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By : the Call of Duty Staff
The original, Call of Duty: Warzone Battle Royale experience returns as Verdansk arrives for players to dive into at the start of Season 03! This is a return to the game’s initial Battle Royale roots, with back-to-basics gameplay, an authentic rebuilding of the Big Map, along with an impressive number of quality-of-life improvements.
With Verdansk’s return, players who dropped in five years previously on March 10, 2020, should instantly recognize this as the original Big Map Call of Duty: Warzone experience.
This version of Verdansk has been painstakingly rebuilt from the ground up by Beenox to give you the very best battle royale experience possible. That experience balances the immersion, adjusted movement mechanics, and the signature gameplay you remember from the original Call of Duty: Warzone with one overriding goal: To relive the classic and nostalgic Verdansk map we all remember.
From exploring the rugged wilderness of the northern villages, Military Base and Quarry, to the first time landing at Superstore or Hospital, to surviving your first 1v1 prison Gulag, a great deal of work has gone into making Verdansk as exact, detailed, and authentic an update as possible.
In the most basic terms, this version of Verdansk is 95% a rebuilt version of Verdansk in 2020, with around five percent of the map’s landscape receiving light adjustments and quality-of-life improvements. Veteran players remembering back to Modern Warfare 2019 Seasons should think of Verdansk in Season 03 as the map that dropped in March 2020, with a few elements from that game’s later seasons added – like the Metro Station entrances – and a variety other map changes scheduled across future seasons…
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Call of Duty®: Warzone™ Verdansk Credits: Beenox, Raven Software and High Moon Studios. Additional support from Activision Shanghai, Activision Central Tech, Sledgehammer Games and Treyarch. Original map design by Infinity Ward.
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