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Call of Duty: Warzone 2 Everything You Need to Know: Release Date, Gameplay Details, Maps, and More


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Call of Duty: Warzone launched as a mode within Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) but went out to become its whole own experience that even got a bit of a spin-off in the form of Warzone: Pacific, the Call of Duty: Vanguard-era evolution of Warzone much like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's 80's reskin of Verdansk.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is going to be a massive evolution of the Call of Duty battle royale, and in this article, we're going to tell you everything you need to know about Call of Duty: Warzone 2, including release date, gameplay details, maps, and more.

Warzone 2 Release Date

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There isn't any official word on when Warzone 2 is dropping just yet, but based on leaks and rumors as well as the fact that Warzone 2's development is happening in conjunction with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)'s development (and uses that games engine), late 2022 is currently the expectation.

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However, there's a decent chance Warzone 2 will get delayed into 2023. 2023 will mark the first year since Call of Duty 2's release back in 2005 that a Call of Duty game won't release in a calendar year. However, this is just in the context of a premium AAA game.

In 2023, a new free-to-play Call of Duty game developed at least in part by Treyarch is expected to release. Activision may not want to release two free-to-play Call of Duty games in the same year, even if they don't directly compete with one another.

Warzone 2 Platforms

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Again, there isn't official confirmation yet, but Warzone 2 is overwhelmingly expected to release on current-gen consoles only, meaning that PS4 and Xbox One players won't be able to play Warzone 2, but Warzone 2 will also likely be a huge technical leap since it no longer has to run on 2013-era laptop-grade hardware.

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This could mean we can expect a much larger map, a much more complicated map, higher player counts, many more effects, and advanced lighting, that kind of thing. It will also mean features like a FOV slider will be inevitable, as the technical constraints on PS5 and Series X are significantly leaner than they are on PS4 and Xbox One.

Plus, with how fast the drives on Series X and PS5 are, Warzone 2 may upgrade its data compression algorithm and change how the game is updated to try and minimize the huge file sizes associated with Warzone. The install size of the game, according to the developers, plays a major role in why we don't see a rotating selection of maps in Warzone.

Warzone 2 Gameplay Details

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Warzone 2 is expected to be a spiritual successor to Modern Warfare 2, much like Modern Warfare II (2022), so a number of classic Modern Warfare 2 weapons are expected to make an appearance, like the SPAS-12, the Intervention, and many more. These weapons will also be the weapons of Modern Warfare II (2022), which is to be expected.

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Features like the Gunsmith from Modern Warfare (2019) are also expected to return in Warzone 2 as well as a large focus on weapon customization with a variety of new camos to unlock for your guns and ways to customize weapons. Plus, switching out attachments on your weapons to create different, special weapons is also expected to be in Warzone 2.

Ultimately, nothing has been officially confirmed, but as more information comes out about Modern Warfare II (2022), we'll learn more about Warzone 2 as there'll be significant overlap between the two games as they are to some extent tied together.

Warzone 2 Map

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Warzone 2 is expected to pack in an entirely new map built from the ground up for the new battle royale game, so you can say goodbye to Caldera and Verdansk, but the original Warzone s expected to continue to exist, so you will be able to continue playing it if you so choose.

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The map of Warzone 2 is expected to take heavy inspiration from the original Modern Warfare 2 in the same way that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's battle royale Blackout mode's map was like an homage to the Black Ops series with lots of famous locations from those games.

The map of Warzone 2 is expected to encompass famous Modern Warfare 2 maps like Favela, Terminal, Highrise, Shipment, and Quarry. Some famous maps from the Modern Warfare series made their way into Warzone, like Scrapyard, but interestingly, Warzone had a quarry in Verdansk that had nothing to do with the classic Modern Warfare 2 map.

It's unclear if Warzone 2's map will be more like Blackout or more like Verdansk in the context of older maps becoming a part of the new map, but the map of Warzone 2 itself is expected to take place in South America a la the cartels of Modern Warfare 2.

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