Call of Duty: Vanguard Zombies Adding New Hub Map

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The second season of Call of Duty: Vanguard is set to kick off on Valentine’s Day, and with it comes some long-awaited additions to its multiplayer and Zombies modes. Call of Duty: Vanguard’s multiplayer will receive two new maps along with new weapons and operators, and Zombies will see the long-awaited release of its first post-launch map titled Terra Maledicta.

A blog post on Call of Duty’s official site lays out everything that’s expected to come to the game next week, and it highlights a surprising amount of Zombies content. Most crucially, it confirms that the forthcoming map will take place in the Egyptian Desert, something which was hinted at in the lore included in the previous map and suggested in a Call of Duty: Vanguard leak from late January. From the screenshots shown in the post, it looks as if this new hub area may be based on Call of Duty: Vanguard’s Desert Siege multiplayer map, though, if that’s the case, it has been heavily modified to fit the mode’s horror approach.

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The mysterious Dark Aether and its various powerful beings have been central to the Zombies narrative for some time, and the post also introduces two new Dark Aether entities known as Vercanna the Last and Zaballa the Deceiver. Vercanna is an ally who will reintroduce the healing aura ability seen in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, while Zaballa will fight on the side of the villainous Kortifex, While her abilities aren’t made completely clear, she bears a resemblance to Saraxis, one of the five entities introduced alongside the original Der Anfang map.

Unlike previous Call of Duty Zombies experiences, Call of Duty: Vanguard nixed the round-based survival aspect of the mode in favor of a