The entire Call of Duty: Warzone community watched yesterday as the Verdansk map we spent hundreds of hours shooting, running, and flying over was nuked to death. Activision turned back the clock and introduced Verdansk '84, a revised version of the map with new buildings, layout, and scenery.

Verdansk '84 is not a time-limited destination or optional variant; according to developer Raven Software, the Verdansk we knew is gone forever.

"Players will never again visit modern-day Verdansk," Amos Hodge, associate creative director at Raven, said at a press briefing for Warzone Season 3. years to live on like Warzone. For a service game with a premise, a complete departure from the former Verdansk is a big deal, and Hodge said Raven has used the new map as an opportunity to fix the common ways Warzone players have glitched under Verdansk in the past: "This is a good opportunity for us to update all glitching locations as well as improve quality of life."

He cited the rock face of Verdansk as an example, which he said will be more legible in Verdansk '84, even though players sometimes have trouble mantling it because of its shape.

I'm used to Apex Legends-style map updates, where small changes are permanent and entirely new maps swap in and out of the old ones; Activision's move to Verdansk '84 and Epic's Fortnite season It seems they are treating it like a major map change in the finals. It's a little sad to think that we will never again come across the old Verdansk dam or descend from a giant transport.

Ultimately, more maps are better than fewer, but if we're talking about a huge arena that takes weeks or months to fully master, it might be wise to narrow the focus; trying to keep both versions of Verdansk would take away from the Call of Duty games would also be a huge blow to my pathetic SSD, which is already taking up too much free space for games of "Duty.