How to Play the New Map in Valorant – Alphr

Grab your buddies and clear your calendar because its time to jump into a new Valorant map. If you dont know, Valorant is an FPS 5v5 tactical shooter game with one objective: You need to defend against a spike or bomb or plant one.

Its an elaborate capture the flag shooter-style game, complete with interesting characters or Agents and even more interesting terrain.

Keep reading to find out more about Valorants maps and what to expect from Riot Games latest addition.

Each Valorant map offers something a little different for players. Expect different themes, features, and even gimmicks like teleportation in the maps. Not all of them are created equal, though, and the maps on Valorant have been met with a mixed reception. Some maps offer more advantages and challenges than others, depending on your playstyle and Agent. Each map also spawns two Ultimate orbs in the same location, granting you one Ultimate point to use on an Ultimate Ability.

When Riot Games released the closed beta version of Valorant, they started with three maps:

Enjoy the desert-like atmosphere and one-way teleporters in this two-lane map. Unlike other maps, Bind doesnt have a middle lane, forcing attackers to funnel through one of two paths: the showers (a building hallway) or the hookah (a marketplace).

Binds layout may make it seem like infiltration is impossible, but there are a couple of one-way teleporters that help even the odds. One teleporter goes from the hookah to the showers and the other goes from the showers to the hookah.

Keep in mind, though, that both teleporters deliver you to the attackers side of each location. The teleporters arent exactly quiet, either. Still, they offer a great opportunity to flank an opposing team or rotate your team placement.

If youre into collecting Ultimate Orbs, this map spawns one at the showers and the other is in the marketplace or hookah, right in front of the teleporter.

Haven is a huge map with three locations or sites to control inside the ruins of a monastery. Theres no quiet contemplation happening here, though, as Agents need to coordinate carefully to push through the extra real estate.

The first site, Long A or Site A, is accessible via an L-shaped alleyway. You can also try your luck through the sewers, an underground passage dubbed A-short. Both paths lead you to the same site, but Long A is more suited towards long-range playstyles while the sewers bring you up close and personal.

To get to Site B, you need to head through a window and into a courtyard. The courtyard goes to the garage, a set of doors that also allows advancing teams to take a circuitous route around Site B.

Getting to Site C involves going through the garage or the Long C. The Long C is a straight alleyway with a cubby that can be a tactical advantage if youre using smokes to advance.

Ultimate orbs are found outside of Long A and outside of Long C.

Just like Haven, the Split map has three main sections to traverse. The difference, though, is the middle ground. Its a tower that looms over the other sections, providing high ground to dominate the other team if youre willing to take it.

Split also has another mechanic that makes it particularly unique: ropes.

The ropes, located in all three sections, allow players to descend and ascend quickly and quietly to take an opponent by surprise. Careful coordination is necessary, though, or you may find the ropes more of a tactical misstep than an advantage during a match.

The Ultimate Orbs for this map spawn in the B Main section, or garage, and the A Main section.

Since the initial release, Valorant added three more maps to their rotation:

Venture to picturesque Venice, Italy in Ascent. With its two sites and wide courtyard, its as deadly as it is beautiful. The maps open area and a large courtyard in the middle will require careful strategic positioning to traverse.

Other than the relative openness of the map, Ascent also offers another unique feature: closeable doors.

These doors are located at each defensive site and can be open or closed with a switch. Before you get too excited, though, know that these doors can be broken.

This is a playground for Operator lovers with long sightlines that are perfect for picking off peekers, rotators, and stragglers. Ascent isnt just for snipers. Agents with mobility will have a blast jumping on crates and walls to take out opponents, too.

Are you ready for an icy new challenge? The icebox offers choke points, tight angles, long rotations, and more verticality than ever before. It all goes down at a secret excavation site deep in the arctic. Dont let the simple two-site format fool you, though. This map is anything but simple.

The horizontal ropes and two-tiered planting format can give certain players a strategic advantage, but others may find this map a nightmare. Break out Agents like Omen, Jett, or Raze, but leave Cypher and Sova at home. You wont get far with them.

Breeze is the newest addition to the Valorant map rotation. It was added with the Episode 2 Act 3BattlePass update at the end of April 2021. Breeze takes you away from the frigid tundra climate of Icebox and whisks you away to a tropical island location.

Not only is Breeze a bigger map than previous additions, but it also offers more features like second floors, one-way drop doors, and verticality with ropes. Open spaces and long-sightlines give this map a better overall balance with something for every player.

Late April 2021s Episode 2 Act 3 update brought a new map called Breeze to the Valorant map rotation, along with a fresh Battlepass and more cosmetic goodies. The tropical paradise features wide choke points, large open spaces, and a colorful summer motif to enjoy while dodging sniper fire.

Some noteworthy features to watch for (or avoid) are the A Lane, a tight tunnel to test your peeking skills, and the one-way trap doors for players who like to make an entrance.

Riot Games offered an unrated queue during the first two weeks of Act 3 for those players who wanted to jump straight to the map. However, since then its been added to the Standard Unrated and Competitive map rotation.

While other players are queuing for a new match, you may want to duck out of line from time to time to practice. Even pro players warm up at the Shooting Range before competing in a match. This unofficial map has no wait time and its a great place to test out characters, change your Agent and guns, and get back into the groove of the game again.

Whats your favorite map on Valorant? Which map is a nightmare to play? Let us know in the comments section below.

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