Call of Obligation developer Pete Actipis, who’s the sport director on CoD: Warzone at Raven Software program, has teased Activision’s plans for the OG map, Verdansk, which only recently returned to the sport.
As many could recall, Warzone’s authentic battle royale map was featured within the recreation from launch in March 2020 to December 2021. It was gone for years till its return earlier this month. Actipis informed IGN that Activision “introduced Verdansk again for a motive.”
“It wasn’t simply to convey it again for a season and type of say goodbye to it once more. A whole lot of effort went into it,” Actipis stated. “So in the intervening time Verdansk is sticking round and that is just the start of the Verdansk 2025 journey, after which we’ll see how issues go from there.”
Actipis declined to get into specifics on Activision’s plans and technique for Warzone map rotation, however the developer did tease, “We love Verdansk.”
Actipis added: “It was a nostalgic map that we beloved and it is enjoyable to play on, and so we simply need to preserve investing on it and proceed to make it a greater expertise for our gamers shifting ahead for at the least the time being.”
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Verdansk’s return to Warzone helped the sport’s participant populations develop on Steam. Actipis stated the return of Verdansk has been “fairly profitable” thus far. Actipis pointed to Warzone having optimistic sentiment on Reddit for instance of how the corporate has turned issues round to a level at the least.
“Look, I am going to take it when Reddit says optimistic issues about Warzone! That’s an anomaly and I am excited by it,” Actipis stated. “We recreated Verdansk to be the most effective expertise doable. However then we did not cease there. That is the place to begin. It’s not an anomaly for the place Warzone goes.”
Past Warzone, a brand new Call of Obligation recreation is anticipated to launch in 2025, and it may very well be a Black Ops 2 sequel. It will face stiff competitors out there, as Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming this fall. For context, Black Ops 6 was 2024’s best-selling recreation within the US.