Activision has announced the grand return of Verdansk to Call of Duty: Warzone. It’ll arrive in the game in just a few months, making a reappearance more than three years after it was last seen on the platform. It might have popped back up in Warzone Mobile, but let’s face it, it wasn’t ever the same.
Verdansk is where it all began for every Warzone player. In 2020, it served as the first Warzone map, and it became an instantly recognisable environment for tens of millions of players pouring onto the battle royale platform.
Return of the King
In 2025, Verdansk is coming back to Warzone, but there are still a lot of unknowns up in the air.
It’s unclear what ‘form’ Verdansk will take. The general assumption is that it won’t look like the ‘OG’ Verdansk map, but nobody can say what evolution it may have undergone over the last three-and-something years. When it was the defining Warzone map, it underwent a few changes, including a facelift (and a time travel sequence of sorts) for Black Ops Cold War.
All Activision has shown so far is an outline of the region. It was enough to spark intense excitement within the community, though. Verdansk has an iron-like grip around the nostalgia centres of millions of gamers worldwide. It’s where we lived out the COVID-19-induced lockdowns of 2020 and beyond. In Verdansk, we made friends and enemies, and for some of us, we made a name for ourselves.
It’s a side note, but I fell in love with Verdansk and Warzone so hard that I secured a Guinness World Record for the longest battle royale marathon, going the distance on the map and entering the history books. My name is still against that record and I was the first person in history to secure it.
Are you excited about the return of Verdansk in Warzone?
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