Riot Games removed Omen from the Valorant pool of agents temporarily. It is due to the bugs surrounding the agent that cannot be fixed by a simple update.
Valorant got its latest patch last Tuesday. It aims to provide balance into the game by nerfing Sage and Killjoy while buffing Breach and Viper. However, a bug made Omen the best agent for cheap kills.
Teleport anywhere with Omen express
Omen can teleport anywhere on the map as long as the buy time counter is done. However, the latest bug allows him to bypass the barrier and get to neutral places faster than anyone.
Opponents can be easily caught off guard by unsuspecting characters giving Omen an easy kill.
Riot tried to address the issue by releasing an update. The bug is supposedly working on the map Bind. But, players have discovered that the glitch may be applied to all maps.
We're deploying a hotfix to 1.07 regions (NA/BR/LATAM) for the Omen teleporting-through-barriers bug. Fixed the immortal Omen (health, not rank) bug last night. If all is well, we'll ship this stable patch to APAC/OCE regions this afternoon and EU/TR/CIS regions tonight (PT time)
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) September 2, 2020
In response, Riot Games has decided to completely remove Omen from the game until the bug is fixed. The developers announced via Twitter that they would be rolling out updates slowly.
What we thought was a map bug for Omen teleporting past the spawn barriers… is actually an issue with Omen, so we're disabling him until we have a _real_ fix. Which is hopefully tomorrow.
Sorry for all of the disruptions.
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) September 3, 2020
What we thought was a map bug for Omen teleporting past the spawn barriers… is actually an issue with Omen, so we're disabling him until we have a _real_ fix. Which is hopefully tomorrow.
Sorry for all of the disruptions.
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) September 3, 2020
Valorant players should not worry as Omen will be back soon. It is better to have him out temporarily than to die unexpectedly.
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