Riot Games revealed the next VALORANT map during VCT Masters London, set in the mountains of China. Alongside the new map comes a new mode called Retake.
On June 21, VALORANT showcased Summit, a two-site, three-lane map coming to the game with V26 Act Four on June 24. Summit is set along the city in the mountains of China. Lore-wise, it’s a Radiant training facility and formerly a site of the Radiant monastery where Sage studied.
Gameplay-wise, Summit returns to a tradition of maps having unique mechanics/gimmicks. While Corrode didn’t have any special features, Summit has three droppable walls: one on the A site, one on the B site, and one on mid. Shooting the respective nodes drops the wall, cutting off the sightlines until the end of the round.
With the launch of V26 Act Four on June 24, Summit enters the Competitive map pool. As always, when you play on Summit during the first two weeks, winning awards the usual amount of RR, but losing costs 50 percent less RR. If you want to learn the map first, a dedicated Summit-only Swifplay queue is available, too, for the first week.
Following Skirmish: Ascension, Riot is introducing another mode to practice your VALORANT fundamentals. Retake is a 3v3 post-plant mode, where one team defends the Spike, while the other attacks to defuse it. The Spike auto-plants a few seconds into the round at a visible location on site.
Every round, the teams switch sides, and you can choose one of two randomized loadouts at the start of every round. Randomized loaduts include weapons, armor, and ability charges, with both pools escalating throughout the match.
V26 Act Four also introduces a new battle pass, the Blackspyre bundle, and likely a series of balance changes when it launches on June 24.
