Valorant Ranked Disabled Due To Massive Exploit | EarlyGame

Home » When Is Valorant Ranked Back Up » Valorant Ranked Disabled Due To Massive Exploit | EarlyGame

Maybe your like

The Valorant 5.03 update brought a nasty game-breaking exploit to the game, with Riot Games acting swiftly by disabling ranked until they come up with a hotfix.
Yoru val
You could avoid all flashes in the game. I ©Riot Games

Despite Riot mentioning during the 5.03 patch notes that the in-game engine update would see the game receive some slight minor bugs present during menus while they ironed out stuff, it turns out a massive game-breaking one slipped their radar.

As a result, the developers swiftly revealed that they'd pause all of the competitive queues while they worked on a hotfix to tackle an issue that allowed players to avoid getting blinded by flashes with a simple configuration.

What Happened To Ranked in Valorant?

The exploit was first discovered by professional Valorant player Zellsis, signed with Sentinels at the moment. He shared it on social media on August 10. Zellsis found out that by disabling the in-game interface by clicking on "Hide User Interface In Game," none of the flashes produced the blinding effect they were designed to do.

Zellsis tried it with both Skye and Phoenix flashes, take a look at the clip down below:

GAME BREAKING NO FLASH BUG pic.twitter.com/bPZWU9qGgu

— Jordan Montemurro (@Zellsis) August 10, 2022

It didn't take long for Riot to acknowledge the bug and act on it, stating the following via social media:

We're disabling the Competitive queue while we work to fix an exploit that bypasses the flash effect from Agent abilities. We'll update as soon as we're back.

At the time of writing, it is unknown how long it'll take the developer team to get ranked back up after fixing the issue. As always, stay tuned to ValorFeed as we'll update the article accordingly once more information is revealed.

For more Valorant content:

  • Valorant Reaver 2.0 Collection - Schedule, All Skins, Price & More
  • Red Bull Campus Clutch - Schedule, Registration & More

Tag » When Is Valorant Ranked Back Up