Valorant New Patch Brings Smoke Noise Feature. Sparks Debate Among Gamers
Riot Games always ensures that Valorant keeps updating with time. However, these players aren't very happy with the new updates.
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The new BGMI PBE patch 7.08 of Valorant has divided players into two factions. Reason? Smoke will now make noises at the end of a smoke. Specifically, Astra, Brimstone, and Omen's smoke abilities now emit both audio and visual cues for 1.5 seconds before dissipating, aimed at providing clarity to the gameplay.
Whatever the intentions of Riot Games may have been, this small Quality of Life change in the game has sparked a debate among the players. Some of the players are calling out developers for lowering the skill gap between pro and new players.
Valorant 2023 Champions winner EG Boostio said, “Bad change tbh. People need to learn the game to this level at least." This tweet was a reply to G2 JoshRT who is the favour of the changes.
According to Josh, the change will help the new players understand game mechanics better, and lower-rank games will be more enjoyable.
Reminder to everyone: Riot is just following their usual M.O. of lowering the skill floor to make playing at lower ranks more enjoyable and easier.
— G2 JoshRT (@JoshRTz) October 13, 2023
You still need to call out smoke timings at the pro level but it's less punishing now https://t.co/T5ngDJCQf4
A lot of players are complaining that the game will be aim-dominated and the smoke players who have learned the timings and calls will get weak due to this change.
Other changes in Valorant 7.08 PBE
Premier Updates
Premier Playoffs Tournament Queue Changes: The Playoffs Tournament Queue is now only 15 minutes instead of 1 hour. If you don’t queue up and stay queued within the 15-minute window, your team will not be able to play in the Tournament.
At the end of the waiting period, all teams that are still in the queue will be matched at one time into evenly distributed brackets seeded by Premier Score.
This change ensures that having a better regular season record gives you a higher seeding in your tournament.
Store Updates
Your Level Borders and Player Card collection UI is getting an upgrade! You’ll now be able to search, navigate, and equip your Level Borders and Player Cards using our grid UI.
Bug Fixes
Deadlock
Annihilation (X) can no longer open Bind’s automatic doors from outside the teleporter rooms.
Annihilation (X) can no longer open Breeze’s Mid Chute trapdoor from below.
Neon
Fast Lane (C) now more reliably fully extends through Fracture’s A Door when cast from the outside, behaving the same as when used from inside A Hall.
General
Fixed a bug where the music would hitch/skip while loading into a map or the Range.
Player Behaviour
Fixed a bug so that you’ll receive the correct Ranked Rating penalties for disruptive behavior.
Weapons
Fixed a bug where kill banner audio was playing too quietly.