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are "secret" achievements/trophies still hidden?

@Lenne our new rule of thumb is that if its on CharlieIntel or MP1st (Activision sanctioned sites) - then it's not a leak. Those sites are in direct correlation from Activison, and would not post something detrimental to the relationship. So if you are ever in question, checkout CharlieIntel and see if they have an article detailing it. Achievements come out early every year, this is nothing new. DOA is a great time killer. It's a perfect game for if you only have a limited time and can't do high rounds. Plus it pleases the oldies (like me) who grew up playing top down shooters like Smash TV. edit: And our leak policy is not zero tolerance. The staff completely understands that companies use leaks and drip tactics for marketing, we are well aware it's a changed landscape and we are pro discussion.

either that. Or they completely underestimated what data miners are capable of.

Man that means they were probably trying to get campaign to work on last gen right up until the last minute. So far I've bought BO3 twice - Jugg edition, and digital edition (so I can share w/ both xbones, AND so I can pre-load the game ahead of time). Only 39 days!

So campaign is valued at $10 these days? Seems legit.

Any Black Ops game, any platform, any map. It just now occured to me that after we initially release the LFG with all BO titles, we could add custom maps as well

Welcome DarkZero! Let us know if you have any questions about using the forum, and look forward to seeing you around!

Spoiler alert: Mr. 6 is the zombie boss, and the TranZit bus driver #ItAllMakesSense

I'm guessing the "serpents from beyond" will maybe be that odd power we caught a glimpse of in the reveal trailer - the one with the snakes coming from you? Then again at the point in trailer, there is a different voice then Jeff Goldblum's talking - however it could easily be just a soundclip to go over the footage.

ah yes I should have looked more closely haha. Well we are glad to have you back man. We are just on the cusp of launching a monumental new feature for codz (and for the zombie community itself) - our own LFG (or Looking For Game) application. Should streamline finding like minded people you want to play with as fast as possible.

Welcome back Djinn! Were you not able to recover your old account? We can reset the password for you, update the preferred email, etc. let us know!

Still need to make my 2nd donation, excited to see progress. @Hells Warrrior in terms of specifics for what I'd like to see: - specific fields for play type: casual, high rounds, Easter egg, achievements, speed run, Research for Theorizing (I.e. Looking at stuff/ listening to stuff), feel free to add more. - play type fields can be combined (up to 3), with an option to include whether the host wants to stream/capture - or whether they are looking for someone to stream/capture. - also craig I know this is a point of contention between us, but I feel that people should be able to use the LFG function without having to make an account on codz forum. If we force everyone to make accounts here, then not only will we have an over flux of new users who will probably never use the forum - but to me it comes off as too pushy. this is a gift to the community, I believe that if we simply have people link their gamertag and then have the option to save that, it will be much more popular. If they want to go through the effort of making an account then they have the community as their reward, but I think we should make the process as quick as possible to jump in and find a match. People will appreciate that, and the free approach will yield passionate folks who WANT to join us. as I type this as well, I just came up with an idea - we could make it easy for them, and after they link their console and choose to save it, we could prompt them with "create account on codz". Just a thought. i know I'm blathering on here, but putting up a wall is not what we do. Let's make it free, let's open the floodgates, and let's truly give this to the community.

no way to tell until the map comes out my man (or if we get some early gameplay). in terms of reaching out to 3arc, the best bet is twitter.

In the Origins trailer, Takeo had a sword and Nikolai had an axe - neither made it into the map. In the CotD trailer, Trejo had dual wield machetes, England had a pitchfork, Rooker had dual sawed off shotguns - none of this made it into the map. It's not impossible, but we've seen it before and it's always just been for cinematic purposes. I would like to use a sword (or any kind of large melee weapon) to carve some zombs up though, complete with PaP upgrades and everything. We've had staffs and special melee's in the past, it's certainly not unheard of.

The lack of post count was not to deter from writing map concepts. The original reason for having posts not count there ties into the "prestige/userbar" system we have. We felt that because since prestige is linked with post count, that we should only make posts count where the majority of users communicate. its no secret that zombie labs is home to a handful of passionate users, but to us - regardless of how you split it, 3 or 4 people shouldn't be able to climb the prestige ranks without interacting with the rest of the community. I'm generalizing here, but I hope you get what I'm saying. I believe we left "likes" so you could show your support of the map ideas.

Welcome sir! I'm sure you'll find plenty of folks looking to play and talk zombies 'round these parts. Let us know if you've got any questions about using the forum!

@DeathBringerZen link? Not that I don't trust you, I'd just like to see it for myself. My recollection was otherwise, but I'd be interested in reading what was exactly said. Misinfornation is rampant in the zombies community, and it's important for us to fact check.

3arc never said that nuketown would be expanded upon (I.e. The famed "underground" section) for zombies, that was a rumor/fake leak in the BO2 build up. @Lenne I disliked NTZ at the time partially because it didn't feel like a full fledged offering. TranZit was awful, and I did not like th split up half assed survival areas. NTZ is yet another small survival area that had an extremely limited ee & seemingly slapped together cannon. but yeah, not getting jugg within 3 drops is a game killer too lol it was on par with a custom map - except I think custom map makers are way more creative.

aka Shotgun City

i actually thought Combine (from the beta) was a solid close quarters map. Nothing super imaginative about it, but I think it's designed pretty well. I feel good starting from either spawn, and usually am engaged in a gunfight within 10-15 seconds after spawning.

@RedDeadRiot I think they spelled the promotional wording wrong, it should read like this: "PR3-ORD3R AND G3T TH3 NUK3TOWN BONUS MAP3" Good to know that 3arc has resorted to internet speak akin of a 16 year old. Nuketown 2025 was pretty bad, as was NTZ - I'm skeptical about this.

hopefully we can just get the word of mouth thing going. When the Destiny LFG was created, Bungie themselves gave it promotion. I don't think 3arc would give us a shoutout, but some of our members have had interactions with 3arc through social media. we also do have some prominent youtubers around the site, and we would never want to outright ask them to promote it on their channel - but if the LFG works then perhaps they will help spread the word. We should also reach out to other zombie communities like NGT, Activision Forum, CODZ reddit and others - letting them know this is not a gift just for codz, but for the fan base as a whole. Lastly it couldn't hurt to crank out a press release and send it off to the likes of CharlieIntel, Kotaku, Polygon and other gaming news sites. I've written press releases before - and could probably make one with a lot of the content I wrote in the OP. Regardless, made my $48 donation last night - and will make another in 2 weeks time. Really want to see this project through, about 6-8 months ago I came to Craig with this idea. Covy also independently wanted to do this as well, and it's clear that if we don't make this happen - someone else will.