After waiting for almost one month, Bluehole Studios is finally here with its highly-anticipated Miramar map for the Xbox. And there is more. Along with the release of the new map, PUBG’s May Update also comes with some other interesting new features which focus on improvements to stability and optimizations.

Xbox players: It’s time to survive the desert. Miramar on @Xbox is now live! This major update also focuses on improvements to stability and optimizations. Read the full patch notes here: https://t.co/UhvFF0jzwV pic.twitter.com/QtdlHn8FUM — PLAY BATTLEGROUNDS (@PUBG) May 24, 2018

According to the official announcement, Bluehole Studios has finally added in Miramar to PUBG for the Xbox. The new desert-styled map features extreme, elevated terrain and tall buildings with fewer trees which will give players new options for playing around cover. So, for those of you who have been wanting a different experience, your time has come. Test out Miramar and see what the new map has to offer.

Along with the new map, the developers have introduced a ton of other improvements and changes as well. To learn more about those, check out the complete patch notes below:

Optimization / Stabilization

Both Miramar and Erangel have significantly improved overall game performance on the Xbox One/S/X and stability has also been improved.

Optimization and stabilization is still the dev team’s top priority. Our goal is to deliver constant improvements.

The free-fall and parachuting process has been optimized, leading to performance improvements during the initial stages of each game.

The world loading process has been optimized, allowing buildings and their interiors to load simultaneously and reducing the overall rendering time.

The handling of resources for unseen nearby characters’ movements has been optimized to improve performance of the game.

Handling resources of equipping and unequipping items of unseen nearby characters have been optimized to improve performance during the early game and to reduce the likelihood of crashes

Character inventory loading has been optimized, improving response time when opening inventory and reducing crashing.

Unoccupied vehicles/boats have been optimized to increase the overall performance of the game.

Contents

New map, ‘Miramar’ has been added.

Miramar will be available from: May 24 00:00 PDT / May 24 09:00 CEST

Miramar is intentionally designed to provide a vastly different Battle Royale experience.

It features extreme, elevated terrain and tall buildings with less trees which will give players new options for playing around cover.

The characteristics of ‘on road’ and ‘off road’ have been further differentiated. This will make the selection of vehicle type and decision to drive more critical/important.

New Items

R45 is a revolver handgun which is available as world spawn It uses 45 ACP Ammo and up to six bullets can be loaded Red dot sights can be equipped Damage and accuracy rate is high and reload speed is faster than R1895

The Win 94 is a lever-action rifle It uses 45 ACP Ammo and up to 8 bullets can be loaded It can attach bullet loops It inflicts severe damage and it is a mid-range weapon suitable for high level players.

The sawed-off is a small shotgun It uses 12 gauge ammo and up to 2 bullets can be loaded This shotgun can inflict severe damage and equips to the handgun slot in the inventory

A recolored version of the Ghillie suit has been added

New Vehicles

The minibus is a six-seater on-road vehicle, available on Miramar only. Its top speed and torque are low but it has strong durability

The pick-up truck is a four-seater off-road vehicle, available on Miramar only. It has a great suspension system and powerful torque, making it suitable for terrain with extreme elevation differences.

The motorbike and buggy have new skins on Miramar

Gameplay Features

Emotes have been added. Emote UI will show up if you press the LB+RB buttons at the same time. Choose an emote with the right analog stick and press down with the R stick to use the selected emote.

Scopes have been changed to be more realistic: Expanded all scopes’ field of view Added a parallax effect when moving weapons quickly while ADS Added vignetting (darker edges), chromatic aberration (color difference caused by light refraction), and a distortion effect on the edge of scopes

Aim acceleration can now be turned off in settings.

Setting menu has been specially improved for Xbox platform.

Colorblind mode and other modes that could help the gameplay have been added.

We’ve removed the grenade’s knockback effect for player characters when dealing non-lethal damage (if players are killed by a grenade, they’ll still be knocked back)

Added new grenade hit effects and animations

‘Key legends’ function has been added for gameplay controls. It can be turned off in settings.

Outgame

Lobby loading screen is now cleaner.

Matchmaking can be started in the PLAY menu after selecting the game mode. Map selection will be added soon

Matchmaking UI has been improved, allowing more pleasant entrance into the game.

REWARDS menu has been changed to STORE menu. Go to CRATES in STORE menu to get crates. Go to MY ITEMS in STORE menu to open the crates you obtained.

Game option settings can now be popped up.

Leaderboard display method has been modified, allowing users below certain ranks to see their ranks in percentage.

Lobby UI overall has been improved.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue causing punching to slow down movement while sprinting

In spectator mode, water sounds sometimes inappropriately continued after changing perspective. This has now been fixed

When preparing to throw grenades, the projection visualization no longer inappropriately penetrates through objects

You can now free look while automatically swimming forward in water

Sights should no longer become blocked while in ADS position after attaching high-magnification scopes

Fixed an issue preventing some teammates’ map markers from showing on the compass

Fixed some problems preventing interacting pop-ups from functioning properly in certain situations

Fixed the problem preventing players from changing seats in vehicles

Fixed the problem wherein turning off BGM in the lobby setting window didn’t work

There was a bug causing players to sometimes get stuck in a leaning position (caused by going prone while leaning). This is now fixed.

With Miramar now available for the Xbox, it is believed that the developers will try their level best to bring the third map to the game. However, nothing can be said for sure as the developers have yet to announce anything officially.