I've Finally Learned the Lore of the Highrise

[@TheHalfLeft]

Victis in my opinion easily had the scariest maps mostly because it’s the first time in zombies it really feels like there’s an actual worldwide apocalypse and not just zombies following the characters through different parts of the world. Like there’s millions of other stories going on at the same time as victis.

[@localmilfchaser6938]

Agreed

[@bobbychild8529]

Interesting thing I realized while playing back the CDC Directors audio log: He states that common symptoms are short term memory loss, paranoia and delusions, and then repeats that short term memory loss is *also* reported, but he hasn't confirmed it yet. To me this further proves that he himself is suffering from all of the symptoms of the airborne pathogens.

[@ThePlutoArmy]

yes i noticed this the first time i heard it. i knew what it was implying. and he h says paranoia and then says are they really with you?

[@fasthink864]

No shit. This is so obvious it's comical, did people seriously not realize this upon their very first listening?

[@ThePlutoArmy]

@ obviously not lmao

[@engihere5434]

​@@fasthink864 prob not lot, it's fairly obvious yah lol, it's still mysterious thoo

[@engihere5434]

Bro these ppl in ur commentary such losers bro they acting like bo2 is in REAL LIFE 😂😂😂 so sorry for them

[@cgimichaelmyers2806]

The groans you hear as Stu are actually the souls inside the zombies. They say “Help me”, “The pain”, and “He lies (likely referring to Richtofen or Maxis)”. It seems like once you turn into a zombie your soul gets linked to the Aether and since Stu consumed flesh with 115 he is linked to the Aether too.

[@humanmale1042]

You bring up a point Ive never really considered, how much time lore wise it takes to complete these Easter eggs. I always just assumed 115 messed with time so much that when whatever crew is working on a quest. It just kinda happens in like a few hours but I’m rethinking all of that

[@coleozaeta6344]

There also the possibility that the 115 distorts your character’s perception to the point where the actions you seem to control with your characters aren’t actually happening as you see them. This mechanic could maybe be canon just by lore. I never thought of this until you said that.

[@iggythakid6997]

@@coleozaeta6344so in that sense the maps could technically be bigger than what they are in lore but we only see what the character can remember. If not that’s a cool head canon ig.

[@coleozaeta6344]

@@iggythakid6997 99.9% likely. The fact that they walk across whole countries with the occasional teleport means something. Stuhlinger may be the most cohesive of the group despite not being a genius like Marlton, or potentially Russman who lost much of his memory through age and 115 exposure.

[@Ivan-hz3dg]

As a modern cod zombies fan (someone who likes the newer cod zombies games unlike most) one thing I really liked was the story that bo2 had with the whole apocalypse and listening to audios of how humanity came to an end. Unlike the modern story where the world is practically normal and our story is like a secret that most of humanity doesn't know about even though it could lead to the end of the world.

[@mont2780]

Yeah bo2 mastered the atmosphere in every map regardless of how it plays. All the new maps since CW feel like you’re in a bubble somehow even though there is a literally zombie outbreak.

[@jeremiahfyan]

Thats kinda how bo1 and waw were tho. Isolated incidents, untul bo1s grand finale on moon

[@jmoney4708]

Newer zombies is dog 💩

[@jeremyrennerpornotruth]

@@jmoney4708back to bed grandpa

[@Plague14]

@@jeremiahfyanthat’s exactly what I was thinking! I always wondered what the rest of the world was doing during Nacht, Kino, Five, etc. and wondered how each event occurred decades apart, but it seems they were always isolated and no one else knew. The newer Dark Aether story is just taking it to a whole new level. Which I’m all for.

[@RedactedSoap]

51:30 this is actually the zombies trying to talk to Stu. Since he ate the flesh he can hear them, it’s just not shown in Tranzit or Buried for some reason

[@brandonlozano8184]

I really enjoyed your out of bounds vids on the CoD zombies maps. I think it would be cool for you to do the same with all the Killing Floor 2 maps. They added some neat details into those and I'd love to see what lies beyond the player's reach. Blessings

[@BigBlackVeasel]

The CDC Director killed everyone in the shelter, which is why he suddenly has "several years" worth of supplies.

[@WindlessNumber7]

Loved this video. BO2 Victis maps had a different feel to them. More horrifying maybe? They were scary, especially all the radios with people affected by 115. 10 year old me was terrified in 2013 and I still get an uneasy feeling when playing these maps today.

[@Red_Star_robin]

It felt “helpless” as in it was a loosing battle or the end especially with all those somber EE songs and atmosphere

[@tobedetermined1564]

This map and what it offers to the story overall is why I love We All Fall Down so much... it's perfect

[@Three16HD]

I miss this level of voice acting, They sound so alive like there life depends you, Very immersive.

[@SorrowHyuga]

I need more of these videos so bad I’ve been binging all day!

[@4eplattaboii975]

I’m really enjoying these videos my man. I used to play bo2 and bo1 when I was little and I was blind to the fact of all the lore. Really refreshing learning all this info.

[@Lemions2113]

This is the best format for telling the story of zombies. I’ve never understood it before now. Very excited for you to get to black ops 3 zombies. Subscribed

[@dallashammon8033]

Im commenting way too much im just high and LOVE the broken earth, its so weird to think ab richtofen in this game like yea its his soul but his body is actually samantha’s. Like all the times we are hearing his voice, her mouth is saying the words and doing the creepy smile with blue eyes. Such an interesting visual concept. Also its a little girl doing all those ball jokes 😭😭

[@VictisII]

Mannnnnn Die Rise has always been one my top 5 favorite maps I hate that it gets so much hate! Plus the intro cutscene is goated!

[@taakotruck1894]

I just subbed and liked. I don’t normally comment but this is an amazing series! Love your editing, length and style in making these videos. Keep it up

[@andrewperez35]

As someone who has been trying to catch up on lore and binged watched at least a day or 2 worth of videos this is the exact series i was looking for

[@dallashammon8033]

The broken earth arc is my fav arc of the zombies story. I rlly hope you cover the comics as well they r unbelievably important!!! Also i hope you delve into where u believe jimmy zelinski was going with the story, what he would have done with a bo3. Also i hope in the buried vid u quickly go over the first concepts for buried (a screenshot of these first concepts in john rizzo’s buried review) are available. Also i think the rift that represents richtofens loss in power is the giant hole in burieds starting area. Also idk if ur covering the story ahead of time but Purgatory Point is very important!!!

[@TheOnlyLeel]

Genuinely engaging and well put together video I thank you for your contribution

[@Albedo-nd7mk]

i will sacrifice 10 goats if you upload these videos faster please i dont wanna wait another 3 months. thank you so much for making these its amazing

[@Azarath415]

To be fair tho, I would assume it takes a ton of time to learn info to learn about specific maps on each specific game as well as make a script. So I would probably expect to wait another 2-3 months for each video

[@Albedo-nd7mk]

@@Azarath415 yeah no doubt. the video is really high quality with lots of research put into it but i still hope we have to wait less like a month at least

[@wyliecoyote6910]

love this series, thank you.

[@ThatWasAwesomeYT]

Thank you so much, glad you like the series! These videos take a ton of effort so it means a lot to see people enjoying it :)

[@wyliecoyote6910]

@@ThatWasAwesomeYT the effort it takes definitely shows!

[@coleozaeta6344]

@@wyliecoyote6910thanks for donating for me with my broke ass.

[@dallashammon8033]

Also there’s a radio in alpha omega that mentions a broken arrow facility in east asia that houses weapon testing and bioexperiments. Also russman was said to begin “wandering the earth”, not the usa and he is seen in a city in the buried intro, perhaps he worked in china

[@JamesBassham-i3o]

The one about it's working after you shoot the balls out of the dragon's mouth is definitely a Big trouble in Little China reference 😂

[@inutamer3658]

Nacht der untoten starts with a cutscene and so does call of the dead

[@AndresRN97]

Also, I think is important to pay attention to the lyrics of each map. "We all fall down " talks the perspective of richtofen in the Aether, the perspective of the zombies, and how group 935 bind the 115 to corpses and how zombies were create. Most BO1 songs talk about Samatha and call of the dead talks about Richtofen plans to take control of the Aether.

[@DAKIDDCAIRO]

Dude drop the next lore video 😢 I’m hooked 😅

[@xReed95]

This has been my absolute favorite series. Keep pumping these vids out its such good content

[@Aegxs]

The way I had Die Rise’s setting explained to me is that the blown up earth is in literal chunks, slowly drifting away from the now exposed core. You can somewhat see this in the Die Rise comic book art and Buried opening cinematic. Considering this it explains that the lava on Tranzit is the mantle flowing onto the surface of the Earth, and that Shanghai’s fragment of Earth collided with Province 22’s fragment. This also helps give *some* clarification on how Victis gets from Die Rise to Angola, it could have just been closer now. Another thing that I brought up on your Tranzit video is how does the SDC exist in the Zombies earth? Sure the timeline says moon happened after 2025, but this was before the Blundell direction story retcons. How possibly could the SDC exist if Moon and Tranzit were at any point meant to have taken place in the 20th century?

[@psycholaw4394]

I always assumed the ultimis crew had been sent to 2025 (when traveling to the moon with the teleporter) and back to their time period, when back in groom lake.

[@danielreed1859]

@@psycholaw4394that can’t be it, if you do the Easter egg and then go back to Area 51 it’s destroyed

[@DoublePointzz]

I think they should revisit this idea of high rise or maybe even just a new map in a different high rise next to die rise and we can see the original map in the distance❤

[@solidsadd]

Die Rise catches a lot of hate, and rightfully so, but this map always had an eeriness to it I found unique. Like an abstract horror. Hopeless and stranded in a faceless place. It’s hard to describe I just always loved it

[@Noitwasevilkitty]

I always assumed the radio woman was Misty, considering they have the same VA, and the German man talking to her was actually Maxis rather than Richtofen. She tried building the towers on her own before meeting the others. And I like to think that Marlton heard her message and found her first; maybe that's why she likes him so much (It would track considering they were already together when Russman and Stulingher found them)

[@DarienGiroux]

Or Misty as the lone survivor in a universe/timeline that they failed to

[@oriongear2499]

Misty from Pokémon or BO2 Zombies?

[@MarsBo2]

31:00 I remember reading a cod zombies forums about floating city mirages days before the map released

[@JacobProsser-i1i]

The only lore channel I watch

[@division8407]

6:56 That transmission seems to be incomplete, because in other versions of BO2 (like French and Spanish), it continues with the guy saying to not lose hope and then he gets suddenly attacked by something This is corroborated by the fact that all the other TV messages are played in multiple chunks while this one just has one Also, there's no way to confirm it was actually Barkley speaking since his name was added by a wiki user without a source and it's more likely they used the same VA to voice him Though the idea that it could still be him is pretty intriguing, and something I never really considered Apologies for all the yapping but I was waiting for a good opportunity to explain all that lol Great video still!

[@ThatWasAwesomeYT]

@@division8407 Oooh, very interesting. Might have to look into that

[@engihere5434]

I remember that too, sounded horrifying at the end

[@Jeepboy]

My favorite thing is it’s new/exciting and same ol same ol at same time in a good place they did the right amount on die rise it’s an all time favorite!!

[@TheViolator91]

When the world is in a state of relative peace, art reflects Armageddon (BO2 Zombies). When the world is on the brink of Armageddon, art reflects relative peace (the world in BO6 Zombies).

[@jeremiahfyan]

We werent in relative peace then, people just werent paying attention. Also that doesnt stand up because think about the post apocalypse genre that spawned during the cold war, aka brink of Armageddon

[@therubberduck1361]

36:12 Interesting theory about Tranzit, although, I think it was probably just an oversight/ret conned later on. Unfortunately, due to Jason Blundell taking over after buried we will never really get an actual answer how Richtofen even manages to reset them as its only shown once. edit 51:34 It's actually the zombies trying to talk to you that's why it sounds so garbled. You can vaguely make out "He lies", "Help me", and "Kill me".

[@uceruv]

What if the the force of the Moon's nukes caused the Earth's tectonic plates to rapidly shift? That could explain how there's rifts and pools of lava in Transit and how Shanghai could "collide" with Province 22.

[@uceruv]

Or maybe whatever these "rifts" are just reshuffled the Earth by teleporting things everywhere.

[@djphoenixproductions]

It has never been a secret that transit is a direct result of the nukes from the moon. Come on man lol

[@dallashammon8033]

I thought that maybe there was a blast so powerful in province 22 it blew a piece of a building all the way to shanghai but meh thats dumb

[@coleozaeta6344]

@@uceruvJust look up the lore of the first ever PaP machine, it’ll explain what you’re talking about somewhat, but even more likely raise more questions.

[@dallashammon8033]

Its so cool how the mpd is like a broadcast and the polarization devices are the radiotowers

[@beamerbotch]

The girl who cries about not knowing what to do, is most likely referring to maxis, as many maxis followers mention that maxis doesn’t respond when they try to talk to him. One of the maxis followers break down while drunk (I think) & says he is going to break all electronics so maxis cannot talk to them. I think the audio logs are in Tranzit.

[@AlexWebbb]

Technically the ether storyline happened before the campaign because technically zombies and campaign are connected now but it was the storyline first during Black ops four where everything got switched to one universe and that’s where they campaign is in so technically zombies happend before the campaign

[@Hyper-mole]

Been waiting for this video! ❤

[@Cojosho97]

From what I understand, the moans heard during the match are from the actual zombies. Asking you to help them, to end their game.

[@Thecorrector3000]

It’s funny that I didn’t really like this map when it dropped but now I wish they would release it again. It looks like so much fun now.

[@leantractor2775]

Love die rise one of my favorites

[@TopMostFlavor]

Awesome video. I love the atmosphere of this map

[@dallashammon8033]

Also remember in tag der toten that group 935 had a mining facility in angola!

[@MrBarkode]

0:36 do you know what else is massive

[@Azarath415]

The zombies community

[@MrBarkode]

@ yessir

[@vegaspapp]

You could say the hype doesn't taper or fade

[@coleozaeta6344]

MY MAWWWWM!

[@ManuelHernandez-bd7yu]

I love die rise, the victis crew is kind of funny and probably the least unhinged if you compare it to somebody going through the events of tranzit die rise and buried, there all going crazy paranoid freaking TF out forgetting shit

[@cai.rowlands]

Why did I just realise today that 'Die Rise' is a play on the word 'Highrise'.... and not just a random title for the map.🤔🥴 and that I found that out in 2025😂

[@stevenhooker9948]

They need to do a zombies chronicles 3 and bring the older maps into the new play style

[@synchacker25]

Nah, that woman being distraught at about the 15:00 mark is something i have never heard before. Shit gave me actual chills, man. I played the shit out of die rise, it was a preferable map to me, and i never found her audio clip. "The German man stopped talking to me." That raises so many questions for me. Was that Richtofen? Maxis, maybe? Did she eat zombie flesh as well? Can Richtofen choose who speaks to? Did he decide Stuhlinger was a better fit for what he wanted? I put myaelf in her shoes; all alone, in a zombie apocalypse, bombs going off, you desperately need food so you reluctantly eat the dead flesh of your fellow human, start hearing a voice in your head tell you things that might fix the situation, then that voice just stops. All alone, again. No idea what youre supposed to do, where youre supposed to go, nothing. Shit, man..at least Stu had Russ, Misty, and Marlton to keep him company. She had nobody.

[@shanetyler3228]

Lowkey the woman sounds like Bulma in DBZ during something like the Namek arc

[@1UpGam3r]

They actually did mention the Great leap Forward but this is just the one-off thing. You can barely hear an audio near the stage on Kino Der Toten but this is only on the Wii. There are no other consoles that have this audio. Here's the audio in question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqXVhnyGnbJ3fK8si=yhQ-X2I4s3xSNx6B

[@skeezerthegamer115]

High rise ughh I'm about to start swinging 😂

[@smoothmallerd2425]

Dope video. Just got done watching your last videos 🔥

[@Rouchruvis]

I hope you talk about the Buried/Moon connection theories when you get there. Its not really a canon thing now but its more of what the original intention for the story was going before Jimmy Zelinski was fired and Jason Blundel took over zombie's. Theres some cool theories about it that exist and its kinda nice to speculate what Jimmys original ideas were before Jason changed everything going into bo3

[@SweatyTesty]

I love these kinds of vids keep it up

[@thehungrybunana6901]

115 country timeline: The first country to have contact with 115 was Japan, shi no numa. One of the radios in a previous games explains how they found it there and transferred it to the Der Ries facility. Germany was the first to make some use of it after seeing zombies in Japan. Then it was america and Russia at the same time during the custody battle of Germany.

[@gazebo936]

That's only the canon timeline until we got the Kronorium/bo4 radios, then they retconned it to be the miners in Purgatory Point that discovered it first (if not earlier in the middle ages)

[@thehungrybunana6901]

@gazebo936 yup, had to check but you're right.

[@wayneigoe6722]

5:22 To be fair, when you consider the events of 2018-2021 in our world, is it REALLY that suprising that it took as long as it did for the government dweebs to start and finish research on the zombie outbreak?

[@NectazzUniverse]

17:39 Dr Isaac Kleiner confirmed member of The Flesh

[@AbyssWolfGames]

I don’t think he has went down the rabbit hole fully yet the old zombies takes place in different dimensions and different times and paradoxes that change stuff

[@shoelessbandit1581]

Ngl it's probably safe to say anything after black ops 2 is non cannon due to how dumb it is

[@nitoyep3366]

It’s refreshing going over it all again

[@AndresRN97]

37:00 Tranzit is also a time loop. When you enter the first time in the bank, you can hear quotes of the victis saying that its seems they were there before, and the bank seems familiar.

[@bonkboi420]

Buried could be the same, you will hear the same audio ques from the end of the Easter Egg (on Maxis side I think) at the beginning of every match, indicating the start and end of a loop cycle

[@WRX_MITCH]

Let’s goooo!!! Work day just got 100000 times better

[@LegoBuddies-f5k]

balls filled with souls to charge the spire

[@slaytonchambers5476]

Would be a cool tv series about this apocalypse in zombies.

[@dallashammon8033]

33:45 the rift is just the rift in richtofen’s power created when maxis nukes earth

[@swiftyscurratv5821]

Russmen in the cut scene with the "get down Mr President" dive And I know I'm not the only one who has the quote "mend the rift " pop in his head at random times in the day

[@Extaun]

Call of the dead technical had the third cutscene, Five the second and Nacht the first. Die Rise being fourth.

[@ThatWasAwesomeYT]

Oh, you're so right....how did I forget Call of the Dead! I'm not sure if I would consider Nacht's intro a cutscene, but I suppose it could be argued so fair play.

[@AbyssWolfGames]

35:15 it’s not a time loop it’s magic the victus crew dies a lot in the comics they get resurrected as cod bo4 comics show

[@conradotd6110]

hello! im a huge fan of your channel and im just kinda curious to know if you plan on making an out of bounds exploration video on any call of duty ghosts map? they are incredibly interesting

[@ThatWasAwesomeYT]

It's definitely not impossible...

[@enriquegonzalez807]

That was a lot talking about balls .😂

[@jamesduke5848]

Shanghai prpbably collided with province because of the fracturing of the earth and all the earthquakes it would cause which would probably be severly large scale earthquakes. And the chunks of earth floating are just closer than the moon to you so thats why they look bigger

[@themangolorian4641]

My favorite thing to witness is seeing all the Tranzit haters slowly start to like it

[@sirjaydenx7]

ah yes.. highrise one of my favorite zombie maps ☠️

[@ziggytheassassin5835]

I wonder what zombies would have looked like if jimmy zilienski stayed as head of zombies. The Victis maps all had such a vibe with the post apocalypse ruled by insane ascended german scientists.

[@triplecripple17]

20:04 in the wii version of kino there is a radio mentioning the great leap foward

[@pastrott3n264]

Love the series but I wanted to point out, the 1st cutscene is five, the second was call of the dead outside of the lighthouse and after the game over screen, then die rise I believe

[@RushGamingDK]

What does it say at 57:30? I know it's Wingdings but I'm not sure of what it says. CBA to translate it.

[@cactusttp_5520]

28:30 It’s about the continents hitting each other on this destroyed earth. Same thing for buried, the american cost (a western town) collided with the african cost (a desert).

[@retrosaucin445]

The legend!

[@oriongear2499]

I like to think that China did have it's own Element 115 Science Group similar to Germany's Group 935, Japan's Division 9, Russia's Ascension Group, the US's Groom Lake and Broken Arrow programs etc., but when it came to teleportation, they didn't enough 115 (or the right blueprints) to create an MTD-like device and instead the scientists experimented on people and/or animals and used some DNA (or some other thing IDK) from Frogs to make them more agile than the average person.

[@kms9880]

Halloween 2035 finna be lit

[@teraxxin7944]

The wingdings at 50:52 spell out "you must shape your solution, spell it out by name. great things can come by after shedding a small piece of the prize." and the wingdings2 at 57:29 spell "and it is the end of this Easter Egg. The final solution is a phrase, a name of sorts. The first person who types it into the comment section gets the pinned comment. Happy hunting ;)". I got no clue, so if someone wants to solve it please do.

[@ThatWasAwesomeYT]

@@teraxxin7944 🤔

[@officialdgsavage4574]

been waiting on this

[@ManuelHernandez-bd7yu]

Yeah tranzit isn't that bad, I mean the bank and perma perks and gun in the fridge helps a lot tho

[@isaiahevans001]

Explore the mission WMD in black ops 1 next please! Always loved that mission.

[@ode2491]

Vondy❣️ man of the people

[@NectazzUniverse]

“Side effects are memory loss… some people say a side effect is memory loss…”

[@JoshO423]

☕️🗿 that was awesome.

[@elllynas]

Can you do no clip on liberty falls or anything like that? Love those series from you sir 👌🏼

[@TheCabalOnMars]

Diamond.

[@ThatWasAwesomeYT]

@@TheCabalOnMars Shapes are cool, you definitely need one but not the diamond. I might have made this a bit too hard…

[@pixelsketch02]

​@ThatWasAwesomeYT I got diamond 4 Triangle 7 Square 18 Hexagon 34 I've been able to decode all the wingdings and I think find all the shapes, I've just always been awful at riddles 😔

[@bc1784]

Yoooooo I’ve been waiting

[@kotaac.]

Subscribing for this series

[@Goodtimeswitharshia]

I really wonder how orgins excavation site 64 will fit into this

[@Maletal]

When are you doing Beast From Beyond

[@Thisisrem]

Nuke town is a facility of broken arrow its the birthplace of the 🥑 and also its containment. However if he were to ever escape a nuke is set to explode and now you put two and two together and guess why nuketown zombies is like that. Also it has a large supply of 115 if i remember and its one of the targets that the Ultimis crew blew up at the end of the moon easter egg and as a result of that 115 has spread to the globe. The rocket heading for you when you die is actually the rockets sent from the moon. Ps its been a while since I watched zombies lore videos so feel free to correct me

[@DeceptiveOutlaw]

Well I'm the second comment and my trucks screwed up. But zombies should help us both..I hope😅

[@kfaughter4350]

LMFAOOO HAHAGA You have no idea idea how hard that made me laugh. Thank you, you made me feel better

[@shslkirby]

We actually had another cutscene in call of the dead before die rise