Warzone 2 Resurgence mode map Ashika Island revealed

Arriving in Season 2

Marco Wutz | Feb 2, 2023

Warzone 2 Resurgence mode map Ashika Island revealed /

Season 2 for Call of Duty Warzone 2 was originally scheduled to already be live today, but had to be delayed for two weeks. While it’s merely a little comfort compared to actually exploring all the new content the update is promising, the developers at least showed off Ashika Island, the battle royale game’s upcoming map.

Ashika Island won’t replace Warzone 2’s main map, Al Mazrah, but will be the new home for the returning Resurgence mode. This is a more intimate version of the usual battle royale gameplay with enabled respawns, which had found great popularity in the original Warzone.

The new battleground is also planned to be featured in Warzone 2’s DMZ mode as a new infiltration option.

The island’s most poignant feature is an old castle in the Japanese style containing walls, a moat, several buildings, a garden, a museum, and – something the original builders likely had not envisioned – a submarine base carved into the caves under the main grounds.

Ashika Island also houses a town, which contains Town Center and Residential as points of interest, and an agricultural sector dubbed Ōganikku Farms. The Beach Club point of interest contains several tourist attractions, while the island’s southwestern edge is dominated by a sizable port facility. The eastern shore features Shipwreck, which technically consists of two vessels that have round aground.

Resurgence mode’s comeback, Ashika Island, new weapons, ranked play, and more will arrive in Warzone 2 Season 2 on February 15, 2023.

Published Feb 2, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg