Riot Video games has revealed Lotus, the ninth map for Valorant that may take gamers to India for a three-site shootout.
Introduced in the present day (January 6), Lotus is “impressed by conventional Indian stepwells, rock-cut structure and Dravidian model constructions.”
Riot Video games has shared that Lotus will characteristic Spike websites and several other new environmental mechanics when it launches with the beginning of Episode 6 Act 1 on January 10, together with destructible partitions and rotating doorways. Forward of the map launching on January 10, you may take a look at some photos of Lotus under.
In a press release, degree designer Joe Lansford defined that the map has three websites to struggle over as a result of it affords “excessive flexibility and motion for each groups,” and Riot needed to show it might use the three-site format for a couple of map.
Whereas Lansford says he initially envisioned the map as an area station with “an airlock mechanic that shut down giant areas of the map,” the workforce ended up entering into a separate path, as artwork lead Brian Yam says they ended up taking inspiration from Indiana Jones.
“Once we had been exploring the conceptual side of this map, we needed to push the boundaries of fantastical and mystical parts, which weren’t proven in our earlier maps,” shared Yam. “We needed to discover the theme of grand journey, mysteries misplaced to time, and a misplaced historic construction. Indiana Jones was one of many thematic inspirations we drew from.”
Earlier in the present day (January 6), Former Day6 vocalist and Ok-pop idol eaJ launched ‘Visions’, a tune made in collaboration with Riot.
The tune’s music video teases the shooter’s upcoming map, and exhibits Valorant brokers Astra and Harbor unlocking what seems to be the gates to Lotus.
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