As the first season ofCall of Duty: Warzone 2is coming to a close, Infinity Ward has slowly started to pull back the curtain on many of the small details of the flagship Ashika map, namely a secret waterway underneath the map. The second season of the highly successfulCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2andCall of Duty: Warzone 2is bringing back the fan-favorite Resurgence game mode forWarzone 2, and Ashika is set to be the ground zero for all the action.WhenCall of Duty: Warzone 2was first released in November 2022 alongsideCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, it garnered a fair bit of fan skepticism. AsWarzone 2became the focus of Infinity Ward for the foreseeable future, Resurgence and all the small-scale maps like Rebirth Island, Fortune’s Keep, andCaldera were retired. ThoughWarzone 2has become just successful as its predecessor, some players still crave the close-quarter, nerve-wracking firefights. DMZ, the PvEvP game mode that was supposed to be an alternative to Resurgence, went on to garner a fanbase of its own but could never fill the void left by Resurgence and Plunder.RELATED:Call Of Duty: Warzone 2 Reveals New Ashika Island MapEarlier today,Call of Duty: Warzone 2officially revealed the Ashika map after teasing it for quite some time. Through the Tac-map reveal, players found out thatAshika islandwill feature seven distinct areas with different architecture and layouts. But the most interesting point of the reveal came from one screenshot of an underground area. In the screenshot, players can see a canal opening up to an underground cavern with walkways all around and over the canal. Taking a closer look at the Tac-map, multiple entry and exit points leading in and out of the coastline can be spotted, indicating that this labyrinthine waterway snakes its way through possibly the entirety of Ashika Island.
As full details are not available regarding Ashika Island, players will be combing through every screenshot and teaser to find out details about the new landscape. It is entirely possible that outside of coastlines, many other points of accessing the caverns below Ashika exist to be found. While Ashika Island looks small from the aerial view, the introduction of the underground waterway quite possibly makes it the third-largest map inWarzonehistory after Al Mazrah and Verdansk.
The introduction of Resurgence and Ashika Island inWarzone 2might be only the beginning. A few months ago, Activision sent out a survey to gauge player reaction and interest in legacy maps in Warzone, with evenBlackout fromCall of Duty: Black Ops 4being an option. In the future, Activision might reintroduce game modes like Plunder and Payload with Verdansk being reworked forWarzone 2. For now,Call of Dutyfans can look forward to jumping into Ashika Island on February 15, when Season 2 ofCall of Duty: Warzone 2launches.
Call of Duty: Warzone 2is now available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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