Valorant Fade nerfs and Cypher buffs in 5.10 PBE patch notes

Referring to Fade, Riot says its Prowlers "was an all-around ability that was difficult to play against, and we want to improve it with these changes." This reduces their duration and slows their time to bite enemies, as well as lowering the duration of myopia applied to any enemies hit by them, in a change that Riot says "encourages Fade to be more circumspect in the areas she chooses" while helping her opponents better counter her.

The Cypher, on the other hand, gets a nice power boost as well as a few quality-of-life improvements. His Trapwire length has been significantly increased in an attempt to address the issue of his predictability. Riot is looking to improve the rewards for using their Neural Theft ultimate by removing the time limit to use it on enemy corpses, increasing its maximum cast range, and adding a second enemy detection four seconds after the first.

Perhaps even more exciting about Cypher's network are its quality of life settings. The yellow silhouette on his Spycam and Neural Theft abilities now becomes dimmer and fades out faster to distinguish him from the actual enemy, and will disappear if the detected enemy becomes visible to you to "help reduce confusion when seeing two images of an enemy in different locations ."

Valorant 5.10 PBE Patch Notes – November 4th

General

• Menu update: After hearing the pain of removing one-click access to most of our menus, we've brought that functionality back in the form of icon buttons in the universal navigation at the top of the screen. You can now navigate from Home, Battle Pass, Agents, Career, Collection, and Store with a single click from anywhere. Don't know what the icon is? Hover over them - we have added hints to help you familiarize yourself.
• Like most changes, this is not final and we will make adjustments based on your feedback!

Agent updates

Cypher

• Trapwire maximum length increased from 1000 to 1500.
• Neural Theft now shows enemies twice. There is a four-second delay between impressions.
• Removed the Neural Theft time limit on enemy corpses.
• Neural Theft maximum cast range increased from 1200 to 1800.
• Updated the yellow silhouette used to reveal Cypher in Spycam and Neural Theft.
• The yellow silhouette now disappears if a spotted enemy becomes visible to you, to avoid confusion when seeing two images of an enemy in different locations.
• The yellow silhouette now becomes dimmer and disappears faster to make it easier to distinguish from the real enemy.
• Placed Cipher Utility is no longer destroyed by AoE damage on allies.

fade

• Prowlers duration reduced from 3 >>> 2,5 seconds. (The time when the tramp is alive without a trace).
• Prowlers bite delay after reaching the target increased from 0,4 to 0,6 seconds.
• Prowlers hitbox improvements.
• Prowlers Close View duration on hit reduced from 3,5 seconds to 2,75 seconds.
• Rogues now run out of steam and no longer debuff the target instead of debuffing it if they teleport before it has finished its animation.
• Twilight cost increased from 7 >>> 8.

Errors

Harbor

• Fixed an issue that caused the Harbor Cascade to sometimes appear below the map.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Harbor Cascade's minimap scope to shorten when hovering up or down even if Cascade moved the same distance.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Harbor Cascade target on the minimap to be slightly shorter than the actual distance it was supposed to travel.

Aster

• Fixed an issue where Astra could cast fake Nebula right at the start of the round before her Star had recharged.

Known Issues

• Button highlight/paint state inconsistencies on the new universal navigation buttons for Home, Battle Pass, Agents, Career, Collection, and Store.
• Selected generic navigation icons do not lead to the selected menu when used from any navigation submenu.

Full patch notes by JoEllenPDF Riot on Reddit ValorantPBE.