Valorant patch 5.03 was supposed to go live tomorrow, July 26, 2022. However, Riot Games has officially announced that the update has been delayed and will go live on August 9, 2022, instead.
The developer is known to take frequent breaks from regular patches, and this additional gap of two weeks before updates is in line with some of its practices.
There was no big update in store for the shooter, hence the changes that Riot Games would have introduced this week would have been regarding some of the several known bugs that the game is facing at this time.
Valorant fans are not happy with Riot Games delaying patch 5.03
While Riot Games taking a break from the regular Valorant patch might be good news for its engineers, fans are unfortunately not happy with the decision.
Ever since the previous update, which dropped two weeks ago, many Valorant players have complained about the voice chat issue that has been plaguing the live servers.
Players have taken to commenting on the Twitter thread of the announcement that it has been a long while since they have been facing issues with the in-game voice chat. They were expecting Riot Games to send out a fix to this problem with patch 5.03. However, with it getting delayed, they are not exactly happy with Riot’s decision.
And yet, there is also a slight possibility that the developers will ship a minor hotfix to fix players' voice chat concerns instead of rolling out an entire patch for it. Hence, if the problem continues to persist for multiple players, Riot Games might just go ahead and resolve the concerned issue with a hotfix.
As for the balance changes that 5.03 might have brought about, there is a fair bit of speculation that Agent Chamber's nerfs might be on the cards because of how overpowered he is at the moment.
The Agent had the highest pick and win rate during the recent VCT Masters Copenhagen, and hopefully, Riot Games will be looking into toning down his kit a fair bit in the next patch.
Patch 5.03 will be dropping on August 9, 2022, after which Riot will once again shift back to its regular update cadence.