The Call of Duty: Warzone player community is experiencing a better experience on the smaller map of the beloved battle royale. It’s been months since Caldera replaced Verdansk as Warzone’s base environment, with the Ukrainian-inspired suburbs swapped for a sun-kissed Pacific island home to jungles and military bases.
Something that we find quite curious is that, despite the anticipation that Caldera’s release preached, many have come to consider it inferior to its predecessor, pointing to the general flow and some “confusing” decisions of Raven.
That appears to have been cemented by the Season 2 Reloaded update, which overhauled a number of Rebirth Island POIs to make Rebirth Reinforced, a map that now features heavily in the game’s playlist menu.
Referring to these changes and the encouragement given to players to get into Rebirth, Redditor WolfHoundJP asked if this proves that Caldera is “slowly dying”, a sentiment that some players have expressed in recent weeks.
Attached to the question was an image showing the vast majority of Warzone’s featured playlists encouraging players to visit Rebirth Island, rather than Caldera. A common response was that Rebirth Island is simply the theme of the recent Rebirth Reinforced event, and with its altered points of interest, Raven wants to encourage players to jump in.
However, others responded by asking why the main Battle Royale map isn’t the center of attention. of content. Many also welcomed the Rebirth approach, criticizing Caldera in the process. One said: “I absolutely cannot stand Caldera. I liked the old map better than Rebirth. But something about this new one, I can’t see shit. I have a 3k PC and I just can’t see shit. I refuse to play on Caldera and since it came out I spent maybe 2 hours on it. Honestly, it’s terrible.”