Riot Games and VALORANT today revealed Lotus, the game’s ninth map following Pearl’s release in June 2022. Set in the Western Ghats of Omega Earth’s India, Lotus is inspired by traditional Indian stepwells, rock-cut architecture and Dravidian style structures. A 3-site map like Haven, players will uncover a few new environmental mechanics such as rotating doors and destructible walls as they navigate this lost city.
Episode 6 Act I also introduces an all new Battlepass and ARAXYS skinline. Inspired by the celebrations taking place around the world during this time including New Years, Valentine’s Day, and Lunar New Year—the Battlepass will feature items like a 9 LIVES classic gun skin, where you’ll be able to form a full team of Agents as cats. Other items in the Battlepass include a Shock Heart spray and Folded Wish gun buddy. The ARAXYS skinline brings players weapons of a mysterious, and possibly hostile, alien race. Technologically advanced beyond the knowledge of mankind, they conquered the stars nearly unrivaled with this arsenal, which have now become their legacy.
VALORANT Episode 6 Act I begins on January 10, 2023.
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VALORANT is a competitive 5v5 character-based tactical shooter developed by Riot Games. VALORANT is a precise and lethal multiplayer game with high-fidelity gunplay, a diverse arsenal of guns, agents with unique abilities, and competitively tuned maps for thousands of hours of play.
VALORANT is a free-to-play game and optimized to perform on a wide variety of PC hardware, allowing for a global audience to compete. Demonstrated by the game’s best-in-class game server quality, global infrastructure, and proprietary anti-cheat technology, Riot Games is committed to preserving the core tenets of the tactical shooter genre and upholding the competitive integrity of the gameplay experience.