The HISTORY of the PERK MACHINES (Video Essay)

[@MrChain21]

Tombstone probably the perk that gets overlooked. You can buy the perks you are missing within 90 seconds and collect your tombstone. This was the OG perkaholic.

[@cody-gaming7593]

I can’t believe that this is a thing…

[@I-RomeZ-I]

Bro knows the best town strat 😂

[@VenViViris28]

I wanna agree but, you can realistically only get that benefit w town survival and one extra perk in green run transit In other maps maybe c:

[@jeremyscungio16]

​@@I-RomeZ-Iit just doesn't work in solo

[@Det_Somerset]

This is true

[@shadux5587]

mini fact about jugg is that in verruckt and shi no numa waw it doesn't actually give you any more health it just regens your health at a crazy speed. Changed in Der Riese though

[@chewtag]

it does give you more health it increases from 100 to 160

[@shadux5587]

@@chewtag in der riese

[@AcIdDr3am]

This was the comment i was looking for👍🏻 Big Point for W@W, nur easy to miss

[@undercoverweeb]

​@@chewtagThat was only on dlc 3, in the first two maps it's on its hella Regen, and the speed run leaderboard is debating splitting the boards rn because we just found out story mode difficulty effects zombies, so runs on veteran are being debated as a whole sep category but I doubt it'll pass because it would be a pain to review every run and see how many hits for a red screem

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

@@chewtagstop. It’s not like that till Der Riese, he said that, it made it almost impossible to die without being caught lacking

[@jman72898]

You know you’ve grown up entirely on that zombies shit when your excited to sit down and watch an hour long video on the perk machines already knowing a metric shit ton about them lmao. Zombies made my childhood and still has its moments in my adulthood but dam do I miss those pre Cold War days more and more as times gone on.

[@ThePlvgGmG]

Man you aren't alone, nothing feels like sliding black ops into your ps3 for the first time and opening that crazy ass menu, waw zombies built the hype like crazy for that game and from there it felt like the best thing to play no matter what

[@jocastadidntknew5980]

14:20 Mule Kick was added to Verrukt and Shi No Numa. It’s by the stairs on the American side and in the spawn hut of those maps, respectively.

[@zaqzi6252]

World at war der riese had set locations for each perk it was only the giant remake in bo3 that had the random perk location at the start of the game 4:50

[@jeremyscungio16]

I love playing the giant and comparing the variances

[@BBB_photography_adventures]

Was going to comment this

[@verbalviper]

I’m glad someone else knew this. He did have me question it for a second.

[@ZetsuboNoShima]

I feel like they also moved in bo1 but I could be misremembering wrong

[@verbalviper]

@@ZetsuboNoShima shouldn’t you be a sort of expert on this sort of thing?

[@motaslegend3471]

A couple of things I would like to add to this amazing video! PhD flopper was in bo2 before origins on mob of the dead grief (which was pretty underwhelming at the time).Bo3 with the gobblegum system has scuffed version of the perks such as danger closes being a knockoff PhD flopper, slaughter slide being a nod to the community begging for a custom perk called Banana Colada to be added. Adding onto that: many great ideas that could have been turned into new perks were just relegated to gobblegums which is why we got no new perks after widows wine. Maps such as zetsubou no shima would also have mechanics that act like older perks such as the imprint plant acting like a sort of tombstone (infinitely better) allowing players to respawn back in with their perks, points, and guns they had at the time of imprinting. Revelations also had the mask system which would give bonus buffs indicated by a purple perk icon of the given effect such as purple jugg giving players an extra hit, reducing damage taken by enemies or purple stamina further increasing sprint duration, sprint speed and recovery which stacks with the core perks allowing for players to become essentially over powered. Over all I really loved this video and listening to the history of perks throughout zombies!

[@athanasiospapadopoulos6582]

Honestly, Who's Who is actually pretty great. If you pair Who's Who with Quick Revive, you don't even have to revive yourself; you can just run around and avoid the zombies until Quick Revive revives you, and you'll get to keep your perks after you get revived, and since you can get Who's Who and Quick Revive from the Jumping Jacks, you can essentially do this for the entire game.

[@Det_Somerset]

I understand that… I guess. But I still stand by Who’s Who being an awful perk. I get that you can just run in circles and let QR do it’s thing, but the player could have purchased any other perk in its place to prevent themselves from having gone down in the first place

[@OnyxZeroX]

Is this true? I remember using both before and getting frustrated cuz who’s who would activate when I would much rather have quick revive take effect.

[@athanasiospapadopoulos6582]

@OnyxZeroX Who's Who *will* activate, but you won't need to revive yourself, you just need to run from the zombies. Once Who's Who ends, you will be revived with all your perks (except WW and QR).

[@athanasiospapadopoulos6582]

@@Det_Somerset on Die Rise? There's only 6 perks on that map, and I normally run Jugg, QR, Speed, and Who's Who. You don't really need Double Tap if you're using the Sliquifier, and Mule Kick is mostly useless.

[@rockharddock1711]

@@Det_Somersetuhhh what? you are still able to die with every normal perk?

[@alaeriia01]

I unironically love Die Rise. I can definitely understand why people hate it, but the whole aesthetic of the location and the janky parkour really make me happy for some reason.

[@Fork219]

Finally, a new Zombies video where I'll rewatch it 8 billion times over

[@Fork219]

Two things to note Ascension was meant to have Double Tap, the map was originally going to be larger and in one of the originally accessible areas Double Tap was present, also Mule Kick WAS present on Verrückt and Shi no Numa in the BO1 version

[@themamat]

Well tbf he only talk about original map each game released. Not remastered or revisit version of that map.

[@Fork219]

@@themamat no the original beta of Ascension, not any remake or remaster

[@Fork219]

Sometimes I ponder how much of Die Rises problems would've been solved with PhD Flopper

[@kirkloughlin4849]

Agreeed but I can’t lie I fucked with die rise heavy and as I’ve gotten older and time has gone on I’ve learned to appreciate transit for what it is. Transit was so ahead of its time

[@ibrahimmasud3633]

@@kirkloughlin4849too ahead of its time, some would say

[@themamat]

​@@kirkloughlin4849fax no printer

[@lookatsaint]

21:47 wow … I can feel your passion on that one!

[@Det_Somerset]

😅😅😅

[@iAMdreAMi]

I know you said this is a more surface level interpretation but a small detail that I think makes a large difference is how Juggernog works in WAW. In its inception, Jugg actually didn’t increase your overall health, however it did increase the rate to which you regenerated health. Tbh a player back then could sit in front of a zombie n let the zombie hit them n it’d take way more than 5 hits till you down. Ngl I’m pretty sure if there was jus one zombie left it physically couldn’t kill you cuz you regened so fast.

[@iAMdreAMi]

Also, Speed Cola never increased the speed that barriers are built, only the animation of building barriers for some incredibly odd reason.

[@chewtag]

juggernog does give you more health it increases from 100 to 160

[@prodmoira]

​@@chewtag only in one of the maps the other 2 it didn't

[@chewtag]

@@prodmoira in verruckt and shi no numa it increases from 100 to 160, in der riese it increases from 100 to 250.

[@notyourdad9548]

You are wrong sorry.

[@redgreen2453]

Fun fact about Ascension: there’s actually an inaccessible fourth missile silo that’s modeled but doesn’t have collision programmed for it that has a Double Tap Root Beer machine in it so it likely was meant to be in that map but they ran out of time

[@Tac_Tots]

Deadshot definitely had a glow up in the last 5 years.

[@Det_Somerset]

Absolutely agree

[@nobrain7828]

5 am just got off bo6 zombies after buying it today got my first camo and about to sleep already subbed and liked the effort needed for stuff like this is much respected much more subs deserved

[@TheWatchfuleye1]

God I just realized Im getting old when black ops 3, the zombies game I have the most play time and memories with, is only half way through the video in a zombies history video

[@eisaku4733]

Infinite Warfare's zombies was a really good zombies mode. The first map had a dangerous amount of replay ability, since the map is so complete. But the others are even better, i absolutely loved this zombies mode, and this was yet the first game where i bought the Season pass (along side Black Ops 4), i felt that the zombies was interesting enough for my money, and i was right ! It's personally one of the best zombies ever made

[@sevyboyyy]

Don’t let MrTLexify react to this one on LexLounge 🔥🔥🔥💪

[@thehollowedhermit7525]

He would have a fit man dude leave out so much

[@dylanmccool22]

Guy ruined the thing that got him famous back in the day he was prime now he’s shit

[@AslanTheGold]

This absolutely needs to pop off I love this video so much

[@Det_Somerset]

Thank you so much, my friend! 🙏🙏

[@atheistluigi]

Perkaholic doesn't give you stam and deadshot when used on the giant. it'll only give whichever one spawned in for the easter egg.

[@TheWatchfuleye1]

Whos who is definitely a bit of a trade off, but theres a reason that high round world records would use it for a long time, it lets you go down an infinite number of times in solo and keep your perks, the biggest problem is that you spawn randomly, I think within a certain vicinity of your body.

[@Pigpen_YT]

Well no, we know Exo-Zombies was a last second addition to the game because of the teaser. The teaser at the end of Riot features zombies that have different AI than the ones in normal Exo Zombies. They're not too much different but they are different. This shows that the Exo Zombies AI hadn't been finalized by the time the game was released. The tease was added to assure zombies fans they weren't gonna have to wait another year for zombies. Keep in mind AW was the first Sledgehammer title. Extinction was released prior with Ghosts. If AW didn't have zombies it'd be the first time there'd be a two year gap between zombie modes. Activision most likely forced Sledgehammer to make Exo-Zombies last second to get that zombies audience. Evidence for this is that Exo-Survival was clearly meant to be the game's only third mode. Not only did it recieve its own dedicated trailer but all DLC 1 maps for AW were made available for the mode. But starting with DLC 2, none of the DLC maps were ever ported to Exo-Survival, showing that Sledgehammer had to abandon this mode in favor of zombies. Not only that but quickly after DLC 1 dropped, versions of AW on digital storefronts were added that came with DLC 1's Exo Zombies. But this bundle was the same price as the original game. Meaning that this is the version of the game Activision wanted people to start with. Yes Activision is a greedy company and are evil and yes Exo-Zombies shouldn't be locked behind a paywall but it's clear Exo-Zombies being exclusive to DLC wasn't the original plan but instead a result of Call of Duty employees being overworked. Claiming developers did this out of greed is extremely disrespectful. Especially since devs don't get the proceeds of the DLC. That's Activision. This is a solid video but that section is just completely wrong and disrespectful to developers who were already mistreated by activision

[@Shadowkiller-dq2ju]

14:23 that’s a lie Mule Kick was added to all of the original maps.

[@zombiewitcher]

Gotta say that the Cold War/80's redesigns of the perk machines looked great. Cool video!

[@Det_Somerset]

Totally agree. Thank you, my friend 🙏

[@MindbenderTTV]

For WW2, the melee perk increases it 10 times, not 2 times. From 150 to 1500. You can one shot zombies up to round 15. This is the first perk you buy due to the rotation replacement feature the perk system has, where if you have 4 perks and you buy a new one, the old one is removed.

[@jalexander0139]

Great video as always. I would love to see a deep dive into wall buys and other uses of chalk in the history of zombies!

[@Det_Somerset]

Hmm… That’s a really good one. I’ll add it to my notes

[@ignacymoscickifilms670]

Man you are sorry for taking long to make 1h + video for my perfect sleeping. It's me who is sorry I don't have enough income to support you

[@BrookieSmallz]

Thanks for the dedication and time it took to make the video! That was perfect dude.

[@combatking9985]

Perks make zombies (imo) and I’ve never thought about their history, should prove interesting!

[@TheNinjakat2010]

as a non zombie player in cod... transit was awesome.. problem was the development and the equipment at the time... if treyarch could develop transit now... 🤯

[@frankiehanrahan9]

One thing about tombstone was you could use it to get all the perks on maps like town survival, when you came back before you picked up your tombstone you can run to the perks you didn’t pick buy them, then return to your tombstone and it would add you already purchased, used it for high rounds all the time.

[@devCiikoe]

Thanks for doing this video. I think I asked about it during the Pack-A-Punch video and am glad to finally be able to watch it.

[@Det_Somerset]

That’s insane! You absolutely recommended this almost a year ago. Sorry it took so long 😅

[@devCiikoe]

@@Det_Somerset It was well worth the wait!

[@Fork219]

As a PHD Flopper enjoyer it saddens me it wasn't used at all in BO2 or BO3

[@antonioisakov6416]

Impressive and informative video nonetheless. I might add though that although there was perk limit introduced from ascension, you could get more than 4 perks on ascension, call of the dead, shangri-la, moon, die rise and buried, you could achieve that by doing different things such as completing the easter egg on moon or killing george 4 times to get all 8 perks on call of the dead, each map i mentioned has it's own way to achieve maximum perks. Other than that thank you for the video, it was very informative. :)

[@LateNightHalo]

14:23 Verruckt and shi no Numa did actually have Mule Kick! I’m also a bit of a Tranzit defender haha it’s always been one of my personal favorite maps. I love defending the bus

[@themamat]

Mine fav strat is camping inside the bar. Hahaha

[@Llllllllllllllllllllll138]

plz make a video on people who were let go from working on cod. It sounds so interesting

[@Iscreamaboutleeches]

Getting all the perks on a map using tombstone felt so good

[@Tizzful1]

As someone who isn’t the biggest Zombies Fan but enjoys it a lot. Call of Duty Zombies was at its best when the concept was Simple. Survive for as long as possible, but players could choose to make the game more complex by doing the Easter Eggs, that would sometimes even help you survive for longer like Mob of The Dead throwing axe. Thats why most Zombies fans enjoy the simple perk system…

[@OVREZ]

buddy I'm sure you know this, but this is an incredibly made video. Brings back my love for zombies and motivated me to hop on World at War again. you have a great voice, very good at articulating your points and its just a very well made video. excellent job man. im gonna subscribe (btw long videos are the move i used to make videos and it was hard making a video longer than 10 min so WOW)

[@TheMcZioms]

How is it incredibly made? There's missing info, or just wrong info, it sounds like he just reads from the Wiki...

[@sleepymushroom9403]

See random video about perks history, I'll watch

[@Det_Somerset]

🙏🙏

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

Fun fact! Zombies is hidden because it was made as a way for devs to take breaks while testing game weapons, this zombie fighting dev room gave birth to the ray gun, and when a higher up saw it he asked what they were doing, in response he was told they were testing a secret mode to give the game replay value, and asked the higher up to give it a try before they “bother” refining it, the higher up loved it, and only stipulated that it not interfere with main game development

[@kuulqaid]

very good video man! i like the thumbnail and the idea of this video. deserve more views man❤

[@devilmancries9617]

The tranzit formula is heavily underrated. Enough said.

[@samll27ll]

In bo2 a few zombie maps had challenges with the 'dog' rounds where if you knifed all of the 'dogs' you would get a free perk. (the only one I can remember off the top of my head is die rise)

[@Grimreaper213w3]

1. Do you think there should be perk limit if so how many? 2. How many perks do you think a game should have? 3. Do you think Double Tap should replace the rarity system for loadouts?

[@bydlakbolszewik847]

1. I think the default perk limit should be 4, but every map should have a way to obtain every perk without gobblegums/elixirs just like origins. That was the perfect system imo and it's what treyarch should have done for bo4. Jason was right about the crutch perks but used the wrong solution to fix it. Like Lex once said, the crutch perks didn't need to be removed, but instead the perk limit. 2. I think the perfect amount of perks for a zombies map is 8-10. 3. Yes, you can increase the price to let's say 4000-5000 points, but it's better than the rarities and PaP tiers.

[@heckthefrickoff8840]

14:20 In Verrückt Mule Kick is next to the stairs on the American side of the map. In Shi No Numa it is inside of the spawn room.

[@Fallenknight9310]

"this is considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest zombie map ever created" *goes on to say that atleast 5 times*

[@ifirelyz]

You know he didn't play zetsubou when he forgot to mention the free perk from the challenges cool vid tho 👍

[@jedwalker4543]

I really enjoyed watching this video and plan on watching more of what you put out. Thank you! Buried and MotD 4lyfe!

[@johinesssujiru4496]

I appriciate the update and thanks to the viewers ima small part but proof ur thanks is important and means something

[@lilspaghettisauce2375]

your voice is so familiar to that minecraft youtuber !! ant venom!! love the video man !!

[@Dylster1009]

Discovered you today after playing BO6 zombies so would love to see some videos on that!

[@BombShot]

Ngl, if they just gave die rise flopper like it deserved it wouldve gotten a lot less hate. Its a shame too. I genuinely think that maps layout is one of the most unique zombies experiences, and just so fun to boot up and mess around on casually. Too bad it's too hated to ever get an official remaster. Heres hoping the community redo comes at some point.

[@babylakelavi]

I am a person who’s had and played and enjoyed IW zombies since a year after it came out I had no idea you could give up your perks

[@Det_Somerset]

Hahaha I had no idea either. But I also only played the game a handful of times

[@LikeCodGuns]

Im pretty sure Verruct in BO1 has mulekick. Under the stairs in the tommy room!

[@Horror1155]

It does and shi no numi has it in the starting area

[@rileymccollum2348]

Should’ve included that you can get all the perks on town with a teammate using an Easteregg

[@awesomedude15cool]

Great vid! I did want to mention that I am fairly certain mule kick was added to verruckt and shi no numa as well.

[@Det_Somerset]

I couldn’t find the machine myself in those maps, and my research turned up nothing. So it very well could be, but just to be safe I didn’t mention it

[@awesomedude15cool]

@@Det_Somerset that’s very interesting! Maybe it was only added on console versions? I could’ve sworn it was there!

[@Kushncorinthian]

I appreciate deadshot for being a nice, cheap mid-game perk. I also like it's aesthetics, it makes for a good 5th perk (if possible)

[@devilmancries9617]

"Mob of the Dead isn't an easy map" has got to be the most press x to doubt moment.

[@Gojeto346]

I’ll die on the hill that Gobblegums were perfect. You did not have to use them, some of the free ones were super useful and always available to you, you could earn the liquid divinium in game, Newtons cookbook allows you to get some of the more sought after ones if you have shitty ones stored up because you never use them, and they were super useful without being game breaking.

[@amazingaugusto1736]

Objectively wrong. You are coming at it from a solo/private lobby experience. Imagine being in a public game and forced to receive a random perk that you did not buy, simply because some random used one of his mega gobblegums. And lets not forget people leaving and dashboarding mid game because they wanted to save their mega's.

[@Fortitudee]

average black ops 3 zombies glazer

[@Gojeto346]

@@Fortitudee you have pronouns in your bio😂

[@Gojeto346]

@@amazingaugusto1736 yeah bro sorry I have friends I play with:/

[@Fortitudee]

@@Gojeto346 black ops 3 sucks

[@44mikatje]

ah, another worthy video to make the warthunder grind les angering

[@MeMyselfAndI6999]

Good to see a fellow M14 gang member

[@Mothsune]

tbh ppl talk alot about wanting double tap back but its not needed anymore as zombies no longer continuously scale with health, they all eventually cap to where you can kill most hordes with a mag or 2 or a couple bullets if its a wonder weapon.

[@arc-sd8sk]

mule kick was sorta dubious because you'd lose your third weapon forever if you downed

[@derpysquid6595]

38:32 you only get whatever perk spawned on the map, only 6

[@friskierorca6212]

You see Treyarch? This is how you make headshot daiquiri useful! Give it something else than auto aim!

[@EddieLove]

Die Rise was my favorite map in BO2 until Origins released, never understood the hate, loved it ❤

[@thatrandomguy3290]

Loved your rant on Die Rise 😂😂 taunting us with phd was just wrong

[@pmannen98]

Okay say what you will about Tranzit, but when you were 13, playing it with 3 buddies, you had the time of your life. Don't deny it...(I love that map, fight me).

[@brandonstallard22]

Just learned that there were some goobs out there that didn't like tranzit. Wild.

[@ImEmmalol]

Good video dude!

[@devilmancries9617]

Dang i loved deadshot for a while now, I used to think deadshot was good but after considering the prospects and downsides, yeahhhhh. I guess I'm out of the loop with most players. Good thing they're updating perks and removing the perk limit on later CoDs.

[@gavinmooradian8226]

Do history of wonder weapons next!

[@supermark625]

Bro gave AW credit for coming up with lootboxes LOL

[@vondoge7146]

What a great video, Disagree that Origins is considered the best by the larger community tho. I rly think that goes to Eisendrache :)

[@ligmaleft1764]

Love the video, but you're wrong about tombstone. Tombstone was the first time in zombies history where you were able to get all perks on the map.

[@gogetta159]

Jugg in WaW does NOT increase health to 200 on Verruckt and Shu No Numa it increased your health by 160 and increased Health Regen so you start regening after 0.5s after taking damage. Meaning solo zombies CAN'T KILL YOU.

[@gogetta159]

Also Speed DOES NOT increase barrier repair speed. It just makes the animation faster it doesnt actually speed up the time at all tho.

[@xxR4in]

Tombstone was the way to get extra perks back in the day thats what me and the boys used it for

[@Gokuvegeta47]

5:59 this right here is one of the most important changes to the perk system.

[@LuckySevens]

Yo how did I miss this masterpiece 💀 Time to get the popcorn 🍿

[@Det_Somerset]

🍿🍿🍿 Thank you, as always, my friend 🙏

[@XieonGaming]

Thanks!

[@StCisco]

King is on the algorithm

[@PolaroidDroidXI11]

World at Wars perk locations for Der Riese didn’t move around and the perks were always the same at the same locations. You’re thinking of The Giant or BO3 Der Riese

[@Isnapbowls]

I think you forgot to mention the fact that in ascension and call of the dead, you could have more then 4 perks if you kill George/don’t let the monkeys touch any cola machines

[@thekingofcookies4877]

The thing that baffles me is...JUGGERNOG WAS SO ICONIC THAT IT WAS A MINI FRIDGE SPECIAL PRE ORDER FOR BLACKS OPS III and they thought, yeah...lets get rid of THAT ONE.

[@jeremyscungio16]

I only played offline until summer 2011 so i only had OG kino and still see mule kick as a new perk

[@Det_Somerset]

Must’ve still been online somehow

[@jeremyscungio16]

@Det_Somerset yeah in 2011, obviously I had a computer but no online play. Nice video but are you daft

[@doomjoltfromflordia4069]

Vangaurd made a bad choice on switching them with bland toilet fountains

[@tinybot777]

Yoo you Cooked bro 10/10

[@Det_Somerset]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Boomi_Dog]

Awesome video dude

[@Det_Somerset]

Thank you, my friend 🙏

[@SladeTalksSports]

People hate die rise?

[@crazyratpors]

Who’s Who is just goofy lol. I like it

[@DeeMulaah]

Man, it feels like only a few years ago me and my friends were doing the glitch at the box to get three guns and now look how much has changed Where does the time go?

[@Cyrus21100]

With Cold War, the upgrade system only works if you play online and have the subscription program. Me, not having any of that, have to play using only the base rank's of each perk. Granted, Outbreak mode is my pass the time mode as i easily get overwhelmed in Round based. Also sucks thst you canton save progress offline either.

[@TheoFw9]

Within the first 100 views 🙏 love the videos man

[@Det_Somerset]

First hundo?!? 🙏🙏🙏

[@gld_ow]

On the BO4 section, the original HP was 150 which was raised to 200 not 200 going to 250 as claimed. 0:58:40

[@stilljan8680]

13:45 literally never knew they added mule kick to the other maps, wth, maybe i shouldve play online

[@Salvo_0019]

I literally was yelling at you in my head wondering why tf mule kick wasnt mentioned cuz i wasnt around when the update 1.15 happened

[@Sonavyon]

1:09:56 these are exactly my thoughts on the BO4 perk system. It was cool, but all charm from the perks were sacrificed...

[@Griec_e]

Crazy how 2 bad maps get you fired