If I said I wasn’t psyched to play it again, I’d be lying. In any case, it’s a map that players either tolerated, hated, or loved to hate. It doesn’t appear that Favela received any huge changes while it was away, so it’s a little curious that Ubi felt it was ready to come back to the game.
Starting with Year 3, the developers have committed to consistently reworking maps and smaller and bigger ways each season. After almost a year banished from the competitive side of Siege for being too unbalanced, Ubi has finally placed Favela back into the map rotation of Casual.