Valorant's 13.06 patch replaces Average Combat Score with new Performance Score

A coach who graded tryouts on Average Combat Score will open the end-of-game screen in 13.06 and find a 0-500 Performance Score, with a panel showing what moved it and where the player can improve ^[8]. Riot says the new number takes in more than damage and kills ^[7]. The patch notes do not publish the weights ^[20].

The Warden got the announcement ^[1]. Its specification, as Dexerto reports it, is a scoped alternative to the Vandal and Phantom at 2,900 credits that Riot calls a "stronger" aim-down-sight gun ^[2]. It will get bought in its first week at full-buy price because it is new. Whether it unseats a default weapon will show up in pick rates several patches later.

Gauntlet: Glitched puts eight two-player teams into a round-robin bracket, sixteen players in one lobby, drafting abilities from different Agents ^[4][19][3]. Riot's own copy warns of problems and glitches that "bite back," forcing players to reconfigure ^[5]. Week-three return will say more about a limited-time mode than week-one trial.

The one measured claim in the release is enforcement. Riot says its boosting detection is banning 1,600 accounts a day, more than 90,000 since July 20 ^[12]. Divide 90,000 by 1,600 and the run comes to about 56 days, roughly eight weeks at that rate ^[18]. The anticheat team published a retro through Vanguard, and the notes said: "our boosting detections are proving effective against smurfs, and we're only getting started!" ^[13]

Range-in-queue ships with conditions. A player can start matchmaking and then walk into the Range, or start matchmaking from inside it ^[9]. If Riot expects a short queue, the Range may not be available right away, and it reappears if the wait runs long ^[10]. Premier, Deathmatch and other modes without Agent Select do not support it ^[11].

The client work in the same patch merges Home and Lobby into a single hub and adds indicators in the Collection for content a player has earned but not looked at, which clear on viewing or on leaving the game ^[14][15]. Ranked rewards and Agent gear also change, with new customization options ^[17].

Two questions sort a patch like this one for anyone who has to brief a roster on Monday. First, whether an item changes what a player buys or what a player is measured on. A scoring change rewrites habits; new inventory gets tried. Second, whether the item works in the queue those players actually sit in. Range-in-queue passes that test for ranked and fails it for Premier ^[11].