Valorant 8.0 Patch Notes: Buffs, Nerfs, Map Changes & More

• Sonic Sensor (Q)
  • Sonic Sensors are now recallable in round.
  • Sonic Sensor’s pickup distance increased 12m >>> 27m
  • Decreased time to concuss once triggered 1.0s >>> 0.5s
  • Decreased time for enemies to destroy Sonic Sensor once triggered 0.65s >>> 0.5s
  • Deadlock and her allies can now hear Sonic Sensor’s audio lightly when they are in its area of effect.
• Barrier Mesh (E)
  • Increased the max length Barrier Mesh walls 6m >>> 10m

• Turret (E)
  • Vision radius reduced 180 degrees >>> 100 degrees
  • Added a representation of the Turret’s vision cone on Killjoy’s minimap when she is placing the Turret.
  • Added VFX and updated the Turret’s animations to communicate the Turret’s new vision radius.

Attacker Side Spawn

• Storage container has been added on the left side to block line of sight from Attacker Spawn to B Tube.

B Green

• The hanging container in B Green was creating a lot of complexity for both fights on the ground and people boosting up top. Moving the container out of the way should make combat here more manageable.

B Tube Exterior

• Added a window toward the end of B Tube that overlooks Mid and can see towards A Site and Defender Spawn. It allows Attackers to assert a lot of pressure on rotators and Defenders should be able to hold more space when holding Mid from B Kitchen or Mid Boiler.

B Tube Interior

• Added two boxes stacked flush to the wall

B Snow Pile

• Removed the B Orange route closest to B Kitchen.
• Adjusted the snowpile leading up to B Kitchen so you can now silently drop off the boxes.

A Main

• More room has been added to A Main along with a set of boxes to give Defenders some more options to fight for A Rubble control.
• The double stack of boxes outside A Stairs has been changed to non-penetrable to reduce the likelihood of being spammed.

A Link

• More room has been added near the breakable door. It was always a little awkward to fight out of the broken door, but now it should be easier to fight out from inside the connector room.

A Hut

• A Hut has been closed to help give some more readability to the plant site, making it easier to retake. A cubby has also been added to the back of A Hut for more defender options to hold the site.

B Site

• More room and boxes have been added to B Site to add some defensibility closer to the choke on site.

C Site

• The Spike plant zone and the stairs in C Bend have been adjusted to allow for more diversity of Spike plant locations in C Site.
• Boxes on the back of site have been adjusted.

C Bend

• More room and boxes have been added in C Main to also add some defensibility closer to the front of Main.
• Boxes have been added to C Bend along with some extra room to fight from.

Rotating Doors

• Rotating doors now take 10 seconds to fully complete their spin, up from 8 previously. 8 seconds was not enough time to use utility through the doors or fight, and make it through the doors on the same rotation. The extra time should allow for more fights to happen through the doors, and most everyone to get through the door on time.
  • Increased the time it takes for rotating doors to complete their rotation 8s >>> 10s

B Orb

• B Orb has been removed in order to bring it more in line with other maps (with Fracture being the exception with 4).