Valorant patch 2.05 is here, and it’s all about AFK detection and improving penalties for those caught breaking the rules.
Valorant players have always pressured Riot to implement some much-needed changes to their AFK penalty system. While patch 2.03 laid the foundation for a better AFK punishment system, update 2.05 is cracking down on players who misbehave.
In addition, those who shy away from competitive games will also receive a small Rank Rating penalty for helping their teammates.
Finally, adjustments were made to Sova’s Owl Drone and Astra’s flight mechanics when she is in astral form. Unique keyboard shortcuts for each skill can now be defined in the Options menu.
Navigating the astral form of Astra just got a little easier.
Valorant Patch 2.05: Complete patch notes
AGENT UPDATES
SOVA
- Added unique keyboard shortcuts to the options menu to fly up and down when using the Owl Drone
ASTRA
- Added unique keyboard shortcuts to the options menu to fly up and down in astral form
COMPETITIVE UPDATES
- The Career: Act Classification tab now has a toggle that allows you to choose to activate or
disable your Act Rank. - The Match History tab now allows you to filter your matches by mode
- Players will receive a small rating penalty for dodging competitive games. For more
context about this change, see this post - Radiant rating rating gains and losses tuned to be more consistent with Immortal rating
sorting behavior - The layout and look of custom games has been updated
SOCIAL UPDATES
- Enhanced 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 notices, 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 problems and opportunities with player behavior in our previous review.
INSECTS
- Fixed a bug where classified game icons were misaligned in the match history
- Astra now starts Spike Rush games with all 5 star loads
- Killjoy can’t get the Lockdown off the ground by jumping and putting it on cosmetic pieces
geo on the walls - Fixed an issue where Cypher’s Spycam dart could sometimes hit players on the other side of a wall
- Fixed Killjoy not receiving charges from his Alarmbot and Tower back if they were called back after she was resurrected
- Dead enemies fixed being counted as instant enemies in the combat report
- Astra’s “Out of Charge” VO, who did not play for his skills while in astral form, has been fixed
- Fixed deafening effect when close-up view is not reproduced if Astra is in the game
- Fixed Cypher’s Spycam segmentation going through Sage’s wall
- Astra fixed problems with placing stars in the side defense boxes of the Icebox mid of site A
- The Sova Drone and Astra ascend / down connections now properly respect the changed jump / crouch keys
- The deactivated reach circle indicator that appears after planting the Spike again is displayed correctly.
- Fixed a rare bug that left players unable to move or process entries until they died upon 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 in the last patch, this fix should address the remaining known causes.
- Fixed an issue where the Stinger’s stock was highlighted on the ground
- Better readability of player names on the Observer
- Fixed an issue where Skye seekers did not move noticeably on the Brimstone tactical map
- Fixed an issue where the color of the scoreboard did not change properly in the side switch for observers
- Fixed a bug that caused the “Network problem” icon to appear when there were no network problems