated mode that will give players a chance to practice the new map before they see it in Competitive play.
- Pearl-only queue will be available for 2 weeks, then after that Pearl will enter Competitive.
Split
- We are temporarily removing Split from the map pool in Unrated and Competitive queues
Competitive Updates
NEW RANK: Ascendant
- Added an additional rank above Diamond, below Immortal, called “Ascendant.”
- We believe our lower ranks have a few too many of you, especially Bronze and Silver. When we were looking at rank distribution, we realized that if we were to move some of you up and out of those lower ranks, it would overpopulate Platinum and Diamond. So by adding a new rank we can better distribute you across ranks, keep the prestige of high ranks, while helping better define the skill level of each rank.
- Moved the rank MMR targets that determine rank down, due to the addition of the new Ascendant rank, for all ranks below Ascendant. Moved the ranked target for Immortal1/2/3 and Radiant up.
- These are the cut-offs that say “You should be X MMR to reach this rank”. MMR
- targets determine your RR gains and help push your rank to match your MMR.
- This means players will go up in rank, if they are below Ascendant.
- To align with our expectations of what it means to be in the highest ranks of
- VALORANT, Immortal+ players will find it harder to climb back to their previous episode rank. This means Immortal will also have a smaller leaderboard population in all regions.
- Due to the seasonal reset, you may not see a rank increase at the start of the
- Episode without putting in some work; but the reset will be “less harsh” compared to the last Episode reset. So because we are pushing the player base upwards to fill Ascendant, the reset will not hit you as hard.
- Next time we reset ranks it will probably push you down more than this Episode’s reset. Please remember that the “less harsh” reset is unique to this Episode because of the introduction of Ascendant.
- Grouping restrictions for Ascendant are 3 ranks above or below the Ascendant ranked player
- This fits in with our Platinum+ rule set for grouping.
- The highest placement allowed has increased to Ascendant 1 (previously Diamond 1)
- Five stacking 25% RR penalty now starts at Immortal 1 (previously Diamond 3)
- Solo/Duo/5-stack restriction now starts at Immortal 1 (previously Diamond 3)
- ○ Remember, Diamond 3 and above could previously only solo, duo, and 5-stack. This restriction now begins at Immortal 1.
- By adding another rank we were able to push the Five Stack penalty and Solo/Duo restrictions into Immortal. This makes it more straight forward, Immortal is where the leaderboard starts and because of this we try to hold players more accountable for their standings.
- Due to a naming clash with the new rank, we’ve renamed Sage’s tier 8 Agent Contract unlock—the new Sage title is “Dauntless”
- Renaming this title was not something we chose lightly, but after talking about the title we felt like it was a chance to give the title more meaning to Sage and her personality/theme.
Game Systems
- Fixed a bug where the use channeling progression bar does not update if the player disconnects and reconnects during the match
- Fixed a bug where using an Ultimate point orb or defusing the Spike at maximum range could cause channeling and progress bar animations to flicker
- Fixed a bug where some weapon equips could play the wrong equip speed animation, which could visually misrepresent when you were able to fire. Some situations impacted by this bug were:
- Cypher exiting Spycam
- Capturing Ultimate point Orbs
- Canceling and completing Spike plant
- Fixed a bug where the use channeling progression bar does not update if the player disconnects and reconnects during the match
- Fixed a bug where some weapon equips could play the wrong equip speed animation, which could visually misrepresent when you were able to fire. Some situations impacted by this bug were:
- Cypher exiting Spycam
- Capturing Ultimate point Orbs
- Canceling and completing Spike plant
Maps
- Fixed a bug on Haven that was preventing players from using their spray on a wall in A Garden
- Shout out to @eminakob for passionately pointing out this bug
Agents
- Fixed a bug where Jett could equip a weapon during Tailwind
- Fixed a bug where Agents revealed by Sova’s Recon Bolt or Fade’s Haunt would sometimes briefly appear in an incorrect location on the minimap
- Fixed a bug where the scope visual effect would sometimes disappear when aiming with Chamber’s Tour De Force
Bugs
- Fixed a bug on Haven that was preventing players from using their spray on a wall in A Garden
- Agents
- Fixed a bug where Jett could equip a weapon during Tailwind
- Fixed a bug where Agents revealed by Sova’s Recon Bolt or Fade’s Haunt would sometimes briefly appear in an incorrect location on the minimap
- Fixed a bug where the scope visual effect would sometimes disappear when aiming with Chamber’s Tour De Force
Valorant wiki :
| Developer(s) | Riot Games |
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| Publisher(s) | Riot Games |
| Director(s) |
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| Designer(s) |
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| Artist(s) | Moby Francke |
| Composer(s) | Jesse Harlin |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | June 2, 2020 |
| Genre(s) | First-person hero shooter |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
