Valorant 8.05 update: Release date, patch notes, and more

Update 8.05 of Valorant is starting to roll out and players will soon be able to play with the new agent, Clove. After spending a few days in the test servers, the patch is finally coming out and it brings more changes on top of the addition of a new playable character.

We have gathered all the important details about this new version so you can read all about it while your game updates.

Release date

Patch 8.05 for Valorant is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, March 26, just two days after the finals of VCT Masters Madrid and the reveal of Clove. 

Before its release, the game will undergo a maintenance period of around four hours. The maintenance should start at  6:00 am PST and end at 10:00 am PST for North America, LATAM, and Brazil servers.

On the other hand, European users will have to wait a little bit longer as maintenance should start on Wednesday, March 27 at 4:00 am GMT and finish at around 8:00 am GMT.

Patch notes

Now that the patch is starting to come out, Riot has published the full patch notes on the official website of the game and you can read them down below:

Agent Updates

• Clove goes live!
  • If you want to read about their abilities, you can visit this link.

Premier Updates

• We’ve added a cooldown period between phone number verification attempts. If you run into any issues with verifying your phone number, please reach out to Player Support.

Social Updates

Voice Indicators

• We made some updates to the voice indicators that appear above an Agent’s head. You will now be able to more clearly see who you can hear and who you can’t. The voice icon will now also show when a teammate is muted or disconnected from voice, and differentiates when a party member is speaking in party voice. The icon for team voice activity is unchanged.

Bug Fixes

Agent

• Fixed an issue where the cover walls in Iso’s Kill Contract (X) would not appear when playing with an unstable network connection.

Gameplay systems

• Multispeaker surround sound formats such as 5.1 and 7.1 are now fully supported. The stereo mix is not affected.

Premier

• Team creation deadline references have been removed from the schedule. There are still some references to the team creation deadline that are no longer valid. Pardon our dust!
• The queue button now shows the correct error message when a player has reached their weekly match limit.

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