With a focus on ground-spreading and map-targeted skills, Valorant's Update 9.03 has been officially unveiled, bringing with it a number of noteworthy gameplay modifications. The Pearl map, which opens up additional strategic play options and broadens the game's player base, is also made available to console users with this valiant update.

After a very successful testing period, Riot Games' tactical first-person shooter Valorant was officially released on 2nd June, 2020. Thanks to its distinctive character skills and combination of accurate gunplay, the game swiftly rose to prominence in the competitive gaming field, appealing to both casual and professional gamers. Valorant's success has been largely attributed to its frequent upgrades, which bring new features and gameplay improvements. In order to provide its player base with a dynamic and ever-evolving experience, Valorant is divided into Acts and Episodes. Each episode introduces major improvements, including new agents, maps, and gameplay.

Valorant receives minor patches aimed at improving quality of life, balancing, and bug fixes in addition to big updates. Patch 9.03, the most recent, has a number of improvements. Interactions with overlapping items have been improved significantly, making activities such as attaching to ropes more dependable even when impeded by other elements, like Cypher's Spycam darts. To make sure that the effects of Valorant's agents—such as Brimstone's Incendiary and Viper's Snakebite—spread more uniformly and correspond with their visual indicators, modifications have also been made to their ground-spreading capabilities. Additionally, extra icons have been added to the minimap for map-targeted abilities, improving targeting precision for skills like Brimstone's Sky Smoke and Omen's From the Shadows.

Additionally, the patch includes specific fixes for players on PCs and consoles. An issue on PC that required users to hold [Tab] in order to activate the cursor during the pre-round has been resolved. Console brave players now have more options for playtime as the map Pearl has been added to the Unrated and Swift Play queues. A number of problems are also fixed in this release, including the ability to equip a weapon while defusing a spike by clicking an Ability button and the potential for input loss when opening the Ability map and Shop/Scoreboard at the same time.