Valorant Update 4.08: New Agent, Balancing Changes, and More

By Abhinav Sharma Published 04/28/22 EDT

You now have a very good reason to play Valorant again as developer Riot Games released a major update recently. Update 4.08 brings a new agent, Fade. Several other agents like Jett, Neon, and Sova are tweaked as well. The patch also gave some love to Competitive 5-stacks and fixed a handful of bugs.

Changes made to all agents are mentioned below:

FADE GOES LIVE

See her abilities on our Agents page.
See Fade’s debut trailer. You’ll wake up screaming.

JETT

Tailwind

Upon pressing E, Jett consumes her Tailwind charge and after a .75 second delay, activates a 12-second window where she’s able to dash on next key press
Jett’s Tailwind charge can still be regained with 2 kills
To keep parity with the changes to Jett dash, the functionality for Dash during Knife rounds in Escalation will be adjusted

NEON

General

Battery energy received upon killing an enemy increased 25% > 100%

High Gear

Slide cannot be cast during equip delay
Velocity restriction removed
Neon can now slide sideways and forward, and only requires that she is moving
Energy drain increased 6.7/s > 10/s

Fast Lane

Wall damage removed

SOVA

Owl Drone

Duration reduced 10 > 7 seconds.
Health reduced 125 > 100
Dart Reveal
- Number of reveal pings reduced 3 > 2
Initial delay before first ping reveals increased 1.2 > 1.6 seconds. Delay between the first and second ping remains 1.2 seconds.
Quality of Life
- Changed crosshair color to green to better stand out against the white HUD
- Removed delay on [Target Hit] confirmation text
- [Target Hit] confirmation text now remains on the player HUD when transitioning out of Owl Drone.
- [Target Hit] confirmation text now remains on screen for 2 seconds, previously 1 second.
- Adjusted audio on drone dart hits for both Sova, and the player hit, to make confirmations more noticeable
Fixed a bug with Owl Drone, where the Dart Cooldown UI element would not properly update after tagging an opponent.