How IX Became the 'Gold Standard' of BO4 Zombies

What IX (Nine) did for the Zombies Community is nothing short of magic. While Black Ops 4 brought about some contentious changes to the Call of Duty Zombies franchise as a whole, it can't be understated just how impactful IX (Nine) was with its narrative, gameplay improvements, and strategic implementation via the Chaos Storyline.
Thank you for taking this ride with me while we continue this BO4 Retrospective journey back in time.
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Time Stamps
Settling For Greatness 02:04
Map History 03:13
Map Retrospective 07:58
Narrative 13:10
Main Quest 16:26
Gameplay 28:10
Challenge System 30:30
Wonder Weapon 31:16
Side EE's 34:32
High Rounds, Rush, & Gauntlets 37:21
Where Are We Going? 40:57
Content Creator Sources:
@ChaosGaming
@NoahJ456
@MrDalekJD
@MrRoflWaffles
@OriginalSoundtrack
@CallofDuty
@Treyarch
@Joshwoocool
@Nickssssssss
@Fortunate
@webarking8603
@gordonramsay
@tesla
@WatchMojo
@zombiesOG115
@Hybs
Source Links:
Orion Info: tinyurl.com/5755nyfs
Mythology Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serket
COD Wiki Chaos Story: tinyurl.com/4hj6sbsn
CODZ Reddit: reddit.com/r/CODZombies/
Read Comics Online: tinyurl.com/2jef9syt
If there is anyone or anything I missed please let me know
#CallofDuty #Zombies #Blackops4

[@KrowDotPng]

bro ur videos single handedly got me to try BO4 again. Ur work is seriously top notch and deserves more credit

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I appreciate you brother. Thank you very much :) And I’m glad you’re giving bo4 a chance it’s a solid title. Def had some issues. Can’t deny that though :)

[@digitaldonovin1189]

I also just downloaded BO4 again because of these videos. Probably going to buy it again for zombies when Microsoft puts it on Steam later this year due to the Blizzard acquisition.

[@eggeggs0]

same honestly started sleeping on it because it felt so much worse than bo3 but now i want to try it again

[@coconoobz344]

You def deserve more publicity. These type of videos take time to make and are my favorite to watch and listen to. Can’t wait to see more and watch you grow as a content creator

[@Tomtainius]

This is an alternate channel for Skeptix, who has 16k subscribers on his proper channel and gets thousands of views on all his videos. But even then, your point still stands. I love his content!

[@coconoobz344]

i will go check that out. Thank you

[@unriccioqualunque4789]

Here after having watched all of your work, truly beautifully made. Didn’t really like BO4 zombies but you made me accept that it was a part of something more important than just a game. Hope to see more videos from you :D

[@Frontflipse]

Im binging all your BO4 vids, man they have me HOOKED!!! Great work!!!

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Thank you!!! 🙏🏻 I am super stoked you’re enjoying them!

[@r7fragz390]

These videos are so fucking well made really takes me back to the bo4 release and the dlc drops, well done brother

[@Ypsilon289]

Your content genuinely feels like it is filled with passion behind it, and the editing as a whole is really well done, especially for a channel this early in its lifespan, I honestly thought when I first saw your videos you had like 500K subs from the overall presentation. Keep up the content and I can't wait to see you cover the other games/future ones!

[@romanminkinow9166]

Just binged the whole series and can’t wait for my favorite BO4 map(dead of the night) to hopefully get recognized for what it is. Great videos and good luck with the rebrand.

[@parkerlandergan8217]

He’s not doing dead of the night unfortunately

[@BadMoody420]

@@parkerlandergan8217Wdym?

[@parkerlandergan8217]

@@BadMoody420 he made on a post on what cod to do retrospectives on now that he finished BO4. But if u look at the channel he’s only posted 6 of the 8 maps, dead of the night and anchiet evil didn’t get videos

[@user-gz4sf6sg4s]

This is driving me crazy you sound just like one of my favorite zombies KZbinrs that left KZbin. Fantastical gamer. You say a lot of words the same way he did lol good videos keep it up

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I'll have to check out his content

[@user-gz4sf6sg4s]

@@AfterlifeAnalysis he is no longer on KZbin and deleted his channel with all his vids. Sad day

[@bryce1361]

I've been a part of the community since Syndicate hit 115, and I actually liked a lot of the Chaos storyline! My biggest issue was just the swamp of special enemy types. However, I do wish the focus was more on Aether than Chaos. Maybe they should've done Aether, and then had an event and revealed Chaos to us

[@kettehro]

you mean he "hit" 115 😅

[@djibalio]

You make some of the best zombies content you deserve more views and subs

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Appreciate you brother. Doing my best to grow so that we can have a thriving community.

[@Billray795]

Just came across your videos and just wanted to say these are great, and so high quality. Def going to have to re-install BO4 now.

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Thank you Billray! I appreciate that very much! Without your appreciation, I wouldn't have the videos to make! So thank you!

[@HystericalHyena]

I am eagerly awaiting the next video. I dropped bo4 after the launch issues, and as you have stated the sheer overwhelming changes to gameplay were just too much for me. I had largely skipped bo3 (I had no friends to do easter eggs at the end of bo2 life cycle, and only came back to bo3 for zombies chronicles) so yeah I just wrote it off as another great franchise being ruined due to the passage of time. Your videos have helped me look at these maps through a new lense and I also cant wait to see how the Chaos story plays out!

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

Death of Orion could’ve alternately upgraded into Scorpios stinger, since that’s the constellation (picture form stars in the sky) of the scorpion, which is if I’m not mistaken winter or spring in appearance because it’s always sequentially after Orion, like you said, Scorpio is chasing the hunters belt after all this time

[@mattsmemefarm5662]

Many people dont like bo4, but i thoroughly enjoyed Alpha Omega, Classified, Ancient Evil, IX, and Dead of The Night. I want to try the easter eggs on bo4 too but i have no one to play with

[@the_armada5579]

I'll try some with you, been wanting to get back into bo4 zombies

[@RandoManFPV]

Loved the maps hated the game. Blood of the dead was the only map I actually played more than a few times and eventually beat

[@mattsmemefarm5662]

@the_armada5579 I'm gonna be on Playstation later in the week when I'm on vacation, I'm gonna need to scrape together some money to get Playstation plus back, but if so I'll definitely run it. Should we start with Voyage of Despair? I haven't played too much of the map

[@mattsmemefarm5662]

@RandoManFPV the revising of how the perks work was definitely weird my first time playing, instead of having just good perks and bad perks, they all can be made useful on certain maps and suck on others.

[@the_armada5579]

@mattsmemefarm5662 oh I am on pc, idk if we can, I don't remember when cross platform was put in

[@krustykrabpizza4328]

IX might be one of my favorite maps ever lol

[@J3fe]

Thank you for your videos man! I often use them to drift off to sleep. Not because they are boring but they are like the right tempo for me to just shut my brain off and watch in bed during bed time lmao. This is like ADHD/zombies fans dream for relaxing

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I appreciate that. I honestly think it's the biggest compliment to be part of someone's daily lives in small mundane ways. Genuinely am grateful for you and the support.

[@albertorep97]

I love IX man, its crazy to me how that is the best chaos map (imo) and is also the first one.

[@krauzer7]

Ah yes, the famous god of WAR Odin.

[@droptopsonata]

fantastic map

[@user-kh1xh8kz5y]

only 1.8k subs im shocked bc the videos are fire

[@micahheller6212]

9 was a weird map for me, I felt like the more I played it the more I would rather be playing the alcatraz mk2 map, not that it was terrible just that i couldnt bring myself to care about the chaos crew, and the tone was never something I liked (i was a weirdo who hung out below the surface level because it felt more "zombies" then the surface areas) the egg was really good, but felt weird in that the boss was very different then anything else in the game, I always tried to solo and it made me so annoyed because the elephant felt like was originally designed to be baited between multiple players, though I vaguely remember that they updated the AI for the elephants at some point. the map wasnt bad, it just doesnt feel like it was made for zombies fans, it feels like it was made for newbies and those who were playing four player multiplayer, though that may just be perception. Also, before we figured out what was up the cutscene was good but I felt like it always kinda ruined all the time and energy I put into the easter egg. "oh if you die you just arent in the vision any more luls" lastly the wonderweapon, where to start with this thing, its always been good as cc, but if you have 4 players who all have it you can clear nearly infinite rounds by standing back to back and each covering an entrance in certain rooms while using another weapon to deal the damage, a lot of things on this map kinda feel like that, crappy in singleplayer, amazing for multiplayer, same with the steps where you have to kill specific zombies in tight places, those are so much easier with at least one person on each floor. the way you setup your loadout beforehand has a weird impact on engagement, you want to play more zombies (as a mode) to level weapons and make you get more stuff to chose early on but once you get good attachments for weapons you like and have a starting weapon thats really good and you enjoy the desire to play drops off a cliff because you lose the meta progression dopamine as well as having a super easy time for the most part.

[@PrinceSheogorath]

Question; will you be doing a Cold War retrospective? Since its life is now lived?

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I would like to do that yes sir 👍🏻

[@raoul.__.r3363]

I actually think dead of the night is way better than IX

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I personally do too. But I think objectively from a game dev perspective it is the superior experience. But as a hardcore fan Dead of the Night is my fav.

[@Tomtainius]

@@AfterlifeAnalysis Couldn’t agree more. All my more casual friends live and die by IX, whereas I love DOTN, and that’s not a bad thing.

[@Bizarrebirchdoesgame]

Looking at this map compared to what we have today. My God it’s so sad. The maps are barely even edited multiplayer/campaign levels now.

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I know right? Then think ab MWZ... oof

[@Bizarrebirchdoesgame]

@@AfterlifeAnalysis oh don’t get me started lol. Love the videos BTW been watching a lot of them.

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

🥲 thanks dude, I genuinely do appreciate that you enjoy them. Really I do.

[@itseasymode]

I've been watching these videos assuming they were all, at a minimum, 200k+ viewed videos. Keep up the good work man, you'll get there.

[@crazyJman80]

I think Treyarch should keep giving Chaos some support, maybe as a DLC for the next CoD game when the main life cycle is over, or better yet, it's own dedicated game. Becuase it really does seem like they wanted to full send this, but maybe shouldn't have been the main focus of all their efforts in BO4. Like it would be dope to see where the Chaos story would go.

[@Zephy3602]

Bro I hope one day I can be in one of your videos, bc I’m a literal cod zombies nerd abt cod zombies storyline, etc

[@Ebowleslap]

I find the gameplay loop of IX mind numbingly repetitive/ too easy- I can literally let my eyes glaze over and I won’t down

[@BatOfTheDead]

I really hope chaos gets finished someday….

[@brushbandit73]

Please make an ancient evil one

[@ebvren]

Yooo DOTN vid when???

[@THEcoolestRIP]

uhh i personally found your mics tremble/'highs' to be blistering this ep but i have no idea just throwing that out there

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Treble* or high frequency spectrum. And im not sure what to tell ya. I use the same exact settings every single time. I literally copy it from each previous video/audio settings. Sorry bud didn't mean for it to happen

[@THEcoolestRIP]

@@AfterlifeAnalysis haha all good I was just wondering if you noticed anything, but yeah its probably just me

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Sometimes my mouth gets really dry. And maybe I was just sharp with my S's and my P's. But I do really try to keep it level. I was an audio engineer for years.

[@andreberclet3733]

I don't really get your point when you said that Black ops 1-2-3 the map offered featured variety compared to "menu variety" in bo4. Gameplay variety on each map exist and does not only rely on choosing your loadout and getting helion slavo and spamming specialist. Honestly never really played BO4 that way and i understand that it offer a more "linear" experience if you only do that but each map offer the same amount of variety if it's not more in some maps. When you say, you just have to want it to play another experience than Hellion salvo + Specialist. Personally i've never play the same loadout in each map since the beginning. In the same way you can say a lot of solo player will take "Quick revive, jugg, double tap and P.H.D or Widows wine and get the WW (and AAT in BO3) in every zombies map. The game offers you variety but it's not because you choose to only play one thing because "it's the more powerfull" that the other options are completety useless. I understand the "you can do the same thing in each map" compared to the other Black ops but i think it's not really relevant to reduce bo4 to one specific loadout, because you can do the listing of the "perfect" set up in every zombies map as well but doesn't mean it's the only way to play the maps.

[@slothxer2188]

Do you ever think an infinite warfare zombies review would be interesting to you?

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Yes sir. The plan is finish bo4, then ww2, then bo6 reviews and cold war and then iw. With other games in between.

[@michi7204]

When is Dead of the Night being uploaded?!

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Soon. Work just won't let up, and I had to put my cat to sleep. Just trying to stay above water.

[@tarriiusxd6318]

I feel like if they finished primis before chaos, it would’ve been better. The maps and the opportunity was amazing. Just poor timing

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

💯 I couldn't agree more

[@m7stang]

MORE VIDEOS RN OR ELSE

[@Imposteryosh]

Yo lmaoooo i dead thought ur whole video got snagged till i read the comments

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

All good brother 👍🏻 appreciate your concern though! Truly!

[@DubstepAllOnMe]

Whats your second channel

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I am doing a rebrand - but this was the origin channel kzbin.info/door/67wRtMOSofV2qYjOnrawQA

[@lewiebrownie]

can we get these for bo3?

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

One day probably yeah. I think I'm going to do IW or WW2 next or maybe cold war lmaoo I am undecided.

[@mozz6790]

@@AfterlifeAnalysisCan I preemptively put a vote towards IW?

[@teediumTV]

If this channel is really a second channel for Skeptix and you aren’t just stealing his content, you should comment on these videos with the Skeptix account or make a post on that account that links to this one. It’s very hard to believe comments from this channel without anything being said by the original one.

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I did that once on another video. And I won't be doing it anymore. I want to get natural data to make informed decisions ab my future on KZbin. Although i appreciate your concern, it's not really anyone's business what I do or don't do with my content. People keep thinking it's stealing without even realizing that the thumbnails are the original files without text or edits. How would a thief acquire those? The IX video had an additional 10-15 seconds bc of the avenged sevenfold segment. How would the thief alter that? Also, why would anyone steal from a channel with 16k subs to get fewer views? Just basic reasoning and logic will show that this isn't thievery. Either way, I do not need to disclose any reasons why I am doing anything. I have been doing it to be nice, which I shouldn't bc now it's messing up the natural draw, I want the videos to gather on their own, bc I am thinking ab rebranding and starting from scratch.

[@LowTierScrub]

Anyone still play/wanna get back into it? I have ps5 (my zombies account is cracked BUT I havent played in a long time) Edit: cracked as in max prestige level 205 and half the easter eggs done and a few round 100s in there)

[@honoursplace3291]

This is stolen. This is Skeptix's video from his BO4 Zombies Retrospective series

[@mattsmemefarm5662]

This is Skeptix re-upload. He owns the Afterlife channel and is experimenting seeing how much views a new channel would get with this quality of video. He cleared it up in the other comment sections on the other videos on this channel. I thought the same thing at first though

[@Grudgebearer4life]

@@mattsmemefarm5662😂😂 thought it was a bot

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

I'm going to make a post on the channel addressing all of the confusion. But it is all my own content.

[@user-xf2dj2sh8x]

@@AfterlifeAnalysisthank you, i thought this sounded like skeptix and it is, content thievery is at an all time high

[@Littlebitz3211]

Ur a bot

[@MrOperatorGamer]

I never bought bo4 for a reason, it was an incomplete cod.

[@JokaKarni]

Bruh.... plagerism???

[@AfterlifeAnalysis]

Technically this wouldn’t be plagiarism. It would be just a straight copy or theft. Luckily i made the content and I’m just testing it out on a second channel.

[@MrOperatorGamer]

Bo4 zombies sucked, where’s the Og percs?

[@it2spooky4me79]

Please for the love of God, don't spell perks like that.

[@Cooleditzc-137]

@@it2spooky4me79 “no, no, he’s got a point.”

[@killaiceman420]

POG