Valorant Patch 3.12 Adds Agent Keybinds, Friendly Fire Penalties and More: Detailed Patch Notes

The highly anticipated Valorant patch 3.12 is already here, and fans are excited to know more about what’s new in the latest Valorant update.

The highly anticipated Valorant patch 3.12 is already here, and fans are excited to know more about what’s new in the latest Valorant update. If you’re here for the detailed patch notes of Valorant 3.12, we have you covered.

The newly introduced Valorant patch 3.12 introduces a bunch of heavily requested stuff into the game including agent-specific keybinds and penalties for intentionally damaging team members with utilities.

How to set Agent Keybinds In Valorant?

  • The agent-specific keybinds can now be easily set by a Valorant player by navigating to Settings > Controls > Actions from the main menu.

Players can now also report others during the agent select phase by hovering over their name and clicking on ‘Report’. Alongside this, players will also be able to add others if they have a positive experience.

The 3.12 update also included other quality-of-life changes and bug fixes which you can read all about in Riot’s official blog post.

Here are the detailed patch notes of Valorant 3.12 as stated by Riot:

GAME SYSTEM UPDATES

AGENT-SPECIFIC KEYBINDS

  • We heard you loud and clear. You can now go to the Settings Menu and set different keybinds for each Agent!
  • Go to Settings >> Controls >> Actions to get started
  • Added ability to create, delete, and search for keybind profiles for each Agent. You cannot create more than one profile per Agent.
  • Added ability to copy your default keybindings to a single profile or all profiles at once.
  • Now when your keybinds are in conflict, you can see what other items the binding is assigned to.
  • You can revert individual changes made to bindings in each keybind profile. Reverting will reset the keybind to what it was at the time the profile was created.

SOCIAL UPDATES

  • Report in Agent Select is now live!
    • You can now report disruptive players during the pregame. Just hover over the name and click REPORT.
    • You can also add players to your friends list if you have a positive experience.
  • Friendly Fire detection
    • You Better stop purposely blasting grenades on your teammates cause we’re tracking them and will be punishing excessive damage to allies!

PROGRESSION UPDATES

  • Wide Player Cards
    • After community feedback we are bringing back the Wide Player cards that are shown during the Loading Screens and in the kill banners.

GENERAL

  • Integrated select changes and bug fixes for Slate/UI from Unreal Engine 4.26 and 4.27

BUGS

AGENTS

  • Fixed a bug that caused abilities that consist of a held object to display incorrectly in third person. You’ll notice this fix on Skye, Sage, Jett, Yoru, and Reyna.

SOCIAL

  • Fixed a bug where players were able to spam invite others to party

You can read the full patch notes on the official VALORANT website.