Here's our first look at Call of Duty: Warzone's new Pacific island map

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The launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard will give us a new multiplayer experience that you can read all about here. As we've long expected, it will also bring Call of Duty: Warzone players a brand new map set on an island in the Pacific.

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"Warzone will continue to support weapons and content earned with a Battle Pass or purchased via Store Bundle from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War," Activision said. "This is all built on the same tech and engine as Call of Duty: Vanguard for seamless weapon integration and play balance, and it all arrives with fully optimized crossplay, cross-progression, and cross-gen support."

The arrival of the new Pacific map will also see the rollout of the new anti-cheat system for Warzone on PC that Activision promised in August. The new system is now being "comprehensively" tested, and will be ready to go live on the same day that the new map launches. When exactly that will be remains to be seen, as Activision said only that it will be out "later this year," sometime after the release of Vanguard on November 5.

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