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I think those are just wrinkles that happen to be like that in the cartoonish art style chosen for the poster.

I think the graphic on the background is some sort of almagest. Like Destiny's Alpha Lupi map:

12 minutes ago, Schrödinger said:

I speak about the poster of Der Eisendrache.

Well I inverted the colours:

The dark black line is the spotlight. Can't see anything significant in it just those cracks that go all around the poster.

The numbers could be some sort of space coordinates maybe even multi-dimensional coordinates for the rockets to strike. If one of the names for the castle in game is indeed Griffin Castle it would follow the theme of being Launch Control Center like the Griffin Station of Moon.

EDIT:

Also from the jump scare connection on the Origins one it has mountain range on it's right eye (Griffin Castle) and on the Der Eisendrache poster it has Moon on the left eye (Griffin Station).

23 minutes ago, Schrödinger said:

There seems to be something in his right eye.

Looks like mountain range (he/she/it) is looking at.

I believe this map is just one big LCC controlled by Maxis. Designed to strike on beacons set up by Richtofen across different dimensions.

One of them might be a computer.

Stuff:

In 1917 four members of the Vril society met in a cafe in Vienna. There was one woman and three men. The woman was a 'spiritual medium'. They met under a veil of mystery and secrecy. They discussed secret revelations, the coming of the new age, the Spear of Destinity the magical violet black stone, and making contact with ancient peoples and distant worlds.

Their source of power was the Black Sun an infinite beam of light which, though invisible to the human eye, exists in anti-matter. The Vril emblem became the Black Sun, a secret philosophy thousand of years old provided the foundation on which the occult practioners of the Third Reich would later build. The Black Sun symbol can be found in many Babylonian and Assyrian places of worship. They depicted the Black Sun - the godhead's inner light in the form of a cross. This was not much different from the German's Knight's Cross.

The woman allegedly channeled information from aliens after which the Thule Society was created. They went on to build something called the Vril Machine. It allegedly was a saucer shape interdimensional time travel machine. Their first flight was allegedly in 1934.

Aldebaran is an orange giant star located about 65 light years away in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. With an average apparent magnitude of 0.87 it is the brightest star in the constellation and is one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky.

The name Aldebaran is Arabic and translates literally as "the follower", presumably because this bright star appears to follow the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters star cluster in the night sky. The name probably refers to the way this bright star follows the Pleiades star cluster in its nightly journey across the sky.

This star is also called the Bull's Eye because of its striking orange color and its location in the bull's head shaped asterism. In 1997 a substellar companion was reported but subsequent observations have not confirmed this claim.

Taurus is often associated with royalty and divine power. Throughout the ages Aldebaran has been spiritually recognized for its alignment with divinity. There is a symbolic relation between Aldebaran, the Eye in the head of the Bull, the third eye, or the light in the head, and the diamond. The consciousness of the Buddha has been called the "Diamond-Eye" which is the eclipse and the star tetrahedron of sacred geometry which creates the grid patterns of our reality.

When awakened, the third acts as a 'stargate' that sees beyond Space-Time into Time-Space.

1 hour ago, shirtlesservice said:

I've got 6 gigs of RAM, don't know what my graphics card is (I didn't purchase this laptop, I'm asking my dad, he's going to look it up this evening) so that's what I've got so far. The game actually fails before I even join a game.... Might uninstall and try again

You can see what the graphics card is by going to Steam and from the top of the screen click help and then System information. Most likely you don't have GPU good enough to run the game. Uninstalling again won't solve your problem.

What is the graphics card you are using and how much ram do you have?

Looks like your graphics card is gone. Do your other games run fine?

It's the Black Sun symbol that's also in Shangri-La.

9 hours ago, Bigyayay said:

I like your theory and I think there are quotes in the giant such as Takeo's quote about his vision of a house of children connects to the origins cut scene

Interesting. The Black Ops III zombies is putting a lot of emphasis on children. When it used to be all about Samantha. Also as Origins name says that's how the zombies start. With two children and Maxis who has a plan and the Giant radios really opens up what happend with that plan.

That looks extremely stupid. Literally a pop-up image. Wtf 3arc?

I'm going to lay it out here:

Maxis trained Richtofen when he was still child to go trough time to secure better future. That Richtofen can be seen in Origins cutscene aka Eddie. He knows a lot about zombies and says he knows more about them than Samantha? Why do they have this knowledge and dolls of zombies and the heroes? Because Maxis gave them to the kids to teach them. In the end of the cutscene Samantha confirms that Maxis has a plan. Samanthat says WE will make everything okay.

Maxis: Look around you Edward, the Giant sleeps. This facility was once alive with activity, now it's a graveyard. Group 935 are no more, what remains of their work has been scattered to the four winds, only echoes and shadows remain. The test subjects can never be allowed to awaken. The havoc that could be wreaked upon the future by such simple minded individuals would be catastrophic. Heed my warning.

Maxis is giving young Eddie a tour trough Der Riese. Telling him that he needs to make sure the test subjects are never awoken.

Maxis: Whoever you are. Wherever you are. I have one message. One message that must be remembered at all costs. The child must be protected.

A Child is no more with Maxis. But that child is very important for Maxis. Maxis sent this message after the child left. To secure that someone could keep that child safe.

Maxis: I thank you for your sacrifice Edward, your courageous actions have opened new avenues of opportunity. It is my dearest hope that we may one day set things right and prevent these terrible events from ever unfolding.

Maxis thanks Edward for the sacrifice he is making as Edward is about (or has already) gone travelling between dimensions to set things right following Maxis instructions.

Maxis: Remember what I told you Edward, the scars left by Samanthas past actions allow us to communicate across the rift. Follow my words, I will find you. When you release the beacon I will secure your extraction and destroy the site. Remember, the burden is yours to carry Edward. The others must never know the truth.

Maxis is communicating trough the broken rift to Edward who is travelling trough dimension. Edward needs to follow these messages for him to reunite with Maxis but Maxis warns Edward not to let others (Tank, Nikolai and Takeo) to know the truth. Edwards goal is to destroy a site by activating a beacon that can be seen trough multiple dimensions. 

Maxis: Day 66. The children are gone and the house feels empty. I miss their laughter, their games. The sirens have not sounded for several months. I do believe that we may have turned the tide of the battle, but at what cost? The radiation levels from the fallout remain dangerously high. I can only pray I live long enough to confirm that my plan was indeed successful and the dark presence that has haunted our dreams, that infected every face of our existance has finally been vanquished.

Maxis sent Samantha and Edward trough teleporter 66 days ago. It seems that Edward succeeded in activating the beacon and Maxis was able to destroy the site. This unfortunately costed huge fallout that will slowly kill Maxis but he is hopeful his plan worked out.

Maxis: She may have been returned to me, but II fear she is not as she was. In recent months she has barely said a word. When se did it was only to cry out for him. To call his name. What have I done?

Samantha returned to Maxis but she is traumatized and only cries for possibly Eddie to come back.

In the Giant cutscene Origins Richtofen who I believe to be the Eddie Maxis sent trough the teleporter reunites with Tank, Nikolai and Takeo after two years. They all have been travelling trough time for a long time. Richtofen having the blood vials of the prisoners suggest he had been at some point at Alcatraz too.

Now this may sound crazy but I went kinda out of the box with this one. In Origins we have two kids Samantha and Eddie both living with Maxis. Samantha directly references Maxis as her father meaning Eddie is not son of Maxis. From their games we see that Eddie portrays the part of Richtofen controlling zombies and Samantha herself.

Now the idea I have here is that Maxis trough timetravel and multiple dimensions we are facing in zombie story took young Richtofen under his wings. To teach him, to prepare him for a mission. Hold that thought and go listen the radios in Giant. Then post your thoughts.

Of course I haven't played it so my words have hardly weight but it seems it has ton of stuff that needs to be collected, upgraded and so forth just like in Black Ops II. Things that make the survival in each game feel secondary objective. Those things really pushed me away from zombies in Black Ops II so I couldn't see myself liking Shadows of Evil or Black Ops III zombies (knowing each map will be pretty much the same scavenger hunt of objects) for long. Which is shame. Correct me if I'm wrong.

13 minutes ago, Chopper said:

@Hells Warrrior@Lenne and @DeathBringerZenhave calmed me down somewhat.

 

I might have to accept that console is going to be a better option for most AAA games.

I do want to enjoy this game, I want to enjoy playing this with all the friends I've made since discovering zombies.

It's a shame, but it's true.  I'll wait until we get some insane mods in the next couple of years then drift back towards PC.

It honestly depends on the AAA developer. Call of Duty has shafted PC for years now but then someone like Bethesda and Gearbox makes great PC games.

Yup, but most publishers/devs don't care anymore. The newest Batman on PC was completely broken to the point they took it away from stores so they could patch it. So after 4 months they brought it back to stores only for people to find out that hardly anything was fixed they only added support for new DLC and gave statement that they will reveal soon what they can fix and what they are not going to be able to fix. So they decided to leave the game broken but will refund players for next year regardless of their playtime.

Just now, Hells Warrrior said:

It's rediculous that it was allowed to happen. Shame on Treyarch for releasing it in this condition, shame on Activision for trying to cash in on sub par game.

That's why people should avoid pre-ordering. You can never be sure if the game works these days.

Nice write up Tac. 

37 minutes ago, Hells Warrrior said:

I won't hold my breath then, this is rediculous - it should have been picked up during testing and it should have been tested on the new GUI before launch night. How they missed this I'll never know.

 

Launch night has been completely ruined for me.

For many the PC version is having pretty bad performance problems and graphical glitches too.

There is no Samantha anymore.

14 hours ago, Spider3000 said:

 

I'm not a mapper, but from my understanding, they would be available to use since they're in the base game.

Yeah and pretty much porting assests from older CoDs shouldn't be big problem.

1 minute ago, HitmanVere said:

Yeah, same. Hopefully WaW lives this next year, so that all amazing projects get released

Well at the best Treyarch aims for closed Alpha for the tools at March. Summer and next fall would be my guess on when the complete tools realease if everything goes smoothly. World at War is not just going to die. Plenty in custom zombies scene are running on laptops/PC that can't even run Black Ops III.

And CoD 1 and 2 are still alive on PC so PC games with mod tools really don't die that fast lol.