Here are the Valorant Patch Notes 3.0: Changes to agents, economy and more

Agent Updates

Astra

• Cooldown time increased from 12 to 25. 

• Cooldown time increased from 12 to 25.

• Stars are now inactive when placed during the buy phase.
• When the barriers drop, her Stars charge for 1.4 seconds before becoming active and usable.
• On Attack, Astra can now see the Spike’s location in Astral form.
• This representation does not animate so it will not provide additional info on the status of the Spike.
• Recall cooldown increased from 8 to 15.
• Granted signature charges decreased from 2 to 1.
• Star cost decreased from 200 to 150.

Breach

• Total charges reduced 3 to 2.
• Cost increased from 200 to 250.
• Projectile speed decreased 2500 to 2000.

• Full charge time decreased from 1.5 to 1 second.
• Width increased from 600 to 750.
• Telegraph windup time decreased from 1.3 to 1.
• Concussion duration increased from 3 to 3.5.
• Unequip time after firing decreased from 1 to .7.
• Cooldown time increased from 35 to 40.

• Now explodes 3 times with each blast dealing 60 damage with no fall off, blasts are .6 seconds apart.
• Explosion radius increased from 260 to 300.
• Unuequip time after firing decreased from 1.1 to .9 seconds.
• Cost increased from 100 to 200.

Brimstone

• Cost increasedfrom 200 to 250.

Cypher

• Ultimate points required decreased from 7 to 6.

Jett

• Cost increased 100 to 150

• No longer breaks Cypher’s Trapwire

• Cost increased from 100 to 200.

• Ultimate points required increased from 6 to 7.

Killjoy

• Cooldown after pickup increased from 7 to 20 .

• Cooldown after pickup increased from 10 to 20.

OMEN

• Cost decreased from 400 to 300

• Granted signature charges reduced 2 to 1
• Omen now must buy his second smoke for 100
• Cooldown time increased 35 to 40

• Cost increased 100 to 150.

Phoenix

• Cost increased 200 to 250.

Raze

• Model has been updated with a polish pass

• Cost increased 200 to 400

• Ultimate points required increased 7 to 8

• Cost increased 200 to 250.

Sage

Skye

• Vision radius increased from 1750 to 2250.
• Max concussion duration increased from 3 to 4.
• Cost increased from 200 to 250.

• Charges reduced from 3 to 2.
• Charges are now replenished on a 40-second cooldown.
• Skye no longer needs to re-equip to trigger her flash.
• Guiding Light’s projectile now goes around corners tighter when free flying and is more responsive to guiding.
• Audio attenuation when cast reduced from 3250 to 1250.
• Cost of charges increased from 100 to 250.

Sova

• Cost increased from 100 to 150

• Cooldown time increased from 35 to 40

• Cost increased from 300 to 400

• Ultimate points required increased from 7 to 8.

Viper

• Duration reduced from 8 to 6.5
• Outer edges of Viper’s acid patch form faster to ensure it is lethal if an enemy sits in the entire duration
• Cost increased from 100 to 200
  • We’ve seen a massive resurgence in Viper’s popularity and power, especially at stalling opponents and preventing defuses. We hope to slightly reduce some of this stalling power.

Yoru

• Cost increased 200 to 250.

• Cooldown time increased 35 to 40.

What are the weapon changes with Valorant 3.0?

• Bullet tagging changed from 75% slow to 72.5% slow
  • “Tagging” is the slowing effect you feel when hit by bullets
• Weapon Deadzones changed from 30% to 27.5%
  • “Deadzone” in VALORANT refers to the movement speed a player becomes inaccurate.

• Walking inaccuracy changed from 1.3 to 2.0
• Running unchanged at 5.0

• Walking Inaccuracy changed from .5 to 2.4
• Running unchanged at 6.0 

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .3 to 1.0
• Running inaccuracy changed from 2.0 to 2.5

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 to .84
• Running inaccuracy changed from 1.5 to 2.1

• Price decreased 500 to 450 
• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 to .8
• Running inaccuracy changed from 1.0 to 2.0

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 to .92
• Running Inaccuracy changed from 1.85 to 2.3

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 to 1.2
• Running inaccuracy changed from 2.0 to 3.0

• Price increased 1600 to 1850
• Damage falloff at 10m changed from 13 per pellet to 10 per pellet
• Damage falloff at 15m changed from 10 per pellet to 7 per pellet 

• Hip-fire (full auto mode) firing rate increased from 9.15 RPS to 9.5 RPS
• Price decreased 2100 to 2050 
  • The bulldog was feeling just slightly underpowered in close/mid range situations where hip fire was the go-to. So we’re giving it a bit more of a firing rate to compete, and lowering the price to make it more enticing to buy. 

• Price decreased from 00 to 150

• Price decreased from 1100 to 950

• Price decreased from 900 to 850

• Price decreased from 1000 to 950

• Price decreased from 1600 to 1550

• Price decreased from 5000 to 4700

What are the competitive changes with Valorant 3.0?

• Reduced the possibility of feeling “hard stuck” on older accounts. If your skill improves, your rank should properly reflect that, regardless of account age.
• Matchmaking accuracy will improve across all ranks, which should lead to a smoother ranked climb and reduce how hard you may swing up and down in rank
• While winning games is still the most important factor, individual performance will also be accounted for to improve matchmaking at Immortal+
  • This should result in better matches at the highest levels.
• Close games will have a smaller effect on rank rating gains and losses
• Adjusted our Rank Rating curves, so climbing (or falling) should feel less volatile
• Updated Rank distribution
• Placements raised to Diamond 1
  • This should help reduce the grind for our players at the top

Performance Updates

• Improved clipping plane calculations using multithreading
• Improved thread utilization across multiple cores for distributed tasks
• Optimized camera calculations
• Optimized ambient audio for each map
• General optimizations for all ability animations

Social Updates

• Hover Cards have been added to the social panel
  • Hover over your friends list to quickly learn more about the players you have added. 
• You can now invite to party with Riot ID in custom game

Gameplay Technology

• Your kills will get an additional highlighted border to make them stand out
• Kill assists will also be shown to the left of the killfeed entries.
• The killfeed will also display a highlighted border for your assist portrait
• The killfeed will display certain ultimate abilities when players on either team are killed in a second-life state or revived.
• Added multi-colored killfeeds in cases where kills would result in the same team color appearing side by side.

Round rollback feature for tournament mode Custom Games

• This feature allows you to set the game back to the start of a previous round and re-play the game starting from there
• To enable the feature, go to “Options” while setting up a Custom Game and toggle “On” Tournament Mode
  • Moderators can activate a rollback
  • If Cheats are enabled as a Custom Game option, all players can activate a rollback.
• During the match, the Round Rollback feature can be found in the “Cheats” section of the Menu.
• Added the ability to toggle on and off the outer crosshair lines!
• Adjusted assist timings and thresholds for utility-based assists to make them more consistent across different Agent abilities.

• Happy anniversary VALORANT! To celebrate we have added a new Year One Event Pass—this is similar to a Battlepass but it's completely free and has some really cool goodies.
  • This will be active for the duration of Patch 3.0 and will only last till 3.01 goes live. So remember to get your goodie bag before the party ends.
• What's a party without friends? We’ve also added a Squad Boost: You will get extra XP when you play in a premade group.
  • +8% boost for one additional player, +12% for two, +16% for three, and +20% for a full squad.
  • This will also be active for the duration of 3.0.
• We’re also permanently adding Account Leveling: A new way to recognize and reward you for your time playing in all VALORANT game modes.
  • Your account Player Card will now display a numeric level based on how much you play.
  • In addition to that, you will also be boosted to a certain level based on how many games you’ve played before Patch 3.0.

Bugs

Agents

• Characters blocked by Sage’s Barrier Orb when resurrected now break the wall to ensure they don’t get pushed inside map geo
• Fixed Skye’s Seekers showing up on the minimap even when they aren’t visible to an enemy
• Fixed Viper’s ultimate not showing as active on the team UI when Viper’s Pit is up
• Cypher’s Spy Camera could be placed inside the map on mid Icebox and has now been fixed.
• Fixed a bug where Reyna’s Dismiss ability could not be rebought if the Buy Menu is closed and reopened during the same Buy Phase
• Fixed a bug where cancelling Sova’s Hunter’s Fury while charging the shot allows player to skip unequip animation by equipping a weapon, ability, or Spike
• A bug where picking up Cypher’s TrapWires/Cages and Killjoy’s Nano Swarms during the Buy phase would prevent you from purchasing a second charge.

Competitive

• Fixed a bug that was causing a delay in recent Competitive game’s Ranked Rating updates in Match History
• Riot also fixed a Career screen visual bug that would show up for those who dropped out of Immortal
• Fixed a bug that caused a friend’s career to infinitely load

Content Support

• Fixed an issue causing a hitch when viewing skins in the Collection
• GAMEPLAY TECHNOLOGY
• Fixed a bug where the inner crosshair toggle feature wasn't working
• Fixed a bug where AOE kills were not rewarding the appropriate character if the enemy was in a debuffed state
• Finally, fixed a bug where the Spike icon pulse and beeping sound were not in sync
• Fixed a bug where Ally defuse progress bar sometimes fails to appear
• Fixed a bug where Observer’s Killfeed has no team colors
• Reverted our fix for the “swirly arms” in the last patch, since it was causing significant animation snapping