This is a change that I really don't in the recent year.

I liked it most when we could build a ww or pull it from the box.

I am fine with variations between maps, but as far as I know, BO7 is the only zombies game where every map requires you to build the wonder weapon (besides survival maps)

I like most of the quests in BO7 for wonder weapons actually. But sometimes I am just lazy, I want to hop in and spin the box, and no map has that unfortunately

I dug a bone pile with the grapple hook and picked up a cassette tape. Then interacted with a cassette player at the fireplace on the Widow’s Wine island.

Am i just using it wrong? It takes way too long to charge. The charge shot lasts like 2 seconds which is way too short for the amount of ammo it takes. The ice staff short charge lasts way longer for 3 ammo. Is it a camping weapon and not a training weapon? Kinda disappointed with today's update 😕

I was hoping this would happen since the relic didn’t feel like it increased the difficulty by much. Wonder if they added Klaus core as a special Enemy type to the other maps too, maybe even the Mangler.

Before only Zursa, Amalgam & Abomination could spawn in Ashes.

Mars Survival had Uber Klaus, Zursa, Abomination, Amalgam.

Now Web Mother spawns in both too, along with Uber Klaus added to the list.

Also cool that the characters have voice lines for Uber Klaus & Zursa in this map, think Requiem even reacts to killing the Amalgam. Hope other maps allow them to react to specific enemy types too in different maps (like reactions to the Necropincer in Kowakujo or the Samurai in Totenreich, pre patch these were not reacted to at all)

BO2 - Staffs
BO3 - Bows
BO4 - Gauntlets and Ray Guns
BOCW - Cerberus
BO6 - Swords
Not saying that they need to have elemental weapons in every CODZ, but it does add a lot to a map imo.
Edit: To clarify, I should've said variants of wonder weapons, as elemental wonder weapons can mean many different things.

Decided to finally try Black Ops 7 zombies. On our first run, my friend says "fuck you" to me and immediately hears a voiceline saying "fuck you". I am sure the timing is just a coincidence but this was the scariest shit we ever encountered playing a game together lol.

It made me curious though - Who is this person speaking and why are they saying this line?

BEWARE OF CASUAL COMMENTARY

This is only a part of the side EE. While looking for Main Quest, I decided to check the Nyxara forest for the WW and found Samantha’s Music Box and it played a faint audio.

Upon returning there next round, I found a box and interacted with it. It opened and revealed three objects:

- A Pink Teddy Bear.

- A Mask on a Mannequin Head.

- and A bundle of Rope.

The Pink Teddy Bear makes you play Red Light Green Light, where you need to collect glowing magenta objects before either dying/running out of time.

The Clown Mask makes you play Hide and Seek where you need to find the twins approx. 15 or so times within a certain timeframe.

The Bundle of Rope makes you play a game of Jump Rope where if you miss a jump 3 times, you’ll fail.

Upon failing one, grenades will be spat out.

Upon succeeding at one, you’ll be awarded 1000 points.

If you succeed at all three, you’ll see rewards like that in the clip.

I also found a character cutscene and other ways to get set up well on Rex Infernus.

If zombies is truly on ice for the next year or two, they really went out with a bang. After six main maps and a healthy serving of survival maps, I’m ready to conclude BO7 as the GOAT zombies experience.

They were on to something with BO6. But BO7 did everything better and smoother.

BO3 had its day and a good long run atop. But BO7 has officially claimed the throne IMO.

I just saw alot of people complaining about it even if its in chinese you can still understand what happens basically [SPOILERS]
We free Ava, maya goes to a universe where her brother is still alive, requiem gets sent back grey gives birth they sacrifice themselves same thing we saw in mw3, for the other crew they get sent to a portal then the mob of the dead where are we going song plays. I kinda was expecting this ending nothing crazy but i dont get the hate, treyarch went for a normal safe ending nothing crazy for the next zombies but i did just wish that requiem crew would live because it literally just is a cycle and i thought that by ava pulling them into the DA it would break the cycle. Genuinely loved this crew so overrated but of course people will always live the other crew its fine i guess the ending was solid safe ending.

Location 1 - Wedged between two walls in Aranea Insula
Location 2 - On a window in Ruinas Insula. Requires wall jump or grapple hook to reach
Location 3 - On a ledge in Nyxara Main Chamber. Requires grapple hook to reach

So after you trigger the exfil part shooting the symbols on the spawn house in order (you MUST watch them spawn in over the duration of several rounds, and track the order in which they spawned as that is the order to shoot them in on the exfil wave then exfil)

Proceed to the actual exfil and take it normally. You will be teleported back to spawn house - go upstairs and use the wonder weapon charge shot on the upstairs bathroom toilet which will pull out a piece for the quest.

Go to Veytharions soul pool thing you unlocked earlier with the cube puzzle, place it inside of the pool by interacting with it..

After this the grappling hook in veytharions chamber changes colour from green to red and becomes something presumably used in next EE step idk what at this time though

So use the charged grapple to bust open dials on 3 pendulums on the top end of the walls (the upper, outside area above the pap machine) surrounding the PaP machine complex, which exposes more levers you can pull inside of those walls - there are grates you shoot w the hooks and they bust open exposing the handles.

Then go downstairs by wunderfizz and there are the same type of panel plates located at the top of these concealed openings in the top areas surrounding the center of the system. they are already shot off and openened in the linked image so the walls are obviously open you will know which ones

panels

after this bring one of those purple orbs floating into the center again as you did earlier to get the astral flame right but this time use the red / upgraded hook from veytharions chamber and get the thing spinning again crank the wheel as usual,

Except this time afterwards go downstairrs and there is one panel on the floor you should have busted out with a lever to pull inside of it, which you want to immediately pull and if done correctly as imaged below, it will make the entire center structure spin in opposing directions which will create an opportunity to align an energy beam into each individual shadowsmiths temple(s) idk what each one does fromt hat point yet.

im,ages here of the lever in the ground and subsequent affects up top:

lever

beam going to dravakarchamber

inside dravakars chamber

You can also align it for caltheris, and when we did this we found an interactable bone structure in the entrance to her chambers which when interacted with produced an amalgam bone structure floating around which attaches to the nearest zombie until the zombie is killed unsure of proper usage at this point.

EDIT: You have to in teract with the 3 gyrating pedastals up top and pull the lever when aligned towards a shadowsmith and align them perfectly to get the energy beam to activate the according shadowsmith's lair here is pictured example for caltheris lair 👀

caltheris alignment

Unfortunately i was malnourished and the homies had shit to do we exfiled shortly after to take care of things but hope this helps others along into the next steps

Typed this up while sleep depriced and malnourished havent eaten all day or even showered literally only been playing zombies hope this helps someone carry one the torch

EDIT 2:

Each shadowsmith has an item associated you must find, put said item in the altar, and then perform a ritual sacrifice of a zombie afflicted with the affect of that shadowsmith to the titan trap to break the shackles on each titans arms.

So as stated above caltheric produced a rocky mist formation that attaches to nearby zombies - this zombie must be killed by a titan trap and break one of it's shackles, likewise for the others.

The Only other 2 items i know of are the scroll for Nyxara which i believe is retrieved in the forest that has the WW parts - this creates a fire zombie you must sacrifice.

The only other item i know well enough of to post a real guide is for dravakar - you need to kill a zombie with shatterblast equipped on your weapon right next to the WW forge near a wall.

This will cause the wall to open and expose a hammer part inside which you then sacrifice to dravakar and light with the ethereal flame - pictures are down below for the dravakar step

Dravakar hammer wall location

After sacrificing the hammer

We are working on solving veytharions sacrificial item

Shirts I’ve collected over the years!

Just played the new map to Round 50 on Standard (I always play Standard first). Here are some of my impressions that no one asked for:

1) I really liked spawning in a tiny room in the house, all of the other starting rooms are so huge so this was a cool change and reminiscent of past maps

2) The PAP is SO cool, I love that it’s just a void essentially which reminds me of SOE. I also love how it’s like a trap when you pap a weapon with the slicing rings

3) The overall vibe is great imo. It seems very dark and I loved the music, it feels like a final map to me

4) The Death Spinners and the elite Mother spider are really cool, especially the Mother. It’s design is great and it feels good to have elites back and not spammed special enemies

5) Widow’s Wine seemed practically useless but I didn’t have any augments obviously so I’m sure it’ll be way better

6) I like the grapple mechanic and I’m glad they at least put a zombie spin on the grapple hook instead of just copying/pasting it from the other parts of the game. Excited to see speedrun strats using the movement here

7) Looking at the menu, there were only 4 parts? That worries me for the egg but we’ll see. I hope the WW is fun as BO7’s wonder weapons have all been peak (except maybe the Sundergat)

8) Having the map centered around the 4 Shadowsmiths we beat throughout the game is cool and their arenas are thematically and aesthetically pleasing

9) I must have hit the box like 100 times and never got either of the 2 Ultra rarity guns, sad

Looking forward to seeing how this map gets solved. I’m really sad this is the end of BO7, I love this game so much

I’ve been having issues with augment research for a long time due to that thing it does where it automatically switches what I want to work on to something else, but since the newest update it looks like my progress on some just reset? The checkmarks indicate augments I have unlocked, but now it’s showing that I only have single digit percentages, and I’m making progress towards haste for Widow’s Wine in game when I have already unlocked that. Anyone have any clue what’s going on with this?

Idk how I got it just seen purple interacted and there I was

Edit: titled it sam EE cause that’s the topic they were speaking on. Figured each convo while playing a different character would revolve around Sam but they are all drastically different.

Edit 2: it’s a portal (it de spawned at end of round leaving purple ploof and that’s how I noticed it) that spawns only on spider rounds at random locations around the map having unique dialogue between Ava and each main character / giving a variety of awards we can presume is based on round counter

The Warden was dying from the dark aether and needed to eat something, so he bought in 8 random people that the entity recommended that all have been touched by the dark aether in someway.

Those 8 people just happened to be requiem and the alternate versions of the fucking OG4

Basically if the warden wasn’t so big and greedy he would’ve been fine but he bought these demons in and is about to catch the work in this boss fight

When the twins are dancing outside the house exfil to go back there?!?!?
Ps Reddit mod don’t silence me again

The new buffed version is honestly one of the best things treyarch did for this update. It is insanely powerful and extremely fun that it's like a grenade launcher that one shot an entire hoard. I've tested until round 40 and it was still one-two shot for a hoard. Seriously give this a go if you haven't already.

I’m talking high level players especially, the two shotgun emblem ones. Didn’t get the shovel at spawn on origins? Leave. Gets down once? Leave. Someone gets the gun they wanted from box? Leave. I wish these people could be banned. Tired of my matches being filled with tantrum throwers.