Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is adding a new map called Vondel as part of the Season 4 update on Wednesday, June 14. Activision has been aggressively supporting Call of Duty: Warzone 2 since launching the battle royale last year. At launch, Warzone 2 only featured Al Mazrah, but it eventually added the small-scale Ashika Island map.
Al Mazrah in Call of Duty: Warzone 2 fills the large-scale map void, serving as the game's equivalent of Verdansk from the original Warzone. Ashika Island, meanwhile, is the Rebirth Island equivalent for Warzone 2. The new Call of Duty: Warzone 2 map will be somewhere in the middle, with Activision pushing Vondel as a "medium-sized map."
Call of Duty: Warzone 2's Vondel map is coming as part of the Season 4 update on June 14 with Resurgence, DMZ, and Lockdown LTM modes. More traditional battle royale modes are expected to come to Vondel at some point later in the season. 72 players will be able to battle it out as part of the Resurgence game mode. Vondel will have 15 points of interest for players to explore at launch, with examples given being a castle, a zoo, a soccer stadium, and more. Players will have to dive into the Vondel map when it's added to the battle royale next week to see what all the new map has to offer.
Because traditional battle royale won't be available in the Vondel map at launch, it will be releasing without its own gulag. However, a gulag is coming to the Vondel map as part of the Season 4 Reloaded update, which is presumably when the traditional battle royale modes will be added as well. The Vondel gulag is described as "subterranean" and will take place in the "more medieval parts of town."
Call of Duty: Warzone 2 has struggled to match up to the original game in terms of long-term player retention, but a new map like Vondel could be what it needs to bring lapsed players back as well as draw attention from newcomers. There seems to be a ton of content coming to Call of Duty in general with the Season 4 update, but time will tell how the community reacts to it. There's also the 2023 Call of Duty game on the horizon, and it will be interesting to see how it impacts Warzone 2 and the ongoing support for Modern Warfare 2.
Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
