Riot Games has revealed a brand new map for Valorant referred to as Lotus, which is ready in India and options three spike websites in addition to another brand-new mechanics.

Like many of the different Valorant maps, Lotus introduces some new concepts with the 2 most outstanding being rotating doorways and a destructible door/wall. There’s additionally a silent drop on the map, that means you may get round with out making an excessive amount of noise.

“We wanted to make another three site map and show that this is more of a format we’ll keep using than just a single map,” mentioned Joe Lansford, stage designer on Valorant. “Additionally, we aimed to make a map with high flexibility and movement for both teams. There are several traditional Indian architectural elements and locations that we took inspiration from. Stepwells, Rock-Cut architecture and the Dravidian style. Badami Cave Temples, Ellora Caves and Rani Ki Vav to name a few.”

This is the second map in Valorant to function three spike websites, with the opposite being Haven, one of many launch maps that has at all times been considerably divisive. With three websites the defending staff clearly has to separate a bit extra, however for the attackers, there may be typically much less room to maneuver across the map. It stays to be seen if it will carry over to Lotus or if the design staff has managed to alter it considerably.

The map, which is because of launch on January 10, is ready in Omega Earth’s India, particularly the Western Ghats. The design is impressed by conventional Indian stepwells and rock-cut Dravidian structure, and in addition options a couple of visible secrets and techniques that lore followers might want to look out for.

Using India as a map location has lengthy been rumoured for Valorant, however initially this map had a really totally different idea, with the staff revealing it was initially going to be set in house, earlier than they realised the programs they wished to implement didn’t actually work.

“When designing Lotus, I was originally envisioning a space station and had an airlock mechanic that shut down large areas of the map,” mentioned Lansford. “Turned out to just not be that fun, so we scrapped the idea and moved in the direction we have today.”

Lotus might be launching alongside the huge 6.00 replace to Valorant which kicks off the beginning of Episode Six. Along with the brand new map comes a load of steadiness modifications, a brand new battle go and naturally some new cosmetics.