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When it gives us that small clip of the inside of the castle (let's call it the laboratory), that definitely appears to be an elaborate work station. Everything is slowly connecting together in a more uniform manner... Even if we are to assume that this is another Richtofen outpost, it doesn't exactly knock out the idea that Griffin Station still exists on the Moon. In fact, it could even mean this universe's Richtofen and his 935 lackeys were successful in making several outposts. Which begs the question: what else did they advance on?

No patch notes either? Hopefully this was due to Treyarch releasing hints about the Zombies biographies clue. That, or they're still fixing glitches for an old game haha

With the new Zombies AI system, training in the usual spots is 3x harder than before. I used to run my circles near the power switch area with a breeze back in the day; however, it's hard to do in The Giant without getting triple swiped (making it lethal to even so much as touch a corner). If you want a definite training safe spot, I'd advise to run the lower floor of Lab C and have a few friends occupy the catwalk & tunnel. If you're playing Solo, you're gonna had a bad time.

Gotta agree with "Iron Dragon" relating to the castle itself; an impenetrable fortress filled with enough powerful weaponry to make Putin pee a little.

Congratulations on the winter [and seemingly tainted with odd dirt spots] cyan robes, friendo! :)

I actually believe that's a large inspiration for Treyarch wanting to do a European castle; this was too similar not to have ties with Wewelsburg. But our good friend @MrRoflWaffles found the location to be Hohensalzburg Fortress/Castle in Salzburg, Austria. :)

Really? The sites said otherwise and they look identical in architecture...well at least they're in the same vicinity. :p

It has an almost perfect shape to be one too...doesn't look like the roofing of anything else in the image.

That's just the Maxis radio, mate. It's not necessarily a 4th rift.

Thanks to @MrRoflWaffles, he's found an almost-identical match on the castle in Der Eisenrachen. Hohensalzburg Fortress - Salzburg, Austria Source: http://www.salzburg-burgen.at/en/hohensalzburg/hohensalzburg/geschichte.htm Here is an interesting snippet about the castle's relationship with the Nazis during WWII: Source: http://www.exploring-castles.com/austrian_castles.html Hohenwerfen Castle Source: http://www.salzburg-burgen.at/en/werfen/erlebnisburg-hohenwerfen/geschichte.htm

It looks like one, with all the support beams off to the sides. I would disagree @Stop Mocking Me0; while it does resemble the top mast of a boat such as in Call of the Dead, the middle object is too wide and tall to be a mast or even crane - it's also very solid and full with no holes in it. If you look closer you can't even see the hull (if it were a boat/ship), and if you did claim it to be so, that is one hell of a small boat with a top nearly 5x its height haha.

Anyone ignoring the huge castle that's been renovated like some kind of top facility? Clearly German work (in fact, the lower base near the bottom of the picture looks a lot like Griffin Station from Moon). It could be an allusion to the infamous Castle of Wewelsburg. Castle of Wewelsburg "In 1933, Heinrich Himmler signed a 100-year lease for the 17th-century Wewelsburg Castle. At that point in time, the interior of the structure was badly decaying, but Himmler saw potential in the triangle-shaped hilltop castle for use as a training facility for the SS, which he commanded. Many prominent Nazi leaders harkened back to mythology and legend to influence their plans for world domination. Himmler himself was fascinated with prophecy and magical power. Desperately wanting to set up a facility to teach these values to SS soldiers, Himmler began working to turn Wewelsburg into a non-military training facility focused on the occult, pagan rituals and making Wewelsburg the center of the world. Himmler viewed Wewelsburg as the Grail Castle, and believed that when the Nazis were the rulers of the entire world, artifacts from the castle would radiate magical power. Much work was put into acquiring such artifacts as the Spear of Destiny, which Hitler himself had claimed showed him his future. Along with artifacts from around the world that the SS were working to acquire, Wewelsburg became the center of a number of pagan rituals led by Himmler. Although the exact nature of the rituals are unknown, it is clear that baptism-like rituals took place, and a former cistern in the castle was turned into a crypt also used for ritual. After the Allies took control of the castle, a round table with 12 chairs was also discovered, an obvious reference to King Arthur and his knights. During the 12 years that the SS had control of Wewelsburg, the castle was far from finished and the grand plans Himmler had in mind were not completed. Himmler had hoped to design a castle with a circular fortification around the hill, and a gigantic moat. To create the moat, the SS had ordered the evacuation of the surrounding town, and were intending on flooding the entire valley around Wewelsburg. Due to the massive amount of work, Himmler also set up his own private concentration camp, formed mostly of criminals, prisoners of war and Roma people to use as slave labor in restoring the castle. The camp, called Niederhagen, held 4,000 people of which more than half died. As the Nazis were losing the war, Himmler ordered the castle demolished and a fire was set inside. Although most of the interior was destroyed, the exterior walls were preserved and Wewelsburg was turned into a museum for reflecting on the horrors of the Nazi regime and Himmler’s bizarre plan for world domination." http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/infamous-castle-of-wewelsburg

At first, the language seems to be Polish/German. But the way the words abruptly flow into the next couple syllables per pronunciation, it does appear backwards.

There's this rumor floating around that Speed Cola displays a faster boarding animation...but the speed of the actual repairing is questionable.

Upgraded swords + running traps down in subway = very good time. Also, get a shotgun like the Haymaker with Blast Furnace. You're gonna need it.

If anyone says they don't like The Giant, then they simply don't like Der Riese and anything before that. Plain and simple. To be honest, I was never a big fan of Der Riese myself...I guess all the overhype killed it for me and [considering I hopped onto Zombies during Black Ops] it was just simple like Kino der Toten, the first Zombies map I truly began playing. But seeing how they re-imagined a classic map to feel at home with slight revisions makes me happy. Gives you a sense of returning back one last time with the new twist of a chilling atmosphere, prolonged storyline, all the works. Plus if the most recent The Giant trailer didn't make you horny then I don't know what will.

This post gave me confusion. I figured something was not right when the Player calls himself "Taylor". It feels like Treyarch looked at their twisted scenarios in Black Ops and re-introduced them to create an even crazier plot twist. In the words of Robot Chicken, "WHAT A TWIST!". After reading several comments across the interwebs about the ending, someone brought up the idea that the Player purging their DNI evidently entangled Taylor's mind with the Player's. And to be honest I would love for that to be the case if the journals hadn't existed. But because they do and explicitly tell of the Player's death, it rustles my jimmies. Great job breaking my mind, Treyarch.

1) Survive past Round 20 without Zombie Shield.

It's because the final gateworm doesn't appear at all. Source: Two straight days on Solo gone to waste.

But that defeats the purpose of hunting, y'know? It's like no matter how stuck you get, there's some little cheatsheet within the core game to guide you in the right direction. As someone who avidly goes EE hunting whenever a new map is dropped, I love working together with people and finding the next solution through hard work, not file digging. And the past was mostly found by pure luck. If I recall, Moon was found because someone was told all the steps prior to the map coming out, making Moon the fasted EE ever to be completed. Everything beyond was done by the group that shall not be named (for the most part). And hey - I'm all for completing EEs haha, so I can die happy knowing SoE was solvable. But at the same time, I don't like the method of finding that last step.

And would you believe that the only reason it was completed was because someone from Reddit dug into the audio files and noticed a peculiar sound file that mentioned a "boss step", and told AB to interact with it and see what happens. That's the only reason this EE was solved. While I'm happy he is the first in the world to complete it, I'm disappointed the community resorted to file-digging just to get some kind of hint. It's like having your phone out during a math test.

I'm not saying it was magic but it was magic.