PUBG Corp. shows off smaller map, which hits public testing in April

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds got its second map in December, and while I don’t mind it, a lot of outspoken fans hate it. Developer PUBG Corp. revealed last month that it is responding to that criticism with a third, smaller map. And now, as PUBG celebrates one year since it debuted on Steam in Early Access, the developer has announced that the “4-by-4” map (as they call it) will debut in April as part of a public testing phase.

This new map is a quarter the size of the previous two, which were both 8-by-8 kilometers. As the name suggests, the 4-by-4 is 4 kilometers on each side. In a video, creative director Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene and PUBG Corp. chief executive officer CH Kim talked about their plans for releasing the 4-by-4 map while showing off some of its features. This comes as Greene spoke about the future of PUBG during a presentation at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today.