Zombies have made their Warzone debut, but the mode in which they feature won’t be familiar to veteran Call of Duty zombie fans.
Halloween is fast approaching which means games are beginning to launch their respective events. Fortnite’s third-annual Fortnitemares update went live earlier today and ushered in the return of Midas who was eaten by a shark over a season ago. As for Warzone’s first Halloween, its players can now take part in an event it has dubbed The Haunting of Verdansk.
Infinity Ward has also landed a couple of appropriate crossovers. Some of the packs added to Warzone’s in-game store include skins based on characters from horror franchises Saw and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Honestly, the mere thought of being hunted down by someone dressed as the puppet from Saw is enough to stop you from playing until Halloween has been and gone.
Zombies have also returned to Call of Duty for The Haunting of Verdansk. However, the undead have not debuted in Warzone in the same way that they have appeared in previous CoD games. Rather than players fighting off waves of zombies, anyone playing the new Zombies Royale runs the risk of becoming a zombie themselves. It will be the fate that befalls them in lieu of a trip to the Gulag.
Once a player has become a zombie, they will no longer have their loadout or be able to pick up and use weapons at all. They will have increased stats that will give them an edge over the living, though. Zombies can run faster, jump farther, have a deadly melee attack, and thermal vision. Perfect for right now since Verdansk has been plunged into darkness.
As is the case with a trip to the Gulag, players who become zombies will have a chance to return to the land of the living. When killed, a player will drop a syringe. Find two syringes and you will parachute back into the match complete with your loadout. However, syringes show up on the map for all to see, so as soon as one is dropped, it’s likely that every undead entity in the match will descend upon it.
