Everything You Need To Know About Warzone’s New Big Map ‘Urzikstan’

Warzone is getting a major overhaul after Modern Warfare III launches. A bunch of changes are coming to Call Of Duty’s massive battle royale game.

Chief among these is a brand new map: Urzikstan.

The new map is just about everything players have been hoping for. It takes the Russian-adjacent setting of Verdansk and plops it into a map about the same size as Caldera.

Instead of big open spaces and tons of elevation changes, Urzikstan is generally more flat and dense, with lots of urban areas to explore and close-combat encounters to engage in.

Here’s the flythrough showcasing some of the new map’s many locations, including Zaravan City—a dense urban area with high-rises—Sorokin Industrial, Popov Power, Shahin Manor, Low Town, Old Town, Orlov Military Base, Urzikstan Cargo and Quadri Shopping Center.

Here’s the map layout:

As you can see, similar to Vondel, this is basically a square mostly populated by buildings, waterways and roads.

It looks terrific, quite frankly. Some of the other changes coming to Warzone include horizontal ziplines, manually equipped gas-masks, individual ammo slots separate from backpack inventory, and movement more in-line with MWIII. Players will also always deploy with pistols that can be used on ladders or underwater, meaning you’ll never be caught at a disadvantage in those situations (or at least not a definitive one).

Weapon rarities (color-coded to indicate better or worse loot) also make a return, as do tactical stims that give players a speed-boost, bringing this closer to what we had with the original Warzone than ever before.

Best of all, two original Warzone maps are also making a return next year. Good news all around when it comes to Warzone, though I’m much less enthusiastic about what we saw for Modern Warfare III during the #CODNext stream.

The Modern Warfare III beta kicks off tomorrow. I’ll be playing and will report back with my impressions. Stay frosty.

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