Call of Duty: Warzone 2is adding a new map called Vondel as part of the Season 4 update on Wednesday, June 14. Activision has been aggressively supportingCall of Duty: Warzone 2since launching the battle royale last year. At launch,Warzone 2only featured Al Mazrah, but it eventually added the small-scale Ashika Island map.
Al Mazrah inCall of Duty: Warzone 2fills the large-scale map void, serving as the game’s equivalent of Verdansk from the originalWarzone. Ashika Island, meanwhile, is the Rebirth Island equivalent forWarzone 2. The newCall of Duty: Warzone 2map will be somewhere in the middle, with Activision pushing Vondel as a “medium-sized map.”
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Call of Duty: Warzone 2’s Vondel map is coming as part of the Season 4 update on June 14 with Resurgence, DMZ, and Lockdown LTM modes. More traditional battle royale modes are expected to come to Vondel at some point later in the season. 72 players will be able to battle it out as part of theResurgence game mode. Vondel will have 15 points of interest for players to explore at launch, with examples given being a castle, a zoo, a soccer stadium, and more. Players will have to dive into the Vondel map when it’s added to the battle royale next week to see what all the new map has to offer.
Because traditional battle royale won’t be available in the Vondel map at launch, it will be releasing without its own gulag. However,a gulagis coming to the Vondel map as part of the Season 4 Reloaded update, which is presumably when the traditional battle royale modes will be added as well. The Vondel gulag is described as “subterranean” and will take place in the “more medieval parts of town.”
Call of Duty: Warzone 2has struggled to match up to the original gamein terms of long-term player retention, but a new map like Vondel could be what it needs to bring lapsed players back as well as draw attention from newcomers. There seems to be a ton of content coming toCall of Dutyin general with the Season 4 update, but time will tell how the community reacts to it. There’s also the 2023Call of Dutygame on the horizon, and it will be interesting to see how it impactsWarzone 2and the ongoing support forModern Warfare 2.
Call of Duty: Warzone 2is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
