Battle royale sensation Season Three on April 22 with a bang. Developer Raven Software has been teasing the current season's explosive end for some time now and battling wave after wave of leaks, so it's likely just as excited as players are to see Verdasnk go up in flames.
Warzone's addition of the smaller-scale Rebirth Island in 2020 was a taste of what a new combat space could bring to the free-to-play battle royale, and a steady stream of rumors and datamined files continue to signal that something more substantial is coming. Raven and publisher Call of Duty social media s and the official franchise blog have been busy hyping up the coming event that will end Season Two, and it's first phase began Wednesday.
Right on schedule per Monday Call of Duty tweet, Warzone players have been met with server queues and maintenance messages since the first phase of the two-day nuke event began at 12 PM PDT/3 PM EDT on April 21. The event's start was accompanied by an eerie lore update on the Call of Duty blog, which calls for Verdansk's finest to begin "infiltrating Verdansk and saving those who are still within the DZ, as well as yourselves" in response to the map's now presumably unstoppable zombie threat.
While this beginning of the beginning of the end for Warzone Season Two is undoubtedly intended to be playable, few to no players report actually being able to participate in the event so far, instead encountering "Server Queue" error messages while they wait for back-end maintenance to start the nuke event proper to finish up. While Fortnite's season finale events make it look relatively easy from the outside looking in, actually executing these types of global, high server stress events are anything but, and it seems that Warzone's developer and playerbase is seeing the difficulties of such an event firsthand.
Raven has since responded to the issue by saying that it's investigating at publication time, so players itching to learn how the fall of Warzone's Verdansk begins will have to hold on just a little while longer. It seems likely that the astronomically high interest the nuke event has generated may cause similar errors to persist into - and potentially after - Season Three's official April 22 start time, but the event nonetheless seems on track to continue as planned and bring Verdansk as players know it to an end.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.
Source: Call of Duty/Twitter, Call of Duty
