In Call of Duty: Warzone, some players wish for the map rotation from Apex Legends. What a rotation would bring, why players desire it, and why the feature likely won’t come, you can find out on MeinMMO.
About this:
- The free “Battle Royale” shooters Call of Duty: Warzone and Apex Legends share basic rules, but are otherwise completely different.
- While Warzone relies on 2 fixed maps, Apex has a map rotation that regularly changes the playable maps in the different modes.
- Players of Warzone also wish for the map rotation, but are afraid of the consequences for their hard drives.
Apex’s Map Rotation Should Come to Warzone
On reddit, players discuss whether Warzone would benefit from a map rotation like in Apex Legends (via reddit.com). With this feature, there is a regular rhythm that switches the playable maps, providing more variety.
The thread gathered over 2,500 upvotes within a day and is currently one of the biggest topics in the Warzone subreddit.
What is the current situation in Warzone? The Battle Royale offers 2 maps:
- The large main map “Caldera”
- The small secondary map “Rebirth Island”
When it comes to the wishes for a rotation, the focus is primarily on the large main map Caldera.
What is the current situation in Apex? In EA’s Battle Royale, there is a lively rotation of maps for the two modes “Battle Royale” and “Arenas”. The maps are only active for a few hours and switch frequently.
On sites like “apexlegendsstatus.com“, you can see when the map will change next.
Warzone Players Want Their Old Map Back – The Chance is Low
What do players say about it? In the discussion on reddit, users interpret the idea of rotation in two different ways:
- One group wishes for it like in the multiplayer of Call of Duty: After each match, a different map comes up.
- Others understand the idea as having only one map available at a specific time, which then gets regularly swapped out.
Some players complain about Caldera because they find the map too empty and encounter too few opponents. Verdansk, in their opinion, offered more “Points of Interest” that were closer together and thus potentially attracted enemy teams more.
Others viewed Verdansk as “empty” and are fervent advocates of the island paradise Caldera.
However, most agree that Warzone would benefit from a map rotation. And here lies the crux of the discussion: It is known that both versions of Verdansk are somewhere on the developer servers, but only one map can be played – Caldera.
Why is the feature unlikely to come to Warzone? There are two main reasons for this, which are not likely to be resolved quickly:
- The maps in Warzone evolve over time, and this is an essential part of the Warzone content strategy. Maintaining multiple maps with live service would significantly increase the workload.
- Warzone is already HUGE. Each player should reserve about 200 GB on their hard drive to enjoy the CoD Battle Royale.
It seems to be a very large development effort to change things on the Warzone maps. Major adjustments to the maps are more the exception than the rule.
Opening the stadium in Verdansk 1 and the ground ravines in Verdansk 2 were the biggest changes to the maps; otherwise, the maps remained more or less in their release state.
Moreover, there is a significant storage demand for Warzone content. In the reddit thread, many users independently speculate that having 3 maps in rotation would require about 1 terabyte of storage. Their SSD hard drives are already stretched thin by the current Warzone.
How could it be possible? Recently, there have been leaks about a continuation of Warzone. In 2023, there may be a kind of “Warzone 2”, which will only appear for the current console generation and PC.
This would likely be the earliest point at which such a drastic change could be introduced.
The current premium CoD Vanguard shows that Call of Duty games can also manage with less storage. The shooter streams high-resolution textures while playing, thereby reducing storage needs.
However, whether the developers will make a strategic shift in this regard is currently uncertain. What you think of a map rotation, feel free to share with us in the comments.
