It’s just hours now until Riot Games deploys the latest Valorant update. If you’ve been paying attention to our recent coverage, you’ll know there’s a plethora of new content on the way. That includes a new Agent, Team Deathmatch mode, updated progression systems, and more. For the full overview of everything included, today’s Episode 7 Valorant patch notes break it all down. Let’s check it out and detail the biggest takeaways.
Valorant Episode 7 Patch Notes Detail a Big Content Drop
Here are the biggest features of the new patch. Interestingly, there’s no change to Valorant’s map rotation this time around, so we’re still on the same as before and it would seem tweaks to Icebox and Breeze are still a way off.
- Progression System
- Daily Rewards
- Accessory Store
- Agent Store, Recruitment Event, & Gear Team Deathmatch
- New Game Mode is live Deadlock
- Deadlock is now available as the 23rd Agent
General Valorant Patch Notes Updates
Spray Wheel
Added text to the Spray equip screen indicating your bound keybinds.
Agent Fixes
- Fixed Chamber’s Rendezvous (E) to interrupt the teleport if you are Suppressed mid animation.
- Fixed Yoru’s Gatecrash (E) to interrupt the teleport if you are Suppressed mid animation.
- Fixed Omen’s From the Shadows (X) to cancel the teleport if you Suppressed while forming.
- Fixed Cypher’s Spycam (E) from being placeable on Lotus’ rotating doors.
- Fixed issue where Sage’s Barrier Orb (C) would sometimes rotate multiple times from a single button press when placing it.
- Fixed issues where on some map geo Cypher could not pick up his Cyber Cage (C) during the Buy Phase.
- Fixed issue where Killjoy’s Alarmbot (Q) could be destroyed from a farther distance than intended by Raze’s Boom Bot (C).
- Fixed issue where frame rate would decrease when Reyna is healing from Devour (Q) Social
- Fixed an issue where the Chinese Baidu Pinyin input method could only type English in chat.
- Fixed a bug where the Push-to-Talk key sometimes allowed for voice to be transmitted even when letting go of the key.
Valorant Progression System Update
Daily Rewards
This new feature recognizes your engagement in the game with daily rewards. Every day that you play matches, you’ll earn progress on a Checkpoint Track. Each checkpoint on the track yields quantities of XP and our new in-game currency, Kingdom Credits. All game modes provide progress towards Daily Rewards except for Deathmatch.
Kingdom Credits can be spent on accessories, Agents, and Agent Gear.
Accessory Store
Use your Kingdom Credits to purchase accessories from previous Battlepasses, including:
- Player Cards
- Sprays
- Titles
- Gun Buddies
- Agent Store
The Agent Store streamlines the Agent acquisition process. As always, you can use VP or Recruitment Tokens to unlock an Agent, and now you have a third option: unlocking them with Kingdom Credits.
Agent Recruitment Events
Each new Agent will have their own Agent Recruitment Event when they are launched. During these events, you’ll earn XP towards the new Agent automatically. As well, you won’t be able to unlock the new Agent with Kingdom Credits or Recruitment Tokens, but you can still use VP if you like.
If you don’t earn enough XP during a Recruitment Event to unlock an Agent, that Agent becomes available for purchase normally, after the Recruitment Event, in the Agent Store.
Agent Gear
All of your favorite Agent-themed gear is available for Kingdom Credits. For every Agent, there are now 10 Levels of Agent Gear instead of 10 Levels of Agent Contract. To get an Agent’s gear, you must first own the Agent, then unlock each Level of Agent Gear. – Level 5 used to unlock Agents. However, since we moved Agents into the Agent Store, Level 5 will now grant you a flat amount of Kingdom Credits. If you already have the Agent, however, you won’t get any Kingdom Credits at Level 5.
Valorant Team Deathmatch
The latest Valorant patch notes confirm that Team Deathmatch is live.
3 New Maps are exclusively available for the new mode
- Kasbah
- Piazza
- District
You can check out Riot Games’ hype trailer for Valorant Episode 7 and its update below. Also, do check out our recent overview of the latest Valorant weapon skin bundle; it’s called New Frontier and has a cool sci-fi/western theme.
New game mode. New Agent. New opportunities to play your way and defy definition. pic.twitter.com/jXB6kRWiI3
— VALORANT (@VALORANT) June 27, 2023
