Map Size

[fishing ranger]

Just interested in ppls opinion on map size in comparison to cherno on DayZ, read a post somewhere and someone said they about same size,
do ya all think size is comparable or one larger then other?
personally i feel scum smaller map but could this just be because scum is soft on wilderness survival part and ya have map showing where ya are, where dayz forces you to navigate ( compass, stars, rising/setting sun ) with no map ( unless ya find one)

[EcHo]

i like the size it could be bigger but i would to see more different type of zombies and more weather changes around the full map like the map goes in seasons like real life

[ENOWONMAI]

Currently Chernarus is 225 km², while SCUM is 144 km² but in the following PC Gamer article from 2018, there are some clues that the SCUM map might get four times bigger in the future, so about 576 km² in total.

The article shows a complete map that was posted years ago on the SCUM discord, and also videos of a player floating in the air that shows the current wall limitations of the map:

https://www.pcgamer.com/scums-map-may-get-much-much-larger-in-the-future/

[Sr. Morajsakom]

Originally posted by ENOWONMAI:

there are some clues that the SCUM map might get four times bigger in the future, so about 576 km² in total.

My god, it must be just basic forest land as they just announced that radar station will be last one before official release. Or that 576 is in very far future...

[Siamese]

Originally posted by ENOWONMAI:

Currently Chernarus is 225 km², while SCUM is 144 km² but in the following PC Gamer article from 2018, there are some clues that the SCUM map might get four times bigger in the future, so about 576 km² in total.

The article shows a complete map that was posted years ago on the SCUM discord, and also videos of a player floating in the air that shows the current wall limitations of the map:

https://www.pcgamer.com/scums-map-may-get-much-much-larger-in-the-future/

They've said multiple times its unlikely they'll open the hole map unless something dramatic changes performance wise. So i wouldn't put much stock in that happening. As it is there are several performance issues that seem only to improve by shrinking assets so it seems if that trend continues a bigger map wouldn't improve things.

[ENOWONMAI]

Originally posted by Siamese:

They've said multiple times its unlikely they'll open the hole map unless something dramatic changes performance wise. So i wouldn't put much stock in that happening. As it is there are several performance issues that seem only to improve by shrinking assets so it seems if that trend continues a bigger map wouldn't improve things.

Good to know, and it would spread out the player base even more anyway.

[Famous]

The map should be either downsized or the player numbers need to increase to at least 100 players. You can look at the steam charts and see a drop in player base after the map expansion. Many will argue that this is due to something else, but I believe its due to less player interaction. This is an online multiplayer game after all

[Sr. Morajsakom]

Originally posted by EvilMonk:

Scum map won0t get bigger becuase of engine limitations.

It may be an old engine, who knows if theres upgrade coming at some point? Its quite some work to do so. How is 5 better than 4 in that matter btw? Unreal has their focus on 5 ofcourse, so in that sense its the only way to go.

[ENOWONMAI]

Originally posted by Sr. Morajsakom:

It may be an old engine, who knows if theres upgrade coming at some point? Its quite some work to do so. How is 5 better than 4 in that matter btw? Unreal has their focus on 5 ofcourse, so in that sense its the only way to go.

I think it has more to do with the amount of detail and assets in the game, they could tone down and simplify things a lot, like some of the vegetation does not need to be animated (ground flapping leaves come to mind), trees could be converted to a container and not have to disappear then be regenerated, you should not be able to enter every house (people complain about them being empty anyway), etc.

[Jolie Rouge]

Originally posted by ENOWONMAI:

Currently Chernarus is 225 km², while SCUM is 144 km² but in the following PC Gamer article from 2018, there are some clues that the SCUM map might get four times bigger in the future, so about 576 km² in total.

The article shows a complete map that was posted years ago on the SCUM discord, and also videos of a player floating in the air that shows the current wall limitations of the map:

https://www.pcgamer.com/scums-map-may-get-much-much-larger-in-the-future/

Wait a second, this map is missing the Z row and the 0 coloumn. Since a map square is 3km by 3km, this would be a total of 15km by 15km which would equal 225 sqkm, while a older map would be 12x12 = 144.

Here's a Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCUMgame/comments/szhh8z/current_map_size/

and here's a pre-update YT vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEyYohwwjYc

[ENOWONMAI]

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge:

Wait a second, this map is missing the Z row and the 0 coloumn. Since a map square is 3km by 3km, this would be a total of 15km by 15km which would equal 225 sqkm, while a older map would be 12x12 = 144.

Here's a Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCUMgame/comments/szhh8z/current_map_size/

and here's a pre-update YT vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEyYohwwjYc

Good catch! Can't trust everything coming out of Google I guess

[Argonaut_Jay]

The size seems to be great. I'd be okay with bigger but definitely not smaller.

[xKiCkx]

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge:

Originally posted by ENOWONMAI:

Currently Chernarus is 225 km², while SCUM is 144 km² but in the following PC Gamer article from 2018, there are some clues that the SCUM map might get four times bigger in the future, so about 576 km² in total.

The article shows a complete map that was posted years ago on the SCUM discord, and also videos of a player floating in the air that shows the current wall limitations of the map:

https://www.pcgamer.com/scums-map-may-get-much-much-larger-in-the-future/

Wait a second, this map is missing the Z row and the 0 coloumn. Since a map square is 3km by 3km, this would be a total of 15km by 15km which would equal 225 sqkm, while a older map would be 12x12 = 144.

Here's a Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCUMgame/comments/szhh8z/current_map_size/

and here's a pre-update YT vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEyYohwwjYc

That is correct, the current size of the map is 225 km2.

[fishing ranger]

ok so both maps same size, interesting how 2 maps the same size can feel so different in size

[WorldUK]

Originally posted by xKiCkx:

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge:

Wait a second, this map is missing the Z row and the 0 coloumn. Since a map square is 3km by 3km, this would be a total of 15km by 15km which would equal 225 sqkm, while a older map would be 12x12 = 144.

Here's a Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCUMgame/comments/szhh8z/current_map_size/

and here's a pre-update YT vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEyYohwwjYc

That is correct, the current size of the map is 225 km2.

Is there planned map expansion after 1.0? Seeing the landmass behind the walls is massive and been there since 0.5?-ish.

[Fratman]

Don't have anything to share what will happen after 1.0. All our efforts are directed towards making the game as awesome as it can be for the 1.0 release