Valorant Patch Notes 1.04 Include Multiple Buffs to Viper

Valorant Patch Notes 1.04 include multiple buffs to Viper that have been sorely needed. The patch also included changes to the Classic pistol, other Agents and more.

Here's a full list of changes in Valorant Patch 1.04.

Patch Notes 1.04 is here with some changes. Four Agents get some polish, a bug fix for the Classic gave us an opportunity to go in and tune the weapon’s behaviour, and more. Read the rest here: https://t.co/PQxAaF80eC pic.twitter.com/94h24BFjyk
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) July 21, 2020

Valorant Patch Notes 1.04 Include Multiple Buffs to Viper

Viper

Viper's Pit

Time outside the cloud before it collapses increased to 12 seconds
Ult can be dropped early by holding the ability key
Enemy player's minimaps are obscured and they can't provide minimap detection to allies
Brightness of enemy glows has been increased at the edge of Viper's near sight

Decay

Decay per second has increased to 15 from all sources
After exiting smoke decay persists for 2.5 seconds before beginning to fade

Fuel

When Toxic Screen and Poison Cloud are both active it only consumes one ability's worth of fuel

Changes have also been made to Raze, Brimstone, and Cypher as well as the Classic and the buy menu UI.

Raze

Ult cost raised from six to seven points

Brimstone

Ult cost raised from six to seven points
Stim Beacon no longer buffs or shows radius to enemies
Arms fidelity buffed

Cypher

Cyber Cage can be picked up in buy phase

Classic Pistol

Fixed right click inaccuracy bug
Fixed lack of inaccuracy penalty for jumping
Running spread decreased to 2.1
Jumping spread increased to 2.3
Walking spread increased to 1.95
Added 10% accuracy bonus when crouching while stationary

UI

Weapons stats text box replaced with graphical representation

Quality of Life

Minimap vision cones now colored by team
Italian and Mexican Reyna voice overs replaced

Elderflame Skins

Adjusted volume on Operator equip animation

Fixed bug that cause volume to stack when spamming operator

Enemy footsteps will always be louder than cosmetic sounds

Melee inspect animation now has sound effects for level 1 and 2

Performance Updates

Gun pickup targeting and Sage Ultimate targeting unified with ally character highlights, saving VRam and GPU performance
rendering performance fixes
Gun skin upgrade videos are now streamed instead of locally stored, reduced install size by 380MB

Bug Fixes

Fixed requirement for Reyna to look at soul orbs to activate them and maintain healing
Fixed one way Brimstone smokes when camera was around top of smokes
Fixed Breach's aftershock not applying correctly if multiple characters are hit
Fixed jittering when reaching max height of Sova's drone
Fixed Marshal bug where weapon maintained accuracy while walking
Fixed issues with translucency effects being one frame behind
Fixed ally highlights not showing up on some AMD GPUs when using MSAA, and some Intel GPUs
Fixed a bug where loading screens did not cover the entire screen when playing in certain resolution/aspect ratio combinations
Shortened text on photosensitivity warning screen
Fixed bug where equip button would remain greyed out when purchasing a skin variant that is being previewed
Fixed Brimstone's smokes on haven spawning offset
Fixed typo in Brimstone's bio