Player explores Warzone’s new Caldera map via spectator cam

A Call of Duty Vanguard player has discovered what appears to be a low-poly version of the upcoming Warzone map, Caldera, thanks to a spectator cam bug.

While playing on Call of Duty Vanguard’s version of Shipment, @JGODYT used the spectator cam to leave the confines of the map, and float through what appears to be Warzone’s newest location.

While this is clearly an unrendered approximation of the map, the sheer amount of landmass that has been designed here points to it being much more than simply set dressing for the re-themed Shipment.

It has also been claimed that influencers will get to play and capture footage of the map next week, in anticipation of a new trailer, suggesting the new update has been completed.

In 2019, Warzone’s original map, Verdansk, suffered the same fate, with players managing to get a view of the then-unannounced map via a spectator cam glitch in 2019’s Call of Duty Modern Warfare.

As exclusively revealed by VGC in June, the next map will be set in the Pacific. Raven Software confirmed this in September, saying it will feature completely original locations and share new engine technology with Vanguard, which is powered by an updated version of the Modern Warfare engine.

The map, which is set to debut on December 8 for Call of Duty Vanguard players and December 9 for everyone else has previously been revealed thanks to a promotional poster which showed off several points of interest.

The map appears to confirm that the Caldera era of Warzone will be called ‘Operation Alpha’ and take place on May 16, 1941.