A city before it becomes a battlefield
The campaign stays with Kalona through the opening invasion rather than turning the whole planet into a travel itinerary. The developers describe the city through ordinary peacetime details: veterans returning home, recruitment messaging, shops and older television technology. Those details give the destruction a human scale.[3][4]
Campaign spaces and districts
The city includes an industrial waterfront, refineries and surrounding housing, a stadium and an airfield. Its coastal setting draws on the developers’ experience of Vancouver. The Coalition explicitly describes the campaign as not open world, even though Kalona is designed to feel like a connected city.[3]
| Location | Role in the preview |
|---|---|
| City Hall | COG command and medical base; Bravo assembles for briefing. |
| Oria Stadium | Forward operating base; Bravo meets Tai and Theta Squad in Act 2, Chapter 2. |
| Rail station | Objective reached after leaving the stadium; the demo ends after the fight here. |
This is the preview’s route through part of Act 2, not a complete campaign itinerary. It puts recognizable civic spaces to different uses as the city responds to the invasion.[3][5]
The historic Golden Quarter is also identified as a Horde Siege battleground in the multiplayer reveal. The image at the top of this page comes from that material. It illustrates the district’s architecture, not a claim that the campaign follows the same mission route.[1]
The same setting, different map functions
| Experience | What has been announced | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Campaign | A story in Kalona across three days | Story locations are not automatically selectable multiplayer maps. |
| Horde Siege | Three launch maps; Golden Quarter shown | Large shared battlegrounds support squad missions. |
| Versus | Outpost, Battleship, Park, Precinct, Market, Skyward | Six competitive maps in and around the city. |
The Versus locations span a military outpost, a ship and docks, a coastal park, the police department, a seaside market and connected rooftops. That variety helps explain the different fighting spaces. It does not reveal their exact distances or compass positions within Kalona.[1]
Is there an official city map?
Yes, the August preview describes a tourist pamphlet becoming the squad’s in-game map. It is an improvised civilian guide, consistent with soldiers finding their way through a crisis. That establishes a campaign navigation tool; it does not make promotional screenshots a complete geographic reference.[5]
Can I use these screenshots to navigate between districts?
Not reliably. The reviewed promotional material does not establish how every campaign space connects to every multiplayer map. Use the in-game map for the campaign; the screenshots here identify specific scenes and modes rather than compass positions or travel distances.[1][5]
For the multiplayer objectives that take place in these spaces, use the Horde Siege mission guide or the Versus mode comparison.
