The Team That Solved the Golden Rod Mystery (Call of Duty Black Ops)

#mystery #cod #videoessay
Meet the Hunt for Call of the Dead's Chilling Mystery. Call of the Dead is the ninth Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies map. Treyarch called it "a unique Zombies experience" and is "a very special creation for all Zombie fans". The level is the first to feature actual celebrities fighting off zombies and features George A. Romero as one of the zombies. Call of the Dead occurs in an abandoned Group 935 Siberian outpost, which features a shipwrecked freighter, a vibrant lighthouse, and a sparse coast.
Editor: Preppieuniform6
Congrats on Worlds First: • Call of The Dead Easte...
special thanks to:
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Intro: 00:00
Call of the Dead: 01:20
Ensemble Cast: 08:56
Disabling the security system: 11:46
The Bottle: 14:57
The Chilling Steps to the Golden Rod: 17:09
The Finale: 26:38
The Return of Legend: 29:01
The New EvanExplains Enters: 31:11
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Music
Damned - Call Of Duty Zombies
Storyblox - DEX
Eye for Detail - Jay Varton
Decimposed - Philip Ayers
Merged by the Night - Anthiny Earls
Dont Got Inside - Farrell Wooten
Reluctant Soldier - Will Harrison
Into the Divide - Trevor Kowalski

[@EvanExplains]

Did you catch the new host of the channel at the end of the video? :)

[@thesweetgenius6994]

WHERE IS THE ZOMBIES MERCH. I want merch like you got for the raids

[@Bigglenndaddy]

Huh?

[@DominatorElite4]

Hey what part of the Shangri la trailer has George Romeros audio

[@marksimmons-vg3xp]

He said guns4hire he’s a Youalwayswin group with meatty

[@marksimmons-vg3xp]

These guys are still doing call of duty, zombies, custom, zombies they come from nextgentactics

[@alejandroaguilar9850]

The most healthy community among the COD Fandom is the one of Zombies.

[@JamesDouse-xm8nd]

@@colinmcmasters5819Yh but that’s just cod , always had been since 2009 😂😂 that shit won’t ever change , I learned like every bad thing in the world ever thru old stoners in party chat 😂

[@graazioso]

@@colinmcmasters5819yeah that’s what makes it so fun lmao

[@ojman6548]

Hahaha no

[@bigschlongdave3771]

@@colinmcmasters5819sounds like a skill issue

[@FreeStellarBlade.]

@@colinmcmasters5819 Never ran into that on Plutonium servers only in MP does that happen. But i suppose console got less players so that could be why it is more common

[@Aaron-qg8fo]

I'd like to see a custom map that portrays "Call of the Dead" the way Richtofen planned it to be. Where he and ultimus would have collected the Golden Rod themselves. It'd be interesting to see what people come up with and what ultimus would have to fight through to get to it.

[@thewat3rcompany]

What an idea, this would have been such an awesome egg to have in the community remaster. Just hard to produce audio clips.

[@TheMysticalTank]

I remember watching NGT zombies back in the day. Good memories of easier times…

[@EvanExplains]

NGT was how I found zombies Easter eggs in general

[@jmacc2331]

SpiderBite was the dude when it came to OG zombie videos 😂

[@Steellatch]

@@jmacc2331 Spiderbite is the one that killed NGT

[@Paul20489]

Oh man there's some memories right there. NGT zombie and spiderbite

[@thewat3rcompany]

I had an isolated incident on like 2012 Twitter with the shorter, nasally-voiced fella from NGT. Was a huge fan to that point, but he was on socials getting his ego bruised by teenagers and engaging with so much shit with very little to add. Turned me off to the channel forever, and was very much a telling sign for me that the collective we knew as NGT was doomed for failure. Not GunsForHire, cannot remember the lil man's name. Love the video, still one of the best eggs to date

[@godslight630]

Its a shame they never did meet this cast again, like Richtofen said at the end

[@TheAerogost]

Its so weird hearing NGT getting mentioned as more than just a passing thought, they were up there with Dalek and Rofl back in the day

[@EvanExplains]

NGT from my understanding was more a group of adventurers rather than a single creator so I think maybe people don’t give the community as much respect for some reason?

[@ZombiesLibrary]

NGT were before Dalek & Waffles, (Dalek became prominent during BO2 ripping content off everyone else)

[@baileyapedaile8306]

People like darlek and Noah are nothing nothing but leaches, not even in ngts league

[@tannercassel2173]

@@ZombiesLibrary*Plagiarizing

[@FluffyKings]

@@EvanExplainsNGT does have/ had a main single guy, who had a couple other guys join in to help him, he was active for a good portion of last year

[@ultimis3658]

this series is what I was hoping someone would make

[@EvanExplains]

oh trust me, we're just getting it going

[@albinrisberg7572]

@@EvanExplains will you do all the games or just the older once

[@gazwilliams-nc7jp]

This takes me back, i miss the feeling of completing an EE, and not completing a hand held quest

[@aczme12]

Gods, I remember NGT back in the day, and I'm glad Meaty and Gunns are still around, as YAW, aka You Always Win!

[@youngray510xeastxbay5]

Love your zombie videos man, refreshing,especially at a time when zombies is dead and burnt to the ground…

[@EvanExplains]

MW3 zombies might be okay

[@nickjeffrey8050]

Loving these videos

[@zacharysawyer9018]

Lmao at the NGT gameplay, I love it. Great throwback. 😂

[@theaveragejoeshow8298]

I have wanted a video series like this for so long tysm

[@ImLaddy]

I would love to see a video on the whole zombies storyline from you. Please keep stuff like this up :)

[@EvanExplains]

that would be something down the road but im open to it

[@dalt0n]

Great video pls keep uploading these!

[@EvanExplains]

Will do

[@S197sam]

Been waiting for this!

[@EvanExplains]

happy to say this is one that came out fully baked :)

[@MrGuiagui]

Didn't know about the existence of this channel, I knew Evan from the main channel that covers Destiny 2 videos. Now my two favorite universes Zombies and Destiny, and now those two stories being narrated by Evan is awesome

[@EvanExplains]

This channel is gonna be largely variety as KZbin might be more cooperative over here, but for now I’m on zombies WF stories

[@MrGuiagui]

@@EvanExplains This is amazing

[@pumas1192]

La comunidad hispana de Zombies siempre ha sido de mis favoritas y con mucho orgullo soy parte de ella. Grandes como Jugger, Pride y demás eran grandes, y ver un clip hispano en el video me recordó esos momentos del EE de Die Rise y Origins en donde hispanos fueron importantes. What a great video and serie man, keep it up and we will follow

[@EvanExplains]

Thank you!

[@icecoldfire25]

These videos are so well done they deserve more views. Cmon KZbin do your magic and get Evan what he deserved for all this work he puts in.

[@EvanExplains]

KZbin will catch on, thanks for rockin with this

[@shmoejoedesy9449]

Just got here. Hopefully more on the way. 🤙🏾

[@crabbo9039]

Yooo evans doing a history of zombies Easter eggs let’s go, definitely cool seeing this after watching the destiny raid races

[@EvanExplains]

Thanks man! Looking to do this series well

[@Mr.Grampians]

These are fantastic!!

[@EvanExplains]

Thank you!

[@Coey04]

There’s something about the zombies story but also the story of how the community solved everything, it’s just a masterpiece. Great series so far keen for the rest

[@jacobf1466]

Can't wait for the next !!

[@quicktrips]

Awesome video

[@EvanExplains]

Thank you!

[@IMDPGEE]

Love the Destiny content and the new stuff. CHANGE YOUR CAMERA ANGLE FOR DAY 1 RAID COVERAGE, PLEASE. Perhaps a live sportscaster type angle. That way we can see both hosts.

[@santastabber]

All time favorite. The way this map casually introduced what this mode can offer is awesome. I remember first playing and hitting a switch just wondering what it did..

[@Ghost-ed3oi]

In my experience, yours could very, the wonder waffle weapon is only dropped by George after you kill him. Once you’ve completed the Easter egg for the first time and anytime after. The mini gun, death machine only spawns in when you kill a zombie and it drops.

[@crashbflexin]

This is gonna blow up. Algorithm brought me here. You made me stay

[@EvanExplains]

thanks, really hoping to do something amazing here

[@albinrisberg7572]

love these

[@EvanExplains]

Happy you do!

[@bradoneill2142]

Really good video, would like too see shangri la next

[@EvanExplains]

Coming up soon 🫡

[@liamtoop]

Love the series keep it up 🫡

[@Taspens]

I can’t wait to see your Shadows of Evil vid

[@zachd00d757]

I can't wait for next videos in this series

[@EvanExplains]

Im so excited

[@TspriggZ]

I appreciate you animating the group to dance lol

[@smileygladhands001]

the nostalgia man

[@a7xnObODY]

THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING AVENGED SEVENFOLD!!!

[@dstr001]

Its probably never been remastered because of the celebs and Romero, they would likely have to pay for all the royalties if they even can get Romeros anymore.

[@NikkaTiel]

Tag der toten replaced the celebs with the tranzit crew

[@dstr001]

@@NikkaTiel Yes, because they couldnt outright remaster the original lol.

[@joedanrob]

I can definetly say the fog was rolling in

[@astervandemaele2478]

i remeber all of this unfloding... brings back memories

[@thomasprigge6635]

I love zombies because even though everyone is working together, it is still hard as fuck and you can go off on your own if you want to.

[@caydensunday3204]

call of the dead is by far mine and my brothers favorite intro, “This is a real Nightmare, RAHHH!”

[@desmonoloco8657]

Dang I forgot about NGT I think I started watching them when Moon came out. It was cool they posted every single discovery as it was found by the community

[@alecxjones4419]

We out here dawg

[@nomoremeaning]

The dial step just gave me PTSD level flashbacks

[@dimox115x9]

I still think now that Tag Der Toten near the ship in COTD spawn, u can access to a submarine ( maybe unsolved or scrapped) because there are barrels and some kind of entry to take a boat. And maybe will be solved, that's just expectation. For the VR11, i still think it was made by the apothicon blood and blood of Yena's team (no spoilers) and created by the Siberian Group 935 facility according to Tag Der Toten radios. I mean a Siberian Camouflage come on😂

[@rsGasha]

19:30 interestingly enough, guy says it's next to "Titan" which is Jug, even though it should be Staminup.

[@ZombiesLibrary]

For reference, @Telexion is an OG Zombies Legend dating way back to Nacht & Verrückt. He has solved many Zombies Easter Eggs over the years. He officially named the “Jumping Jacks” on Die Rise! (He also features in the Team on your next Video about the Shangri-la Easter Egg)

[@suminternetsht290]

oh shit lol i didnt know that was you bro. watched your raid story telling videos on d2 all the time 😂

[@natetete1379]

I wish back in the day me and my friends had uploaded the glitch we found on shi no in Black ops. We searched everywhere on the internet to see if anyone else had found it and we didn't find anything. The one thing we never tried was if it works in single player since it technically involves going down and getting revived outside the map. I think quick revive revives you a little bit too quickly to pull it off in single player

[@sfish6]

Never gonna forget how hard it was for 11 year old me to do the dials step on the easter egg, good times

[@EvanExplains]

my friends wouldn't stop trolling me on these back then so it took a while

[@sfish6]

@@EvanExplains never knew there were papers to explain it to you either, good video

[@isaacsmith2011]

This has to be the best map pack we’ve ever received

[@nated4237]

OH MY GOD EVANF1997 COD VIDEO?? NO WAY TGIS JUST SHOWED UP IN MY RECS INSTANT SUB HOW DID I NOT KNOW U HAD THIS CHANNEL

[@_doofiis7420]

I played this game since i was 14 and literally just realized VR-11 can be read as vril

[@EvanExplains]

Dw I had the same “okay holy shit” moment 😆

[@jamesdeannightingale]

7/01/2014 I got the ensembled achievement aswell as all the others bo1 and 2 were the only games I fully clocked campaign wise multiplayer and gamer score tasks don’t make games like they use to

[@NEARReiCtor8799]

Telexion, that’s a name I haven’t heard in years

[@TiberiusRex182]

My mans never heard of a hyena before.

[@raygonz]

if you watched the video youd know why he said that

[@natetete1379]

Even though I dislike the direction that this map put the zombies mode on. I remember at the time getting weekly and daily updates on solving the easter egg.

[@DVGBlur]

I first knew Michael Rooker as Mike Harper

[@joshjones5172]

the old ngt guys are still around, they left because of drama with spider. Spider only wanted to do zombies and the other guys branched out.

[@RawTactics1]

Hyper mole and spider bite.... man those were the day

[@leek5682]

The Easter egg on this one was great

[@johnreid5814]

Now im gonna finally watch night of the dead on internet archive XD

[@mtwizzer]

Man I miss NGT grew up watching them, it was a shame when they had their falling out.

[@PlebX-]

Damn how did you get Freckleston in here ?

[@flowmotiiion9441]

another banger

[@EvanExplains]

Thank you!

[@exoconn5553]

Babe wake up. Evanf is making zombies videos again

[@Pikerusu]

I was looking to see if anyone ever made a history of easter egg hunts, was considering doinjg something like this myself. Good to see.

[@EvanExplains]

The worlds first discoveries always are fun

[@Shade_91]

Dempsey, Richtofen, Takeo and Nikolai are just the best and Zombies will never be as good without them

[@team3d180]

OH MY GON NGT GUN4HIRE CORE MEMORY RESTORED IM SCREAMING. this videos becoming a roller coster ride for someone like me.

[@SXBIGtime]

Shang's gonna be cool ass video cause people hate the steps for the EE on that map so I'm curious how people discovered them.

[@EvanExplains]

YES IM SO HYPED

[@ozzc-b9891]

Tag is pretty much a remaster of Cotd. I know it’s technically not but that’s pretty much how it was used

[@sourbythehour4204]

Shang is fire but Moon finna be a movie.

[@bberns8252]

If tag isn’t a remaster then neither is Blood

[@thewat3rcompany]

Still, to date, my favorite Easter Egg Song by a mile. Avenged Sevenfold MURDERED the concept

[@quinnhesting7465]

Can’t wait for you to get to bo3

[@EvanExplains]

Slowly but surely :)

[@englrus10]

One step deeper down the rabbit hole

[@EvanExplains]

Only edging the rabbit hole

[@xsomedank4205]

I had no idea you played cod zombies im so used to seeing the destiny content

[@EvanExplains]

Ah yeah this is my variety channel

[@xsomedank4205]

@@EvanExplains keep up the good work!! Also I loved the crotas end stream for the raid race!!

[@CoDRAWL]

Spiderbite runs ngt but last I checked he doesn't make youtube anymore. But meatwagon22 and Guns4hire still do. They are pretty easy to find.

[@AdrX003]

💯💯💯💯 💜

[@EvanExplains]

happy you like it

[@mrpotatoalsomooman7289]

I'm still playing call of the dead, and just found out there is a loading screen

[@bo__]

evan is big poggies

[@Celtic_Fenix]

I would see if you could talk with mr Dalek JD. I’m pretty sure he and maybe his team would help out with steps and usually he has a lot of info.

[@natetete1379]

Honestly I love in the whole idea behind this map, but I think in their quest to fit as much into this as possible they sort of watered down the zombies experience. This is the first map that is meant more for the Easter egg than it is for anything else and it's a trend that would continue in Black ops 2 maps centered around an Easter egg not zombies. That's why the zombies move so slow in Black ops 2 and 3. Because the point of the game is not the zombies anymore it's the story that's why Black ops 4 thought it could get away without having a campaign

[@ODDGRUB]

Goddamn brotherGUNNS AND MEATWAGON

[@about6penguins10]

Ahh good old call of the soft locks

[@EvanExplains]

the best was the lighthouse glitch next to the ak74u, zombies couldn't hit you :)

[@team3d180]

3:19 they talk so highly about a map that really didnt add anything significant and basically was just the only way we could use the cool sniper map wepaon. Map itself..... just load up ascension again boys.

[@MillimeterDFTR]

Black ops 1 was goated

[@ThePocketier]

Lol poor takeo

[@flowmotiiion9441]

really enojoying the series so far bro

[@EvanExplains]

Thank you

[@NotoriousBBB]

I wish they stuck with the stroyline involving tge vrill and inner earth instead of aliens 😢

[@sz7072]

Arikadou’s voice @ 3 mins!

[@EvanExplains]

Nice catch!

[@sirspoonkm.]

I love richtofens golden rod

[@hippo1985]

Im followed by Hypermole (gary) and SpiderBite on twitter, for years really, I used to be heavily involved in the nextgen community, I did DM them both on twitter included a link to the video but because of the internal drama the crew had years ago I dont know if they wil respond or not. I remember a few years back a big rant Hyper and Suley had with each other because Spiderbites kid spammed Hyper game invites, Hypermole kinda over reacted and they stopped making zombie videos together for a while, Spiderbite came back a couple of years later with a semi channel rebrand, sponsored by Gfuel etc but it just wasnt the same chemistry as before and hasnt had a video in over a year. 'Next Gen Tactics' changed into 'Next Gen Tactics Zombies' around the time Black Ops 2 hit if that helps with further research.

[@ramsvy]

Look for SpiderByte he’s the only person left I think in NGT

[@kingtut7366]

You don’t consider it a remaster but that boy was def a remake like laziest thing they ever did on bo4 remake every map and add a few sections and act like it’s new or unique

[@Telixion]

😁

[@EvanExplains]

The 🐐 himself

[@bobthedopeman7327]

Danny Trejo - From Dusk till Dawn

[@EvanExplains]

Also true

[@Z0MB1ESLAYER115]

Tag is more of a remake, like all bo4 aether maps

[@NicholasRiveroMassivekillerz]

Can’t wait till you get to the Moon easter egg

[@EvanExplains]

very excited!

[@NicholasRiveroMassivekillerz]

@@EvanExplains Mob of the Dead Too!!!