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The Valorant servers will temporarily be going offline today, September 20, 2022, to deploy the upcoming 5.06 patch update.
This will be the second patch that will be making its way to Episode 5 Act 1. The tweaks that are coming to the live servers with this update are not exactly big ones.
According to the official Valorant Server Status page, the shooter’s clients will be taken down during the following timings:
- Asia Pacific: Servers will be going down for maintenance on 20/09/20222 at 14:00 PDT
- Brazil: Servers will be going down for maintenance on 20/09/20222 at 06:00 PDT
- Europe: Servers will be going down for maintenance on20/09/20222 at 20:00 PDT
- Korea: Servers will be going down for maintenance on20/09/20222 at 14:00 PDT
- Latin America: Servers will be going down for maintenance on 20/09/20222 at 06:00 PDT
- North America: Servers will be going down for maintenance on 20/09/20222 at 06:00 PDT
The servers are expected to be down for a couple of hours. However, players might have to wait for a bit longer to access Valorant if the maintenance schedule does not go as planned.
Valorant patch 5.06 expected to bring massive Stinger and Agent updates, along with the ChronoVoid bundle
Riot Games doesn't have a lot in store for Valorant patch 5.06. However, two of the biggest highlights of the patch will be the changes that will be making their way to Stinger and the ChronoVoid bundle.
Listed below are the changes that the developers have pushed for the stinger during the recent PBE cycle:
- Primary Fire error adjusted from 1.6 error after seven bullets >>> 1.3 error after six bullets
- Our goal for the Stinger is to feel controllable and appropriately lethal at short ranges, but currently, even in close-quarters, it can feel out of control. Lowering the top spread should make it feel more reliable at the appropriate range once you’ve overcome the learning curve of the recoil.
- Alt Fire first shot error adjusted from .5 >>> .35
- For an option that's about being more accurate, it felt like the first shot had more variance than we'd like, especially at the ranges you'd want to use the burst fire mode.
The ChronoVoid skin line will also be going live. The skins are collectively going to cost 8700 VP (Valorant Points). Individual guns are likely to cost 2175 VP each, whereas the A Quo melee weapon will expectedly cost 4350 VP.
The following guns will be a part of the skin line:
- ChronoVoid Phantom
- ChronoVoid Vandal
- Terminus A Quo (melee)
- ChronoVoid Sheriff
- ChronoVoid Judge
- ChronoVoid Card
- ChronoVoid Spray
- ChronoVoid Gun Buddy
As for the Agent updates, Riot Games has mentioned in a recent Valorant dev blog that Cypher buffs as well as nerfs for Chamber and Fade will be on the cards. However, it’s not yet certain if these changes are actually set for 5.06 or for a later patch.
