Riot Games provides excellent support for Valorant with regular patches keeping the game updated. Oftentimes, however, this means issuing occasional server maintenance that takes the game offline. Here’s what you need to know about whether Valorant is down and how to check the server status to see if the game is down.
Is Valorant Down? Answered
At the time of writing, Valorant is currently online. Earlier today, however, it was down across a number of regions for a short amount of time. The issue seems to have been resolved now.
You should expect Valorant Competitive to go down for the end of Act 3, which will be next week on Oct. 18/19 depending on your region. All servers will go down as Riot Games issues the next patch, 5.08, which will introduce a whole new Act, including the new Agent.
Keep in mind the rollout of patches are at different times depending on which region you are playing the game.
The generic times for each region’s server maintenance during patch deployment are as follows:
Asia Pacific: 14:00 PDT
Brazil: 06:00 PDT
Europe: 20:00 PDT
Korea: 14:00 PDT
Latin America: 06:00 PDT
North America: 06:00 PDT
If you’re wondering what PDT is to your local time, use a converter such as this one.
Where To Check Valorant Server Status
As a reminder, if you’re ever wondering whether Valorant’s servers are down due to an issue with the game (and not a patch deploy), your first stop when it comes to confirming the current status of the Valorant servers should be the Riot Games status page. Here you can see messages for any known ongoing issues, and there is also a button for “Recently Closed” problems that will tell you if/when recent troubles were fixed.
The second best place to look is simply to go on Riot Games’ Valorant Twitter channel, which always relays important information such as server status.
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.
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) August 10, 2022
You can also head to Down Detector. Seeing as that site doesn’t rely on Riot Games to acknowledge a problem and instead collects the reports of players, you can sometimes get a more accurate read on if a problem is just you or not.
That’s everything you need to know about how to check the Valorant server status to see if the game is down. Be sure to stick around as we bring you more info on any possible widespread issues. For now, check the links below to see any of our recent Valorant coverage.