On January 4th Tencent’s Twitter revealed the new map coming for Ring of Elysium’s season 2 event coming in late January early February. For those like myself who only played it from it’s release on Steam Early Access back in September then this map is a whole new zone.

However, long time players of ROE who tested it when it was called Europa notice the styling and similarities to one of the games earlier zones before the snow map of Dione became the new playground.

(thank you to u/SirTrickTrick on Reddit for posting the map)

Along with a few other pre-announcement posts from Tencent’s Twitter there’s actually a few things we can make a good guess on when it comes to the new map.

Location: While Dione is clearly in a mountainous zone and is styled with towns named after Norse Mythology figures, we can take a good guess that Dione is set somewhere in northern Europe.

This new map, looks to be more southern. If it keeps on the same styling and similar naming convention as the older map, along with the prominence of the volcano, then it’s very likely that the new map is in the Mediterranean and will have town names after Greek Mythology. The Zone/Threat: With Dione we have the storm of “Ymir” baring down on the players to turn them into a meat popscicle. Given the location that is likely not going to be the case on this map. So the new threat is likely going to be volcano related as well as greek mythology related. My personal guess will be that of the Greek Titan Typhon. Who, accord to myth, was cast under a mountain by Zues after failing to over throw him for control of Olympus. Travel: The new map being a great deal of water with some locations purposefully surrounded by water, then it’s fair to say that boats will become more prominent in vehicle usage. From Dione we already have a 4-person tug boat. Though we’ll likely see a use of 2-person jet skis and 2-4 person speed boats and police service boats. Packs: This I’ve poured over a lot last night. As the three pack option will have to continue into the new map, what will take over the skiing and climbing rig? The glider will remain as that can be utilized on any map and is a fan favorite. If they want to keep the skiing pack and just change the board for the island terrain then it’ll likely change from a snow board to a mountain board. The climbing pack will likely stay the same as well. The map does not show zip-line locations, though it is likely that they are there.

As to any new weapons or land vehicles that will be changed or added in, Tencent hasn’t made any hints or announcements to that. Though I can assume that the snow-mobile won’t make a return and will likely be changed to a 2-person motorcycle if it is brought in.

Right now we can only wait and speculate on the new map. Though for me, I have the case files to pour over.