Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds new map now named Sanhok, again in testing this week

The wee new map coming to Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, beforehand referred to as Codename: Savage, nonetheless wants a couple of months of labor but it surely’s carried out sufficient to get a wider testing viewers and eventually obtain a reputation. Sanhok is the identify, builders PUBG Corp have introduced, a portmanteau of the Thai phrase for enjoyable and the Filipino phrase for hen. Sanhok is a spot impressed by islands round southeast Asia, see. Sanhok will launch one other interval of beta testing this week and this time it gained’t require gamers to enroll in a key, letting everybody who owns the sport have a play.

“First, the Thai word for ‘fun:’ สนุก (pronounced like ‘sah-nook’),” PUBG Corp defined in yesterday’s announcement. “Second, the Filipino (Tagalog) word for ‘chicken:’ manok (pronounced like ‘mah-nok’). Combine the two and you get Codename: Savage’s new name: Sanhok (pronounced ‘sah-nok’).”

So… let’s say it interprets to Bantercock.

The full launch of Sanhok “is now only a couple of months away”, PUBG Corp say. Still a good option to go, then. But of us who wish to test it out sooner–and possibly assist form it with suggestions–will be capable to have a go when Sanhok returns to testing from Friday at 3am (that’s Thursday at 7pm Pacific) till midday on Monday the 14th (4am Pacific).

Going by that ↑ screenshot, they’ve continued to drag the 4x4km map into maplike form. That temple was nonetheless within the greybox stage in earlier checks, only a load of shapes to dam it out and see the way it performs, however now it’s an enormous ol’ temple-y factor.

While earlier Sanhok checks required signing up for the Closed Experimental Server, needing a key, any further that will probably be public. The Experimental Server consumer ought to pop up within the Steam library of everybody who owns the sport.

Do see their two blog posts with good photographs from the analysis expedition to Thailand.