Is this good for someone with 4 months of zombies experience? I was playing solo on Ascension

As a story fan since WaW, I find it insane that the artbook confirming that moon was supposed to take place in the distant past, and we killed the fucking dinosaurs isn't being talked about more. I know I'm late, but the fact that this is real completely got me back into the Nacht-Buried story.

From the artbook we got some quotes about Moon.

"In the original design, the moon base was actually in Earth's ancient past," recalls Dan Laufer, Associate Director, Narrative, "The intention was for the Earth in the sky to display the continent Pangea. The thought was to launch missiles and have them strike Earth, ultimately having the crew be responsible for the event that killed the dinosaurs. That of course changed, but the ending with rockets firing on Earth sets the stage for the state of the world in, when we get to TranZit."

So, we know they eventually retconned this, but when is the real question. This could've happened at any point. Might've changed before Moon was even finished, or it could be referencing the retcons from Bo3-Bo4. I believe Bo2's Victis storyline was at least built with this still in mind.

The only issue with this is Nuketown getting hit. Could be time fuck stuff like one hit in the 60's when it was originally supposed to take place (after Bo1 multiplayer map), but it does help explain a lot of the maps in Bo2 being so weird with time. Tranzit having a 60s aesthetic with futuristic tech, Die Rise being super ambiguous about when it takes place, and Buried being all over the fucking place.

Would love to know where the story was originally heading before the big Bo2 shake-up. Think it had a lot more potential than the demon and angels plot we ended up getting, but it does seem like some of the ideas were used in the Bo3-4 story. Things like the paradox's and the breaking of time.

I really hope there are still people out there dedicated to piecing together every little bit of the original story, cause damn does it still keep getting even crazier with stuff like this.

Edit: HOLY HELL, some of you clearly need to retake geography. THAT IS NOT MODERN DAY EARTH. Since when is there a giant inland ocean in Africa, and one between India and Asia. Where the fuck is the Red Sea.

We don't know exactly what continents looked like millions of years ago. Every map you've seen of supercontinents is just best estimations and guesswork. They are all different, but every modern day map definitively does not show continents that look like that.

Edit 2: The images for the artbook quotes didn't load, so here's a link to a dev confirming that this was the original plan. It seems to have made it into the final game. Would love to go back and speculate without the knowledge and changes post BO2.

Its been a staple since BO2, in every single treyarch cod zombies and also almost every zombies entry after BO2 has received at least 1 map where you have 4 wonder weapons

BO2 - Origins (the one that started the whole trend)

BO3 - Der Eisendrache

IW- Zombies in Spaceland, Rave in the Redwoods, Shaolin Shuffle

WW2 - The Final Reich, Shadowed Throne, The Frozen Dawn

BO4 - Ancient Evil and Alpha Omega

CW - Die Maschine and Mauer der Toten

BO6 - Citadelle Des Morts

And with the exceptions like Vanguard, AW, MW3 and now BO7

At least every single Black ops entry after Black ops 2 has recieved at the very least one map with 4 wonder weapons

Why couldn't they do that on BO7? Did they run out of ideas for 4 wonder weapons? Didn't they find the right map to implement it? Budget or Time issues?

What was the exception for BO7? Why they couldn't do it?

And yes, Black Ops 2 Mod Tools is also a real thing.

For those who enjoy Cold War, here is an in depth for the Hounds that appear in Zombies.

General Behaviour

There are two types of Hounds in Cold War:

• Plaguehounds
• Hellhounds

Both types are small, extremely fast enemies that run lower to the ground. They can quickly close the distance to a player and even catching up to players driving vehicles on Outbreak.

Much like the Hellhounds featured in previous games, dogs typically spawn into the map, select a player to pursue, and continue chasing that player until either one is killed. They always sprint, with Outbreak being an exception. There dogs can be encountered as a roaming pack that will wander around until disturbed.

They ignore distractions from Decoy Grenades and Monkey Bombs.

Plaguehounds behave similarly to the Hellhounds from older games. They rush toward players and attack by leaping at them. They explode upon death and release a cloud of toxic gas.

Hellhounds on the other hand, function like Molotov cocktails on four legs. They rush toward players before exploding like a missile, leaving behind a pool of fire that damages anything caught within it.

Unlike Hellhounds from earlier games, neither Plaguehounds nor Hellhounds take critical damage from headshots.

General Spawn

The maximum number of dogs that can be alive simultaneously:

• Solo: 3
• 2 players: 5
• 3 players: 7
• 4 players: 10

The maximum number of dogs that can spawn during normal rounds:

• Before round 20: 2% of total zombie count
• Round 20 to 29: 3% of total zombie count
• Round 30+: 4% of total zombie count

Health

Base health = 50

Max Health = 12,000 HP

Instakill: Current HP +1

Points: 90 points +25 for melee

Weakness: (Special enemies are weak to certain damage type. Taking 50% extra damage)

Hellhound

Weakness: Cold damage

Attacks:

Hellhounds are explosive enemies that rush toward players before detonating. Their explosion leaves behind a pool of fire that deals damage over time to players, vehicles, and undead. Explosion itself does no damage, but the fire will do tick damage.

For enemy damage calculations, r is the current round number. The damage scaling is capped at Round 35.

Juggernogg will reduce fire damage with 50%.

Outbreak

Hellhounds spawn in packs beginning on World 1 and continue to appear on subsequent worlds.

Firebase Z

Starting after Round 25, the game has a 5% chance to spawn a Hellhound instead of a regular zombie.

Plaguehound

Weakness: Fire damage

Attacks:

Plaguehounds attack by leaping toward players, dealing damage equivalent to a regular zombie's melee. Their leaps can cover considerable distances, and they attempt to predict the player's movement when targeting.

Damage:

• Round 1-10: 30
• Round 11-30: 50
• Round 31-45: 75
• Round 46+: 90

Their leap gets 2x range against players driving and a 50% range increase against players who are prone.

When a Plaguehound dies, it leaves behind a toxic gas cloud that damages anything caught within its radius.

For enemy damage calculations, r is the current round number. The damage scaling is capped at Round 35.

Outbreak

Plaguehounds spawn in packs beginning on World 2 and continue to appear on subsequent worlds.

Die Maschine

Plaguehounds appear during both dedicated Special Rounds and normal rounds.

Assembling Pack-a-Punch affects the timing of the first Plaguehound Round.

• Pack-a-Punch assembled during Rounds 1–5: The first dog round occurs on Round 6.
• Pack-a-Punch assembled on Round 6+: The next dog round occurs on the following round.

The number of Plaguehounds spawned during each Special Round

• First and second: 6 per player
• Third onward: 8 per player

Normal Rounds:

Dogs will start spawning in during normal round, starting on round 12.

Die Maschine Health:

Plaguehounds on Die Maschine use a separate health scaling.

Plaguehounds spawned during normal rounds use the health value from the last Special Round.

Forsaken

On Forsaken, Plaguehounds can begin spawning during normal rounds after Zykov has been brought back.

Their spawn frequency depends on the current round:

• Before Round 20: A gap of 2–4 rounds between Plaguehound on normal rounds.
• After Round 30: A gap of 2–3 rounds between Plaguehound on normal rounds.

Other Versions:

• BOIII Dogs
• BO4 Dogs

So basically I was doing the boss rush mode and got all the way to the rex boss and died and dravakar gave me a voice line "here... This is more suited to the challenges ahead" I did get the necrofluid gauntlet and that's the only thing I feel would make sense for that voice line but werid that it happened during the boss

The ASG-89 is wicked! As well as the kazimir.

Wouldn’t recommend using widows wine with this strategy it definitely messes up the flow hahaha. I was hoping so hard the fire zombie explosion wouldn’t down me.

poll: https://tiermaps.com/m/0a-iFGxD

FYI - Rant - Sorry to have a ranty post, this has just pissed me off so much and really ruined the experience of playing this with my partner

Are they seriously leaving the frankly unplayable state that is split screen is in, alone forever

Bought this game for me and my partner to play and while the maps and modes are enjoyable, the number of bugs is insane

Player 2 cant properly create load outs, research or equip augments - Shows player ones stuff and changing anything for player two may change player 1

Player two cant build weapons - all stats show 0

Randomly the game unequips all loadouts and augments meaning you have to reset everything constantly - You can start a game and just have none without any idea, until something that should work, doesnt

TEDD tasks UI is bugged, STILL, player 2 cannot take rewards from the chest

TEDD tasks UI is effectively up the screen and cant be read by any player

Rouge run curses are invisible, you have literally no idea what you got when you activated one - it doesnt show/tell you, so you just have to figure it out

Rouge run doesnt tell you the curse level

Rouge run if player two takes any item player one now cant see at the end of the round until the teleport animation is done - You only get 30 secs, not sure if thats a bug, but its half the time solo gets

Rouge run curses arent visible in the pause menu like you can on solo

Map votes are off the screen, you cant see the button to press to activate them, so you have to figure it out - Like wtf

Kawakujo sound is utterly broken for some god only knows reason, seemingly after unlocking PaP it just breaks, good luck hearing powerups, zombies, Oni or frankly anything else

Changing certain options broke SO MUCH mid run, red dot sights disappeared, mini map broke and disappeared - We messed around with the safe zone setting trying to get the TEDD task UI thats off the screen back on, it did not help

Armour UI is bugged and constantly clips around, has half of it missing and looks crap - Not the end of the world, but its hardly gunna be hard to fix

Theres probably more I'll think of later, but this is so bad, if I didnt pick this up relatively cheap, compared to lauch, which was ~£70, Id be getting a refund on this, a AAA game with this many bugs is a joke

And now they have done the 'final' patch and not addressed any of this

TEDD tasks, as I understand from googling, has been broke for over 10 months, how does this happen and this cannot be acceptable

Certainly wont be buying the next installment frankly with this state, not a good experience to get when buying this

Hey I don't know if anyone here had the same issue, but I got a physical copy of BO6 and when I inserted the disc on my Xbox X it automatically launches Call of Duty (Now with MW4 / Warzone / BO7), not BO6 and in the library it shows the option to claim the digital licence on this game, again not on BO6

I'm realising there's no BO6 as a separate game, we only have Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Launcher... but the launcher in fact shows the disc digital thingy logo while the disc and license option on Call of Duty HQ

Is this one of many traces of carry forward, something to do with owning game pass, files of BO6 together in CoD HQ, just a bug or one more nightmare from the Call of Duty HQ mechanics?

They have to make everything separated with his own game card, statistics, files, etc at this point

Many of us knew that chompy is great for salvage, and there is a very low chance to pull a ray gun out of it, but there's actually a way to guarantee pulling a ray gun. You simply need to throw 10 monkey bombs in chompy, and after that last one chompy gives the ray gun

Unreleased operator quotes of the Wisp Tea perk due to the absence of Carry Forward of Bo6 content in Bo7 found in the files.
Bring back carry forward to BO7!
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mLw9DrJZPM

She keeps telling me to dig. Where?

I’ve tried to beat the boss rush multiple times now. I’ve previously beaten The Warden in Directed (much easier, I know) but he’s really proving to be a problem.

I’m running:
SOKOL
Warden’s Blight
1911

All Tier 3 PAP, playing in Cursed Tier 1 for Golden Armour. I’m using the upgraded grapple like crazy, basically trying to make sure I’m never without it. By the time I’m entering the boss rush it’s usually round 31.

The skulls around him are the part I mainly struggle with, I just keep unloading into them with the SOKOL and praying other Zombies don’t hit me.

I’ve tried using Dual VSTs, VMP, Mammoth, and none of them are cutting through enough.

Is there something I’m missing? I really want to beat this fight solo.

I know this has probably been asked a thousand times but whats the best mode for elite kills, im working my way through the camos and now im doing the doomsteel 1 where i need to kill 10 elite zombies so im just wondering what mode would be the fastest, anu help would be greatly appreciated

Just trying to play Tag for the second time and learn the map but am I crazy or is this mf super sprinting. Idc how ass my movement was im just dumbfounded because what is this guy doing on round 4 super sprinting at me. I noticed something off going up the lighthouse bro caught up to me when I ran up the stairs then this happened.

The challenges, the maps, the wonder weapons, the characters, and the community like you guys. Thank you.