Electric Jesus

~Zombies Hangman~  Test your might!  Incorrect Guesses (0/6) : Hint(s):  Scoreboard: Reigning Champ: Lenne - 246 2nd: Slade - 238 3rd: way2good - 201 Electric Jesus - 150 Nightmare Voyager (ripperino) - 134  The Meh - 116 ETEl2NAL407 - 100 Tasha the noob - 93 Delta - 68 Naitrax - 58 Rissole25 - 48 MurderMachineX - 46 Undead - 44 Chopper - 34 Cheesegrater28 - 32 Tac - 30 PortlyLlama80 - 22 Reddonkeyham - 20 Requix Eclipse - 18 Jake Duck - 16 wesleykg00 - 16 Silv3r Energy - 16 83457 - 12 Anonymous - 12 zombieman9 - 10 XAvengedLullabyX - 10 OverWater17 - 10 RaidDzn - 10 PINNAZ - 8 nayrc - 6 jiipee95 - 6 unlawfully inacurate - 4 Ooka - 2 RiftRunner001 - 2 ZombieDreamerDan - 2 CrubZee - 2 BriggzyJ97 - 2 TheNathanNS - 2 Mr Swifty - 2 RZArazorSHARP20 - 2 Señor Festo Lithium - 2 JJMFP - 1   Rules:  Guess the word/phrase correctly without any letters = 10 points Guess the word/phrase correctly = 2 points Stump the field (6 incorrect guesses) = 6 points One incorrect letter = 1 incorrect guess One incorrect word(s) = 2 incorrect guesses You may only guess up to 2 consonants or 1 vowel at a time Host adds hint after 4 incorrect guesses Numbers must be spelled out  After 6 wrong guesses the person who didmake the last guess gets the board  If after two weeks, the person who is meant to be posting a board doesn't, another person isallowed to take their board and continue the game.

Hint updated

Bumpdated. Throwback to when I had class. Dont faint lads

Nice guess, even tho you’re interrupting my date with lenne

~Zombies Hangman~  Test your might! A _ _ _ L / L A _ _ _ _  Incorrect Guesses (2/6) : C D E S G Hint(s): Very Attractive Weapon.  Scoreboard: Reigning Champ: Lenne - 244 2nd: Slade - 238 3rd: way2good - 201 Electric Jesus - 150 Nightmare Voyager (ripperino) - 134  The Meh - 116 ETEl2NAL407 - 100 Tasha the noob - 93 Delta - 68 Naitrax - 58 Rissole25 - 48 MurderMachineX - 46 Undead - 44 Chopper - 34 Cheesegrater28 - 32 Tac - 30 PortlyLlama80 - 22 Reddonkeyham - 20 Requix Eclipse - 18 Jake Duck - 16 wesleykg00 - 16 Silv3r Energy - 16 83457 - 12 Anonymous - 12 zombieman9 - 10 XAvengedLullabyX - 10 OverWater17 - 10 RaidDzn - 10 PINNAZ - 8 nayrc - 6 jiipee95 - 6 unlawfully inacurate - 4 Ooka - 2 RiftRunner001 - 2 ZombieDreamerDan - 2 CrubZee - 2 BriggzyJ97 - 2 TheNathanNS - 2 Mr Swifty - 2 RZArazorSHARP20 - 2 Señor Festo Lithium - 2 JJMFP - 1   Rules:  Guess the word/phrase correctly without any letters = 10 points Guess the word/phrase correctly = 2 points Stump the field (6 incorrect guesses) = 6 points One incorrect letter = 1 incorrect guess One incorrect word(s) = 2 incorrect guesses You may only guess up to 2 consonants or 1 vowel at a time Host adds hint after 4 incorrect guesses Numbers must be spelled out  After 6 wrong guesses the person who didmake the last guess gets the board  If after two weeks, the person who is meant to be posting a board doesn't, another person isallowed to take their board and continue the game.

There’s no getting around the fact that OG zombies players have incrementally been introduced to new features very gradually over many years. Even making it easy to PaP on a certain map can’t undo the complexity of the build-up to that map. Just look at the difference between if Nacht was your first map, versus Classified (arguably the simplest BO4 map.) I mean just look at your goddamn HUD. there’s literally just way more “things to know” about maps these days. I will say though that BO4 has done a good job of not hiding standard features behind annoying barriers to entry. Like someone who’s barely played zombies can manage to open PaP on their first playthrough of any BO4 map. Like just playing through the map you’re bound to figure it out, without having to google it. That’s definitely something that is universally noob-UNfriendly: steps that require you to google, or have some body of knowledge external to the game experience. Which granted is kinda the backbone of the storyline, but undeniably noob unfriendly. Zombies is very much so a rabbit hole with intimidating depth.

Never Forgetti

There’s definitely a hedonic treadmill in the Zombies community. I call it the Pack-A-Punch effect. When PaP was first introduced it was hype af. Of course you had to basically open the whole map / do everything to access it, which generally still holds true, but as maps have gotten bigger that becomes a talker task. Still, basically every single map after Kino has had a massive swathe of players saying something like “I have to do all THAT, JUST to pack a punch on this map?!” Which, on certain maps is fair (Tranzit, shadows maybe) but let’s not forget one crucial thing: it makes your gun shoot freakin’ laser beams? Like, generally speaking, every game they just stack on additional gameplay features leaving what we already know intact. Started with barebones survival, then they layered on perks, then PaP, traps n shields, gumballs, specialist weapons, etc. Like i said, I can see someone saying that shadows or tranzit were a step in the wrong direction for PaP mechanics, but broadly speaking every successive map has had “more shit to kill with” so to speak. my point is, pack a punch is on every map, you do it every game, so it’s basically just become an expected thing for you to do like turning on the power. That makes people take it for granted frankly. Like don’t say “it sucks we have to do all that to pack-a-punch,” when you should be saying “damn its awesome that theres such thing as a PaP machine.” Your guns couldn’t always shoot lasers, fool. One thing I will say about black ops 4 overall is that the way the game was marketed, it very much so seemed like there were the 3 pillars of the game, MP blackout and zombies, and they were supposed to be on equal footing. It would be hard to argue that Zombies isn’t the weakest pillar so far. Just in terms of support / “carrying” the game forward. one thing we can never forget though is that Zombies is now officially mainstream in Call of Duty for the first time. I’m not like a gatekeeping OG zombies elitist or anything but frankly I’ve been hearing loads of youtubers talk about all the negativity in their comments lately. Sure some of it is deserved criticism of the game, but to an extent the community is just getting larger. The difference between the Zombies community (tight-knit, friendly, donates to charity) and the Multiplayer community (a huge bunch of degenerates lmao) is disappearing as Zombies grows to the level of accessibility as MP. It was inevitable, I mean the past 2 special editions of the gamw have been Zombies themed. Back in WaW they literally were not allowed to market Nacht by activision. Times have changed.

Descent?

Ok so, first and foremost I’m kinda retraining myself to not trust a damn thing monty says. We really aren’t in a good position to decide what he’s lied about. He might hate teleporters, he might have gotten maxis to build the first one, who knows. But let me look at this a little differently. Personally I’ve kinda suspected that there was once a time in Monty’s life where he was originally a normal human. So in Revelations Monty tells us that while “the rest of mankind” was squabbling, the Keepers made progress for humanity. This suggests the keepers were originally humans. By extension, the Apothicons were also originally human. So, were he and the Shadowman originally humans, on some particular “normal” version of earth, pre-agartha? I’m really interested in what’s up with Monty’s house as well. We know that the map Revelations takes place in Agartha, so that’s where the house seems to be located. However, kinda like how Mob of the Dead isn’t the “real Alcatraz” (it’s just a clone in a bubble-dimension, like the Upside-Down,) the same could be said of Monty’s house. The “real” house is located in England, and Agartha is just a perfect bubble universe inspired by that localle. In one of the alternate loading screens we got in the comics, you can see Primis (with Ultimis Richtofen) walking thru the grass field up to the front door of the “real” house. I wonder, are they gonna somehow find a way to meet Monty before he became a keeper / apothicon / omnipotent, and fight him as a human? It would be the Zombies equivalent of going back in time and killing hitler. See, Monty goes out of his way to imply that he’s literally a god, and that he’s sorta always been there. The first lines of the timeline are literally “in the beginning, there was only the Aether and the Keepers.” But he already told us that the keepers were originally humans. This makes it seem like the Kronorium isn’t actually supposed to be the comprehensive timeline of the whole earth, since it’s basically like “History only started being important when the Keepers came along. Thats when we started writing shit down.” Ok so circling back to the actual Cipher in question, the obvious kinda BS explanation is just “Monty is using magic to insert himself into a previous spot in the story again.” But again, somehow I suspect that there was a time when Monty was just a normal guy. I almost feel like Human-Monty and Human-Maxis were originally friends, or alive at the same time, or knew each other somehow outside of Monty communicating with him magically. My first thought was like, maybe Monty was originally a 935 employee, and his godlike status is the result of whatever he and Maxis got up to? Teleportation gone wrong? If he were ever an employee at the same time a Richtofen, Ed would have recognized him, so that can’t specifically be the case. But it could be something like that. Also, I’m reminded of a couple things. There’s that old message in the Black Ops 3 server files that said something like “Go to the man with a red scarf in a market in Belgium, and tell him the giant has risen.” No idea. If there was a time that Monty met Maxis and influenced him to build teleporters, it could be this here. “The giant has risen” suggests that Der Riese was recently constructed, and Monty was waiting to be given the cue for something. But this message seems to be from someone, to someone else, instructing them. Could be Maxis receiving it, but who’s the speaker? also monty? shadowman? Additionally, Monty and the Shadowman might be like evil twins / the same person. (The whole can of worms thing.) We know the Shadowman impersonates people, gives intentionally bad advice, and orchestrates the events of other peoples’ lives. We see this a lot in Shadows of Evil. A similar thing could be happening here, with Monty nudging group 935 into existence. There are a TON of parallels between the behavior of Monty and the Shadowman. Namely, they both go to a group of 4, and say “hey you need to help me save the universe; sacrifice 4 souls for me plz.” it’s equally bullshit when Monty says it IMO. I’m surprised that in the Revelations end cutscene Monty didn’t just cut the shit and say “your service to the overlords is appreciated.” I dunno. I feel like we’re gonna see a normal human Monty at some point. Like, the famous Monty duck quote, he goes out of his way to tell us how even though he appears to be just standing peacefully in front of you, he’s really doing all kinds of hard work in higher dimensions that we can’t see. That might be a full blown lie, and those higher dimensions might not even exist. Note to self: work on structuring posts better

R and C?

Ok, so there are a lot of legitimate complaints that I don’t wanna take away from, but personally I love BO4 zombies and am bummed out by the incessant pessimism. So the callings and factions and stamp system were mentioned in the reveal for BO4 but we still haven’t seen them. Big OOF right there. Word on the street is that we’ll see that coming on tuesday though. For high round players, it’s not uncommon for you to play 10 games of zombies and not die one single time, because every single game eventually just blue-screens. Ok, those things being said, I think the core gameplay of BO4 zombies is the best we’ve seen thus far frankly. Like later down the line when BO4 has accumulated all of its zombies maps, and the dust has settled, and the game is stable, I fully anticipate it will be the best and most complete zombies experience we’ve gotten. There are just so many minor improvements that make it awesome. the revamping of the perk system, and the re-allocation of jug / speed / double tap does in fact cause players to come up with more unique specialized setups, and build their classes around each other’s. Elixirs are waaay more balanced than gumballs (thus far.) the specialist weapons are incredible. We got 4 maps gosh dangit. The story developments have been awesome already. I realize that it really sucks when high rounds and easter eggs are breaking the game, and its not unreasonable to ask / expect treyarch to fix that, bit still we gotta realize that 99% of players aren’t doing easter eggs or high enough rounds to crash the game. Basically what i’m getting at is that for non-hardcore-fans the game appears to be perfect, minor glitches aside. Like I played a 4 man game of IX with some friends, most fun I’ve had in zombies in ages. Blasted through the round 30s staying in the temple the whole time, and that’s how zombies is meant to be played god dangit. Giggling and reviving each other, juggling keeping a man alive to clutch the round, shooting shit and running wild. “AAH BLIGHTFATHER SPAWNING HERE!” In that regard, best zombies game hands down IMO. The complaints about the game are very youtube-centric, in that it affects the kinds of things youtubers or hardcore players would get up to. But yeah it’s definitely got my stamp of approval overall. 4 maps boiz. Never forget.

S and L plz? From now on u get a meme with every guess.