VALORANT Patch Notes 7.03: Store Changes, Player Behavior Updates, & More

Tahmid Shihab Murshed
By Tahmid Shihab Murshed
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Riot Games has revealed the patch notes for the 7.03 update. Along with it, some major changes will be made to the game.

VALORANT is a 5v5 competitive shooter developed by Riot Games. The strategic FPS has cemented itself as one of the biggest esports titles worldwide. Currently, the game is available in almost all countries of the world.

Being an esports-ready game, VALORANT has a complex in-game ecosystem catering to casual and competitive gamers. Riot Games sustains this ecosystem by releasing regular patch notes that bring different in-game balancing and quality-of-life changes.

With Patch 7.03, Riot has changed the rendering system, player behaviour changes, store updates, and bug fixes. Furthermore, they also fixed the new in-game esports hub showing the wrong schedule for the upcoming tournament matches.

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VALORANT Patch Notes 7.03

GENERAL UPDATES

  • We have restructured the rendering system with the goal of making the system more maintainable in the future.

PLAY BEHAVIOR UPDATES

  • We added party text mutes for people who have received team text mutes.
  • We added formatting changes to our behavioural warning messaging system to improve visibility and readability.

STORE UPDATES

Favouriting After Purchase and End-0f-Game Unlock

  • After purchasing or unlocking a Battlepass or event pass items at the end of a game, you can immediately Favorite your newly purchased/unlocked weapon or accessory item (titles not included) on the confirmation screen.

Navigation to Sprays Collection

  • After purchasing or unlocking a Battlepass or event pass Spray at the end of a game, you will now be able to directly navigate to that newly acquired Spray in the Collections tab from the confirmation screen.

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a bug where a white line appeared on Player Portraits when an Ultimate was used.
  • Fixed an issue where a shield’s number value appears red in the shop upon damage and then when buying it back again.
  • Fixed a font issue where Greek Tonos was not rendering for Account Names.
  • Fixed a bug where VOIP Ducks Flavor VO (a setting that, when turned on, makes in-game sounds slightly lower in order to prioritize party/team comms) was not functioning as intended.
  • Fixed a bug in the Esports Hub that was causing the Schedule to show incorrect Times/Days due to UTC time conversion.

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By Tahmid Shihab Murshed FPS Writer
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Tahmid Shihab Murshed is an FPS writer at GameRiv. Born with a knack for gaming, he has played all types of games out there. He has a heartfelt love for Call of Duty, and other shooter titles out there.