Moin Khot
Apr, 26.2023
Riot Games released the VALORANT Patch 6.08 on 25th April, which also marks the start of Episode Six, Act Three of the game. This new patch brings significant changes to Killjoy and the game's latest addition Gekko. Furthermore, the patch also brings some visual changes to Brimstone and Omen's smokes, along with cosmetics updates, map updates, and a bunch of bug fixes.
Valorant Patch 6.08: Full Notes and Updates
Agent updates
Gekko:
- Wingman (Q)
- Riot updated Gekko’s in-game portrait for better gameplay readability and quality consistency.
Killjoy:
The developers recognized that Killjoy has become more prominent in the meta and has been the go-to sentinel for most of the maps and teams. To address this, Riot Games has fine tuned her abilities, especially Nanoswarm (C).
- Nanoswarm (C)
- Other Abilities
Miscellaneous:
Brimstone’s Sky Smoke (E), Orbital Strike (X), and Omen’s From the Shadows (X) ability have updated targeting visuals to help players with precision placement on the map.
Cosmetic updates:
“We have upgraded several Shorty models, including the default Shorty, to get them up to par visually with the rest of our weapons. These are just art updates—there will be no gameplay changes,” Riot said.
- Players who own any of the following will notice an updated
Shorty:
Map updates:
The newly updated Bind rotates into Competitive and Unrated queues.
Icebox rotates out of Competitive and Unrated queues.
In addition to these changes, the developers have also included a few bug fixes in the gameplay and social system.