Here is Why Cypher Disabled

Valorant players cannot play as Cypher anymore as Riot Games disabled the character for some urgent fixes.

Valorant update 4.04 has been a pretty flawed patch from Riot Games that caused many issues in the game upon its launch.

Not long after Riot Games dropped the new update, they removed both Yoru and Astra from the game to apply some essential fixes to the characters. Hopefully, they both came back to the roster several hours later.

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However, it wasn’t the end of urgent fixes. Later last night, the official Twitter account of Valorant revealed that they were disabling Cypher as well.

Cypher Was Disabled in Valorant due to an Exploit After Update 4.04

As revealed on Twitter, Riot Games says that Cypher has been disabled due to an exploit that needs an urgent fix. It’s yet to be seen when the character will be back to the game, but it’s over 6 hours now, and Cypher is still out of reach for players.

Unfortunately, we don’t have any clue on what the exploit was. We know that Cypher previously had some glitches in his tripwire that granted him an unfair advantage, but those bugs were already supposed to be fixed with update 4.04 unless the fix causes a bigger issue!

This is really disappointing that Riot Games has not tested the updates before rolling them out and applying them to the game’s main servers. If Valorant had a Public Test Server similar to many other competitive multiplayer games, these issues wouldn’t come up.

We will update this post with new information as soon as we hear anything new about Cypher from Riot Games.

Valorant is now available for free on PC through Riot Games Launcher.