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Earlier today, on January 31, 2023, Riot Games took down the official Valorant servers in selected regions for a scheduled maintenance. Players in North America, Latin America, and Brazil will be unable to use the game's servers throughout the maintenance period.
Valorant servers in the aforementioned regions were taken down at 06:00 PST, according to the game's official service status page. As per the page, servers will remain down for approximately four hours, which means that players will be able to hop online at roughly 10:00 PST.
Valorant servers will return after maintanence at roughly 10 am PST
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Riot Games has estimated the ongoing server downtime to last for about four hours. Nevertheless, players should be prepared for an additional delay. The maintenance period is likely to exceed the estimated downtime, forcing players to wait for an additional few hours before they can enter the game's servers.
The server downtime on January 31, 2023 won't bring forward a new patch, nor will it introduce any new content to the game. Instead, Riot will be looking to fix several issues that players have been facing over the past few weeks.
Valorant's server downtime on January 31, 2022, will not be followed by a new patch
The server maintenance on January 31, 2022, is expected to last around four hours. Riot Games generally takes down the game's servers for maintenance only during occasions where a patch of considerable size is due. However, players shouldn't expect a new patch to arrive after the maintenance on January 31.
Patch 6.01 of Valorant was released on January 17/18, 2023. Following past trends, patch 6.02 was supposed to arrive on January 31/February 1. Unfortunately, Riot Games has faced several technical issues over the last few weeks, resulting in a delay in game updates.
Riot was the victim of a cyber attack in mid-January, which compromised the systems in the company's development environment. This social engineering attack on Riot Games affected the company's ability to develop new content and import it into Valorant as well as other gaming titles. As a result, patch 6.02 will be arriving a week later, on February 7/8, 2023.
Although the ongoing server maintenance does not bring forward a new patch, players all over the world can look forward to the month of February for a few exciting in-game additions.
Riot is expected to introduce a variety of new features in the near future, including a new Team Deathmatch game mode called "HURM", a highly anticipated Replay system, VCT partnered team skins, and more. Readers can stay tuned to Sportskeeda for more gaming news and updates.
