Buffing out and polishing Episode 6.
New Agents and Maps, such as the recent Gekko and Lotus releases, are bound to have a few bugs and inconsistencies when they first come out in VALORANT. The good news is that Riot Games has a robust bug-busting team that consists of their hardworking devs and members of the community through VALORANT’s PBE.
This week’s VALORANT update consists of some more Gekko and Lotus bug fixes alongside some general bug fixes and minor gameplay updates.
We have outlined everything you need to know about VALORANT Patch 6.06 in this quick guide.
Gekko Bug Fixes
Gekko continues to have ability effect and VFX inconsistencies in VALORANT. This time around, Riot Games addresses Mosh Pit’s ability effects to make it more consistent with other abilities such as KAY/O’s FRAG/ment and Breach’s Aftershock.
Damage inflicted by Mosh Pit to objects has been reduced as well to make it more consistent with the rest of the Agents’ ability damage multiplier on objects.
Mosh Pit
- Mosh Pit’s damage to objects has been performing inconsistently with relative abilities such as KAY/O’s FRAG/ment and Breach’s Aftershock.
- Damage to objects has reduced 2.5x >>> 1x.
Wingman
- Wingman will now always die if he is last alive.
Lotus Updates
Lotus gets minor updates for Patch 6.06 directed toward the A-Link door. Previously, players are not able to see other players on the other side of the door as the door collapses, making it difficult to make millisecond adjustments in case there are enemies on the other side.
The new VFX addresses this issue and should make the other side of the A-Link destructible door more visible as it crumbles after being shot down.
Bug Fixes
Patch 6.06 bug fixes consist of minor Agent and Gameplay updates alongside a long list of bug fixes for text chat, ping icons, voice chat UI, and more.
Agents
- Wingman can no longer concuss intangible players.
Gameplay Systems
- Fixed a bug where loading into a match resulted in an incorrect view of under the map.
Social
- Fixed a bug preventing you from sending a whisper starting with a Circumflex Accent ^. Players can now whisper cute emoticon faces to each other using ^w^.
- Fixed a bug causing ping icons to be displayed even when someone was muted. Muting someone will now properly suppress ping icons.
- Fixed a bug where the voice chat UI was obscured when your Agent was blinded. You can now see, even when your Agent can’t.
- Fixed a bug where the join party button would still be active even though the party invite was no longer valid.
- Fixed a bug where when searching your friends list, the number of people a friend is in a party with would not display correctly.
- Fixed a bug where scrolling the social panel would sometimes scroll other UI elements like the Agent carousel.
- Fixed a bug where the friends list was obscured when auto-reject friend requests was enabled.
You can read the full VALORANT 6.06 Patch Notes here.
