*LIVE NOW* Valorant Episode 6 Act 1 release time

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Free-to-play shooter Valorant has now launched its latest overhaul with a brand new episode.

Episode 6, Act 1 is known as Revelation – has brought with it a brand new map, new featured skins, a new battle pass and much more.

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Players will no longer have to wait to unlock all of the goodies and features that this latest chapter has to offer.

Valorant Episode 6 Act 1 predicted release time

Riot Games has finally made their latest Valorant episode available and players worldwide can now access it.


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Similar to previous Episode releases, the game was down for a few hours as the patch was applied, but it eventually returned after the update process had been completed.

Unlike a lot of other games, Valorant doesn’t release its updates at the same time worldwide, and instead staggers the downtime across the various regions.

The update is now live for everyone as of January 10, 2023. If you want to find out the duration of each region’s downtime, then you’ll be able to find out further. The time below are taken from the Valorant Service Status website.

Valorant Episode 6 Act 1 patch downtime US & NA

For North America, the servers will be taken offline to apply the patch from 06:00 PST/08:00 CT/ 09:00 ET on Tuesday, 10 January.

Valorant Episode 6 Act 1 patch downtime UK & EU

The European servers will be taken offline to apply the patch from 20:00 PST on Tuesday, 10 January 2023. That’s 4:00am UK time and 5:00am Central European Time on Wednesday, 11 January 2023.

Valorant Episode 6 Act 1 patch downtime Korea and Asia Pacific

For Korean and Asia Pacific servers, they’ll be down to apply the patch from 14:00 PST on Tuesday, 10th January 2023. That’s 07:00am in Korea Standard time, 09:00am in AEDT and 11:00am in NZDT on Wednesday, 11 January 2023.

As previously mentioned, the new Valorant Episode now includes a new map – which you can read about here, and a brand new Battle Pass, which you can read about here.

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Valorant

  • Platform(s): PC
  • Genre(s): Action, Shooter, Strategy