The most recent VALORANT update 4.04 introduced a slew of new issues, which Riot Games is currently working to resolve. After bugs involving the agents were discovered, both Yoru and Astra were removed from the game for an extended period of time. They are now playable again after the necessary fixes have been made. The series of Riot agents being removed from the competitive queue began with Yoru, then moved on to Astra, and now the prestige has passed to Cypher. However, that was not the end of the bugs, as Cypher is currently disabled.

Cypher has been disabled in Valorant for the past 15 hours and is currently an unplayable option. The only information available is that Cypher has been disabled due to an exploit and will be re-enabled soon. Cypher is a sentinel, a one-man surveillance network that monitors the enemy's every move. And it appears that the devs have discovered a new exploit for him on Bind.

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The bug was not made public by the developers, but someone on Twitter certainly knows what it was. However, according to one Twitter user, "On Bind, if you put a trip on B main 'door,' when an enemy passes through, the game would crash, and every player would return to the main menu as if the game never happened." And it appears that if an enemy player walks through a Cypher tripwire on Bind, the game recreates the match. The developers are working on a fix, and based on their track record, we should be able to play him in an hour or two.

Yoru and Astra Also Faced Series of Bugs but Repatched soon

Yoru was removed from the competitive queue due to some players being unable to use Yoru's ultimate ability, Dimensional Drift. In addition, there was a bug that allowed players to plant Spike while in Dimensional Drift.

Players were able to sell their default star and get Creds back while playing Astra. This enabled them to buy powerful weapons like the Bucky, Marshal, or Stinger in pistol rounds.