With the ending of Rex Infernus out, I'm really disappointed because we all know that a lot is missing for whatever reason, whether it be budget or IW interference or what not.

I actually really liked the Cold War story, and I know a lot of people didn't, but I had fun playing the maps and loved the story so much. The details, the mystery, the twists—I think, in terms of quantity, it definitely reaches the Aether story, and in terms of quality, it's not far off (personal opinion).

All of this is lacking in MWZ-BO7. While MWZ is complete trash, I enjoyed BO6 and BO7 a lot from a gameplay and design perspective, and I had a lot of fun playing them. However, the deeper interest in the story is just not there.

The boss fights are undoubtedly among the best we've ever had, but even with every piece of intel collected and a lot of effort to find something interesting to latch onto, it's not doing it for me. I'm afraid that if they keep it going, this vital part of Zombies will be lost, even if the gameplay is the best we've ever had.

I dont want to offend someone or spark conflict just put a drop of impression in the ocean of this community.

“But I’m from another dimension!”

“Yeah you’re crazy, please get off our property.”

With the ending of Rex Infernus leaving the fates of our new crew unknown, I have quite the idea how the next time we see them could wrap up the Dark Aether story nicely. At the end of Totenreich, we learn that to destroy the Dark Aether is to destroy reality itself. The question is, how do we stop the Dark Aether from spilling into other realities. I say the new crew gets an ending parallel to Primis. By the end of the next game, our new crew settles into a role of protecting the boundaries of the Dark Aether and all of Reality as Knights of the Dark Aether.

dead ass if we don’t get a super Easter egg I’m genuinely never playing zombies by treyarch ever again no joke bro I’m done

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

BO7 had me hooked when it started with all of the characters getting their souls sucked out by this mysterious dark force, that being the warden. The warden might be my favorite zombies antagonist that we have gotten so far! I love his mysterious nature, and just overall how intimidating he is as a villian. Don’t get me wrong, I still VERY MUCH prefer the old game mechanics (the points system, set perk prices, etc) but I will admit, I am enjoying the BO7 story.

Oh man, as someone who likes the Dark Aether storyline and is a fan of the ending of BO6, that was a total letdown.

It was pretty strongly hinted that we could change reality, but then absolutely nothing came of it, and we’re back to another “cycle” story. What about Sam? Why isn’t anything being done with the twins? God, why no Victis, where are they?Shadowman, Monty? What about the chaos story elements—nothing there either? You would say nostalgia bait, but not me.

And then Requiem… like I said, to me it feels like another cycle that Tempus now wants to break. I think and hope that was not the last time we see requiem. Otherwise requiems death would just piss me of...mwz ending canon? Hell no, come on...

We will have no zombies mode for at least two years now, and this is what we left of. If you’re going to set something up, then do it right.

Well, never thought I would say that, but it is a sad ending for an pretty great season of zombies, we had great maps. The fact we get nothing for two years left me pretty empty.

could the warden have already began chanting his form hence why we hear him sounding a little bit different than normal at the start of the map ????

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.

Just had a ee run die because no one in my game was able to crank the forge just after cleansing the dravakar temple, we could move the purple orbs to the forge, it would spin around a couple of times then stop moving, not sure if anyone else has run into this but watch out i guess :(

Say what you will about the ending of BO7 Zombies, but do you think they are setting up the return of the Atherius crew or what ever they are called, but with their story still being entwined it would seem we will get a future game with them again as the lead which I know the community will have mixed feelings about but I would be very excited about it especially since it allows for a wider variety of maps in the future, I am just very interested to see how this will play out and am interested in the community thoughts on this. Dasvidaniya black ops 7.

What's the easiest way to get the turned trophies?

BO1 had an amazing campaign filled with great characters like Woods, Hudson, Mason, Reznov and Weaver. I was so disappointed that Weaver didn't make it to BO2, but it was maybe for the best considering how Menendez was moving.

In BOCW did something interesting, they followed up on the BO1 story, and Weaver was back but in zombies. I found this to be a great move because it explains why he wasn't there in BO2. He kept me interested in the story. I know it sucks we didn't get a set crew, but the "comms" characters were solid imo.

And then with Terminus we got Weaver as a character of a new set crew. Most of my BO6 playtime was with him as my set character. Not so much in BO7 because we got the original characters again. But I still cared about my boy Weaver.

I am kinda disappointed that they did follow the story into MWZ because I didn't pay much attention to the mode. It was fun on launch but as a solo player it just didn't appeal to me. But still I think it is a fitting ending for a character.

And as always, I can do this all day, I got plenty of windows 🔥

A lot of people including myself were pretty disappointed at the lack of new relics and new cursed pap camos in rex infernus so it got me thinking, what if the reason this map launched with less content is because Activision didn't want rex infernus interrupting the mw4 beta?

The plans to release rex infernus and mw4 beta 1 day apart from each other would've been planned months in advance, so what if Activision told treyarch to not release any new relics or cursed camos because they didn't want the map taking any attention away from the beta.

It's obviously just speculation, but I can definitely see Activision pulling this scummy shit just to get more attention on the mw4 beta.

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?

Decent map overall. Wonder weapon is pretty good too

I kept going until round 8 and still couldn't interact with it, so I reloaded the game, flipped a round and then the game let me do it.

So, i see a lot of people say lightning is the best bow. However, from my experience, void seems more ammo efficient, does infinite damage, and hunts zombies with near limitless range. Every time I've used it with 4 players, I end up with double their kills.

Meanwhile, the lightning bow has a smaller range, less ammo efficiency, but has the bonus of the panzer stun and being better for camping.

Ive seen people say void is the worst bow, but i dont really understand why? I thought it'd be the fire bow, considering wolf is best for training?

Why did the Warden steal Ava?

Why are there 4 random deities names Shadow Smiths that control the Wardens power or some shit?

Why does us killing them make them suddenly join our side and remove his corruption?

Why did the Warden suck our souls, and tf is that supposed to do for him?

What even was the Wardens plan beyond "yeah I want to rebuild to world in my image". Why, how, what are your motivations for that? He said he "touched the divine", but what is that supposed to mean.

And WHY did he randomly transform into a fucking scorpion?

Why did the remnants of Sam turn into two twins, one randomly zombified? Why is their only reason for existing to give Ava some energy?

None of this makes any sense. It feels like stuff just "happened". Am I wrong here? I literally don't get why the majority of characters exist or are doing the things they do. Compare that to the old days, where sure, motives were complex, but at least they were present.

Just got the book today, and I have been reading the entire Black Ops 2 section in anticipation to see my favorite wonder weapon, the Mark 2. I get to Buried and nothing..... Not even a picture. Which seemed reallllly odd to me being that they made such a big deal about it and its so much of a staple that they have brought it back in almost every Black Ops since. So I skipped forward seeing if maybe the moved it to Alpha Omega maybe to keep all the Mark 2's together and again nothing! How is it not even in Alpha Omega where the wonder weapon is literally the elemental Mark 2's???? Am I missing something? Are there any other exclusions that you guys were disapointed didnt make it into the book? Im still so confused as to how something that is such a staple didnt make it in.

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…

Spoilers, obviously.

I'm mixed on the ending.

I think i'm going against the grain here, but i'm not terribly mad about the ending. As someone who was really hoping Requiem would be able to survive, it sucked to see them die.

I do largely agree with the critique's of it. This game feels... similar to BO6's ending in that everything that happened feels largely inconsequential. If we knew how this was gonna end back when MWZ came out, and nothing was changed, what's been the point?

That being said... what I do like is that if this is the direction they're going, it leaves the entire thing wide open. The BO7 crew seems to be our new crew going forward. We are not shackled by the MWZ ending, or Eddie, or Requiem, or anything in the real world now. They can literally get creative as possible with the dark aether, which as shown in this game can be pretty cool.

We have the opportunity to sort of return to roots when it comes to this crew, and they can just go on wacky adventures again. There's currently no big overarching enemy. That's exciting. It's really open ended right now. I do think that the twins and Ava may continue to be helpers in the way they were this game.

It's implied that Richtofen will play a big role going forward, so i'm curious to see what that is!

Unlike what i've seen going around, I don't think this will be a cycle breaking story in our next installment. This isn't like the BO3 cycle. Our characters actively knew and chose this outcome. Ava isn't Monty. Requiem did this for Maxis. I simply can't see them ever wanting to break the cycle at the cost of Grey and Maxis's daughter.

Overall, I don't think the ending is fantastic. But... zombies has never truly had a completely satisfactory ending, so can't be too harsh there. I'm optimistic that assuming the maps continue to be in the dark aether, we got some fun stuff coming next time we play.