Avalon Map Guide for Warzone

Avalon Map Guide for Warzone Quick Summary:

• Avalon is a new map that came out on March 13th, 2026, focused on fast traversal and verticality.
• There are 21 major POIs in Avalon.
• Best landing zones in Avalon are Low Town > Colosseum > Resorts > High Town > Cliff Town.
• Best loot zones are the same, and if you play the Black Ops Royale mode, always look out for Zombie zones, as they have the best loot on the map.

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Avalon Warzone New Features

Avalon is a half-new map for CoD Warzone, taking the majority of the assets from the endgame mode from the base Black Ops 7. It adds some new QoL features, as well as much-requested stuff like visual clarity improvement. This season seems to focus a lot on a new game mode called Black Ops Royale, which is a back-to-basics mode inspired by BO4’s Blackout, with custom loadouts removed and limited redeploy tokens. I actually like how it sounds way more than what it is now. Let me go over Black Ops Royale and all new Avalon Warzone features:

1. UI Change: Now it better shows the equipment you have, the plates, and your armor tier.
2. Armor Tiers: It’s not for more plates, but for how much damage the plates take, with default armor mitigating only 25% of damage, while the tier 3 armor absorbs 50% of the damage dealt to plates.
3. No Pre-Made Loadouts: Finally, they’re making a F2P game be actually F2P. Warzone isn’t a bait to buy CoD anymore, since people who purchased the game had a significant leg up over other players.
4. Only Random Drops: What you get is purely RNG-based. Of course, knowing CoD, it’ll probably tip the scales in your favor if you’ve had a couple of poor starts and vice versa.
5. Visual Clarity Boost: If you’ve ever played the endgame mode, you know that the regions were split into tiers, and the Tier IV region was a nightmare to orient in. The red haze obstructed your vision. Not anymore.
6. Relay Antenna: A new feature that allows you to scan your surroundings, much like a UAV, and then drop a zipline that you can use to quickly travel the map in your wingsuit. Oh yeah, wingsuits!
7. Wingsuit Instead of Parachute: A new addition that lets you fly even faster. With the addition of Relay Antennas, you can jump from point to point with no problem at all.
8. Upgrade Kits: Since your loot is completely randomised, you can pick up a gray weapon and upgrade it into an orange one eventually. The same idea is present in Battlefield and Fortnite.
9. Zombie Zone: Yeah, there are zombies now in Warzone. An area on the map spawns where you can fight zombies for a chance to get much better loot drops, even getting a ray gun or exotic weapons.

All these features seem to make the Warzone much quicker and snappier, but at the same time, more tactical. It’s like the polar opposite of Resurgence. Is it a stretch to say that the devs finally listened to their fans? I think it’s not. Will it play well? Only time will tell. Now let’s take a look at POIs. Spoiler: they’re the same as in Endgame with minor adjustments.

New Avalon Map Overview

The official COD website splits the map into five zones for some reason, but from what I’ve seen, it doesn’t really influence anything? Kinda weird, but whatever. There are 21 POIs on the new map. Let’s break them down in this handy table with all BO7 Avalon points of interest:

POI	Short Description
Golf Club	Inspired by the original “Hazard” map from Black Ops. Some minor elevation and a building nearby.
Residences	More of a classic sector for CoD games. Crossroads connecting a small living area. Includes two sub-areas: Tennis Club and Azure Pine. First is a small court with a helipad nearby. Second is a resort in the mountain area.
Trinity Stadium	Map from the BO6 multiplayer. Multi-level combat made me reminisce about Verdansk Stadium in MW 2019. There’s a Police Station near the stadium and Villas.
Casino	Huge and luscious casino. A large area suitable for in-building combat or roof shootouts. Not far from it are the Mansions, connecting Casino to High Town, and the Estates, North of the Stadium. Quite an open area, so be careful when rotating.
High Town	Somewhat of a downtown area, left from the Low Town, which is a central area of the map. Prepare for fights here. A tall skyscraper is a great vantage point to overlook the surrounding areas, such as Yacht, which is basically the Lifeline map from BO6.
Winery	A picturesque location. Mostly flat, not a lot of cover, so use the view obstruction to hide in the bushes when crossing this POI. Not far from it is a High Village, which has a tall old church standing in the middle of it, which helps control the Winery area with a sniper rifle.
Resorts	A big hotel building with a beach connected to it. Three floors and the underground parking. It’s one of the favorite places to land for early-round shootouts, because it’s a Skyline map from Black Ops 6, which was one of the most popular maps there. There’s also a small Service Station area close to the Avalon Resort.
Excavation Site	Ruins of an old town. Lots of cover, no unfair elevation advantage, perfect for fair boots-on-the-ground fights.
Colosseum	I mean, it’s in the name. This place just begs you to land there and start a show. There’s an underground area and a fighting ring. You can tell the devs are baiting for TikTok clips of players having 1-on-1 brawls. The Colosseum is surrounded by Eastern Ruins and Lavender Ruins, which are minor POIs. They play basically the same as Excavation Site.
Coastal Security	Obligatory docks with a lighthouse. The layout is convenient for smaller-scale shootouts.
Firing Range	Yet another map taken from BO6 with the same title. Can be a bit labyrinthian in its layout, and it’s easy to lose your orientation completely. Next to the Firing Range is a military outpost with barracks and a tower.
Fort	Fort d’Avalon is a big area, separated from the mainland, so you can be sure that all fights happening here, stay here. Near the Fort is a small island called Cursed Rock, which is a Protocol multiplayer map from BO6. One day, we’ll get a brand new map with no assets reused, but not until CoD stops dropping every year.
Listening Post	I struggle to say something of note here, as this part of the map seems kinda bland for me. It connects to the Firing Range and Fort. Not far from it is a minor POI called Radars. Radars are there to induce stress and paranoia, as they overlook the bridge connecting the island to the mainland, and you can expect snipers there.
Low Town	One of the more interesting areas in terms of gameplay. There are lots of ascenders and ziplines that allow you to traverse here quickly. The biggest map point as well. Though it’s another map taken directly from BO6, it feels completely different here, perhaps given the more open-ended context.
Pier District	A pier with a Ferris Wheel and a few buildings not far from it. For some reason reminds me of Sapienza from Hitman. Ready to have flashbacks to hours of grinding in BO6, since apartments here are home to the infamous Stakeout grindhouse.
Heliport	Industrial area with not too many helicopters, despite the name. Or maybe I was always late to take control of them during the match. Further down from it is a High-Voltage Substation and an art Warehouse, North of the Heliport.
Chop Shop	Another industrial area is located in a depression and surrounded by two small islands, overlooking the area. Lowkey a banger area to fight at. Idk, something about its layout scratches my brain. On the hill above it is a Comms Tower, which is also the tallest point of the map. To the East of the Chop Shop is Avalon Bridge.
Cliff Town	This area feels like a Low Town and High Village remix. This tiny area has it all - an underground walkway leading to the boat pier, an industrial area, and a plethora of small buildings nearby with a chapel overlooking the town. East of the location is a Drug Den.
Water Treatment	An industrial area filled with silos and warehouses. Though it looks quite neat, there’s not much to do here. North of this area is an old Aqueduct.
Car Factory	W.M.D. map from Black Ops 6. Bigger in size, or at least it feels like it. Area with lots of verticality (for CoD) and multiple points to control the area.
Old Arsenal	Probably the most creative-looking area in Avalon. While most of it is a docking area, there’s an unfinished part of a cruise liner that you can get into and have a shootout.

While lots of the map assets from the previous entries were reused here, they play very differently, due to the context of larger open areas and the ability to scale multiple floors. Honestly, I’m kind of excited to play this map, especially after RedSec flopped. Though the Battle Royale boom is a thing of the past, it’s still nice to see that CoD tries to push their envelope instead of hastily remaking Avalon into a DMZ map to fit the extraction shooter genre boom.

 

 

Avalon Warzone Best Landing Spots

Tbh, the best place to land is the one where you feel most comfortable playing. Things that influence it are the layout, the loot crates' placement, power points, etc. Your comfort level and knowledge of the zone you land at is a first stepping stone on the way to your victory. But you probably still want to know the best places to land in Avalon. Well, here’s what I think:

1. Low Town: The main area for fighting. If you like the King of the Hill aspect of Battle Royale and want that quick adrenaline rush, this part of the map is built for you. There is a higher loot concentration here as well.
2. Colosseum: You’re not the only one who thought this would be a fighting pit to see who comes out alive. This area is small, which means only one group gets out alive.
3. Resorts: Purely because it’s Skyline, and people are already familiar with the layout, so they can use it to their advantage immediately.
4. High Town: A more traditional Battle Royale landing zone, with a big central building and other buildings scattered around. From what the devs say, it’s also stacked with loot, like the Low Town.
5. Cliff Town: If you don’t want to delay the fights and want the Low Town extreme, this is one of the best locations for landing in Avalon Warzone.

If you are the one who prefers to loot while the people do the job for you by killing each other and lowering the competition for the #1 spot, you can land anywhere on the outskirts. Just note that loot won’t be as good, and you’ll likely need to complete more quests than those who landed in the hot zones. Alright, now let’s move on to some advice on how to play Avalon in Black Ops Royale mode.

 

 

Black Ops Royale Avalon Tips & Tricks

Black Ops Royale strays away from the modern formula of Battle Royale and returns to the time when it wasn’t as polished yet. When the game had a slower pace, your tactical prowess mattered as much as your mechanical skill. With all the changes that came out with Season 2 for Warzone, your approach to the game should change, too. Here’s how to win in BO7 Warzone:

1. Concentrate on the Loot: Since you can’t rely on calling in a loadout later in the game once you have enough money, looting matters much more.
2. Complete the Contracts: They reward you with loot instead of money in Black Ops Royale. They don’t drop a lot of loot, though, so maybe they want you to do more contracts in a match and basically give you a constant loop of getting better loot and taking part in fights.
3. Utilize Movement More: Black Ops 7 doesn’t have BO3’s movement, but it’s still fast, and with grappling hooks and wingsuits, the game will be much more mobile. Use it to your advantage.
4. Zombie Zone: The best loot can be found only in the zombie spawn zone. This area will appear on the map, and you need to get there, kill zombies, and loot their corpses. This is the best way to get loot in Warzone. For example, Tier 3 armor is commonly found here, as well as higher rarity guns and upgrade kits.
5. Use Relay Antennas Smart: They work like UAVs, but only over a short distance. Don’t use them for nothing. Only turn them on if you know there are enemies nearby. They also push out ziplines that can help you get out of danger quickly if you’re not ready to take the fight.

You need to understand one thing: though the game became faster in how you control your character, the tempo of the game got slower. Don’t seek unnecessary encounters early on, play it like you played BO4 if you did. If not, just stay safer until you get a big loot hit, and then you can start snowballing.

Read our other BO7 guides:

• Best Controller Settings
• Warzone Map Guide
• Best Weapon Attachments
• Best Weapons Tier List

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