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That is awfully kind of you, friendo. Good luck to everyone who decides to join in on this contest - you will not want to miss out on the event!

That's what I was thinking, I didn't even see the mention of a leak until you pointed that out.

Nope; just a piece of a buildable for the makeshift plane that was pointed out by another member (whose username slipped my mind, so credit to him for noticing this).

Lots of input on this, very nice friendo! But we do have a full discussion going on here already: viewtopic.php?f=149&t=30806

Moon was actually never proven to happen in the past; we just had insufficient evidence leading to it. I mean, there were some absolutely beautiful theories (like Shooter's No Man's Land date) that bolstered the support of it happening in the past. But when you think of the transitioning, nothing adds up the way it should have. The order is scrambled in some way, or it may not be. Our O4 went form teleportation to lunar landers to teleportation to being in a jungle to No Man's Land and back to having accessible teleportation. That means Moon and Shangri-la would have to consecutively progressed forward. It's very hard to explain because our timeline isn't exactly linear. I recall MMX making a very nice diagram of how each map's timeline connected to one another.

It's not that easy, friendo. We have not proven backward time travel - only forward time travel. Our storyline is built from traveling forward in time, all the way from Der Riese to Die Rise. Each map systematically progressed in either a couple of years or in whole decades. When we visit older maps (such as Mob of the Dead), they are there to explain what was occurring before particular incidents. Tl;dr: We either stay present, or move towards to the future in regards to time travel, but not backwards.

If you shoot the Ray Gun towards their legs, zombies will crumble faster. That's always been the general procedure when using the gun. Of course, having it Pack-a-Punched makes splash damage almost non-existent, so body shots (preferably the chest) would be necessary. The Ray Gun seems just a smidgen weaker than the one in Black Ops, but nothing extremely detrimental.

Yes; it's the zombie guard that so many people mistook for the warden in the first revealing trailer. It seems like such a climatic build to how they approach the zombies. I mean, just look how calmly they handle it - it's so...invigorating. And welcome to the community, friendo!

It's not Sophia nor Richtofen; Richtofen did not become a part of the Aether until Moon, and I'm very certain that Mob of the Dead occurs way before Moon no matter what. And Sophia...well, she's just not an integrated part of our storyline enough to impact the current events.

It looks a little too expansive and non-sparkly to be a persistent upgrade. I'm not saying it can't be, but it just doesn't resemble what we're used to seeing. Also, what kind of upgrade do you think it may be if we are killing the zombie boss?

Welcome to the family, friendo! What kind music do you enjoy listening to? What animation do you watch? I'd like to know more about your favorite things. Thanks for joining this lovely community! I hope you enjoy your stay, and that you keep slayin' zombies! :)

What better way to gain someones trust? Don't forget, we are dealing with a genius who has had pre-recorded messages set in place years in advanced. We obviously know he has the capability to pull something like this off. There are no pre-recorded messages, however. Everything is live, except for the radios.

Welcome to the family, friendo! I'm glad that you've gone from lurker to official member. It really is an honor to have you join the community. With the new release of Mob of the Dead, I promise that you'll get the taste of Side Missions (aka Easter Eggs) at an all new high. Enjoy your stay, and keep slayin' zombies! :)

Ah, some support for Maxis being the evil being - I like! It was a terrific read, despite how long it is. Organized in a well-done manner, yet you support every claim you make. I wish I could bring back brains somehow so I could give you a nice, juicy junk. Using the map loading screens as a backbone for explaining who exactly Maxis is outside our normal realm of presumption is great. I never thought that he could be the figure in Nacht der Untoten, or even Ascension. The color connection seems very related the way you approach it. I think Maxis does indeed lie within that perspective of maintaining an orange "aura" with him, whereas Samantha could very well be red. Hence, why the orange carries over to situate certain events and actions as due from Maxis. A fuse of Maxis/Samantha? Hm, very plausible. I still believe that his soul was sucked into the MPD, but somehow transmitted into the data mainframe of Griffin Station. From there, he has reception of radio ways to transmit into other electrical devices on Earth. But to assume that he actually has some kind of power within him not as a residential being, but almost in a controlling manner...well thought out! But once Richtofen switched bodies with Sam, does that mean it's not Maxis/Richtofen within the same body together? I wouldn't necessarily agree with him being able to control them. Sure, he experimented on them and attempted to maintain some kind of rule over them. But if you take Subject 2-6 into consideration, he couldn't handle that experiment which proved to us that he did not have any power in controlling his test subjects. He did not create zombies for the first time; rather, he learned how they could be formed using 115, and deliberately tested on them to see if a superhuman army was even possible. He failed in doing so. It becomes evident that there is a struggle for power, just as you said. All we know is that he has a hidden agenda with only the purpose of using our new crew to submit more power in his favor. That is the goal for both entities, really. As said before, Maxis is pure evil in his action of decimating the entire Earth to prevent Richtofen from unleashing havoc with his new powers. It did set Richtofen back, but was it really necessary to destroy the world? Not really. I am not saying that you are wrong. In fact, you make more logical points about Maxis' intentions and his hand in the control of zombies than I have ever come across. All these connections make a ton of sense, and I could not describe how well you explained it. Kudos to you, friendo. :)

Some interesting things that I'd like to point out here: Seems that we now know how a player looks like outside of Afterlife. A glowing, white orb that moves swiftly through the map seems awfully similar to Him in Tranzit, minus a few particular details. At least we'll be able to physically know where all players are. This makes me want to confirm that the boss in indeed a Juggernaut guard, because of the baton he is holding in his right hand (left looking at the image). Would he beat you with the baton as well as ram into you? A better look at the boss. Notice the suit behind all those bulky chains and light. I think it's very interesting how there is the head device used for the electric chairs on him. Perhaps that is the way he was zombified? Our min-transport system from the prison to the harbor. This is where we see the gate close in the first trailer (The Replacers). Simple enough, and it looks very efficient considering that you'll be protected for a good few seconds. Tomahawk, tomahawk, tomahawk! It looks more like a power drop than anything else, but in a newly enhanced design. In fact, I'd go on to say that it's not a buildable by the looks of it. The weapon seems ancient in design and not constructed much as a buildable. Either way, it can ricochet off walls, through zombies, and perform chains. I thought the characters would be inside the plane somehow, but it seems I'm wrong. They all stand on the wings of the plane as it launches off the ramp. Well, now we know how it looks! This is the big image we should be heavily analyzing. For one, notice that we can see in first person view. That would make me believe that this is part cutscene, and part gameplay. The reason I point that out is because it may indeed lead us to a different area where we will crashland in and resume playing. Had it be an actual ending, then we'd go into full cutscene and not a half-half. Also, note how far the Mystery Box seems. Now, I could just be poorly distancing how far we actually are from the light, but that's just me.

I'm confused by what you mean of shadow/mystery man. Do you mean the portrait found in Kino der Toten? Also, the shadow that we see in the loading screen is Hudson from Campaign. He's not brainwashing Mason, but trying to make him remember the events that led up to the "present" so they could track down Dragnov.

So does that mean that the Thunder Gun is not a Wonder Weapon because it shoots air? Or it 115 in a state where it can technically be considered a gas, so the air is actually in its gas form yet heated? Because then the Blundergat could follow suit. Of course, we only see it shoot regular scattered bullets in its normal form, so in your terms, not a Wonder Weapon.

Positive. One of the steps in Moon requires you to insert the Golden Rod, which in turn must have the Focusing Stone inside of it. There is also another step beforehand where you use the combination while Richtofen access the mainframe - the time when we hear Maxis for the first time since the radios - and once the charge is complete, you obtain the combo and the player (who is Richtofen) receives all the perks.

I don't think he meant wonderful in a literal term, but more of a description that puts these kind of weapons up and beyond the standard norm of regular weapons. The term "Wonder" followed by a noun would generally presume that something is indeed supernatural to some extent.

This. Basically, I see Wonder Weapons as an arsenal that cannot be explained as to how it originated realistically, yet created as a supernatural phenomenon. Element 115 is only one of a few examples that would make a Wonder Weapon what it is.

Welcome to the family, friendo! So many favorites, oh my! I'm glad that you enjoy Richtofen and Moon; it seems that we have quite the similar taste so far. Enjoy your stay, and keep slayin' zombies!

Correct. Honestly, I can't fathom any character from this map being transparent in one of the maps thus far. It's just like Call of the Dead; we're given a special guest crew, only to never have them reappear once again. I firmly believe that there is no connection between Green Run and Mob of the Dead (though I'd love for there to be one) just because there is zero evidence pointing to it. Him may have similar properties to the new Afterlife mode, but I'm afraid I can't exactly see how they'd be related other than being a in a blue, spiritual form and shooting electricity.

That's what seems to be the case. The only bare exception that I see in this is how we look in Afterlife compared to others. Should we be invisible, I don't think it could be related to Him. I understand that is seems reasonable considering that we retain the same electrical properties, but Him is an experiment of some sort that was engineered whereas we are in a spiritual dimension that lies within our reality. And if Him was someone in the Afterlife, of whom would it be referring to?

He would have to be some kind of semi-intelligent being even though he retains himself as a zombie. George Romero was still zombified, but to an extent in which he could still communicate as if he did have some willpower left to be aware of his surroundings. It seems the same for this new boss. It looks like it is a guard that was sent to the electrical chair, hence the equipment still attached to him. Because he can respond to our new crew attacking him, there holds much willpower in him. Perhaps he is even a newly turned...?

I'll just take what I said previously in our personal conversation. I'm glad you found this, friendo! Not being able to find a symbol even remotely similar to the eye was nerveracking; but you managed to find it. Something in this garnered my attention: I'm quite certain that you know where I'm going with this - Afterlife. This is the new mode that is being implemented into Mob of the Dead. You have probably already linked that connection together, but it becomes more fascinating because it may lend us a hand as to what more we can do in that mode. So far, we can enter invisible portals, trigger objects with our newfound powers, and electrify zombies. What we have not figured out is why the eye can appear over certain characters. And think about how these symbols are so close to one another: They are both associated with the Afterlife. But you know what the only difference is? The electric bolts off to the sides. And what can we do in Afterlife mode? Use our electric powers to our advantage.