
Looks like things are heating up in DayZ: a new map has just been announced for the ruthless open world survival game, and it's going to be a hot one.
In contrast to DayZ's last expansion, Frostline, which plunged players into a frigid archipelago called Sakhal, the new Badlands map, coming in 2026, is set in "the sand-swept, war-torn expanse of Nasdara Province" where survival means "battling severe heat and drought."