With the addition of Icebox in Valorant patch 1.10, Riot Game’s offering finally has a fifth arena, and players will no longer have to play on a repeat map during a best-of-five in any tournament.
But even with five maps, Valorant’s arena pool still feels a bit too inadequate, and it’s not just the players who think so.
Developers have at times chimed in on how unhappy they are with the total number of maps in this game. Even Valorant’s Game Director, Joe Ziegler, talked about accelerating the total amount of arenas in a recent interview.
The interview was with G2 Esports’ star player, Oscar “mixwell” Cañellas Colocho, and Riot Ziegler went into a lot of details about the changes that the devs are looking to make in Valorant in the upcoming patches.
Ziegler wants to speed up Valorant’s map release, bring it to a total of seven
When asked how many maps they plan to have in Valorant’s competitive, Ziegler had a fascinating answer for Mixwell:
Ziegler’s statements are indeed something that the Valorant fans will be happy hearing. Unlike CS: GO, Valorant currently doesn’t have enough maps to have a pick and ban phase.
Picking and banning a map is an essential strategy in CS: GO, and Valorant teams will be allowed to do the same once it has enough arenas on the selection screen.
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