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Where we dropping? Image via Activision<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Area 99 is a Resurgence map that includes 10 points of interest: Reactor, Bunker, Test Site, Mannequin Assembly, Cooling Towers, Nuketown Shipping, Loading Bay, Warehouse, Manufacturing, and Pods\u2014and it all features a bit of a retrofuturist theme.<\/p>

The map looks to be similar in size to other Resurgence maps like Rebirth Island and Fortune’s Keep, with expectations that a new, large-scale battle royale map will come sometime in 2025 along with leaks pointing to the return of OG map Verdansk<\/a>, too.<\/p>

CoD<\/a> <\/em>content creators played an alpha version of the new map, including the new changes coming to Warzone <\/em>later this year such as BO6’s<\/em> omnimovement, at Call of Duty<\/em> Next on Aug. 28, where the map was fully unveiled.<\/p>

While the original Nuketown had a Vietnam-era aesthetic, it’s been iterated on multiple times in the past for future entries in the franchise, a zombified variant, a winter-themed Russian variant, and Nuketown ’84 in Black Ops Cold War.<\/em> It’s about as famous as any other map in Call of Duty.<\/em><\/p>

Area 99 is a fun take on adding some lore and background story to Nuketown by building off of it and making something new on the back of how fans feel about the game after playing and enjoying it for well over a decade.<\/p>

Warzone’s <\/em>Area 99 and Black Ops 6 <\/em>integration will come to the battle royale game in BO6’s <\/em>season one, which should begin sometime in early December.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"