Sanhok/Season 8

Location: Thailand/Philippines

Theme: rain forest

Terrain: grasses & bushes, urban, river

Gamemodes: all

Servers: ranked

Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox one

𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩

Sanhok (Codename: Savage) is the 3rd playable map but the 4th map in total for BATTLEGROUNDS, Sanhok is a 4x4km island compared to other maps that are 8x8km. Sanhok is the first map where BATTLEGROUNDS implemented a dynamic circle. This dynamic circle sees how many players are alive then will calculate if the blue zone should move faster or slower throughout the match.

Development on this map began sometime in 2017 [1] and in March of 2018, PC Gamer had the privilege to announce/reveal the map [2]. A month later PUBG Corp created a new standalone client called "PUBG: Experimental Server" just to test Sanhok on April 2nd, 2018. The client at first an invite only client (where you needed a key in order to download the client), mostly only content creators and PUBG Partners had access to it and due to uproar within the community, PUBG Corp later on opened it up to all owners of PUBG on Steam. Codename: Savage consisted of 4 rounds of testing phases in the Experimental client to take out any performance hitting bugs, glitches and even optimizing the map better. Later that Summer on June 22nd, 2018 it went to the live client on PC and then on September 4th, 2018 (launch of 1.0) it got released for Xbox One.

Sanhok 2.0 is the revamped version of PUBG Sanhok map featuring some new locations and a new exclusive weapon. Sanhok 2.0 will be released in PUBG on July 22 as a part of Season 8 update. Bootcamp, ruins, quarry, cave, and dock are the biggest change on this update. There are also new feature in this update. New vehicle, loot truck and new grenade, decoy grenade.