Abyss NEW Gameplay | VALORANT New Map

VALORANT revealed the cinematic for the new map Abyss alongside some screenshots of it, so we finally get a better understanding of the layout and gameplay. Abyss contains 2 Sites, with the map being a 3 lane layout. The map provides "Death Drops" and vertical gameplay with a branching mid.
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[KangaValorant]

OH I forgot to mention it but in the cinematic there seems to be a breakable door somewhere on the map, looked similar to the breakable door on Lotus.

Also I'll be getting early access to Abyss on June 9th at 8:00AM PT, so if there's anything in particular you want me to cover about the map then let me know!

[thethalecress]

when that ending showed, i immediately thought of agent 8

[thecrispyacorn]

I like to imagine that the hourglass containment has BOTH variants of the same person, one from each world. (we just saw the bottom hourglass section)

[zeus_]

I love the gimmick so I could just throw myself into death when my team is being toxic

[brycey.]

So now my raze main teammates are gonna be taking out their anger on me by using their impeccable nerfs to boot me off the map. Nice!

[MrPositiveDownbeat_]

i can see the neon buff now, this map is practically an obstacle course

[Caster_Admiral]

My theory is it's the guy that omen threw off the side of the building and he survived becoming something like omen. Also ISO isn't omen, we know omen was a hitman that used to work for hourglass. He was sent to kill viper but failed, was pushed into a device destroying him and reborn as omen. He lost his memories and in killing the guy in the cinematic, he learned a little about his past. Then he went to find more answers and now we are at this point where everything regarding what omen is or was is leading up to this point

[EnderKnightBG]

In Ep6 cinematic, we can see that astra and harbor was on Lotus, and both of them has a connection with the so-called 'Guardians'. And on the Ep8 Cinematic the 'Boss' said something of them keeping the secrets of radianite from a "world that isn't ready" While the video shows a Flower thats similar to the one on Lotus. And on the ending of the Sunset cinematic, Brim said that kingdom was just a distraction and the real enemies are the mirror-agents, and these mirror agents could potentially be Developed by Hourglass. And in this Trailer itself ISO said that Hourglass was keeping something 'powerfull'. And the one agent who can reveal these secrets are Omen, so thats why Hourglass is so determined to kill Omen.

So in conclusion, is that Hourglass is potentially using these ancient artifacts and Radianite to develop mirror agents with the essence of the Guardians. And the mysterious figure that we saw at the end could be an 'Evolutionized Agent' And based on the Defiance poster at the end of this cinematic, we can see a huge 'Tornado' which is probably caused by the affected mirror Agents that Hourglass developed.

[andrewp]

imagine killing someone on an eco and the vandal/phantom/op drops 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[souptikbanerjee]

The silhouette at the end does resemble Omen a lot (the bump right above the knee area like he's wearing something looks exactly like what Omen would look like as a silhouette).
And ofc the hand looks exactly like Omen's

Although I can't think of any way it would be related to Omen but it certainly does look a lot like him.

[linguine]

Not sure how this isn't a more widley known theory, but both the leader of hourglass and agent 8 are mysterious anonymous characters with many similarities, and the hourglass symbol is in the shape of an eight. Whether or not this individual is Omen, or a past version of Omen, I;m not sure, but I am confident that agent 8 is involved in Hourglass and is the one in the cryo chamber.

[elementaluniverse]

how each of the agents dominate on this map:
Breach: Just ult and they fall into the void
omen: smokes, blind to make enemys fall off and shrouded step to save himself
Raze: satchels and everyone walks off ledge to save themselves
neon: so many corners its impossible to hit neon movement
Sage: grim
brimstone: too many smokes, enemy will just walk of running from incendiary
Yoru: too many mind games and can save himself
Sova: new lineups
Astra: sucking of the ledge
Jett: can save themselves and POSSIBLY new jett super dashes
Chamber: mind games with rendezvous and good for isot
Clove: same as brim
cypher: new setups, rat spots, and cam angles, etc
gekko: the wingman will be op to plant spike on edges like the bridge
deadlock: trips will be insane on narrow areas that can stun the entire enemy team
iso: the amount of angles are perfect for 1v1s after his buff
kayo: stop agents like jett, omen and yoru from saving themselves from falling
pheonix: flashes and molly lineups are op as hell in this narrow walkways
reyna: blind can cause confusion leading to fall death
skye: same as pheonix
fade: the prowler blinds, teammates go flank, either they die to the enemy or die to the fall
viper, perfect map with open site and narrow halls for her ult and molly lineups
harbor: wall entire site, new players walk off in confusion
kj: molly + narrow space = ez win( not rly)

[razz]

I was just about to ask abt the ending! My first thought was a radiant monster or something but an Omen clone is plausible

[koberto]

some (potential) lore i found!!

when watching the abyss cinematic, the coordinates for the map read 70°50''AJ"N 9°00'XV"W during the title screen. i did some experimenting and converted 'AJ' using a typical alphanumerical series (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.) to 1 and 10, making 11.0 when put together. i then used roman numerals to convert XV (since the alphanumerical series didn't work digits wise) to 15.0.
with the coordinates now reading 70°50''11.0"N 9°00'15.0"W, i put it into google maps and it directed me to an island north of Iceland called Jan Mayen

now rewatching the grand finals showmatch of abyss, around the end of round 16, Albert Robles, the Map Producer, mentioned that the map was regionally based off of "a really remote island just north of Iceland", which completely matches Jan Mayen's description!!! thought it was an interesting piece of lore that you could add to content about this map!! (dk if my logic with the numbers is completely correct but i thought it was interesting :D)

[chargedgamer]

So i was wondering what the new mechanic is gonna be and it's : oh yes you can die instantly as the round starts :)

[vaaxs]

the thing at the end looks a lot like the teleportor on breeze outside of the map that chamber is connected to.

[brianluong]

I feel like this map will likely divide the community into two distinct groups: those who love it so much that they build a whole cult around it, and those who hate it with every fiber of their being.

[EMvolts]

Fun fact: u can see the figure pacing on hourglass if u look closely in the map(in game)

[Xeimyn]

I noticed i thing in the cinematic video. It lists the agents that we see in it in the youtube video tags (ecxept for iso for some reason). The interesting thing is that it also lists yoru who might be in the hourglass shaped room at the end

[Exploxs]

raze might or might not be popular in this map. I mean you can satchel and make the enemies fall off, but at the same time what if you try raze mobility and then fall off again? But breach is definetely gonna be the meta on this map