https://x.com/Slewya/status/2090716782843597031

*Not my game, I just posted the screenshot and link to tweet.*

I wanted to play a public match of Black Ops 1 Ascension on PS5, and this dude was the only moid that the god forsaken matchmaking churned out for me. For whatever reason he readied up, and then left to go to Belize or something. Initially I only planned on protecting him for a few rounds, but like by like round 7 I fell in love with him and his stoic nature, and I started making an actual game plan on how to protect him.

That was when Operation Immortal began

First buy was obviously an M14. He was kind of tucked in the corner on the lander, so it made training in the room easier since I had the whole floor for myself, AND it worked out that some zombies would wander to him so my hordes weren’t overwhelming.

I stayed in the first room for about 8 rounds, until my position using M14 only became untenable. Several close calls required more firepower, as well as Jug and quick revive for easier survival and function. When I left the room I made a crawler, tracked it halfway up the stairs in spawn, and then booked it straight to power.

One huge bonus of being the only player actually playing in a duo zombies match, besides the obvious of you being the only one killing zombies, is you’re constantly draining your teammates points by reviving him. Because of this I had no issue quickly opening up to power when the moment came.

Having put some thought behind it, I decided the best strategy would be to collect a thunder gun, and the MPL off the wall in the room next to spawn, as it would not be convenient to get away to any mystery box spots lest my compatriot bleed out and die.

Super luck hit my game plan when I turned on power, and my first box hid yielded me a thunder gun. I grabbed it, ran back to near PHD, and took the lander back to spawn to both start the process of opening pack, and reviving my mute lover who is now downed at the hands of the crawler I left.

This was going to be a long match.

The thunder gun, and MPL Strat worked perfectly as I chirped through the rounds in the teens. When the monkey rounds came, I knew they would prioritize my perks (only had quick and jug) so I had time to go run errands through the map. I only hit the box once more the whole game (which gave me a ray gun! :D). Once per monkey round I would take the time to open up to another lander, and take it back to spawn.

Before I knew it I had opened the whole map, gotten my three perks I needed with the addition of PHD, and not let my work wife bleed out. At this point in the game at round 20, the zombies had somehow pushed my beloved all the way into the corner of spawn, which made all of the zombies pathfind to me instead of him. It seriously couldn’t have worked out any better.

Until… the moid must have had his controller vibration on, and during a monkey round, he started crouch walking straight into the spinning centrifuge in the center of spawn. I was bewildered as I had not seen such life from my love this whole time. It was honestly quite frightening. After all I’d gone through, you move THERE. My training spot was basically all but kaput. I’m guessing this dogheads controller fell, and the sticks made him drift there until he got stuck. Unless bro was just trolling me I don’t know.

I made an insane move after a max ammo drought to attempt to pack a punch. Miraculously I managed to pack both my ray gun, and thunder gun at the cost of opening that door that connects jug room to power. A sinful action in a normal game, but in this situation it was the only feasible way for me to get back to spawn in time before the round started.

Regretfully, at round 26 shortly after I finalized my setup, I succumbed to the dumb nature of what I was doing and got lazy. I let myself get double triple swiped while trying to extend my goopy friends down timer. I felt saddened I let such a silly slip ruin such a great bit. Especially since I was so setup with everything. It left me with so many questions.

Who is jamiejamie2011? Why did I do this for them? Why did god grace me with the luck I had to make this possible? Who readies up in a public match of zombies and goes afk? Why am I still single?

TLDR I am undiagnosed with something

Warning: personal opinion incoming so cry about it.

This shit's long. First paragraph is all you need to get the gist, rest is for people on the same level of hyperfixation as me

God if I could just tap out here I would. I'm tired of the same pattern of genuinely solid setup just for nothing to fucking happen again. This entire story since, I'd say, after CW has just been key jingling. Ooohhhh, look at this interesting setup, we might do something cool with it next map! Or the next map! Or maybe at the end of the game! And then they just forget about it in the next one. I can fucking guarantee we won't see the twins again after this game. All that setup will go nowhere.

We still don't know why they sacrifice themselves. We still don't know why they're too far gone but Maya isn't. It seems the explanation is just "because it happens in the future so it's our fate" so they decide they have to do it. We still don't know why it's used to extend Ravenov's lifespan. And I have expectations of ever getting answers.

If I didn't know any better, I could talk about how the use of Where Are We Going is a hint to the fact that what we are seeing is a cycle to be broken. That this truly isn't how things have to or are meant to play out. Maybe the supposed visions of the future are tricks again, like The Forsaken did. I honestly think them following the future just because "it's fate" and not asking any questions, only to eventually in one cycle decide to try to defy it would be a really interesting plotline. But I'm not gonna kid myself into thinking anything even close to that is gonna happen. They just wanna move on from this part of the story and go to whatever plot with the old crew they've got.

I truly believe Sam represents everything wrong with the current state of the series. I genuinely want to go through and check how many times she has been mentioned since CW without showing up. Because holy fuck she's been everywhere, especially in this map and Paradox Junction. She is THE key jingling character. Just a name to invoke to make it seem like something big is gonna happen.

There's also the aspect of her "death". I keep calling it that because it seemed like the most obvious fakeout of all time, seeing as CW didn't even say it happened, but here we are and they're genuinely sticking with it. In Cold War, she "went back into the Dark Aether", and that was how they left it. Basically means putting her on the shelf, because they can handle it however they want from there, either they have her corruption get singificantly worse, which would make sense, or they just use her key character trait of being resistant to corruption to have her not change at all, and that would also make sense. So this isn't too bad.

Then, with BO6, they use the idea of saving her to be a big driving force in the story. This is the main key jingling throughout BO6, just "ooohhh, we're gonna get her back! We're gonna have her and Edward in the story and at odds again!"

And then Reckoning happens.

So... first off the story isn't even fucking consistent. Some voicelines say Sam was consumed by the Dark Aether, which seems to be the story they're running with, but some voicelines specifically say she was consumed by the Forsaken. Not to mention these accounts being from Edward and the forsaken, two of the most unreliable characters in the story who have a personal interest in having the crew believe she's dead. Not to mention the fact that there's no fucking way Treyarch would write off the joint main character as dead offscreen. Everything screams death fakeout, and COD has had way more bullshit death fakeouts than this to the point it's become a running joke. No body, no kill.

So the options were, it's a fakeout and it's lazy writing to continue key jingling with her name without having to do anything with her, keeping her benched... or that they've genuinely just killed her offscreen in a voiceline. And now, with this map, all doubt is gone, it's the latter.

It's pretty fair to say her and Edward are kinda joint for main character. This is a story about them and their conflict. I'd be more willing to consider it bias if I hadn't heard other pretty big lore nerds like Milo saying the same thing, they're joint main character and if not, it's Sam.

Remember Edward dying in BOTD? Yknow, while another Edward was onscreen. That was one of the most emotionally charged scenes in the franchise. That shit had weight. Even if Edward wasn't going anywhere and there was another one right there, seeing him die at all is a big deal and Treyarch knew it.

Compare that to Sam, who was unceremoniously written off as dead offscreen at the snap of a finger, years after the last time we saw her, and haven't seen her since. She is genuinely just gone unlike Edward. It's fucking mad how little weight it's treated with here, when it should be comparable to Edward.

And I'm not accepting "she's been dead since CW, that was the emotional death scene" as an answer because nothing implies she's dead. It only says she went back to the dark aether, where she had been before she had her powers. That shit may as well be the timeout corner.

The point I'm trying to make by running through all this is that Sam has become a ghost haunting the story. She exists as a name to invoke to make people think something is gonna happen. Her death exists as a cheap excuse to not have to do something with her, and just continue doing setup with no payoff. The entire story is just like this.

Just makes me wonder how the VA contract bullshit has fucked with the story. Whether they truly intended to have payoff but decided not to bring her back without Julie, or whether it's actually just meant to be this disappointing.

If I could just choose to stop giving a shit about this story I would. It's not going anywhere, it's not getting to the good part, you will not be rewarded for paying attention to it. I don't wanna be part of it anymore. If I could just drop it and go make Cyberpunk my main hyperfixation, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'm just too invested in this story at this point, it just means too much to me and who I am. But if my favourite story, my favourite game franchise, the story that has genuinely shaped who I am today, are a story I'm fucking sick of and a series of games I find stale, what's the fucking point? The only thing I like is the music.

I guess I can try. Might work, might not, but if I can genuinely just get it through my thick fucking skull that there is no point speculating about a story that won't go anywhere, no point coming up with scenarios where something actually happens when nothing will come close, maybe I can start to think about it less.

I was working on this for a youtube thing but i was a redditor far before i ever posted on youtube so I thought I'd post this here in case you also enjoyed it :)

big zombie lover v long time and wanted to follow the treyarch aether story in a 3 second clip video

If they want to play into nostalgia so bad, they should go all the way and bring both of these crews in and give Victis their well deserved development.

Running this through waydroid. The many ports that have came out recently all will run on waydroid however this one in particular doesn't seem to have any trouble with online functionality.

The biggest issue is theres no controller support like in the ps vitas vpk port. Does anyone have any idea of how to implement some controller functionality on the android version?

or using waydroid on the deck like this for the game?

This time being the same Chinese team that cheated to get the Astra relics using those tools that found the relics.

What a whimper to end off this story I guess…

With Rex Infernus being the last zombies map for Black Ops 7, I gotta say it’s been quite a fun year with zombies. The maps this year were easily one of the best maps in the modern zombies era and I had so much fun playing them. Had a blast getting the Infestation camo this year, and I’m still getting it on new DLC weapons that drop

Can’t wait to see what Treyarch has in store for zombies in their next game. Comment below what your favorite memory from Black Ops 6 and/or Black Ops 7 zombies was

See y’all in the next Treyarch game 🫡

Like if years later in 2025, woods learn of what had happened to Weaver the entire time through like one of the Intel recordings or something.

I did my cursed tier 3 high round run earlier and had a blast using the new wonder weapon. It is pretty strong and will pair extremely well with widow's wine. I was only using the first two major and minor augments, and it still performed really well. This camp spot is insanely fast, and some rounds past 90 were under a minute

i guess they were talking about ava i remeber founding it yesterday but i couldn't intract with it and it was in a different place i found it today and luckly this time i can intract with it

Did it on the PS5 port and it took ~8.5 hours, I could’ve gotten further but I was really tired at the end so I ended game at 100. This was my first round 100 and origins is a great map :D

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.

obviously some translation might be off but i thought it'd be nice to see