THE CALL OF DUTY ZOMBIES ICEBERG: A Deep Dive

Lets have a closer look at the Call of Duty Zombies Iceberg.
This has been my biggest project yet and I'm glad as to how it has turned out!
❤ Thank you Mish Koz and Sunflower for inspiring me ❤
Original post: / the_cod_zombies_iceberg
00:00- Prologue
02:07- Above the Iceberg
12:29- The Tip of the Iceberg
18:02- Beneath the Surface
24:26- Body of the Iceberg
31:21- Deep Iceberg
36:48- Bottom of the Iceberg
43:20- Below the Iceberg
49:29- The Abyss
53:21- The Aether
56:25- Conclusion
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[@Wendigoon]

Top notch video man

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Thanks mate! Love your content btw

[@bonasmaterial]

yoooooo

[@Ducky-kd7hq]

Post conspiracy iceberg level 8 please

[@xaviertiemann]

Never thought I’d see Wendigoon on this video

[@xlazershock]

WENDIGOON!

[@baman7041]

Surprised this iceberg didn’t mention the last gen Richthofen jumpscare

[@nitecore-wx9lj]

no

[@lastgendempsey4331]

Called me?

[@iissleepii7874]

@@lastgendempsey4331 yes U should’ve been in the list 😔

[@aydendorobek1286]

But it did?

[@skully9639]

Those jumpscares scared the living shit out of me when I was younger lmao

[@cheeks3367]

“kino is dlc 4” is in reference to the fact kino der toten was planned to be the 4th dlc for world at war but it’s development was started to late so most of the assets were moved to the black ops 1 engine, hence the WAW guns in the map and the overall feel of the map seeming very world at war esque

[@daynroberts4743]

This

[@danieldietrich9969]

There's only one WAW gun in Kino

[@Shakethe5Dusts]

@@danieldietrich9969 eat pant

[@Shakethe5Dusts]

can confirm. was going to be part of WAW dlc 4, but there was too much overlap with MW2's budding life cycle

[@jaydenbrown8161]

Yes that's also why the members of five have thunder gun voice lines

[@kcenneckennek]

There was one theory, waaaaay back, about being able to escape the Pentagon in Five. Someone in my school probably made it up, but I remember talking to friends about it, apparently if you made it to a certain round (probably 50 or 100, way out of our skill range) and knifed some panes of glass, you ended the game and got a secret cutscene where JFK gets his head ripped off by a zombie in the presidential limo

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

This is insane omg. I audibly laughed reading this 😂😂

[@catlover-db1rj]

That would be cool

[@chubbyclub2502]

You aren't alone. I heard plenty of zombies rumors from this guy and that was one of them. Or I might misremember. Five has always been my least favorite do to it being so tight and I was always scared of going to the bottom so maybe my subconscious invented a theory to comfort me that I can eventually escape Five.

[@therightman9354]

The Kino is dlc 4 was a reference to how it was going to possibly WAW dlc 4

[@gamingdefined5952]

When I heard this I thought to comment it myself but you were already the top comment lol

[@lilkink4118]

Facts

[@salemgelidi3266]

and the giant is in France was a reference to the afdgx cipher in the motd intro screen, hinting towards dlc4 (origins), and was eventually solved during bo3's lifespan

[@salemgelidi3266]

and the SOE super Easter egg was referring to blundells 'im tired of people finding Easter eggs this is one you'll never get' video, along with all the hints of strange pods hanging around the SOE map with odd code and such.

[@snakezase2998]

No it was supposed to be the 4th dlc

[@ProwardGameplay]

For the "we are all part of the cycle" entry, the theory is that every single game of zombies played is canon, and those where everyone dies just result in the cycle starting over from the beginning

[@vultixx-5166]

What does canon mean

[@tomgerrits2348]

How about all the times the game crashed?😂

[@steiks-vintagewarfare7551]

Different universe

[@brettmoss3652]

@@vultixx-5166 like actually happened in the universe. it means like every game we played as the characters actually happened in the games lore

[@Dokusha_]

I been thinking about this since bo3, when we fail, the cycle repeats from the beginning of times, and when we succeed we only make a step Forward until our final destination

[@destinravellette1364]

Upgrading apothicon servant on shadows used to actually be a thing, it was a glitch that would happen if you were switching weapons as you try to pack a punch and if timed right would put the apothicon servant in. Made people very curious as to why it had a packed form but was for the most part inaccessible.

[@ohyeahchannel439]

I remember it was pretty easy to do

[@destinravellette1364]

@@imdatguy0224 what a time to have been alive lol I probably did the same :)

[@blueXO]

it was removed because the the devs saw how OP the weapon was upgraded.

[@destinravellette1364]

@@blueXO I was pretty sure they didn’t intend on letting you do it but just had the PaP version in the files so people were only able to upgrade to it via a glitch. I would infer then that it was intended for reveal only in Revelations, and probably would’ve removed it bc they never intended on spoiling the reveal of the new wonder weapon

[@weskintime4177]

@@destinravellette1364 there are cut upgrade steps that are missing a few final touches but it leads to pack a punch and allows the person to upgrade the Servant. You had to shoot cocoons outside the map using the servant

[@emerson-biggons7078]

Small correction around 16:36 the reason Tranzit couldn't have a the features wasn't a hardware limitation but the game engine itself was the limitation at the time. That's why denizens, the fog, the speed of the bus, everything about the maps layout was picked. The engine would literally crash if you moved too fast and the denizens were there to stop you from being too hasty. Another correction 50:24 the super EE is real but it ain't super, it just gives you the RK5 in every map. Kino was originally a WaW map that they delayed because of MW2. You can tell from the contrasting design of every other BO1 original map being entirely different to Kino.

[@cookazor]

Why did they delay because of mw2?

[@emerson-biggons7078]

@@cookazor I forget the exact reasoning but since everyone was moving to MW2 one of the best selling games of the time, they figured it wouldnt sell enough if they just released it.

[@Seecret]

@@emerson-biggons7078 The Map Pack (DLC 4 for WAW) was supposed to include three Zombies maps, all of them teased in the last World at War map Der Riese. The map pack was ultimately cut due to the reallocation of resources at Treyarch to complete the Call of Duty: Black Ops campaign in time and the fact that it would have been released too close to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 The maps were used in Black Ops Zombies mode with the Theater map becoming Kino Der Toten, the Coast map becoming Call of the Dead and the Paris map becoming Moon.

[@carpet163]

It's amazing how far Cod zombies has come but sometimes I just miss the old days when it was just a nazi experiment gone wrong and not about inter-dimensional aliens.

[@LordSaucyPickles]

Honestly same here man. Black ops 2 zombies besides origins is only canon for me.

[@jgcjgh]

Same bro the story is unnecessarily confusing now

[@sam_9228]

@@jgcjgh i love it

[@jgcjgh]

@@sam_9228 hey man good for you. Different people enjoy different things

[@195j]

same I liked it when it was waw to bo1 I think they should of came up with a new story for bo2 to bo4 but I guess they couldn't leave bo1 on a cliffhanger

[@explodindonut2100]

I believe the "motd in real life" entry was referring to the real escape that happened at Alcatraz where 3 men escaped the prison and supposedly left on a raft, their fate is unknown. Motd itself is based on this escape, even with easter eggs within the map such as the Golden Spork, as the inmates used a spoon to dig out of the prison.

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

This real life escape came to the back of my mind when making this but I thought it was just talking about Alcatraz in general, thanks for the correction :)

[@explodindonut2100]

@@TheExceptionalGamer No problem, thanks for the great video, I was honestly so happy to see someone did an iceberg on Cod Zombies, and it's such a well made video too, keep up the great content man

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

@@explodindonut2100 Thanks a bunch for the support, it took ages haha. I’ll keep it up

[@theowasden8522]

Nah it was referring to noahj himself going to Alcatraz irl

[@djodyssey99]

The FBI received a letter from one of the escapees a few years ago.

[@baconshreds1772]

Most people will watch this and think "this community is so bizzare." I watch this video and think "this community has really cultivated a unique culture in gaming." I absolutely love these games and the memories.

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Yeah for sure! The zombies community will always hold a special place in my heart

[@emilefg9774]

21:55 The owner of that webpage was an infamous speedrunner, who "achieved" various world records in WaW Zombies; of course, almost all of them were fake. He made it to round 5000 and more in WaW maps, like Shi No Numa, Nacht der Untoten and Verruckt, being world records at that time. However, all of these were fake, making some modifications in his game. The only real record was the one in Shi No Numa, after that, he made an statement about the accusations and dissapeared from the internet.

[@byronmenendez4140]

Sithbas???

[@diegomartinez3986]

The raygun mk 2 in bo1 is a reference that you can find when accessing the computer in the main menu. You can find a file talking about how they are working on a new raygun to avoid taking splash damage

[@Suckit626]

That's awesome

[@killwillv2610]

PHD 27 is a reference to an easter egg we all thought you could do on Die Rise to get PHD. There's 27 dots on the wall above the broken elevator and the number 27 is on some other things around the map, like a fridge panel. I hope you notice this man because this is the legit reason

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Omg this is insane, how did I not know about this? 😂

[@killwillv2610]

No lie I saw a speculation video about it a long time ago. I tried stuff out for myself to obviously no avail lol

[@bungiesblueflames]

@@TheExceptionalGamer here’s a really old video that popularized the 27 PHD theory kzbin.info/www/bejne/lau3m5qPhalki7c

[@killwillv2610]

@@bungiesblueflames wow you found it GG

[@missingindy]

Oh shit, do you get 2 pills and immediately know what pills you pick up do?

[@lazykyuubi4300]

The theory about Shadow Man being Mephistopheles is even MORE plausible when you consider that you can actually see a movie poster for Faust at Kino Der Toten

[@doctorofskillz2932]

I'm so confused no one has mentioned IW where mephistopheles is the big bad. Thats what I assumed the entry was about

[@TheRealJM4]

​@@doctorofskillz2932 same

[@iZiqq]

I can’t even explain the WHIPLASH I got from hearing “Hitler Boss” and “Tranzit Route B” lmao those are some memoriessssss

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Lmao same here, I honestly tried not to burst out laughing with some of these entries

[@definetlynotamouse2732]

@@TheExceptionalGamer on the nuketown cw map it says bus route b

[@nnelg6332]

Some guy in school said the alternate route was called “Blue Run” and made my friends believe it

[@toasterman5412]

Fucking route b lmao I'm old

[@tropical5135]

the worst part about takeo being raped by a spider is that it actually makes some sense

[@tropical5135]

@Oh Ta no

[@TheDarkarmy013]

@Oh Ta yes

[@johnnyg4mer764]

I probably now found out why Takeo is Tim Hansen's favorite...

[@trollface4kultrahd]

@@johnnyg4mer764 da fuq

[@isthatmateo8332]

i knew this was a thing before

[@jggaming7506]

"The giant is in France." Is actually referring to a cipher that hinted at origins. The giant being the robots and France of course is where the map takes place.

[@AfromanRants]

“Katana in BO2” is referring to a rumour that you could get Takeo’s katana as a secondary melee upgrade in origins. I don’t remember much about it but I remember people in my school talking about it when the map dropped

[@TheNimsRoll]

The reason why the game crashes on round 256 is because there is no round 256. Binary only has the numbers 0 through 255, so once you get to 256, it would say 0. Since there is no round 0, the game has a coding error and crashes

[@brute2568]

Binary only has a maximum of 255 if the binary number in question has a length of 8. A binary number can be as long as any other number. Treyarch probably just didn’t expect people to get to round 255 so they just gave the binary number a length of 8.

[@pokepe12]

@@DaveyReynolds They could have used a unsigned char if the game was coded in c++. That would explain the bug.

[@DaveyReynolds]

@@pokepe12 true. who knows

[@OGdfs420]

Tʜᴀᴛ ɪs ᴇxᴀᴄᴛʟʏ ᴄᴏʀʀᴇᴄᴛ, ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜ ɪᴛ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴇᴀsɪʟʏ ғɪxᴇᴅ ɪғ ᴛʜᴇʏᴅ ɴᴏᴛɪᴄᴇᴅ ɪᴛ ʙᴇғᴏʀᴇ ʟᴀᴜɴᴄʜ. Eʜ...

[@radicallybean]

Lmao that’s sad in a way.

[@calmmonkey2843]

“Jump if you can hear me”

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

This is it! 😂

[@connordervoncyberlifegesen8529]

On the Same line as Wheatley asking for Chell to speak but jumps instead.

[@acanadianpumpkin]

I remember when that was the way people would communicate without mics on the og black ops

[@justamanwithsomesoup3352]

Jesus dude, you just gave me whiplash

[@Trikovioz]

Fucking wow that threw me the hell back like 11 years.

[@tri-sapien6487]

31:40 actually each perma perk could be activated by doing something specific, with each having a unique way to gain und lose them, but none of them just disappeared over a few games.

[@Bebe-fq8yb]

Man back in the day when most people didnt really check the internet for guides, you just talked about your experiences with the game with friends. I remember my friend once telling me that there was a hidden Samantha boss fight in kino where once you reach round 100 a giant Samantha would come out of the big screen and attack you. Its silly thinking back on it but it really added to the charm of the game

[@PerishingPurplePulsar]

In BO2 Town survival, me and my cousin were in a rut, unable to get past round 15ish per play (Our average was usually round 25, with our all time record being round 32) so I decided we needed a luck symbol, and on the spawn in I noticed the MB was in the little corner surrounded by fences as opposed to the second floor of the bar, and went over there to grind points and get a gun, and I decided to knife the headlight(Right headlight) of the VW Bus like car carcass thats on the street near it. This evolved into a huge thing where we had the lucky headlight, an indifferent God watching our game for its own entertainment, only responding if we followed the strict rules. Rule #1: No matter what, the first thing you do is go knife the lucky headlight to announce your presence, Rule #2: The lucky headlight can be used for luck before buying from the MB only, and will not affect powerup drops, Rule #3: The lucky headlight can be knifed up to 3 times for added luck strength, but at the risk of angering the lucky headlight, any more than 3 knifes will spell your doom, Rule #4: If you anger the lucky headlight, repent, apologize and beg forgiveness, there is a small chance you will be spared, Rule #5: Use the lucky headlight sparingly, as too much use in one round will make the lucky headlight very angry, and this effect will seep in through the next few games All praise the lucky headlight!

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

This is wild, All praise the lucky headlight!

[@trutwhut6550]

Bless the lucky headlight!

[@Tanner_Shelton]

Praise the lucky headlight!

[@hero_3088]

What.

[@PerishingPurplePulsar]

@@thinkingboi9508 Worry not, the lucky headlight will cull the heretic when his time comes

[@axetheviking6482]

I read that the idea of zombies sprung into a developer's head after watching people doing mocap for burning German soldiers in a WaW scene. Their movements reminded him/her of a zombie, and convinced others to create this mode in their free time. Could be wrong, but it sounds plausible.

[@titoguishe870]

Yes man I that too

[@yurichtube1162]

Jimmy Zilinski

[@frankkennedy6388]

You're half right. Playtesters commented that the burning Japanese soldiers in WAWs second mission looked like zombies. That attributed to making the mode. There's an article on "The Haxington Post" about the creation of Zombies shortly after WAWs release.

[@chinesemonke1274]

21:09 "Father, why have you forsaken me?" Me: *instantly thinks of Chop Suey*

[@Evanz111]

21:10 - I once did a series on my channel called “The Zombie Song Analysis” where I went through each song as they came out and pointed out how much foreshadowing there was! My favourite finding was 115 actually implied the characters would be going to the Moon and blowing up the earth, way before that map came outB

[@__DILLIGAF__]

That doesn't really make sense though 115 is on Kino der Toten which was supposed to release with WaW, not only that but Moon wasn't the original map for the last dlc it was Paris so how could a WaW map depict a reference to pretty much an afterthought of a dlc map (Moon) in the next game? Just seems kinda far fetched or coincidental.

[@TheBuster0926]

​@@__DILLIGAF__ hey man. Uh......... go back... to WAW... and look at the Moon on Der Reise... Theres a DOT. A TEXTURE over the MOON. Gryphion Station was already backed into the Storyline by then... Or maybe that was just a Bo1 Addition.

[@rileyflemo3301]

Finally somebody who has a good quality mic Good editing And an accent I can understand

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Thanks a bunch, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@danieldietrich9969]

The blank painting in Kino originally was the Mexican member of the crew that died early on. It's revealed in a radio in Call of the Dead, why people seem to forget these radios, I have no idea.

[@PanzerMan332]

My "Ray Gun every time" trick was to open the box when the question mark glowed the darkest shade of gold. It seemed the most reasonable to me since it just required some timing on the player's part. I still do it out of muscle memory.

[@poohwithtimbs7027]

On 12:40 for "Kino is DLC 4" the actual theory is that Kino was meant to be DLC 4 for Cod Waw. Evidence for this is. 1. Cod Waw only had 3 dlcs and not 4 2. The zombie models are Nazis rather then the Bo1 zombie models like scientists, villagers, etc.... 3. Supposedly the Wunderwaffe was supposed to be the wonder weapon of Kino as there are sound clips of the crew's reaction to picking up the wonder weapon in Kino's files. And that wonder weapon was exclusive to the Waw maps (minus Call of the Dead).

[@firstnamelastname5230]

Also kino takes place in a Nazi facility, like Nacht Der Untoten, Verrukt and Der Reise. Shi No Numa isn’t a Nazi facility, but either way they all take place in a facility that was used by an axis power

[@familiarfan]

Also it plays the 115 song on the game over screen for der reise and 115 is the song for kino, the next supposed dlc for WaW.

[@JesusVEIVO]

It’s not just a theory, it’s mentioned in some trivia on Jimmy Zielinski’s portfolio

[@UndertaleFan-cx2mc]

So they replaced the Wunderwaffe with the Thundergun. That was Treyarch's best mistake. Having to put Kino into Black Ops 1.

[@UndertaleFan-cx2mc]

@@orionfell Kino is incomplete without the Thundergun. It became a classic launch map once that baby was accidentally slapped in.

[@bombyxo]

For the one that says "owner of ZombieWorldRecords faked world records" its referring to when WingsofOblivion (owner) tried to pass off a round 218 kino And round 127 on shang as legit but were actually faked

[@andyroo81]

if I remember correctly, the owner before wings (named Sithbas) actually modded games as well.

[@Zombies8MyPizza]

Sithbas was the original owner and was accused of some really dodgy looking world record games. There was a record game on Shang where it appeared as though he was turning God mode on and off using some sort of button combination including R1 as he seemed to throw grenades at strange moments.

[@edwardseverinsen5598]

27:43 I'm sure others have pointed this out already but 255 is the maximum value for one unsigned byte. So it's very likely they only allocated one byte for the number used to store the round the player is on. Once you go over that max value to 256 there's a buffer overflow. That buffer overflow can cause a couple things to happen. It could be overwriting CPU register values pushed onto the stack, thus when the current function returns control back to the previous one it could have been a pointer, been overwritten and point to an unreadable address in memory causing a segmentation fault or read/write access violation. It could also just be that when it rolls back over to 0 the game gets hit with an undefined situation and doesn't know how to proceed properly so it just poops itself.

[@edwardseverinsen5598]

​@bumboyy I wouldn't either, but in the video he says it actually made your game crash. They might of patched it later but it sounds like what you saw was a bug fix.

[@N-GinAndTonicTM]

"Misty Is Dempsey's Daughter" Well, let's look at the facts we actually have. - They're both identical in their personalities. - Both are American. - Dempsey states he has a daughter. - Both of them don't trust the leader - Samuel/Richtofen. - Misty has a quote in Tag Der Toten which says "That one's for you, Daddy! OO-RAH!" - Misty once mentioned she had a pet monkey, and Dempsey is known for being a secret animal-lover. Not that kinda lover. Either this is just incredibly coincidental. But everything seems too coincidental to be just... A coincidence.

[@novaspion2328]

I'm willing to accept the idea that Dempsey traveled to 2000's america and accidentally got a girl pregnant but how would Misty know or have any connection to him?

[@jamesflux4590]

Another quote in tag der toten when she talks to marlton she states that her dad was in the marines

[@ralphlorenzperolino3054]

Then who's the mother? Richtofen?

[@Adriiiiiiii1]

“Takeo ra*** by spider” We’re getting to that point already? Lmao

[@cerotegaming9384]

Lmao that should have been in the abyss

[@Adriiiiiiii1]

@@cerotegaming9384 black hole.

[@thespectre4196]

Damn. Even Takeo’s out here getting more ass than me, lol.

[@s0.diviine]

@@thespectre4196 with all these corpses what do you think they do in their free time

[@spaceghost8886]

raged by spider??? wut??

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

55:13 Nah, I was just busy wasting Bo4 budget on ketamin.

[@johnnyg4mer764]

Explains how the hell the developer cast came up with all the lore.

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

@@johnnyg4mer764, exactly

[@familiagallego10]

"Shangri-La baby gun alternatives" refers to the concept art for Shangri-La which it pictured an early build of the baby gun where you could swap the talisman/gem the gun has to alter its effects, pretty dope if you ask me

[@FallFarAway23]

I think that "custom maps are Canon" actually refers to an idea that they are separate multiverses with infinite possibilities and also the "cycle never completed" one might refer to the notion that all though we see revelations ending, the charters are sent back to the great war therefor its a circle and technically a cycle refers to an end but circles don't have one

[@tekkitdoood2838]

HP Lovecraft's work are public domain, meaning they literally *cant* be "stolen" so treyarch could straight up say that they're from the cthulu mythos and it wouldnt mean anything

[@TheNastyNug]

“It turns out he actually was communicating in Morse code!” *doesn’t say what he was saying*

[@RezidueWithaZ]

You can find the video in one search

[@lordother]

@@RezidueWithaZ You could say what it was in one comment

[@faustopancake234]

It said "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

[@BH-yv3xg]

​@@faustopancake234w comment

[@byEssIX]

The Mephistopheles-> shadow man parallel is very interesting especially because he is the one controlling Willard Wyler in IW zombies 😭

[@robozeddBehindAPlayButton]

I have been literally streaming zombies for a solid 8 years, I am still addicted to it, and replaying games like Black Ops 2 feels like new games again!

[@JohnnyCenter25]

24:00 I think it was refering to the trailer of Origins where we saw the Primis crew for the first time and Takeo was wielding a katana. The community was speculating that the katana would be usable, even going as far as to saying that each of the characters would have their own melee weapon since we saw them all hold various weapons in the trailer/intro scene. Takeo with Katana, Nikolai with Axe, Dempsey with Bowie Knife and Richtofen with Bonesaw.

[@shrbrhsjdbw]

I thought tank's was something different. Was it the bowie?

[@nataliecameron]

@@shrbrhsjdbw I think he also stabbed a zombie with a pipe

[@painhurtssometimes2185]

Glad I found this comment. This is exactly what it’s talking about I remember the origins hype and theories all too well.

[@evictionnotice1155]

13:46 this is referring to the Waw zombie map pack in Bo1. The map pack includes all of the first 4 maps ported directly from Waw without any changes.

[@Seawolf.Gaming]

Exactly this

[@daynroberts4743]

Still find it interesting that the bo1 Der Reise did not have the tunnel glitch, but when zombies chronicles was released, the giant initially did have the tunnel glitch.

[@TheBuster0926]

I'm late but your WRONG. If they were all 1:1 the Gun Rotation would be the same but that's too pedantic even for me. So I'll just say: No. On Vurruckt in WAW the American Side (the side with 3 barriers and the BAR+Bipod room) used to have the SpringField. But in Bo1 it's the M1 Garand. Also the Winters Howl. Several improved lighting effects. A Higher-Rez version of the EE Song. No. See. There all uniquely touched up and made "Better" in Bo1. Bo1 Der Reise is STILL the best version of Der Reise (aside from Declassified. The Fan Remake) because they kept all the GOAT guns (minus the PPSH41 ;(|) and fixxed the WunderWaffe. Theres DOZENS of small chances that make Bo1 Distinct from WAW. And then EVEN MORESO between Bo1 and BO3.

[@teogonzalez7957]

The Venus cipher might be a reference to night of the living dead, in which the zombies are caused from space radiation brought through the atmosphere by a Venus space probe. No story implications, just an Nod to the creation to the originator of the modern zombie. The director, George Romero, of the movie was the boss of a zombies map in BO1 and had a tribute added after his death in BO3.

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

This is super interesting , I never would have thought of this, thanks for the comment!

[@devindalton4688]

Small correction, the tribute to George Romero is in BO4, on Tag Der Toten, which of course is a remake of the BO1 map Call of the Dead. You already mentioned he was the boss on that map.

[@ScrewBallTheAlien]

I think the “Bible predicts the story line” thing comes from the minor biblical references from earlier zombies maps. MrTLexify’s retrospectives he did for waw-kino from 2015-16 picked up on a lot of those.

[@papakrit7166]

I actually fell asleep while watching this video. Your voice is so fucking soothing

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Haha thanks so much

[@Nobody1mportant999]

@@TheExceptionalGamer if this was me in this situation I would be up in my head trying to figure out the difference between boring and soothing 😂😂😂 but fr this was a really good video, you did a great job on the editing

[@hecarimgaming5211]

Same

[@coleswenson4854]

I was reading this and I thought you where gonna say it was a boring vid

[@MrFusion]

Me too, best sleep in awhile

[@LikesToon]

"Bo1 remakes are direct ports" refers to the WaW maps in the last bo1 zombies dlc

[@rustyfool3740]

Yeah it annoyed me when he didn’t understand that

[@Trikovioz]

@@rustyfool3740 dude it annoyed me how much of this he actually doesn't understand. It's almost like hearing someone spread misinformation.

[@josephhunt4804]

I believe it was retconned in Blood of the Dead that the warden aka Brutus controls the zombies in Mob/Blood because it was his own little personal pocket dimension as a gift from the Shadowman for being a good little cult follower

[@gorogorogorochan166]

Remember guys, on Kino knife the swasticka at the beginning 3 times for a faster knife speed

[@thelieutenant6141]

I like how this ice berg never mentioned how in the first mission on black ops 2 campaign there are models used for the zombies in tranzit

[@Anxmaly666]

The container where Woods is at? That would make the most sense

[@cowgirlcassidy]

The smoke bomb wasn’t actually cut content from MOTD, it’s used by Brutus when you shoot his helmet off.

[@Astropenguin1]

bro... the nostalgia is insane. hearing "revive me I have raygun" on round 30 in kino der toten with my friends on a night after school and getting downed because I run out of ammo or something and then my friends being... very nice about my clutch in the end.

[@cojack]

Really well put together video, man! For someone with only 7k subs I'd imagine you have a great journey ahead of you! Hopefully zombies and the O.G crews can return one day.

[@seventy7168]

29:55 "bo&mw storylines connected" this one is actually true. Mw2019 is in the black ops universe because it has woods' son and perseus is mentioned along with victor zakhaev in a warzone intel. Also Imran zakhaev is in cw campaign. And the woods operator in mw multiplayer is actually woods' son and in bo1 there is an intel that says that captain price's father (also named John price) was supposed to kill Mason, Hudson, and weaver, but he didn't

[@seventy7168]

Also the vodianoy ship from rebirth Island reached verdansk in warzone when it left rebirth island in 1984 but got in verdansk in 2021. People speculate that it took the dark aether to get to verdansk

[@TaiBreuh]

Thats some deep lore holy shit

[@houyrs3846]

not actually woods son mw woods isnt canon

[@icantthinkofagoodusername4464]

All of this was only introduced after MW2019 and is a retcon. They didn't intend for any genuine lore connections when they made Black Ops and the connections between Cold War and MW2019 contradict Black Ops 2's story even existing, and given that Black Ops 2's setting is canon to Zombies it doesn't make sense in that story either. It's better to consider Cold War as a reboot alongside MW2019 as it carries nothing over outside of the events of the first game and a few references. Cold War's story also sucks so it's better to not associate it with anything that's actually half decent.

[@frime_]

@@icantthinkofagoodusername4464 ratio

[@sh4do766]

In 5:59, there was a glitch when black ops 3 was released when you were able to upgrade when you hold an upgradable gun and quickly swap to the apolitical servant in that quick time, it can be pack a punched but it did get patched. You can also use the gobble gum to temporarily upgrade a weapon and it will work for it.

[@devindalton4688]

The Apolitical Servant sounds like a maid who tries her absolute best to avoid talking about the government.

[@Thrasher_d]

Bus route B holds such a special place in my heart. I can remember me and my best friends would stay up so late on bo2 when it came out convinced that there was a 2nd bus route we could access. We would try everything and looked for any clues. We must have gone back like 5 pages on google and watched videos that had like 23 views. We seriously tried every possible chance to go on route B. Those were the days. There was always something ominous about it like the empty feeling tranzit had as we looked for anything to give us a hint.

[@tauryn6979]

Having tested it myself, the BO2 ranking system is based on your AVG round reached to downs ratio. I got to round 50 over and over again on Tranzit, Buried and Die Rise with minimal downs and got shotguns within around a week. Downs matter in terms of when in the game you actually get downed. For instance, downing on round 2 will tank your rank far more than downing on like round 25.

[@notfred1233]

Hit box, go prone, knife it until the gun is finally chosen. I still do the routine every time out of muscle memory, with actually good results. It's probably just luck though.

[@rossappppppoollll9923]

no mention of Peter McCain?! he’s like the coolest secret character ever, and did he even survive or what like even I don’t know!

[@azok7544]

pretty sure he died. btw do you remember that bandana easter egg in bw1 terminal in menu room?

[@conception.5317]

ok let me explain, Peter McCain was an undercover agent. During World War 2, Peter was sent by Cornelius Pernell who was the Leader of Broken Arrow (the same organization as Russman, the American equivalent of Group 935.) to infiltrate the Rising Sun facility to get more on Element 115 but died when his parachute got stuck on a tree. On June 1st, 1964, Pernell along with Dr. Hale revive Peter using the Elemental Shard. Soon after, Peter starts working for Pernell again and starts to get suspicious of Pernell as his insanity for the APD grows. In 1968, Peter decided to contact the US Department of Defense since Hale and Pernell were conducting unauthorized experiments and once George Sawyer and his men arrived on March 15th, they shut down the facility causing Pernell to become the Avogadro. Peter gets trapped inside an A.D.A.M. Unit just before Pernell releases Nova 6 and the facility is abandoned. So his fate like Sawyer’s is unknown.

[@Silverlined_69]

If I remember correctly, he is dead. He is seen falling out of the sky in the intro to GK

[@anactualamateur8618]

Nah he’s chill, he’s hanging around in shin no numa.

[@wesleystewart1193]

@@Silverlined_69 he came back to life afterwards in BO4 alpha omega

[@dummyquiccc9695]

The teddy bears in the mw series weren’t references to black ops zombies. They were there to honor one of the developer’s daughter who passed away.

[@pepper7488]

This is making me want to go back and play all the zombies map again

[@samdaniel6903]

Kino being DLC 4, I think refers to it being the intended dlc 4 for WAW, but due to limited time and money it was pushed back and became a bonus map for BO1, which is why there are 2 launch maps, kino and five. (As kino uses the German naming system from WAW which isn't present for BO1 dlc maps)

[@lastgendempsey4331]

Now this is an iceberg I like

[@originalbits1807]

That's why you weren't in the iceberg ! You escaped

[@sirpatrillious4229]

I new you would be here... wolfy fan?

[@spongebobmeboy1158]

Dammit Richtofen I thought we were done with this

[@adambombing5428]

@@spongebobmeboy1158 what can I say Dempsey things change

[@abd-animation-22]

@@adambombing5428 Only a fool will dare to change history

[@aq4363]

These are the videos that start playing when I leave KZbin on at night and I hear it playing at 4 am but I love it

[@MrSilnev]

13:47 This isn't referring to the Zombie Chronicle versions from Black Ops 3 but the world at war maps being in Black Ops 1 as part of the Rezurection DLC (or as part of the prestige edition) but basically the maps are more or less identical to the world at war versions with minor changes. Mainly the box weapons being from Black Ops 1, some glitches being removed and Mule Kick being on the maps. Also something that I think was lacking is the "Moon was originally Paris map" or that "Der Riese hinted towards future dlc maps"

[@titaniumknight8683]

I’m surprised the BO1 Nacht der Untoten loading screen wasn’t apart of this iceberg as no one still knows what it means.

[@Silverlined_69]

Facts

[@havoc3-243]

Maybe BO1 Nacht loading screen shows 3arc employees making the map

[@kk_acosta9563]

I dont know why, but seeing Jason blundell's distorted face and then seeing "the last gen season pass" made me crack up.😂

[@nigelnaidu9531]

Most revolutionary video mahn honestly. RESPECT

[@Bhjdk]

5:53 this was possible in shadows of evil at one point early on. If you held a pack a punchable weapon then swap to the apotican servant and quickly press x/square it would upgrade the it. Considering revelations wasn’t done yet it’s likely it’s something a dev snuck in and not a glitch

[@drakefrom2011]

Katana in bo2 is talking about the katana used in the Origins trailer, whenever it was released everyone was theorizing on how you could get the katana in the map.

[@sumyungguy00]

Zombies lore is so complex and deep that I only knew one of the things from the first layer

[@envoke209]

There are actually alot of crazy connections in the Black ops 3 campaign and zombies even a mode that let's you pretty much play it's own type of zombies campaign. Oh and I always found it very interesting when you could get that power up that puts you in first person mode when you play dead ops arcade. Crazy cool

[@Canodiablo]

I always belived that Chernov was Nikolai's brother. You can even see both of them at the end of the mission "blood and iron" in the waw campaign.

[@iamuglypug]

underrated video

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Thanks :)

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Yeah

[@littlebadassgaming]

@@TheExceptionalGamer 29:57 Cold war confirms that bo and mw is connected via zakhaev.

[@Quilxvx]

For real

[@Vex_Ed885]

Highly !

[@Stanmansan]

The katana was another of those "how to get a raygun" videos on youtube.also the video of "the katana" said it was in bo2 origins (Edit: the video was deleted but now jimbothys fake katana video is another runner up)

[@hgyuofofpucririu1986]

I as thinking of the bo3 Bowie knife as katanga on giant rumour

[@GREiy45]

Amogus

[@Anxmaly666]

Us Cobra's Ray Gun videos are still up

[@novaspion2328]

I loved the video, very interesting and some very funny stuff. A bit of a nice little nostalgia trip, too! Here are some things I'd like to comment on: Kino is DLC4: There is a theory that Kino Der Toten was originally going to be DLC4 for World at War but was held until Bo1 instead BO1 remakes are direct ports: I believe this is a theory that the WAW maps in DLC4 of BO1 were ported directly from WAW Custom maps are canon: Well, in an infinite multiverse, anything is technically possible... Something I would personally add to the iceberg is "Gobblegum machine moving like the mystery box"

[@devindalton4688]

The Gobblegum machine did move at the launch of BO3, they ended up patching that out alongside a bunch of other balancing things, like making it so the zombies didn't stop you from sprinting as well.

[@destinravellette1364]

Good vid bro keep up the passionate work

[@chairiot]

Man remember that theory before blops2 came out where misty was samantha in richtofens body who got "body modification"? Shits wild bruhv

[@ulyt16]

For the fan theory one at 47:20 I think it’s talking about how the whole story was based off a zombie making a sound that sounded like Sam in waw and people were thinking about who Sam was and the zombie staff made a story off of that

[@JosephBallin320]

The "Shangri-La Baby Gun Alternatives" entry at 32:08 is talking about one of the concept designs for the baby gun that allowed you to swap the artifact in the gun for a different effect, there were 4 artifacts and each would have have it's own effect

[@vanhooza]

The wonder box trick is to hit it when the question marks is gold. I remember this being in tips and tricks videos

[@kiwi7090]

Remember when everyone thought they were making Tranzit with a train for bo3

[@seandonntheg8433]

Man, I remember my friend on the playground telling me he fought zombie hitler at round 50 on kino der toten when black ops had just released. Good Times.

[@novaspion2328]

Your friend was a liar 😐

[@derber6836]

Wow the last one got me thinking, great video

[@choriipan]

Amazing video dude, you had me entertained the whole time, thankyou 😊

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

That’s amazing, thank you a bunch :)

[@chrisgarcia7763]

I think “the giant is in France” was a “myth” from a unsolved cypher in a comic book page or loading screen with stuff about motd. Someone said they solved it and it said “the giant is in France”. No one believed it but then the cypher was solved later by recognizing that one had to be in German and it did say “the giant is in France”. I think it was talking about the giants in origins

[@spartacussmith7070]

15:27 this is referring to how the Easter Egg was solved after about 2-3 weeks, the longest an Easter egg has ever taken to solve. Noahj456, Lex, ROFL, and Dalek had pretty much given up and it was painful, not because of how genuinely hard the EE was to find since everything was stupid random, but because the skull in the wall step literally just didn't spawn.

[@jbeezy31]

I spent 3 hours memorizing the keeper language a few months ago just to forget all the next day.

[@Indigowulfchild4]

I remember when zombies first came out and it blows my mind to see how much lore there is behind it all

[@jjclark56]

I was watching this and listening to it and didn’t even think that it was some with less than 1k subscribers because it was such high quality. You deserve more subscribers.

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Thanks a bunch :)

[@thenkk4914]

Didn't fortnite start off as a tower build and defend from zombies kind of game. I remember rooster teeth doing a video about it.

[@mangledoctopi657]

It still is, the base fortnite game still has a passionate community but the devs focus 100% on the BR

[@Maddie_rae_1999]

how has your chanel only just been recommended to me???? i LOVE your stuff man

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Thanks so much, glad you’re here now at least!

[@BK-sh2pn]

For the “baby gun alternatives” they were referring to the scrapped concept art of alternative upgrades for the weapons like the bows in DE. Crazy to think about what could have been.

[@ZyloPhone]

I just realized that we finally officially have ammomatic in cold war zombies with the ammo boxes , great video btw 👍

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Haha yeah we do actually. Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@ZyloPhone]

@@TheExceptionalGamer no problem man :) although at 12:39 they didn't mean dlc 4 for BO1, Kino was supposed to be dlc 4 for W@W that's why Kino is the only map on BO1 that has actual nazi zombies.

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

@@ZyloPhone ohhhh that clears up a lot of confusion haha

[@asuitabledriver8025]

But the ability to refill ammo was introduced in WW2 via pak a punch

[@travisscottlover911]

@@asuitabledriver8025 ammomatic was a perk that would refill your ammo at any time. Aka ammo crates.

[@Mr.Head22]

Idk but I remember hearing a roomer back in the day that the teddy bear was remade after one of the devs daughters stuffed animals because she died before the games release or something idk just figured I’d make it dark. “Thanks 10yo kid who told me that”

[@chewtag]

the teddy bear model is from cod2

[@matthewk7507]

I must correct you on a couple things: 1) Did the Nazi's try to create zombies in real life? Yes, they actually did attempt to reanimate corpses, and one such Nazi scientist that was grabbed by the Russians, did successfully reanimate a dogs severed head. You can find a video of it here on youtube, but I warn you, it is rather disturbing. 2) Route B in Tranzit: Yes, there was actually supposed to be a real Route B, which was supposed to be unlocked using the key cards. You could find one of the cards in Die Rise behind the radio. You were also able to use the cards on the radio itself, which was part of one of the eastereggs, and it was supposed to link other maps to Tranzit. You can actually find Route B in the source code of the game, along with some mention of Moon (which I am surprised was not mentioned anywhere in this iceberg). Additional for the iceberg: COD: Black Ops II Zombies - Moon Moon was going to be part of BO2 Zombies, and would be before being blown up during the Die Rise easteregg, along with the Moon Base landing on earth. The idea was scrapped, but was still already partially written into the source code, but consoles could not handle the storage necessary on a sjngle disc, and was not intended to be released as a DLC (which is why it was scrapped). The DLC of BO2 was actually already mostly written onto the disc, and was simply an unlock key with a portion of the game having the remaining completed source code contained in the downloaded files. Further Information: PHD 27 is what eventually became PHD Slider in COD: Cold War. It's a modified variation of PHD Flopper, and was unlockable once you had PHD Flopper and performed specific special tasks (Sliding Into Zombies, Jumping From High Places, Cooking Grenades Until Exploding, and Knifing Zombies While Sliding) they all had to be performed 50 times each within the first 27 rounds, hence the 27. Temporary (until you die) Free Deadshot in all Zombies Games: 50 Consecutive Headshot Kills - Can be regained after 5-10 consecutive headshot kills if revived. Giant Robot Rebuild Easteregg in No Mans Land - Use the foot teleporter after collecting all of the dug up items and collecting the Baboon Skulls (that's what those skulls are... they aren't even somewhat "alien" in origin). It walks off without an operator, and no more giant robots will come by anymore. Fire Punch Arrow and Fire Blade Knife - Requires 4 players, and all elemental staves must be completed and fully upgraded before round 50. This is the only way to reach round 150+, because it's the only weapon that can do high enough damage against the zombies at that point. All 4 players must remain in a small space to use all 4 elements combined. A max packed ray gun can be fully unloaded, and only kill 10 zombies at those rounds. Signed, VannBriggs (Playstation Screen Name)

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Thanks for the info :)

[@matthewk7507]

@TheExceptionalGamer No problem. I played a lot of the older Zombies, and (at the time) was one of the highest ranked players in the world for BO2 Zombies. Had my friends and I known about needing a video recording, we would have 1st place in the world for Die Rise in 3 and 4 player modes with round 122 for each in High Rounds.

[@DolphinOfFire]

The raven (actually a crow) was a nod to the WaW modding community. As that was the first treyarch PC game to support mods openly since WaW. There were crows placed in maps you could shoot on some WaW custom maps. Edit: Kino was originally DLC 4 for WaW but the game couldn't support it so they made Der Reise instead

[@LiilJiimmii]

In regards to the mythical ancient egypt map, it might not have been ancient, but bo4’s Chaos story was building up to an egypt map. In the final map Ancient Evil in the outro cutscene Madusa says that she will “open the librabry”. The librabry in question (which was once real) is called the Librabry of Alexandria. Which was located in egypt.

[@breezyq6449]

I cant help thinking of the Librarby sign in undertale reading this

[@nicholasgeere5125]

@@breezyq6449 i bet you couldn't

[@breezyq6449]

@@nicholasgeere5125 this feels like a threat but i refuse to believe Dildo Shwaggins would ever say such a thing

[@DogsWallop]

And what happened to it genius

[@cgimichaelmyers2806]

32:08 I think this refers to how the wonder weapon was going to have different effects. There was some Shangri La concept art that showed the gun with many different stones that could be placed into the gun to give it a different effect. There were also many concept designs for the gun.

[@TheExceptionalGamer]

Ahhh interesting, thanks for that mate