New Battlegrounds, New Maps

For the first time since 2018, ESO has introduced a bunch of new Battlegrounds maps. But as they now feature two teams instead of three, an overhaul to how ZeniMax approaches designing maps for the mode was needed.

“We were locked into a certain format because it was three teams and you needed to have equal run times from three different locations to get to the center point or various objectives, which lends itself to a hexagon shape,” Wheeler explains. “We did break from that mold a little bit with Istirus and Eld Angavar, where they were kind of stacked. When we were looking at two sides, we put people into Foyada Quarry and shifted the spawns around.