Why People Hate This Black Ops 6 Mission…

[@jayloncalcote7945]

This mission had me traumatized when i seen the mannequins moving

[@milesholland8348]

Try it high

[@rotimika]

That part

[@milesholland8348]

@@jayloncalcote7945 get high and play with headphones in with the sound up

[@niteblazer2924]

Fucking I shot every mannequin so I would get jump scared. It didn't work 😱. And don't forget about the last mission was terrifying aswell

[@DankyDankenstein]

*saw

[@rayandino4393]

My only complaint is that it was long. We got to not only know about cradle, we got to know more about William Calderoun (Case). The fact that he’s a super soldier makes it all the more awesome

[@Alex-eo9rh]

I agree. Did on veteran first time and took me over 90 mins (I suck). When you go up the elevator to the fifth boss fight, I said you’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Great mission, just too long. Also the zombies in the main room inbetween visiting the four facilities kinda made me feel burned out and disengaged by boss fight four/five.

[@gaskittt]

I was over the mission the minute I grabbed the first keycard and realized you just had to do the same damn thing 3-4 more times (and repeat that same process in all the other zombie missions)

[@hizzy808]

To long????

[@RawMenCod]

the last boss fight was ez i just got confused before on the part will the sizzling noise with the 3rd boss

[@hizzy808]

@@Alex-eo9rh idc

[@joshuak3546]

I really loved this mission. Its eerie atmosphere, bloodcurdling silence and mystery really makes you wonder what exactly happened here and specifically to Case. Raven tried to make a stand out mission so that even after playing the game you’ll remember this one for this mission and personally they did just that. I understand the criticism when it comes to this mission but when you look at this mission as a whole…it’s the epitome of Black Ops and I couldn’t be anymore thankful for it.

[@UBAT128]

it was treyarch and raven, raven helped them tryearch made the story

[@joshuak3546]

@ it was 90% Raven and 10% Treyarch. Treyarch purely goes into office making sure there is no plot-holes and whether or not the story is what they want. Raven does everything else and it used to be like this but the year is 2024 and well this is what we get.

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

Makes you wonder? What exactly was left to wonder when they overexplain the fuck out of the whole thing. Not a shred of mystery actually left by the end.

[@31knots50]

​@takoshihitsamaru4675 We know they are super soldiers, but do not know exactly what that means. Beyond potentially their loyalty to the cause we don't know what else is put into them. We don't have a confirmation both cradle ops died at the end. The canister exploded, however they both should have a level of immunity from it if not it making them stronger. We haven't fully uncovered the mole. We don't know how involved adler was with cradle. What is the status of Mason? Was it really Reznov that saved woods and Mason in Afghanistan after we were told he died? Is Adlers brainwashing truly undone? Despite livingston giving a green light to Marshall's team, it is imperative the rest of the CIA doesn't know so you're potentially still fighting Americans

[@bobdarrick2628]

This mission held the campaign back significantly.

[@zetamangads]

I think the problem is that you have two studios who have their own vision of Call of Duty; Infinity Ward: Modern/ grounded warfare. Treyarch: Black Ops espionage/mind thriller (for those who don't get it, a lot of emphasis on their campaigns is focused on how people are being brainwashed or human psychology) not counting WaW Activision forcing the two studios to merge their series into one universe was a bad idea because you have two different studio visions conflicting with one another. Hence, why people are saying this mission it feels out of place for a Call of Duty.

[@SSnowxoxo]

as it should be if two different branches working together imagine marines running alongside CIA of course their methods with clash but theyre all under the same flag couldnt be too hard to improvise

[@zetamangads]

@SSnowxoxo Yeah, but this mission, in particular people is saying it feels like straight out of Bioshock.

[@sitosamin]

Include sledgehammer you don't get future gameplay like BF2030

[@brt1996]

I like the Black Ops series more than MW but this mission was just too much, should have been a zombies map instead of a campaign mission. The rest of the campaign is good

[@iam_747]

​@@brt1996 Agreed, the Mind bending missions killed BO6. The stealth missions were way better

[@songoku9348]

This mission wasn’t COD. It felt like I was playing a different game. I however despise the Jane harrow mission.

[@Mexicanchip]

True

[@chanel48gaming88]

Yeah it feels like horror gmes 😂😂😂 but i love zombie mode but in mission i dnt like the zombies it feel dffrnt cod

[@robertmarks2379]

Does the assassin see her after shooting the dad? When he checks the body he looks at where she is hiding

[@ivanmartinez743]

​​@@robertmarks2379Yup, he knows she is there, but as we seen in the letter, her parents were the only objectives

[@gaskittt]

I feel like I found someone who understands what I mean when I say every zombies mission was actually just the same mission with the same 3 objectives and they were all equally lazy (besides the mannequins, even tho other games did that gag way before CoD did, that was still the only redeeming part of all the zombies mission for me)

[@marcusbrotherns7341]

This mission had me tripping. It was so fun but it had me tripping

[@xelitemp6920]

Nigga no it didn’t 😂😂😂 it was never that deep. It’s just zombies. Nothing to do with the storyline of Black Ops 1 n 2

[@_fw.cam_]

For real and I was playing it at like 1 am

[@marcusbrotherns7341]

@ I did it at 2am and I was like yeah nah I’m all set lmaoo

[@innergenichiro]

It was my favourite because the second i saw manequins inside poison gas and a hallucination looking screen i knew there was gonna be some weeping angel shit and i shit myself multiple times this mission. Also i dont get people who say zombies should stay in zombies, the gameplay is nothing alike, the only similarity is the assets.

[@marcusbrotherns7341]

@@innergenichiro nah I totally agree

[@drizzydre2007]

I'm not a zombies player. This mission creeped me out. It was still a good mission.

[@amazingdragom1]

for me i like zombies but the mission was just too creepy for me

[@dziugazz]

It was just uncomfortable, you know. I put on the campaign to play a call of duty campaign, not zombies

[@michaelmasore9415]

this was more disturbing than just any normal zombies mode game even though i was even scared to play it I say it was one of the best missions in any modern title id even say one of the best campaigns out of Modern COD's

[@bobdarrick2628]

This mission was awful

[@JeremiahsFiles]

Emergence was the only mission I wasn’t interested in, but it did show me why the rogue Black Ops team had to prevent Jane Harrow from unleashing the Cradle. I was more interested in finding out who Raul Menendez’s mole in Panama was.

[@JeanReaper]

Well Here is a Lil Thing for you to make you even more hyped or smt. Zomies and bo Story Back to bo1 has sum similiar Things Like Charakters who plays important roles and even vanguard Story is a Lil Part in Bo Story. In vanguard the NS tried to Get invincible super soldiers With sum Nova Projekt (a Projekt that actually creates undead soldiers) they tried it With sum relicts so the cradle could be smt Like that. A biological weapons Like a Virus and the Side effects causes the whole outbreak so it would make Sense why there are Charakters in both parts (Story and Zombie) so bo6 could be the Missing Part between Zombies and Story and Activision May try to connect it finally. Case could be the 1st infected or smt Like a new Zombie Boss or smt. So this whole Mission makes more sense as many think and i'm hyped to See what we Get in the Future. Ik my english is Not the best but i Hope you may understand everything

[@tapeunknown]

i think harrow was the mole could be wrong but just a thought given the story so far

[@JeremiahsFiles]

@@tapeunknown Harrow could be the mole, or maybe there was more than one mole involved in Panama.

[@tapeunknown]

@ before the release i thought it was adler but its basically false given the campaign but he could be rouge sometimes if that makes sense 😭

[@moodygurlification]

​@@JeanReaperVanguard tried to connect itself to World of War but since the game was absolute horrid dog shit they went back on that decision and never brought it up again for Black Ops 6 it's different the entire point is mystery and uncertainty and also it wouldn't make sense for Black Ops 2 if we went after Menendez now because for the timeline to function we won't be able to kill him so that would be pointless also it's heavily implied at Jackson Cane who was there in the multiplayer and campaign or Jane was the mole but no one is 100% sure

[@Fox_The_Butler]

During emergence the mannequins were actual mannequins. the zombies were Pantheon soldiers that’s why they keep jumping in between being zombies and pantheon for a brief second, Cradle was causing Case to see them as zombies the bosses are the only part I can’t explain what they were supposed to be outside of the trip. The entire mission is showing why everyone who was affected by cradle eventually started to act violent and psychotic, and to tell the player that case was the first person it was tested on and how it affected him.

[@xa0d3kt1s]

I liked that mission. But in the three last games, what we're seeing is a campaign that is a kind of exercise for the other modes, like the open world missions, driving vehicles, the armored enemies, and now the zombies. Black Ops 6 has a great balance among all this stuff, but personally when I play the campaign, I want to experience the campaign, if I want to play zombies or warzone I'll play zombies or warzone.

[@reallydopegaming8229]

Exactly

[@Alex-eo9rh]

100%

[@calebwest7826]

People hate emergence? Its the best mission in the game

[@tavo.9.o.9]

Fr its my favorite mission

[@mccannmotorsports3858]

Same here I loved the mission

[@avz1153]

You must like black licorice.

[@avz1153]

​@@tavo.9.o.9horrible mission

[@crimecity]

I love that mission

[@EvanSolomonBerger]

One more thing: the cradle is a hallucinogenic that causes severe mania and forces them to attack their victims. The victims are not zombies, but a hallucination of such.

[@Alex-eo9rh]

I totally get that, I think that went a miss with the average cod fan though. The game conveyed that idea too subtly

[@tavo.9.o.9]

​​@@Alex-eo9rhFr I just see the same old "Im PlAyInG CaMpAiGn NoT ZoMbIeS" or something similiar when all they had to do was pay attention to the story to understand but no they just want brain dead pew pew, explosions, the end.

[@Dnd-Owlin]

My favorite part of the mission was with the mannequins as the boss, where they moved when you weren’t looking. I was severely disappointed when the mannequins turned into a boss I already fought in this mission.10:55

[@viktorbarta]

Zombies being there completely makes sense. The cradle makes you agressive by you hallucinating, one of the things you hallucinate are zombies but you also see other people as zombies (or other threats i assume) so thats why you get agressive towards them. Case’s mask broke and he inhaled the cradle so you hallucinated. And this wasn’t treyarch’s way of merging the campaign and zombies storyline since in zombies the zombies dont come from the cradle but they are real things. So it’s not because of cheaping out and being lazy in terms of story. But yes the bosses being reused is because of being lazy

[@Moldychip95]

I talked to my friend about this and he said that maybe it’s because everyone is scared of zombies and the cradle makes you hallucinate what scares you

[@WatC-RockstarAce]

Yeah, in the beginning of the mission, you hear Marshall say someone got there before them. Case is likely fighting Pantheon agents, and hallucinating them as zombies due to cradle. Or at least, that’s how I understood it.

[@WatC-RockstarAce]

And finally, someone who doesn’t think the story was lazy! Yes we’ve seen similar things in CoD as far as brain washing and mission progression goes, but super soldiers, fighting bad guys, hallucinating them as zombies; all thanks to a bio weapon, created by pretty much a shadow org… That’s new to CoD, and I feel like they did that well! New zombie bosses, or different bosses all together would’ve been cooler, and less lazy production wise; but Emergence, is certainly not where the narrative fell flat.

[@viktorbarta]

@@WatC-RockstarAce also im pretty sure that at the end of the emergence mission when you are fighting the lost zombies and the cradle wears off and it turns out that they were marshall and the other. But im not sure if i remember correctly

[@WatC-RockstarAce]

@ Yep, at the very end of the mission, the last two zombies in Case’s hallucination turns out to be Marshall and Sevati!

[@ocean7931]

The trippy theme of that mission is what makes me like it, its different that other missions ive played in COD

[@TheFlamewalker]

Exactly. It's Black Ops, gotta be ready to get your brain fucked inside out :)

[@oldmancho8530]

The whole mission was sick, it had me engaged the whole time. I remember at the end of it I was so happy that I’m getting to leave that place. Completing that mission actually meant something for me in the end.

[@Starwarp02]

People ask for change since they feel call of duty is the same every year and then they have the surprised pikachu face when it does change

[@moodygurlification]

Fr

[@theshovl3r]

That’s not it at all, crossing zombies over to the story is dumb

[@tavo.9.o.9]

​@theshovl3r How? I don't get the thought process of why people hate. It's not like it came out of nowhere unless you didn't pay attention to the story at all. To put it simple case gets exposed to a experimental cradle that caused him to trip out, in turn he sees zombies who knows would like it if it was unicorns then?. Just gotta pay attention to the story it will not surprise you.

[@theshovl3r]

@@tavo.9.o.9 the story part of that doesn’t matter. If I want to shoot zombies, I would play zombies. The reason behind it is meaningless when my reality and the characters are so different.

[@anthonywilliams1815]

@@theshovl3ragreed. People need to realize that a lot of people who plays the campaign aren’t fans of zombies. Therefore, forcing us to play it was uncalled for. Personally, I don’t like zombies or anything horror related so I play story mode to bypass that

[@WatchfulWolf]

Emergence was cool, but it was boring. It just went on way too long, and I was tired of the "zombies" trope by the end of the game, where they bring in zombies and zombie-like things ever since Cold War. If they reduced the actual zombies fights to 1 or 2 instead of 4, then went back to normal, I'd probably like it more

[@fm5280]

I just straight up quit the campaign when I saw that I was gonna have to deal with zombies.

[@niltondiaz7945]

The mission literally is a demonstration of what the black ops series is! It was a good mission. Had me freaked out but was still good

[@dillonc7955]

People didn't like Emergence because the past zombies easter eggs were passive and easy to miss. The ray gun easter egg in WaW and thunder gun easter egg in Black Ops were very specific in what you had to do. In Cold War, the zombies one was part of Bell's imagination to toy with Adler and the crew. In this mission, people either didn't understand the zombies were hallucinations or just don't like zombies being part of the camapign as a whole.

[@JoseWitDaSauce]

Facts. It even said that one of the symptoms of The Cradle was hallucinations.

[@reallydopegaming8229]

I am the latter. Easter eggs here and there i think are pretty cool, but having a whole mission filled with zombies annoyed me. If i want to play zombies, ill choose the zombies game mode.

[@pandapablodoe1711]

@@reallydopegaming8229 that and how long the mission is. Its just the same thing 5 times.

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

It's lazy and it's fucking stupid. Especially since it ended up having absolutely zero bearing on the plot. It's meant to be about homegrown threats, spy thriller, not knowing who to trust, not bloody sci-fi wacky evil Dr experiments and Jane's mental psyche deep dive to pad for time.

[@Shiverns]

Emergence was amazing. Having a mission to understand how Case backstory is great. Same in BOCW where we find out that Bell backstory was with the Red Door mission. This really reminded me of Control with the constant telephone ringing and the music to the boss battles.

[@BoyWonder1914]

My issue with it was from a narrative perspective. Nothing ever comes of Case having been involved in any of this story wise, which is a huge letdown. Also Livingstone knowing about the Cradle and having heard of Pantheon before creates a huge plot hole.

[@olegzakharov1733]

What if those zombies are real people ? While shooting , you can see glimpses of real soldiers running to us.

[@Nuggetchungus]

It’s just hallucinations but to think that they are real alive soldiers and case is picking them off and tanking every shot that lands on him since he is super soldier and is aggressive right now is a cool idea

[@TheRightWayRoundTRWR]

I really liked this mission. But it made sense for them to use zombies because the cradle turned people to have zombie like behaviour.

[@EvanSolomonBerger]

No, the cradle causes its victims to have vivid hallucinations.

[@ivanmartinez743]

​@@EvanSolomonBergerNo, the video the crew found made clear that it turned people into a zombie like mode, Case alucinated because he was already tested with it, therefore, he was resistant to most of its effects, the zombies only appeared because he had to expell that feeling in some way

[@moodygurlification]

​@@EvanSolomonBergeryes that's literally what he just fucking said💀

[@swaggerarmy499]

​@@EvanSolomonBerger which make them act like zombies

[@SHT_66]

@@ivanmartinez743Exactly

[@Reaper_25411]

I personally loved this mission for multiple reasons. The only time we saw zombies in a campaign was in a cold war easter egg that was playable for like 3 minutes until you died and couldn't do it in that missions playthrough again. And also in the BO6 mission its not just like zombies start appearing out of nowhere being insanely unrealistic. Instead its you start breathing in gas causing yourself to hallucinate. At the part at the door when they first start spawning I had no idea zombies were gonna show up behind me and i was TERRIFIED lol. It was a pretty creepy and a bit of a challenging mission but it was fun and unique. I've never been so scared in a call of duty campaign mission lol

[@Touton701]

Another reason this dream/hallucination sequence doesn’t make sense is because in black ops one when Mason saw a rocket launch out of the building he was captured and interrogated by Hudson. It’s not because he was hallucinating, but because previously in the campaign in an earlier mission, we had literally played as Mason as we shot a rocket out of the sky, so it’s not like he’s hallucinating a rocket launch for no reason it’s literally buried in his memory and that’s why he’s seeing it when did Case experience zombies?

[@goodpotato1000]

Since zombies is cannon to the campaign I assumed it was an Easter egg that he had seen zombies. Possibly members of project Janus were working in the same facility

[@Touton701]

@@goodpotato1000 where is the cannon campaign zombie mission in Black ops one and two? Do you see what I mean? Yes some of the characters in zombies come from the campaign but thats it Notice how we don’t meet Rick in the campaign or any of the Apothecons or keepers or any of the other magic creatures in zombies. Notice how in the campaigns were not finding any relics from the zombies world. Yes it’s Canon but it’s also separate.

[@TheNinjaCoby]

The zombie aspect really I think was just to throw in zombies. 😅 If they didn't make Case another mute, maybe they could have had some back story reference that he hates zombies or something and then seeing him hallucinate zombies while under the effects of the gas would make sense since it appears to create substantial fear and cause a raging fight response in people.

[@Touton701]

@@TheNinjaCoby I understand what you mean they could’ve worked it in to cases backstory that he had actually come from the zombies universe or zombie side of the call of duty world, which is why he already has knowledge of zombies and hates them so much which relates to what you said and why he’s so scared of them but they didn’t. Big missed opportunity

[@goodpotato1000]

@@Touton701 at the time of bo1 and 2 the zombies storyline was completely separate, and you wouldn’t expect there to be a connection. But they have mentioned parts of the dark aether zombies lore in more recent campaigns so it’s not out of the question when it comes to bo6. That being said I think the real world explanation is more likely that people liked the zombies in the trippy bell mission in Cold War so they did it again here.

[@trashman966]

"Keep Zombies out of the Campaign!" That last part of the BO3 Campaign mission Demon Within:

[@MetroRetro31]

I can understand why people do bc some people don’t like horror I guess

[@Touton701]

It’s not scary if you thought the mannequins were scary you clearly haven’t played any of the Nuketown Easter eggs, which have been in the games for years or any of the world at war zombies maps considering they’re actually horrifying, especially verruckt

[@dillonc7955]

It's more so that people don't enjoy zombies actively coming into campaign outside of small easter eggs such as the thundegun in black ops or the zombies one in cold war. If you thought Emergence was scary, I'd highly suggest avoiding actual horror games.

[@bubba418]

And because it was repetitive. Sure love it at first but make puzzle, fight recycled zombie boss and get a key 4 times?

[@reallydopegaming8229]

@@bubba418exactly

[@moodygurlification]

​@@Touton701You must be a little child to think a abandoned a insane asylum is scary that shit is not even fucking close to being scary if you take out the zombies then it's just nothing there's nothing there this argument works even more because it's a multiplayer map it's in the campaign to😂

[@andrewladue5392]

Personally I think that "Alone" in MW2 2022 was the best mission ever in a cod. It felt so unique and creative plus I love stealthy missions and this mission is a top 3 for me. I agree that cod campain has had a lot of mil-sim missions it would be nice to have a complete stealth cod

[@noahrozumiak7955]

Loved the campaign, just didn’t like this mission because it was zombies and I’m not really a zombies player but I loved how treyach took risks and changed it up

[@geniusstark6612]

I just hate that cause at the one hand i was shooting pantheon soldiers and suddenly i was fighting fucking zombies causing nightmares for me😂😂

[@Vexxus_Prism]

I don’t like Emergence because it takes way too long. It overstays it’s welcome

[@w1ndt]

Emergence had me shivering in fear. I am scared of labs and mannequins. There were alot of mannequins and big eerie lab. I haven't felt so immersed and scared in a call of duty mission before.

[@michaelmasore9415]

same like they discovered every psychological horror thing in the book and put it to the test this entire game has been the scariest COD's ive ever played BUT i still say the campaign was Fire out of the Modern recent COD's

[@innergenichiro]

How could you hate this? This years campaign is my favourite of all time and this is the best mission. I am biased as a zombies player tho 😅

[@michaelmasore9415]

zombies on its own as a game mode i say out of the modern COD's the Cold war series lately has gone down swinging!

[@adeturner6895]

This mission traumatized me IT'S THE BEST MISSION IN THE GAME

[@DogMutilator]

I thought it was okay, my main issue was that it was too long. 2 or 3 keycards would have made it better because by the time I was getting the 4th one I was pretty done with the mission

[@SpeedTex]

Exactly, why subject players to such horrendous horror? Especially for someone new to cod, that mission alone will discourage them to come back, and I actually did not remember that it was 5 key cards, all I reminisce is going through endless nasty zombies, shooting my way to safe zone!

[@EpsilonChurchRVB]

I'm guessing people that aren't familiar with zombies or survival horror games in general would think it'd be a very long mission. I thought it was alright, but that's because I'm also used to playing zombies and games like Resident Evil, where backtracking back and forth is just something I'm already accustomed with.

[@DogMutilator]

@@EpsilonChurchRVB I'm used to cod zombies at least. I just think they could have made it shorter and the pacing would be a lot better. As it is now it feels like a fetch quest

[@moodygurlification]

My only issue is I have to do that stupid fucking computer hacking a mini game I'm tired of it I get it like five times every single level holy shit how many times are they going to glaze this feature

[@moodygurlification]

​@@SpeedTexthen they were never meant to be a real Call of Duty fan that's just it

[@MacTavish_John]

Just think about cold war. Adler injected something to Bell and in this way, Bell was kinda fighting against scenarios that emerged in his brain just like Harrow. Case,however, went to that facility and what he inhaled made him see hallucinations. Its not about subconscious issue but hallucinatication. Thats why he perceived mannequins as zombies. And of course these were not moving but Case just thought so. there were also pantheon soldiers as we sat the flashes that we saw like zombies turn soldiers (this can be explained with the last boss fight. we perceived zombies as Sev and Marshall and in fact, both were there). This mission enlightens the the story of our protagonist and is abs perfect and could be one of top 5 missions in the cod history.

[@kegancarr4789]

I really enjoyed this mission it was a break from traditional cod missions and though it gave me a few jump scares and spooked me a little (played around midnight) it could have been designed to give a better understanding of how it fit in the overarching bo 6 narrative but overall I really enjoyed it

[@jozsefkalocsa5187]

I loved the concept and the story of this mission, but gameplay-wise, absolutely hated it. Not because of the presence of zombies, but for the boss fights. I hate arena style boss fights, where i have to run around, shooting all my ammo into a barely killable boss, while tons of generic enemies are also attacking me. It's just frustrating for me. I could still accept the first boss fight, but I hated, that the mission forced me to do it four more times.

[@aceadam97]

I liked the mission. But how I see it is 2 different things could be happening: 1 when exploring the facilities and breathing in the cradle gas it's causing case to hallucinate the zombies in the abandoned place thinking your being attacked by them. 2 the cradel gas is making Case remember what happened before when he was at the facility and got tested on with the cradel. So Case imagined all the real people back then as zombies attacking him so he went on a killing spree in the moment. And the gas is making him see them again, That's why he couldnt distinguish the real people and the zombies when they change suddenly. Maybe thats why he was the last to be tested. But IDK

[@burtekio]

when u look at the "zombies" in the center area, you can see them flickering from pantheon soldiers to zombies. Its highly likely that the "zombies" are just pantheon soldiers that fell to the effects of the cradle. As seen in the evidence the crew recovered, the scientists say that it makes the victims hallucinate and make them highly violent and think everyone around them is going to kill them, so thats what leads to case seeing the enemies as "zombies". Its just the cradle working its magic on case

[@CreatinsCouch]

Actually the zombies are meant to represent the people killed by harrow and case as the “cradle” harrow talks to case throughout the mission as they were the ones who gassed the facility

[@BotturasStudios]

this mission is def one of my favorites of all time. 25% just for 115 playing in the background (im a zombies player if you couldnt tell)

[@CranjisMcBasketball-cmbb]

W

[@titusRED]

If the enemy remained pantheon scouring the facility with some of the trippy effects, I would have no issues with it

[@antoniohagopian213]

This obsession with zombies kind of proves it's the only thing treyarch cares about, they can't do anything not related to zombies.

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

Which is a massive shame because Treyarch have proved so many times that they have the chops for very innovative CoD gameplay ideas, interesting stories and likeable characters. Going "nghhhh Zambies" every game for the past 5 years is ridiculous and I sincerely hope they give it a fucking rest soon. One day somebody on that team needs to realise that mindfuck, hallucinations and zombies are not mutually exclusive.

[@iluvrobux7658]

This is literally the best mission in the game, if ppl hated this they seriously got no life

[@jhnyjoejoe69]

you got no life thats why you like it

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

Biggest issues with this mission: - Drastic gameplay change that you have no way of preparing for unless you are a Zombies player. - Horror themed, yet not remotely scary since zombies are not scary, just irritating. - Introduces a plethora of new gameplay mechanics before abandoning damn near all of them by the end. - beats you over the head with a big revelation and then offers zero conclusion or payoff for that reveal during the remainder of the campaign. - It's forcing Campaign players to engage with content that they might not care for, repeating the same mistakes of MWIII's shameless Warzone gameplay during the campaign. If I didn't click "zombies" on the main menu, then why in the holy fuck am I playing a Zombies mission in my campaign? Black Ops 3 did this too, but at least they had the respect to keep it very brief. This mission and the Separation sections in the finale were such ridiculous missteps in an otherwise fantastic campaign.

[@camo1569]

Must be a skill issue

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

@camo1569 1 million percent correct. I don't play Zombies, ergo I am absolute dogshit at Zombies. Aren't you just a special little bright star 🙃

[@camo1569]

@ thank you for agreeing with me!

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

@@camo1569 You're very welcome, son.

[@stephencourtney7356]

The funny thing is about this is everyone forgets how zombies was introduced in black ops one at the end of the campaign and just like in black ops 3

[@travislarue4314]

That's the point case is tripping out because of cradle so he is hallucinating seeing zombies that's the reason behind this mission honestly this was one of the best missions I've ever fucking played instant top five but nothing will ever compare to all ghillied up like what you said ink

[@Dablo_Escobar]

Heres the thing, the zombies in this mission were all hallucinations of case in this mission, so it doesn't really matter, people that dont like this mission need to get that in their head. If you dont like, thats fine, you aren't gonna replay this mission again

[@BaeHelpTrey]

Not trynna see zombies if I’m playin campaign

[@TankTUI]

Exactly

[@michaelmasore9415]

its part of the story Zombies is one face of the same coin in call of duty

[@whereisantonio]

100% the mannequins were a highlight of the campaign but the zombie fights in-between were a let down. Coming from someone who didn't recognise the re-used zombie assets because I don't play zombies all that much.

[@therealnoelyulo]

I get why it's there. I appreciate the innovation. But I only have two reasons why I don't like it: 1. I'm just not into anything horror-related stuff. 2. I always play in Veteran difficulty, so this mission was ROUGH, haha. Took me a very long time.

[@generalmcterror2718]

Surprisingly I didn’t have too many hang ups when I went through on Veteran. Though my cheeks were definitely clenched on the close calls. Especially with the final boss. Though I had my fair share of deaths. One of them was because I didn’t know I had to do anything when the abomination charges Case. So I died laughing when it popped the death screen. My favorite of the bosses was the mimic. Simply because 115 was playing in the background and I felt like I was back in Kino Der Toten.

[@MalibuRacer102]

I loved this mission, haven’t met anyone who didn’t like it. Nice change of pace, unique, and memorable.

[@michaelmasore9415]

same my group of friends ALL think Cold war and black ops 6 have been the best Recent COD games ever

[@Kodiak_Cinema]

Infinite warfare players when the they have to think in a campaign and there is more than one color in the game:

[@KingCoinQRU]

I hate how in the Harrow mission, they decided to make her jump from the scaffolding and onto the helicopter while in the reveal gameplay trailer it was shown that someone geared up was who u are playing as and Harrow and someone else is catching you

[@Wavetopp]

Hated this mission, want a shooter not an attempt at a horror game. Great vid like always

[@tavo.9.o.9]

Well there is horror in war

[@sesuneiro]

​@@tavo.9.o.9he thinks war is only pew pew lol

[@Sneedprod]

I really love the mission, but I think why everybody hates it is because there’s always a storm of zombies coming at you and a boss every single two minutes that’s why I hate it too, but in total, I really like the design and where the devs are trying to go with this mission. I really love this mission but if they just don’t make us fight 25 bosses 25 swarms of zombies all at the same exact time this would be the best mission in the game

[@The2ProsGaming]

this mission was so hard

[@ben-sm1xo]

Yep

[@ShayanFarrukh-i1r]

Yep

[@Alex-eo9rh]

Agreed. With 5 boss fights it also felt neverending lol

[@minedude33]

Having to turn my back to the weeping angel mannequins was TERRIFYING, and then all of that suspense and terror was thrown out the window when the superman-esc boss fight with a reused zombies boss kicked in and it all faded away. Your idea for the mission sounds great, but I also would've liked a cookie cutter mission of descending through the entire complex with Marshall instead of falling down the elevator shaft, I wanted to see more Marshall/Case interactions and I felt robbed of that with a lackluster mission.

[@Johnmarston676ybo]

I liked the misson

[@Banjooooooooo]

That Mission was by far my favorite it had me looking behind me irl, the sound the atmosphere the avents that happen as you walk aorund it was a hell of alot of fun to stream to people.

[@christiancervantes4264]

Unacceptable, bunch of morons are disgraceful for hating on Black Ops 6 of COD Franchise, it's everybody problem, unforgivable.

[@Alex-eo9rh]

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[@michaelmasore9415]

Black ops 6 and Cold war have been the best Ones in modern COD's ever so far Im happy it was this good

[@realtalkrealthingsent.8024]

People say this has been in campaign since the beginning. When in bo1 did you fight zombies in campaign. I hate this stuff, brings the game to a halt unlike how in CW it was just a quick Easter egg. Also we haven’t even figured out who the mole from Panama is yet. I’m sorry but it’s not Jane harrow someone we only learn about this game.

[@kyflysupreme7727]

Remember bo3?

[@realtalkrealthingsent.8024]

@ I do and it wasn’t a fan favorite if I remember right. Even then the reasoning made more sense than this shit

[@kennym1216]

“It just didn’t feel like cod” the same person who wishes cod would change

[@greymo983]

I prefer the modern warfare type of campaign but this campaign was so good

[@chocolateice24]

That mission is so annoying and a pain in the as* I hated it

[@tavo.9.o.9]

Have you played bo1-3 zombies this mission was a walk in the park and was fun asf well at least for me.

[@chocolateice24]

@tavo.9.o.9 Yeah but that one boss fight in one of the parts were you have to swim underwater is hard as f

[@ben-sm1xo]

I agree

[@connorwilson5164]

This was my first ever cod campaign and personally I loved all the missions I thought it was all amazing and super high quality with not every mission feeling like the exact same and great story telling imo

[@ItsFreshyFresh]

People is gonna find something to hate the game they never happy at all

[@Banjooooooooo]

From my perspective the zombies represented things going wrong, in every zombies map there was somewhere a experiment gone wrong or a research project on something gone wrong which causes an outbreak. In Emergence i feel like the zombies represent basically the project being given up and stuff going wrong just how Case was a case gone wrong sort of

[@EYE7SS]

What if Cradle is the reason we got "zombies" in the first place? It would be a stretch of the "it was just a dream" setup, but a simple way to link the two modes.

[@ivanmartinez743]

Yup, probably a seed to unite the mode in the future, the Cradle being the first prototype for zombie like humans and it's enhanced by someone founding the research somehow and turning into something even worse

[@agentlinrov1474]

Except in Cold War, it was already established before the 80s and Omega Group would have to be part of the Cradle Program when it was only Case.

[@mattyb2k_]

I didn’t know that two of those keycard levels required you to vault up upstairs. I had zero idea and it took me an hour to figure out what to do next

[@_ghostly_]

Another problem, that I only learned of a few days ago, is the Zombies lore. Before BOCW, the campaigns and zombies modes were in their own seperate worlds. At the end of BO4 the zombies world is reset, making the zombies in BOCW part of the lore of Black Ops, which explains how characters like Gregori Weaver and Lev Kravchenko are there. Adding zombies directly into a campaign after BO4 could imply that this mission is in the Zombies lore (which it is not). It would have made sense if it was revealed in the mission that 115 was part of the cradle and gave it the bioweapon properties and would explain why it was initially designed for a super soldier programme.

[@oscarmakavelli]

I love this mission! I’m an old school 90’s gamer, and a tough critic. Chasing the mannequin crash test dummy around the office, and trying to grapple him kinda pissed me off on the Veteran difficulty. 🤣

[@Wren-t6c]

Maybe the zombies in emergence represent the employees in the facility that case was fighting when he sabotaged the facility (there's no way right now to know if he did it stealthily). Some of the dialogue in the mannequin boss fight suggests that case thought they (the employees) were complicate, suggesting they were like zombies? It's totally a reach, but that's how I see this mission.

[@zaqh7075]

This isn’t the first time they combined zombies with the campaign. In black ops 1 when you beat the campaign, it throughs you straight into the White House zombies. If you hadn’t played zombies yet, you would think that you were still in the campaign.

[@wyattandwill12]

I’ve been out of COD except for playing Cold War earlier this year then playing BLOPS6 mostly this week. The games have come a long way and showing this one to someone in 2006 playing COD 3 would blow their mind either for the good or the bad. The mannequins almost developed a new phobia for me but I’m still glad I played the game nonetheless. It’s definitely one of the best Black Ops campaigns and maybe one of the best video game stories of all time.

[@AbbasMirza3512]

This was literally my favorite mission in the entire game, actually freaked me out a lil when you first turn around at the biotechnology elevator, and in the weeping angel mannequins I was tweaking out it was fun af screw what other people think

[@notlaxr8364]

IT IS REALISTIC in fact even though it doesn’t “fit” it’s actual lore accurate because campaign and zombies are mixed now since tag der toten which created the dark aether. They’re all in one universe. Originally the campaign we played in was in the first universe and the zombies played in the other universes

[@ghost-hf2fi]

well they need to split them up again. plus case is just hallucinating

[@Mr.T_az]

Really fun and interesting mission, only thing that gave me issues was trying to do it on veteran, really difficult when the normal zombies kill you in 2 hits and having to fight the bosses on top at the same time

[@GhostFrost524]

The thing i hated about this mission was the fact that I was living the life of a schizophrenic. Like why are we promoting zombies content in a campaign?!

[@Kyosatetsu]

line of sight motion mannequins are up there as one of my all time fears so I personally am glad it was zombies. Administration was my worst nightmare

[@ApolloDigitalCA]

This mission on Veteran for the first time was the hardest thing ever and also pretty on par with MW2’s Alone. I loved it🥴

[@deviantGaming5]

I was not expecting the mossion to go that way, and because of that, I really enjoyed it. Throwing a mix of horror and mystery into the story was a great move, and I think that was done intentionally to make the game a bit more exciting, a great mission, and damn those mannequins freaked me out.

[@RedthegamingZoroark]

I love that one of the problems with this mission is "keep zombies out of the campaign" while last year with MWZ it was "keep human enemies outside of Zombies" XD Like honestly is it really that huge of a problem for different enemies from two different modes to alternate between each other??

[@XenoVerroxx]

Maybe the "Zombies" in this mission, is a hidden meaning of Treyarch that says, the Cradle have somekind of zombies virus inside of it (Maybe 115, or synthetic of it, IDK). That's why on the tape at The Rook, they act like zombies. Also, about keycard. I have found something. This in order of the card access on the table. Red: Mangler = How "Case" is experimented. Comatose inside a water bubble glass (Don't know what it's called). Yellow: Abomination = Make people who got Cradle have such a brute strength. Green: Another Mangler = Maybe in here, the point of this is not the Mangler, but about the orange manequinn. Cause remember, it's all a hallucination, and the mannequinn and the grappling hook is not real. Case, is basically just running around. So maybe in here, it show the speed of people who got Cradle. Blue: Mimic = Make people who got Cradle have a great intellect in spying or disguising. For the final boss, IDK what it mean. Then why Harrow, it's pure her acting like zombies? Maybe because the Cradle inside her, got mix with "Separation Serum" from Adler

[@Amphroxia]

as a cod zombies fan, i love to see how they try to incorporate the zombies into the cannon story of black ops, even if it's all a hallucination. they could never fully make it cannon unfortunately, as cod zombies has a lot more unrealistic stuff like time travel, multi-verse and monsters that would never fit into the realistic nature of call of duty, unless they make it cannon that all of cod zombies storylines are hallucinations, which the community will, without a doubt, reject and hate. i loved the campaign mission though, very creepy.

[@BoomDuckSquad]

Great Video !!! - Love the final result!

[@LucasScholten]

I just think of it as the cradle turned people into the boss zombies when case destroyed the facility and thats why they are trying to kill him

[@bubba418]

Because its repetitive after the first key. Figure puzzle, fight recycled zombie boss, get key. Repeat 4 times.

[@Star4wars1]

I never thought they would bring zombies back to the campaign other then that one easter egg in cold war but it was a nice surprise.

[@MrArdei9]

I think it really adds to the cradle and the pantheons goal to make it violent but its really out there and kinda random

[@muhammedxlutt]

It's actually a great mission, especially as someone who loves zombies, but it was just long going for the 4 different key cards.

[@zachwentzel9570]

The zombies weren’t for no apparent reason. The cradle definitely is meant to cause that. At the end, when case inhales the cradle whilst killing harrow, she seemingly becomes a zombie with the way her eyes glow

[@bert_edits7779]

This mission reminds me of nightmare mode from black ops 3 campaign it is awesome🔥

[@ianchristophernunez865]

The zombies actually fit in the mission it shows us what happened to the facility and what happened to the patients of the program but it puts alot of question like why was it abandoned,what happened to the patients and were there more characters involved in the program

[@gavinmeyer1528]

Fav mission of the whole game. Always a main zombies player, hearing 115 I knew I wasn’t gonna die

[@CloudyyvilleThoughts]

They could’ve made it like pure look around mission with the voices still talking to him as he went thru the facility seeing things that jog his memory a bit or sum

[@nathangrigerek530]

The heck you talking about this mission was badass!!

[@mustachio2]

They made a REALLY good horror game level, and it shocked and scared players that hate horror games (myself included) because they shoved it into a shooter with no warning. The fact that there's outrage means that they did a good job really, but I really don't think that it should be in the main campaign. Maybe as the very final mission so you can choose to skip it.