Back at the beginning of this month we got an insight into the new desert map coming to the hugely popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (that has in fact just hit six million sales), and now PlayerUnknown himself Brendan Greene has spoken about the map, and when fans can expect it.
"We're going to be doing a blog post on this some time in the near future but what people saw in that is what is called "a beautiful corner", an area of the map made to show the art director the overall feel the team want to give the map," he explained. "You know, I saw it and was just like, "that's cool! Oh man." We're going to explain these maps are still in early development and we're still working on two at the moment. We're trying to pick one to focus on. But it's still going to take us many months to get it out. I mean maps are not an easy thing to do, the last map took us about six to nine months to get to a really playable state. Maps take time. But we're going to be working hard and we're expanding the team so there's no ETA, they'll come when they're ready."
Greene was also asked about the other map that's in development, to which he said: "So the other is set in the Adriatic, a mountainous island with a snowy peak with an old cosmodrome in the centre. It's going to have much more vertical features than the current one. I've seen the beautiful corner for that map and it's really cool. Sergei, our environmental artist, he's leading the charge on that. He's spent lots of time reading up on the Adriatic and seeing that area and what kind of trees are suitable, to make it feel like a realistic location. I can't wait to start showing off some of the new areas. I get to see so much stuff internally and we don't want to release it all yet."
Below you can look at a picture of the desert map's "beautiful corner" for yourself. Are you getting bored of the map you have already, or are you still having fun in it?