Map overhaul with going live

[common]

I was just wondering if ( as the title states ) there will be a map overhaul with going live.  I think it would be amazing to get a fresh start, not spoil my game by peeking at maps and feel alone and helpless again.  I guess any new map addition would be great, but in my own personal opinion it would be amazing to get a least 4 new maps.....or 100

[selfless]

It has been stated that while story mode episodes will add their own new maps to the world, the world we currently have will persist and simply be added to.

Not that all new maps will be accessible from the current area or while playing in the sandbox.  Some may be unique to story and/or may have isolated access gates.

Sorry.

[selfless]

Hinterlands Announcement 4 April 2016

"Initially, the story would take place in the same world as our Sandbox gameplay. But as our Sandbox audience grew we felt it would make the game feel “cheap” if they were simply experiencing story in the environments they’d already been playing in for, in some cases, 100s of hours. Instead, the majority of Episodes One and Two take place in brand new regions that will launch for the first time with Story Mode, so nobody will have seen them before."