On the defending side players can use the rope at the back of A Site to get onto Bridge and into Hall, and on the attacking side players can use the rope in A Lobby to get into Hall.Ī Site has an impenetrable, indestructible mechanical door leading into A Hall that can be opened and closed using switches on either side. There are ropes to get players into A Hall. More of this with your next Valo maps please, Riot! I can only take so many boring-looking Dust 2 clones (I'm looking at you, Bind).īreeze arrives in Valorant on April 27th, alongside a new battle pass and some ominous gun skins in Episode 2 Act 3.Breeze's features are present on the A side of the map, mostly to do with A Hall.
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I can't tell you how lovely it is to load into an area full of greenery, with a diverse range of buildings and structures, and a lush seaside backdrop to boot. It'd be remiss of me to end this post without mentioning how gorgeous Breeze is too. There are some good spots for Killjoy to hide a sneaky turret on this one. This is A Site, it has two funky pyramids in the middle and you have to jump down into a little puddle of water to plant the spike. All in all, it makes for some really fun and varied play, and I'm looking forward to seeing what different strats will appear after it settles into Valorant's map rotation. But then, there are so many routes, you have to be mindful of where defenders can emerge from. Going back through spawn would take far too long, making the multiple routes in mid essential. If that sort of strategy goes badly, however, attackers are pretty much forced to rotate through mid. From there, the sites were so open it was fairly easy to stop them from defusing, because they'd have to expose themselves to do so while we backed off towards our spawn. Thanks to this, in the games I played, my team found that one of the best strategies was just to push a site hard, forcing the defenders to rotate quickly once we'd planted the spike. Before a round starts, attackers can get incredibly close to both A and B Site. Breeze seems designed to stop attackers from rotating all the way back through their spawn if they want to push the other site. Truly, the biggest gimmick is the map's size, particularly from an attacker's standpoint.
Plop.Īs far as other gimmicks go, there are no teleporters or anything huge like that, though a few ropes are dotted around for players to get up onto some of the high ground - Breeze has a nice mixture of high and low areas to explore. Tactically, I suppose it works for a quick escape if you're being mullered in the corridor, but as soon as you drop out the bottom you're basically a sitting duck to anyone watching mid. In the lore of the map it was probably used for smuggling or mining, but in a Valorant match? I will be using it purely for japes. I don't fully understand why this little chute exists, but I love it. The door stays open for a few seconds after you drop, so if you're playing a character with decent movement abilities you could quickly teleport or fly back up. It's a small trap door that plops you down from the corridor into mid. It's in this corridor that my favourite part of the map exists. There's a long corridor, named A Hall next to A Site that directly connects both spawns too, which is a pretty vital place for defenders to cover. The middle of Breeze, as well as both plant sites, are incredibly open, making it more difficult for defenders to dominate one angle with a sniper without being flanked. This new map is a nice change of pace from Icebox and Split, with all their tight corridors and choke points. What I've said so far sounds pretty negative, though I don't totally mean it that way.
My new trap door friend is named Mid Chute, he's right inbetween A Hall and Mid Pillar. Watch on YouTube Here's the full map layout for Breeze. Here's some video I recorded during the Breeze preview event for a little taster of what to expect. The plant sites seem really far away from each other, and in between them is a mixture of windy corridors mixed with extremely wide open spaces where it's tough to pre-empt where your enemies might approach from. It's hard to get a good sense of what a new map will really be like when you've only had the chance to play a couple of matches on it, so my first note is a warning: Breeze is a little overwhelming. Breeze also features a trap door that I don't full understand the function of, but that just makes me love it all the more. It's big, it's pretty and I had a chance to try it out early and capture some footage for you to feast your eyes on. Riot Games announced Breeze earlier today: it's a new seaside map coming to the tactical FPS next week. Icebox and its many ziplines, Bind and its teleporters, and now Breeze and its daft trap door. I love a good gimmick in my Valorant maps.
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