Rumors of an upcoming Ural Mountains map for Call of Duty: Warzone have been circulating for months. While those rumors do have a degree of truth in them in that the map did exist, it turns out it was never meant for Warzone. As reported by Charlie Intel, the map was supposed to be for a new version of Blackout battle royale mode within Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War instead, which obviously didn’t end up happening. Now that Blackout has reportedly been cancelled to continue supporting Warzone, the full Ural Mountains map no longer exists either.
The rumors originally stated the map would be made up of larger locations from Black Ops Cold War multiplayer, including Alpine and Ruka. The latest leaked image, originally from June 2020 but only now appearing online, shows a map that combined all of the Fireteam map locations (among a few additional points of interest) into a single large-scale map:
Nevermind fuck it, I'm posting anyway. If this account gets fucked by activision so be it lol.
(FYI: This is the cut Ural Map, this is not the one that is coming on the 22nd into warzone.) pic.twitter.com/kYEaQMSQnQ
— Nanikos (@_Nanikos_) April 5, 2021

The map features a Blackout UI/interface because it was originally intended for a revamped Blackout mode due to return in Black Ops Cold War. According to a podcast by VGC, the mode was scrapped due to the unexpected success of Warzone. Once Activision realized how popular Warzone had become, it was fully integrate...