CoD: Warzone Introducing New Covert Exfil Feature That Some Feel Makes It Even Less of a Battle Royale

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Call of Duty: Warzone is introducing a feature, one that has the community feeling a bit perplexed about the overall direction of Activision's flagship battle royale amid questions about whether or not it will actually be a win condition.

Called "Covert Exfil," the new ability will allow players to escape the map early and will include its own leaderboard. Here's the description on the official Call of Duty blog.

It's a significant addition, and it has some fans saying that it makes Call of Duty: Warzone even less of a battle royale. Many are comparing it to the extraction shooter genre, which has recently grown in popularity thanks to the success of Escape from Tarkhov and other games like it.

"Doesn’t that completely destroy the point of [battle royale?]," wrote one fan on Twitter. "That’s what DMZ is for."

Some fans worried that matches would end prematurely because "one guy ordered a helicopter to take him away early." Raven Software said in a separate statement that it would not be a win condition and that it would not count toward Champion's Quest progress.

With the #Warzone Season 1 Reloaded update next week, we'll be introducing Covert Exfil - a challenging new way to escape the match that provides players with one of two methods to secure the Weapon Case!

Successfully extracting via Covert Exfil does not count as a traditional…

"With the #Warzone Season 1 Reloaded update next week, we'll be introducing Covert Exfil — a challenging new way to escape the match that provides players with one of two methods to secure the Weapon Case!" Raven Software wrote on X/Twitter. "Successfully extracting via Covert Exfil does not count as a traditional win — rather as a separate stat — and will not count towards Champion's Quest