Call of Duty Vanguard To Get Mini BR Mode With 4 Maps On Launch

Call of duty Vanguard Mini Br
Rebirth has been popular, so this could play well... | © Activision Blizzard

Call of Duty: Vanguard is getting a new mini Battle Royal mode. It sounds a lot like Black Ops Cold War's Fireteam. We also know that it's launching with multiple maps and that one of these will even be available before launch during playtesting. Details below.

As news of Call of Duty: Vanguard begins to really heat up this week, the leaks are spreading like wildfire. One topic of discussion for many leakers is the recently disclosed news about a new mini Battle Royale mode. Rebirth proved very popular in the last year, so this should come as good news to fans, especially as they know they're still getting their full-sized BR map.

The New Mini-BR Mode Coming To CoD: Vanguard

Multiple leakers have begun sharing news about a mode coming to Call of Duty: Vanguard that sounds very similar to BOCW's Fireteam mode - a smaller battle royale map, with more chances to respawn. Think classic multiplayer / battle royale hybrid. It's a little less about looting and a little more about jumping straight into the action. As Tom Henderson has revealed:

Two key things to pull out there: Upgrade your weapons at any time at the buy station. This is unusual and suggests maybe even a pack-a-punch-like system, which will surely be unpopular among the competitive Warzone scene. The other point to pay attention to is the mention of reducing their life count, which confirms there will be a similar respawn mechanic to Rebirth Island, rather than a traditional one.

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The Mini-BR Maps Coming With Vanguard's Launch

Multiple leakers have now corroborated each other in claiming that there will be four maps for this new mode on launch and that they will each be a part of the greater Warzone map. So we know that they will all have a Pacific island setting. This is going to work much like Modern Warfare 2019's Ground War, whereby the maps were just sections of Verdansk.

As Tom Henderson suggested in the Tweet above, Champion Hill will be the only mini-BR map we see before launch. Fingers crossed that it's an exciting mode, and that it doesn't just feel like an add-on.

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