Verdansk Returns to Call of Duty Warzone — Here Are All the Biggest Changes

Call of Duty: Warzone is bringing backmost the conflict royale representation that started it all: Verdansk. It’s been conscionable implicit 3 years since players past dropped into the beloved location’s iconic POIs, truthful we’ve taken the clip to item its biggest changes.

Verdansk is thing without each idiosyncratic gathering that players spent hundreds of hours dodging (and taking) bullets done – and Activision knows it. That’s wherefore veterans who played the OG Warzone representation backmost erstwhile it launched successful 2020 volition find that its Ukraine-inspired streets, rivers, and structures person been brought backmost astir wholly unaltered. It’s the representation you cognize and love, built from the crushed up to suit the updated playstyle introduced with Black Ops 6 and squash a fewer of the much notable issues players person harped connected done the years.

“This mentation of Verdansk has been painstakingly rebuilt from the crushed up to springiness you the precise champion conflict royale acquisition possible,” Activision explained contiguous successful a blog post. “That acquisition balances the immersion, adjusted question mechanics, and the signature gameplay you retrieve from the archetypal Call of Duty: Warzone with 1 overriding goal: To relive the classical and nostalgic Verdansk representation we each remember.”

Kitted Out

The steadfast down Call of Duty says its instrumentality to Warzone’s roots includes a mentation of Verdansk that is “95%” close to its archetypal motorboat build. It’s been much than 3 years since the representation was retired successful precocious 2021, truthful naturally, the squad felt it was owed for astatine slightest a fewer tweaks that shouldn’t interfere with that nostalgic design.

One wide regularisation of thumb, of course, is that Verdansk volition payment from improved lighting that falls much successful enactment with the visuals seen successful past year’s Black Ops 6. Upgraded visuals connected a finer item level volition besides beryllium recovered successful locations similar Grazna Bridge and those communal occurrence stations, which diagnostic somewhat much weathered overgarment jobs and chunkier bricks. Another illustration of cosmetic changes to Verdansk’s iconic locations tin beryllium recovered successful a weed occupation connected Storage Town’s roofs, much reflective puddles, and added electrical pipework.

Your mean Call of Duty instrumentality isn’t going to announcement the other blades of writer added to a random tract adjacent to the northwest broadside of Stadium, but what they volition announcement are immoderate surface-level plan tweaks to a fewer idiosyncratic POIs. Storage Town Building 3 is 1 illustration of a operation that’s been touched up, with Activision explaining that it’s been talented a ladder successful bid to nerf its erstwhile spot arsenic an “unfair powerfulness position.” As much than a fewer akin structures person besides invested successful ladder additions, players volition find that different locations, specified arsenic the Hangars, present diagnostic repositioned vehicles and further cover.

Verdansk Reheated

Even if you’ve lived 1 100 lifetimes successful Verdansk’s archetypal incarnation, nary of these aforementioned changes are existent gamechangers. However, to accommodate things similar Black Ops 6’s omnimovement and swimming mechanics, Verdansk needed to person a fewer much alterations that are a spot much than tegument deep.

Verdansk, a traditionally precise snowy map, has had its somesthesia turned up ever truthful slightly, resulting successful the melting of rivers that were antecedently frozen. That means you’ll beryllium capable to aquatics successful immoderate of the deeper bodies of h2o similar the Kastovian Sea – and marque much sound erstwhile sprinting done immoderate of the ankle-deep rivers polluting the map. Undrivable vehicles person besides been fixed a facelift to guarantee there’s nary disorder astir whether oregon not they tin beryllium utilized for a speedy getaway.

Additionally, those steep, rocky trails and cliffsides that you and your friends person astir surely died astatine erstwhile earlier person been tweaked to beryllium much forgiving to players connected the run. You’ll besides announcement that gangly structures similar telephone poles person been somewhat shortened, making for little annoying descents into the Warzone. If you find yourself questioning histrion placement travel April 3, conscionable cognize that, yes, the squad astatine Activision has made a fewer insignificant adjustments to histrion placement to shingle things up, too.

Meanwhile, doors respond overmuch much dynamically to the enactment astir them, arsenic bullets and explosions tin origin them to plaything successful either absorption depending connected wherever interaction occurs. Ascenders, which were antecedently featured successful Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 but added post-Verdansk removal, person besides been retrofitted to marque immoderate of those harder-to-access rooftops easier to reach.

Heads-Up

While these changes whitethorn look similar a batch erstwhile each dispersed out, Activision reiterates that the “vast majority” of Verdansk 2025 has been revived arsenic a “one-to-one duplication.” Examples of areas that stay mostly untouched are Karst River Quarry and Superstore, which look and play the aforesaid wrong and out.

Meanwhile, the video game-y aspects of Call of Duty: Warzone’s nostalgia play besides question to instrumentality to the feeling players had erstwhile dropping into the conflict royale mode backmost successful 2020. This tin beryllium seen successful a implicit overhaul to Contracts, Public Events, Field Upgrades, vehicles, and adjacent Killstreaks, which person each been reverted to acceptable the offerings recovered successful the 2020 Verdansk build. That means everything from the OG chopper to the hum of a adjacent thorax to that classical loading surface is back.

As different experiences similar Fortnite present updated takes connected classical offerings, it looks similar Call of Duty is present to connection its ain mentation of 1 of its astir fashionable moments successful time. So, portion thing similar a lighting tweak whitethorn look inconsequential astatine first, Activision wants players to cognize that these changes were made with that infamous Roze skin, for example, successful mind. Should everything play retired arsenic expected, Verdansk’s reintroduction whitethorn supply the definitive mode to acquisition that representation ever.

Call of Duty: Warzone brings backmost Verdansk April 3, 2025. It volition motorboat 1 time aft the instauration of Black Ops 6 Season 3 and pursuing a one-day down play for players. When users footwear up Warzone connected Verdansk motorboat day, they’ll beryllium capable to bask a special, limited-time lawsuit called Return to Verdansk that comes with unsocial cosmetics, sprays, Operators, weapons, and much, overmuch more.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance contributor with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).