Your rank will no longer be lowered at the start of an Act.Now, if you have already placed this Episode, then: Placements have changed for the start of an Act. This patch marks the start of Competitive Episode 2: Act 2! We’re returning it to normal levels, but if Bind continues to be frustrating to play, we’ll look into changing its pickrate again and go back to the drawing board. During Patch 2.03 we reduced Bind’s pick rate for Escalation.Bind’s pickrate is again evenly weighted.With this change, we’re looking to give you an avenue to contest the teleporter by preventing others from being able to stall a game.

We like the focus in this area (you'll always find a fight here!), but it can feel unfair if you’re not the team inside the TP. The opposite team couldn’t reliably contest it without doing a highly coordinated “5-person YOLO TP,” or by getting lucky and advancing to nade level and blasting away. There was a frustrating strategy going around where a team would gain mid TP control and then.never leave.Bind Teleporter exit doors are now permanently jammed open-if you want to camp it, get ready to fight for it!.

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Tactical VO is an addition that should help, not replace, in-game communication, and we shove a wrench in the works to jam the Bind TP doors for Escalation. Don’t let the lighter notes fool you, this is the start of Episode 2: Act II, that drops our newest Agent, a fresh Battlepass, and the Prime//2.0 weapon skin line.Īs our friend Max Grossman will tell you, this patch cycle is also to allow time for us to evaluate our recent changes while still getting the game in a good state for VALORANT Challengers moving forward.Ĭompetitive matchmaking gets some fairly comprehensive adjustments to not only let you queue with more friends at different levels in the lower ranks, but make sure the highest levels are for the ones who can continue to prove they are VALORANT’s best.

Windows 10 patch 2.4