Riot Games has officially revealed the newest map for VALORANT. And, it will be available to as soon as Episode 6 goes live.
VALORANT is a free-to-play first-person hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games. It was first released back in June 2020. Initially, it had four maps: Haven, Bind, Split, and Ascent. The developers later added four more maps: Icebox, Breeze, Fracture, and Pearl to the game.
Riot Game usually releases a new map every single Episode except for Episode 4, where there was no new map. However, players eventually got a new map: Pearl, in Episode 5. Although players were pretty excited about it, the map didn’t live up to the hype.
Truthfully, Pearl and Fracture haven’t been that popular compared to the previous maps released in VALORANT. Riot Games tried its best to make these two maps viable, but the community wants something more than that. So, the time might have come for a new map to emerge.
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Upcoming Map “Lotus”
ValorLeaks, a prominent leaker in the community, previously shared about a new map that was about to be released in 2023. According to the leaks, the map had a codename “Jam.” Other than that, there was no solid information regarding the map except for some teasers in the game.
However, thanks to the teasers and leaks, it was pretty evident that similar to our latest Agent, the new map would also be from India. And the recent Episode 6 launch trailer has revealed it to be true. Apart from that, we now have a name for the map, which will be called Lotus.
According to the leaks, VALORANT’s latest map, Lotus, will feature a three sites layout. If that’s true, it’ll be the second map after Haven that’ll have this feature. On top of that, Riot Games has added “Rotating Doors” to the map. However, as of now, we have little information on how this will work.
“Lotus” Map Layout
“Lotus” Release Date
VALORANT’s latest map, Lotus, will release as soon as Episode 6 Act 1 goes live, which is set to launch on January 10, 2023.
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