Lotus

Overview

Lotus is a South Korean fishing village wrecked by an amphibious assault, with burning buildings and abandoned armor in the streets. One curving main street runs across the map from the northwest to the east. Along it are the market, a hostel, a restaurant, a fish market and a boathouse on the harbor, and a set of gardens and homes to the south.

The street is where most players die. The buildings along it have large windows, so anyone running down the middle is exposed from several angles. Wrecked vehicles and leftover containers give some cover. Engagements swing between close quarters inside the shops and longer views down the main route. Players also report that matches often depend on which spawn you start in.

Hardpoint

The rotation is Fish Market first floor (P1), Hostel first floor (P2), Boathouse first floor (P3), Garden (P4), Restaurant (P5), then the Market by the squid statue (P6). Four of the six hills are indoors, so a close-range class is worth having ready. The Garden and the Market are the open hills, where you can cover the hill from nearby windows instead of standing on it.

Search & Destroy

Bomb site A is in the Boathouse on the harbor, northeast of the main street. B is in the large building south of the street, between the Garden and the Market. In the small set of pro rounds tracked so far, the team that got first blood won almost four rounds in five, and every round where the bomb went down was won by the attackers, so a clean plant on Lotus is very hard to retake.