The indications are increasing that Call of Duty: Warzone is facing major changes. Through a teaser, the CoD creators show what awaits you in Verdansk and a recognized leaker is quite sure about what happens to the release map after the events of Season 2.
What’s going on in Battle Royale? Call of Duty: Warzone is shortly before its first birthday on March 10, 2021. Since the release, there has only been one large map for Warzone – Verdansk and surroundings. For months, players and supposed insiders have suspected that the map will change significantly or completely disappear due to a nuclear explosion. And the clues have been accumulating since the start of Season 2.
Now there are NPC zombies on the map, coming into the city from a shipwreck. So far, the activities of the undead have been limited to the area around the wreck, but that is likely to change.
An official teaser now gives hints about how the story of the zombies in Verdansk is developing. A well-known leaker also explains how things could progress with the map after a nuke event.
Here you will find information about what happens up to the expected nuclear bomb event and how it will proceed afterward. If you want to know what a possible nuke event could look like, check out our special on the Plague mode on MeinMMO.
Warzone shows funny teaser, hints at zombie spread
What has CoD revealed? On Twitter, the official “Call of Duty” account released a not-so-serious clip about the events in Verdansk:
The two reporters “Ray Gun” and “Mike Field”, who have names quite similar to equipment items from Black Ops Cold War, report on the new shipwreck in Warzone. They say that zombies were sighted leaving the shipwreck. The brief connection to the outside reporter “Mike Field” ends with a shoot down of the helicopter flying over the area. Afterward, the studio speaker mentions that you should continue to follow the news from “BCH4” to learn more about developments in this story. At the very beginning of the news, there is also a photo of the area:
However, so far the zombies do not leave the area around the wreck. Through a terminal on the ship, you can “release” the zombies, fight against them, and grab a big loot box. But as soon as you walk over the hill in front of the ship’s destroyed hull, the undead return to the ship. The area of expansion is currently noticeably smaller than the area shown in the news. This seems to indicate that the undead will soon terrorize larger areas than before.
Another hint is the machines found in various locations in Verdansk:
These machines are similar to the console you can find in the shipwreck to start the zombie event. It is possible that you will see more and more undead on the map in the coming weeks.
What is certain: The story of the zombies in Verdansk is getting bigger.
And with that, the chances also increase that the map will be destroyed because the zombie threat can no longer be controlled in any other way.
Leaker says: Verdansk disappears and stays gone
One of the most well-known leakers in the CoD universe, the Twitter account “Tom Henderson”, formerly known as “LongSensation”, even went a step further. For him, the destruction of Verdansk is a mere formality, and he already knows what happens to the release map afterward:
Translation of the tweet: “The current plan for Warzone is that Verdansk will never return. There is no separate playlist, no map voting, or anything like that. Warzone is Warzone and Warzone is a map. Warzone will continue to change its map along with the progression of the story.”
The leaker, who also predicted the release of Warzone as a free-to-play title, firmly believes that Verdansk will be destroyed and will not return anytime soon. In another tweet, he mentions that the map could become available again under special circumstances, but no longer as part of the regular rotation.
The grand Warzone “Battle Royale” will always only have one large main map. At the same time as the destruction of Verdansk, a new large map will come into play accordingly. Here you can read what we know about the possible new map.
It will be exciting to see how all this develops in the coming weeks. However, what is certain is that Warzone is facing some changes. How they will come into play, however, remains completely unclear.
