I just came to some sort of conclusion here
Would that mean that we can’t go there again after the showdown is done? I would not like that. Like RÖ, #10011 facility or FOA 53 no longer accessible. Hope not… 
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Well, I would be surprised if the map is changed like adding more land mass to an existing area. I did actually consider the mainland, as it would make sense to control and supervise from there (and then the whole situation got out of hand). Another problem with the mainland is, that it becomes undefined outside the map (actually it ends abruptly in the sea). Then I considered something underground but the announcement mentions terrain which I interpret as an open air location …
But we are encouraged to read up on lore, especially those russian dolls … and where did these russian landing crafts come from … could we be going to an island not on the map yet? A russian island that will pop up in a frame in the lower right corner?
This is just speculation, off course. I’m sure you guys will be proven right. It is one of the existing islands
Anyway, if they saved an island, wouldn’t it be cool if one day a parallel story were released on that? Like “Blueshift” and “Opposing Forces” from Halflife? Perhaps you would play the role of a machine 
Well, unfortunately not likely to happen.
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That could be possible.
Or, a direct way to that area just opens after the showdown.
Imagine opening a specific door and then we see an animation like in resident evil 1-3… An opening door… The screen turns black for a few seconds with a loading screen… And suddenly we stand right in front of the door of bunker 666… Which can now be used to travel there.
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Pherhaps there is a mission that we have to chase Bolshakov and we have to sneak up on one of the Hovercrafts with that Bolshakov will escape to an Isand where a russian base is. When the russian dolls play a role in it than pherhaps this could be.
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Another idea…
I once more read this part of the announcement and looked for some hidden hints:
We have:
- a screenshot of some kind of facility we’ve never seen before
- “will take place in a new area that you haven’t been to before”
- “but it will give us the space needed to tell the last part of our narrative”
- “exploring new terrains with a unique feel and many bits of environmental storytelling”
Here we have:
- “community feedback”
- “Experimental weapons”
So my idea was a mix of a story idea I once had (where do all the pods with hunters and runners come from?) and a running gag.
Conclusion:
What we see on the screenshot is a facility of the swedish space program. By that, we will be able to go into space. Or better: towards the russian space station MIR, captured by FNIX and used to drop machines by pods. Maybe we’ll come to the moon, too, but finally it’ll be a new terrain with a unique feel… And there is enough space for environmental story telling.
It’s the last step of stopping FNIX… And to stop Bolshakov and the golden circle (?). The soviets want their space station back, they want to save the abilities coming along with it and they want access to FNIX.
Our only chance is: destroying the MIR.
It also would offer a way for new special cosmetics and it could be a good reason for some very special experimental weapons.
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Haha, you teaser 
Update: contents were added after my reply - I was just impatient.
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Now I’m rather clumsy when handling gas cannisters and consequently they tend to send me flying off in all possible directions. Which mean that I’ve been more or less all over the place. I’m obviously pretty curious … somewhere that I haven’t been to before … 
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Because the tunnel with the buried undergroundrailway where Bolshakov had a showdown with that female russian officer. Sorry i have lost her name. Pherhaps we could blast away the rocks and can follow the railway to Bolshakovs Quarter.
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I had to send the post to become able to move back to the announcement to copy and quote more text… You just were too fast.
It’s done now
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But that is quite a bit inland, and the blocked tunnel is leading east, isn’t it? So it probably wouldn’t lead to the big western island 
Still, it would be nice to know what is going on with that underground railroad.
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Obvisiously the tunnel will lead to the big hole. I think it’s Tyloväden. When you going down at the ground zero at the east side, there is a ramp you can go down and some closed red doors but in some rips in the concrete you can see a structure behind the walls. Many times before we where guessing what is behind the doors.
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Don’t be surprised, because they did it before. The area for South Coast control point Kalebyviken west of Lannbacka is new land that we didn’t had before.
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Now that is imaginative 
And it would be quite unexpected. And I must admit that the gas cannisters have never shipped me of to the Moon. Or Mir for that matter
I have been to the Moon in Portal 2 though.
I didn’t recognize the big white cylinder in the middle of the teaser picture as a rocket - I thought it was a chimney. But I see it now 
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You’re right, @Gysbert! And some minor islands not far from Fiskebäck … they also appeared out of nowhere! I totally forgot about that …
Edit: Lännbäcka - not Fiskebäck. I’m a bit rusty in Östertörn geography apparently 
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No that one is a chimney… But the structure on the right side could be a rocket launching ramp. Who knows? 
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When i look at the photos from the very first post of this topic. The first photo looks like a makeshift camp on a rooftop of one of the houses in Östervik. But the view reminds me more at Klinte. The one multifamily house in the close vicinity of the church. The other photo looks for me like a chemical fabrik the big structure looks like more than a fraction tower or an reactor tower from a chemical facility or a raffinerie . Around Cologne and Ludwigshafen you can find such facilities with similar structures and big tanks. The screen on the lower left side shows an area that looks like the Area in the Normyrra Artillery camp. The big nearly empty space what is suroundet by walls. Pherhaps something will be happen there.
Ok, let’s get somewhat deeper
What else do you think could that mean?
Which kind of terrain do we miss on östertörn?
We have beaches, hills, rocks, mountains, wide ranges of gras and fields, forests, snowy areas…
We don’t have a desert yet.
And no underwater terrain.
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I think, that “New terrains” just means new areas, and not per se a new biotope we don’t have in the game. The emphasis seems to lie more on the “unique feel” term. But that’s so obscure that I can’t think of such a feel without going totally overboard in my imagination, which then, definitely will not be added in the last update. We have to think big, in a small way. 
So what kind of unique feel is meant? Maybe simply something they haven’t shown us before, like confronting a manifestation of FNIX boss in a machine form unfamiliar to us. Or working together with Tatiana.
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I also think the term “Explosive Finale” is a clue that it’s going to involve a real explosion (ingame).
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