Valorant Patch Notes 2.05 are out

Source Credits: Riot Games Valorant Patch 2.05

With the update 2.05 of Valorant, Riot is expected to include a series of significant competitive updates.

In order to endure the unforgiving sports scene, the competitive ecosystem of a game so great as Valorant must still be up to the mark. To this end, in an effort to improve the player experience, Riot introduces improvements in nearly every patch upgrade. They also attempt to strengthen the fines given to players who hamper the balance of competition.

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AGENT UPDATES

SOVA

Added unique key-bind to the options menu for flying up and down when using Owl Drone

ASTRA

Added unique key-bind to the options menu for flying up and down in Astral Form.

COMPETITIVE UPDATES

The Career: Act Rank tab now has a toggle that allows you to choose to enable or disable your Act Rank
The default is on, but if you don’t want to flex your skills, you can always turn it off
The Match History tab now allows you to filter your matches per mode
We know sometimes you just want to look at your Competitive matches
Players will receive a small rank rating penalty for dodging Competitive games.
For more context on this change see this post.
Tuned Radiant Rank Rating gains and losses to be more consistent with Immortal rank rating behavior
Custom Games layout and visuals have been updated

Improved AFK Detection
Updated Penalties for AFK offenses
This includes warnings, queue restrictions, XP denial, Competitive queue bans, and game bans
Updated Penalties for chat-based offenses
This includes warnings, chat restrictions, Competitive queue restrictions, and game bans
Reminder that zero-tolerance offenses will result in game bans automatically
You can read more about our work to address issues and opportunities with player behavior in our past breakdown.

BUGS FIXED:

Fixed a bug where Ranked game icons were misaligned in Match History
Astra now starts Spike Rush games with all 5-star charges
Killjoy can’t place Lockdown off the ground by jumping and placing it on cosmetic pieces of geo on the walls anymore
Fixed issue where Cypher’s Spycam dart could sometimes hit players that were on the other side of a wall
Fixed Killjoy not getting charges from her Alarmbot and Turret back if they are recalled after she is resurrected
Fixed dead enemies being counted as flashed enemies in the combat report
Fixed Astra’s “Out of charges” VO not playing for her abilities while in Astral Form
Fixed the deafening effect on nearsighted not playing if Astra is in the game
Fixed Cypher’s Spycam targeting going through Sage’s wall
Fixed Astra having trouble placing Stars on the defender side boxes of Icebox mid from the A site
Sova Drone and Astra ascend/descend binds now properly respect changed jump/crouch key-bind.
The defuse range circle indicator that shows after planting the Spike again displays properly.
Fixed a rare bug that could leave players unable to move or process inputs until they died when entering or returning from
Astra’s astral form, Sova’s drone, Skye’s scout, or Cypher’s Spy Camera.
We previously addressed some causes of this bug last patch, this fix should address the remaining known causes.
Fixed an issue where the Stinger’s stock would appear detached on the ground
Improved readability of player names in Observer
Fixed an issue where Skye’s seekers did not visibly move on Brimstone’s tactical map
Fixed an issue where scoreboard color doesn’t appropriately swap at side swap for Observers
Fixed a bug that would cause the “Network Problem” icon to appear when no network issues were present