Valorant Asia Pacific maintenance status (January 18), servers to experience brief service disruptions

The Valorant Asia Pacific players might be facing some performance issues today (January 18, 2023) as Riot Games mentioned that they would be conducting server maintenance.

According to the official server status page for the shooter, the developers will be performing live network maintenance for all the servers in the region. Because of this, players may encounter issues with connectivity, and Valorant might be down for some time.

Additionally, it would seem that the shooter also has a patch coming in later today. While it is not going to be a big update, there will be some balance changes as well as bug fixes that are expected to make their way to the new map Lotus.

However, it seems that Riot Games will be conducting maintenance for just the Asia Pacific servers, so the regions of North America, LATAM, Europe, Korea, and Brazil will not face issues with connectivity.

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Valorant patch 6.1 drops later today (January 18)

It’s been just over a week since the shooter received a major update that introduced the new map Lotus, while at the same time kicking off Episode 6 Act 1. So it’s quite a surprise that the developers are looking to introduce another update this soon, breaking away from their usual cycle of bi-weekly updates.

As for the expected set of changes one can look for, it would seem that the developers might introduce some balance changes as well as bug fixes to Lotus. The map has been facing performance issues ever since it went live last week, and the Valorant developers might be looking to address some of them this time around.

Additionally, the map has also seen a few boosting strategies that are ruining the competitive aspect of the game. One such strategy is the exploit which is in the back of B site that Riot Games will hopefully address in patch 6.1.

It’s also likely that the Replication game mode will be removed from the rotation. As it’s a temporary game mode, Riot will be shelving it for now, but they may put it back into rotation in one of the future updates. They are also likely to make a number of changes to it in the meantime. Players will still be able to access the mode in custom lobbies.