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  1. Yeah, let's first ask the question "what is nuketown?" shall we? I always thought it was a prop for a nuke test, and terrorists or something invaded. Remember the "story" of maps is always a sparse narrative of why there is a conflict. However zombie maps turn this on it's head as the peripheral info shows so much significance to a story. My idea post Tranzit is that the nuketown map, at least BO2, is an exposition of technology. The bus driver continuously mentions places as "stops" associated with high science and conspiracies, Bohemian Grove was the birthplace of the Manhattan Project and so on. If you were thinking about taking a job in this covert scientific world, which Area 51's inclusion proves is part of the Zombie world, then any self respecting group, 935 or otherwise, would have a sort of show room of what people would work on. Nuketown 2025 has plaques showing possible advanced tech, maybe the idea that the audience was consumers was misplaced-the audience is personell to create this future. That's just what I was thinking. Don't know if Nuketown zombies is Cannon, but the Tranzit bus driver suggests a world we haven't really thought about much. The hubristic science of secretive institutions, people who go to work each day with their families having no idea what they do, the type of people Richtofen and Yena would have been before the war started. Maybe Morrilton worked for one of these government contractors, Samuel sneaked into the gala, etc. The bombs begin to fall and they hide in the super advanced shelter, designed not just for Radiation but Biological agents like 115(or what I think is some agent bonded with 115). Hope this was sensible, this newest release just really brings it's A game.
  2. So I really wanted the WW to be in the box, though buildables add something new. The map: like Moon easier with teamwork. Feels tough again, full of secrets. Bowie knife rules. Round 14 or so was my highest, stiff learning curve but once you start moving around and learn to ditch the bus and use lateral movement it's yours for the taking.
  3. I've been out of the loop lately, but I think they could definately throw in something where you teleport a la moon to kino or COTD or Ascension for a bit and then back to the new maps. That seems like a fun idea, and let's not imagine that the company isn't going to re-release the old maps and get more money out of them.
  4. Zombies doesn't have cutscenes. It doesn't trap you where you have to press "X" fast to open a door. It does have a story, the gameplay is exciting and strategy can be really developed, but everyone finds their own way of playing. We even have a zombies community. I know zombies is probably changing up in the next incarnation, but the way it is, they made a really excellent game. Possibly the ultimate. Fun mechanics, smart style and clear, clean level design and layout, yet each map has it's own style, it's own feeling. Spec-ops costs 7K to get an LMG, 7K. Meanwhile no story, no real character, Zombies shows us what a great experience gaming is supposed to be. Just something that has to be said. Team Takeo til death.
  5. Zombies doesn't have cutscenes. It doesn't trap you where you have to press "X" fast to open a door. It does have a story, the gameplay is exciting and strategy can be really developed, but everyone finds their own way of playing. We even have a zombies community. I know zombies is probably changing up in the next incarnation, but the way it is, they made a really excellent game. Possibly the ultimate. Fun mechanics, smart style and clear, clean level design and layout, yet each map has it's own style, it's own feeling. Spec-ops costs 7K to get an LMG, 7K. Meanwhile no story, no real character, Zombies shows us what a great experience gaming is supposed to be. Just something that has to be said. Team Takeo til death.
  6. First issue is apparent to zombie fans-what do you spend money on? Is it worth losing armor for rampage $ just to spend any more $ on body armor? Second, learn where you can take what round best, and when to hit up your depot for the round. Every map is different; some maps more readily lend themselves to survival or to your style of Play. Third try to hit killstreaks or knife kills or a rampage streak, great multipliers. This is not zombies time counts without crawlers and just nearing the depot starts a new round's countdown. On the money front use enemy weapons spending $750 on refills, then upgrade the AK-47 when you can. Red dot sight can get one a long ways. Don't forget your sentry and Delta squad. But as important is the Self-Revive. You don't run zombies solo without quick revive-but it's $4k, so if your partner thinks it's cool to run off on his own, not defend your position, get a new partner. Lastly, practice, don't imagine every run will be an instant classic, sometimes you work out or try a creative solution. You might find something that breaks the whole thing open for you. Not a lot of specifics in this tutorial, because everyone is different, but these basics, good aiming, and some claymores(maybe a predator missile or two) you can have a good game, maybe eventually a great one to help you forget that there's no new zombie map for a minute. That and kill everything you see-group them up, flash bang, spray, and leave a claymore between ya. Or however you prefer. Just take them Down before they take you down.
  7. I'm usually the person who says playing with ransoms is a good thing. It's where younger gonna meet someone new to step up your game. However, the MOON lobbies suck. People who blow up windows, can't share the Hacker, won't teleport when it's necessary; generally this map requires everybody to step their game up, playing like it's Kino won't get you that far, yet the lobby will always fill up with people who aren't team players. Anyone else's MOON experience hampered by random players? It's like the guy who isn't willing to stand on a plate to PaP in Shangri-La, only 10x worse. I don't even get on that game anymore, sad really. This was supposed to be the great map, but dimwits have turned it into a desolate MP experience.
  8. CotD was a good map, they might need to go there some other time, wreck the ship, something like that. Also I'd like another Japan map, maybe the crew travels to "7 Samirai" times because a 115 rock landed there, Takeover finally uses his sword, the "George" would be a Ronin. Just another idea. Time travel is fun.
  9. Scavs

    OBEY

    Shep Fairey, right? Just a fun drop by the developers. Who really runs the world?
  10. I thought someone else said no, and Maxis shot himself there. Anyone else think so? But, in my eyes, M.P.D. drove Richtoffen insane just like Jason Vorhees drives people insane, versus LSD, or something, i.e. not the direct cause, but started him quickly going through a world that lead him to insanity.
  11. Scavs

    Most FUN zombie map.

    I voted for moon because if people know how to play its a great experience, but Der Riese is also wonderfully designed and COTD allowed me to grow into a good zombie player. Shangri-La no fun, ascension, not very fun, but ok, Kino-no fun at all. Shin No Numa, rad fun, Nacht also fun if people don't rage quit because they don't use their mic and open the wrong door, realizing they doomed us all but won't admit its their own damn fault. Moon has similar problems, but you can have super fun if you don't have that guy on your team.
  12. Subject says it all. What strategies have been proven? I liked camping at mud, move to minecart, move to bridge, but where can you run around, what to do with the "Do Not Push" button, et al. just wanted some help from the hive mind. Thanks.
  13. Well Sam wasin the pyramid, not wether... Though I saw that term as more of a placeholder anyways... But if 115 makes zombies, n tele's n wonder weapons, and we suppose 115 is alien, why aren't zombification an, if not virus a sporification like those mushrooms that embed in ants brains and control the insect as it dies somewhere the mushrooms want to grow at. anyhow, what if 115 is really a spore and the pyramid can control them, only you get frozen cryogenically so the spores don't eat out your mind. Supposedly spores can travel through space. And as far as traveling I'm pretty sure that it's accepted that R travelled to shangri-la and less accepted is that R might have been in pyramid for a sec and that lead to him ending up obsessed with it. Whatever happened, we definitely got a lot of answers about our villains' motives within this map. Like how 935 thought of nazis as being finders not interfering with their ideology, but what was the old song that Sam said she was fulfilling a promise to her dad cause we actually heard where that conversation happened.
  14. Does the radio transmission on moon prove R was transported to shangri-la? If so does that mean the 115linked teleporters to other 115 deposits like meteorite on earth and one, w/ pyramid already there, on moon... Or is there a better explanation for radio? also, could zombies be alien virus...is this what moon is leading us to believe or am I just following the red herring?
  15. Here is a bad one... Guy playing as richtoffen didn't have his heart in it. Get to that later... Trying to fill the 4tubes n my q e d doesn't splode just make python drop, my random who actually gave a damn grabbs it, f'ing up his set-up. Then when we get guide rich through all the steps, bout to give this guy like 200more gscore he quits, all he had to to was hit x on the pyramid we could do the rest and he... Well that was 3+ hrs lost though we were lucky everything done by 15. Rich even traded in gerches for q e d s dummy.
  16. once you leave the receiving area, everyone grabs mpl's or m14's, and two hold the QR and two the Outside QR(before hall 6 & 11, for 5-6 rounds, everyone now has 5 k, share the doors until you get to the teleporter, somebody grabs a hacker, head to A 51, get jug, if you saved a crawler he's now a runner, but hack the computers in the QR room(spawn) and work your way back to the teleporter if it was speed cola, get jug, come back, and whenever excavaters are about to trash something hit the teleporter, whilst someone has hacker, pop up in quick revive, and hack the computers. Be in constant communication with your team, say two in biodome, one in AK74u, or 6 and one other in ak or 11. or all in biodome like a clusterfuck....2 in biodome might work, 4 can too, and if you can do the lifters in the biodome you're golden. But the big deal is the excavaters, and that nobody wastes their money on the box, I'm tired of people who would never do that on any other map deciding that on possibly the hardest map they want to waste the cost of jug and speed cola on the box, just to get the dragonov twice and the fn fal twice and the L96...oh, and once you can hack EVERYTHING, open the doors for cheap, rebuild windows that only need one board for the Max ammount, keep getting max ammo's and fire sales from powerups...this map gave us great tools, no reason not to get past twenty every time if only you get some people who work together, so get in a lobby, turn on a mike, and kill some zombies.
  17. "There were lights in the sky, maybe miles upon miles, or maybe not, but the cosmos was exploding, taking the dinosaurs out. Though we seem to think that a sampling of minerals in some layer means it was an asteroid that did it, we now know the asteroid just brought the disease. A disease so powerful, so life altering that the world was taken over by a tiny species that would become the forefathers of the mammalian branch. And now we're going to be the forefathers of something...." The speech was shit, but Percy didn't care, meeting underground in a crypt on a campus where even the police didn't have access to them. Anyhow, most people were there for the orgy. But Percy knew the story, the opening to this meet every year it glowed with meaning. Studying for his degree in science there had been a visit to a research facility in the arctic where one of the grand maesters, a sort of president of their `fraternity's' alumnus, had arranged for him to borrow some samples. The kindly doctor Spraag lost a toe for getting locked out of the facility, but Percy had done worse things to his families maid as a child, so the good doctor got off light. After getting him out of the way he plugged in a device that copied the computer and corrupted the hard drive, then he stole 4 samples, though he only gave 3 viles of the white powder to the grand maesters, they wouldn't know and he might actually have a chance to figure out what was going on. Think of it, the story went that this stuff explained why the dinosaurs disappeared, and with the resources of their `club' the fact that Percy could be included obviously meant they thought he could handle being on the inside, or that they thought him an expendable sociopath, either way the power trip for a 22 year old college senior was palpable, and the cocaine didn't hurt either, him and his girlfriend were dipping into the stuff lately, and for an orgy a little chemical wedding was necessary. But Percy stll couldn't steel himself to let anyone else be with Rachel, in his psychotic mind she was the only other human on this planet he had felt an ounce of emotion for since his mother died. After 15 years of thinking the world could go to hell, he was damn proud to have met a woman with not only something to offer him, but who needed nothing from him, she didn't come from money but fit in anywhere. He'd laugh sometimes thinking of parties they might end up at in their life together, but she was a junior, he needed to give her time, but she was the one, he felt it sincerely. "When are you coming down?" Rach summoned, "We've gotten 12 couples downstairs out of their clothes and the champaigne is running out." "Well thats why I have the stuff in my sock drawer, yayo." She opened up the drawer and reaching past some questionable reading material grabbed the controlled substances. "I"m gonna wait on you downstairs," She whispered in his ear her blood-red fingernail tipped hands caressed his shoulders. He knew she wouldn't understand why he needed time alone, but he had this thought that all the politicians, the rock stars and movie people, before they have to do anything important they need a moment alone, to really appreciate the severity of things, like now: he had to fulfill some stupid tradition that would of disappeared years ago if not for the hippies, but since then the elite class had really gone down hill. The moaning from downstairs was overpowering. Drinking drugs, nobody seemed to appreciate what ruling the world meant right out the gate. But he felt like he did, it had to do with people like Rachel, who could be anywhere actually be able to end up anywhere, though with him she would only hit the top....just have to get themselves to quit using a certain white powder. That made him think, he reached into his sock drawer, did a little, looked in the mirror, loosened his tie, and then his heart started to speed up, he was sweating and felt a wooosh! in his shoulders down to his stomach, and threw up. As he wiped the drizzle off his lips it hit him, this was his stash. What had Rachel taken downstairs? The moaning didn't sound fun any more, the music was skipping, but nobody was doing anything about it. Maybe they're just so buzzed? No, they're not that many lightweights, someone would...so does this mean...? The door opened, Rachel's red fingernail polish was dripping, stiff fingers, almost clawing the door open, and a naked woman stood in front off Percey with his girlfriends arm and shoulder in her hands, tendon and flesh hanging from her mouth, the blood almost as much as finding his mother at the bottom of the empty pool, smashed bottle of gin and head pointing the wrong way. He was a child, a simple child, and everything he wanted, and all the things he'd worked for were getting chewed up in some sorority girls bleached white teeth. He rushed out the room down the steps to the living area, bruises forming on flesh as what appeared to be all his friends eating each other, naked, smoke from a dropped cigarette or something, a couple mindlessly humping but nothing happening, not really. He pulled for the door, reached-nothing, locked. Remembering his phone, reached into his pocket and called the campus police, and actual humans answered, but what they had to say, "Sorry, that place is off limits to us, you'd have to call the CIA or something to get in there. We only make minimum wage."
  18. How long does it take for them to put up how to do Achievemets, because I know that some sites have to be told if an EE is made into an achievement, so that people can work it out. But they don't inform anyone immediately upon release, right? so How long until the achievements are explained via official channels?
  19. Scavs

    It began in 1943

    They really want to express the Sci Fi aspects of this map, from lunar excavation to cryogenics and/or big bangs(I think its two different versions of an easter egg), since world at war we've had ray guns and electric traps, now I think they're just upping the game on what can be done with no air, gravity, et al; and designed a map where all different strats, be they runner, camper etc. how do you run circles in zero G?
  20. As someone whose been playing this last summer, and wanting to put something out before the last zombies map for black ops appears, I want to say thanks for the fun. Knowing people have enjoyed killing zombies as a hobby since World at War came out two years ago, I appreciate the time the creators put into this franchise, the creativity the writers put into the story, how animators and programmers upped their game with every addition, and that the end product will be enjoyed as long as people can play them( though it will probably be like zelda, and people will go out of there way to still play it twenty years from now). We're all wondering what zombies is going to do after Moon, trying to piece together elements of gameplay and story from the images and videos Treyarch is parsing out, but we're all gonna dig this map, and whatever new pieces of the story it holds. But come tuesday we're all going to kill A LOT of zombies.
  21. About time that "Secret Achievement" went away; that thing drove me nuts. I wonder if the "Hacking" from the insider moves video has anything to do with this version of the easter egg?
  22. Everybody complained about the Director, and so now they're back to stealing perks. Way to work as a team, guys.
  23. Electrified zombies drop Max Ammo. If you have like 5 crawlers after a round, get george to electrify them. Pro Tip: run George angry, all game, behind someone in the lighthouse, he keeps electrifying zombies, lots of max ammo-saves money, and no one else worries about george, ever. Plus if you're using the Scavenger, you kill george and get a new perk every two rounds, so if someone drops and loses their perks they immediately start back on track to 7. only problem is what to do on rounds w/o George, you still need ammo then, but I guess thats why 3arc put in the Vrill.
  24. Romero was also involved with `Tales from the Darkside' which runs on SyFy channel every so often for day-long marathons, as well as the Creepshow films(love Steven King's plant-man storyline). But his first three zombie films are great, and Land of the dead as well, since most young people today probably can't stand the quality of his stuff from the 70s & 80s start there, then watch the original `dead' trilogy. I took a day off school in Jr High and watched them, well worn art. He also is considered an Indie pioneer, he made his movies very cheaply, and often lied about how much was spent so he could sell more copies overseas. I think Day only cost them $1/2 a mil. at most.
  25. Everybody ready for Moon? Well I'm still trying to get my time travel will tell ee, OrganizedTuba is my XBL GT. Just watched the rez insider moves, and that is going to be a hell of a map, can't wait to argue about whether the wave gun is the zap gun, jk. But hopefully I can use my collegiate work in English/Philosophy to bring something to the table on this board. Thanks.
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