We expected a long-awaited substantial look at the new PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds desert map Miramar during the Game Awards tonight, but we got more than just that. Firstly, PUBG Corporation revealed that the game will launch out of Early Access on December 20. Secondly, the desert map is playable now on the PUBG test servers.
Chris visited Bluehole in South Korea in September, and spent some time galavanting around the in-development map.
More to come.
Yesterday, we learned more about PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' much-anticipated desert map—including its name and details of its specific regions. Today, developer PUBG Corp has confirmed the existence of the previously rumoured jet ski and R45 six-shot revolver.
As told by Nvidia, the latter is exclusive to the Miramar desert map, replacing Erangel's R1895. Unlike the gun it swaps out, the R45 doesn't support a suppressor. It can, however, be equipped with red dot laser sight.
"Another differentiation from the R1895 is the use of speed loaders, enabling you to load all six rounds simultaneously, greatly accelerating reload times, putting the R45’s reload speed more in line with other PUBG pistols," reads a post on the Nvidia site.
The R45 revolver was among the weapons recently uncovered by dataminers—as was this model for an 'Aquarail' jet ski. Now, the game's official Twitter account has confirmed the Aquarail for both Miramar and Erangel.
Which should make for some interesting seafaring showdowns. Will it match the at-sea battles promised by PUBG's Chinese mobile game? I guess time will tell.
After months of teases and screenshots, the curtain has finally been pulled back on Playerunknown s Battlegrounds desert map, which will be joining the island when Plunkbat leaves early access. It will be in the 1.0 test servers before that, however. It s got a name now, too! I mean, we re all going to keep calling it the desert map, probably, but its proper name is Miramar, which means sea-view . Lovely!
After months of teasing, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has finally named its upcoming desert map and detailed some its various locales.
Miramar, the new map's final name, will offer a more varied landscape of locations and hotspots than the original Erangel. Two cities - Los Leones and El Pozo - make up much of the map's urban areas. The former will offer high-rise opportunities to hunker down, while the latter includes a Luchador arena and motorbike ring.
Then there's the smaller town of Pecado, which features a casino to loot for top-end gear.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has spent the last several weeks teasing screens of its incoming desert map, and is set to showcase its first in-game footage at The Game Awards tomorrow. Now, developer Bluehole has revealed more on what it's all about—including its name, and details of its specific regions.
Named Miramar, Bluehole notes moving in the "opposite direction" to the greenery and forestry found in the current Erangel map, wherein old strategies and tactics may no longer be as effective as before.
As detailed in this Steam community post, here's what to expect from each of the new map's eight regions:
The same community post also shares a handful of screens:
"These aren't the only fun places to visit, of course, but you will have to discover the rest of them on your own," adds the post. "Miramar will be playable during the final test round before PUBG hits version 1.0."
For more on PUBG's latest map, here's Chris on how it was made.
When I visited PUBG's studios in South Korea in September, art director Tae-Seok Jang (he was, ironically, in the US at the time) told me via Skype that one of the features of PUBG's upcoming desert map would be a real difference between driving on roads and driving over unpaved terrain.
"But it really depends on which vehicle you have," he told me, "so you should be able to make a choice, which vehicle you prefer for your strategy. Like, some vehicles will be more optimized for clean roads, some will be more optimized for off-road driving."
We've just been teased with what definitely looks like an ideal off-road vehicle, and it's coming "soon" exclusively to PUBG's desert map. Data miners spotted a version of it few weeks ago (along with a jet ski) but it's looking a bit more polished and complete now, ready to be driven until you're drilled through the dome by a sick crossbow shot.
I'm not much of a car guy—more of a TV guy—and this looks a bit like the GMC K-2500 Wideside from the 1980's action show The Fall Guy, about a stunt man (Lee Majors) turned bounty hunter (also Lee Majors). I'm guessing someone can correct me in the comments if it's a different kind of truck (perhaps Lee Majors himself). At any rate, it looks up to the task of some off-road action.
When will the new map and new truck (and new guns) actually arrive? Well, PUBG 1.0 is due out before the end of the year, so that leaves only about 4 weeks. We'll get a look at some gameplay of the new map during The Game Awards on December 7.