VALORANT Patch 1.04 brings new agent & weapon changes

The new VALORANT update is here, and Patch 1.04 comes with a ton of new updates to both Agents and weapons. Here are the most important updates from Patch 1.04.

Agent updates

Viper gets a buff, whilst Brimstone and Raze get a hit to their Ult economy in the Agent updates:

Viper

Viper's Pit

• Max time outside of her ult before it collapses changed from 5>>>12 seconds
• Viper can hold the ability key to drop her ult early
• Enemies in Viper’s Pit have their minimap obscured and do not provide minimap detection to their allies
• Increased the brightness of the red enemy glow at the edge of Viper's near-sight

Decay

• Enemy decay per second increased from 10 to 15 from all sources.
• After exiting Viper's smoke, enemy decay sustains for 2.5 seconds before starting to fade

Fuel

• Having both Poison Cloud and Toxic Screen active does not consume additional fuel beyond the cost of having one active

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Raze

Raze's Ultimate ability 'Showstopper' cost has increased from 6 to 7 Ult Points, in an effort to stop her from becoming overpowered.

Brimstone

Brimstone's Ultimate ability 'Orbital Strike' cost has also increased from 6 to 7 Ult Points, as the VALORANT devs explain, because it was "impacting rounds a little too frequently."

There were changes to Stim Beacon too. The ability no longer Buffs enemies and no longer shows its effect radius to enemies.

Weapon Changes

Classic

• Fixed bug where running inaccuracy on the right-click was much higher than intended
• running was adding a 1.5 penalty because it was referencing our generalized running error curves for pistols
• Fixed bug where jumping had no inaccuracy penalty
• Running spread is changed from 3.4 >>> 2.1
• primarily a bug fix
• Jumping spread changed from 1.9 >>> 2.3
• Walking spread changed from 1.9 >>> 1.95
• Added a 10% bonus to accuracy when crouching and stationary

Read all of the VALORANT 1.04 Patch notes here.