Valorant patch 2.05 is here, and it’s all about AFK detection and improving penalties for those caught violating the rules.
Brave players have always put Riot under pressure to apply some much-needed changes to their AFK penalty system. While patch 2.03 has laid the foundation for a better AFK penalty system, update 2.05 is limiting players who misbehave.
In addition, those who do not evade competitive games will also receive a small penalty rating penalty for rescuing their teammates.
Finally, adjustments have been made to Sova’s Owl Drone and Astra’s flying mechanic when she’s in Astral Form. Unique keychains for each capability can now be set in the Options menu.
Navigating through Astra’s Astral Form just got a little easier.
Valorant Patch 2.05: full patch notes
AGENT UPDATES
SOVA
- Added unique keychains to the options menu to fly up and down when using Owl Drone
ASTRA
- Unique keychains added to the option menu to fly up and down in Astral Form
COMPETITIVE UPDATES
- On the Career: Act Rank page there is now a switch with which you can choose to enable or
eliminate your Law Rank. - With the History tab you can now filter your matches by mode
- Players will receive a small fine for evading their competitive games. For more
context on this change, see this post - Reconciled Radiant Rank gains and losses are more consistent with the immortal rank
grading behavior - Custom game layout and footage updated
SOCIAL UPDATE
- Improved AFK detection
- Updated penalties for AFK violations
○ These include warnings, driving restrictions, XP denial, competitive driving ban,
and game ban - Updated penalties for chat-based violations
- These include alerts, chat restrictions, competitive driving restrictions, and game bans
- Remember that violations with no tolerance will automatically lead to a ban on play
- You can read more about our work to address issues and opportunities regarding player behavior in our previous exposition.
BUGS
- Fixed a bug in which the ranked game icons were misaligned in Match History
- Astra now launches Spike Rush games with all 5-star charges
- Killjoy can not place Lockdown off the ground by jumping and placing it on cosmetic pieces
of geo on the walls more - Fixed an issue where Cypher’s Spycam darts could sometimes hit players on the other side of the wall
- Fixed Killjoy not getting complaint back from her Alarmbot and Turret if they are recalled after she is resurrected
- Fixed dead enemies are counted as flashed enemies in the battle report
- Fixed Astra’s “Out of charges” VO does not play for her abilities in Astral Form
- Fixed the deafening effect on close-up that does not play when Astra is in play
- Fixed Cypher’s Spycam target going through Sage’s wall
- Fixed Astra having trouble placing Stars on the defensive side of Icebox, midway through the A-yard
- Sova Drone and Astra rise / fall bind now respect altered jump / squat keychains
- The indicator of the stool series circle that reappears after the plant from the Spike is properly displayed.
- A rare bug that can be fixed may not allow players to move or process inputs until they are dead when entering or returning from Astra’s astral form, Sova’s drone, Skye’s scout or Cypher’s Spy Camera.
- We have addressed some of the causes of this error guide earlier. This solution should address the remaining known causes.
- Fixed an issue where Stinger’s inventory would appear loose on the ground
- Improved readability of player names in Observer
- Fixed an issue where Skye’s seekers did not move visibly on Brimstone’s tactical map
- Fixed an issue where the color of the scoreboard did not change properly at the side swap for the observers
- Fixed a bug causing the “Network Problem” icon to appear if there were no network problems