Dedicated hunters have been holding interact on broken glass bottles and shooting random walls for years now. But Treyarch seems to be leaning into the Easter eggs more as a feature with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.<\/b>
\nZombies has been a part of the Call of Duty package for 10 years now, first arriving with Call of Duty: World at War. Over the past decade, players have been hunting for cleverly hidden Easter eggs in puzzles that range from hunts for songs to wave-spanning storylines that require a dedicated team.
The new Zombies maps in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 are no different. The community has been slowly picking at the maps this week, and still have mysteries on their plates for each map included in Black Ops 4 \u2014 including the remakes.
Reading the instructions for how to complete these Easter eggs can lead to a lot of confusion. They can read like instructions for Ikea furniture. But the Easter Eggs have always been obtuse and strange \u2014 but that\u2019s why the community loves them so much.
Dedicated hunters have been trying to interact with broken glass bottles and shooting random walls for years now. But Treyarch seems to be leaning harder into allure of Easter eggs as a feature with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
In Zombies, Black Ops 4 \u2019s in-game menu offers hints on player objectives and shows them how close they are to completing an objective, while also alerting them to when they\u2019re successful. The map select menu for Zombies now also has a counter for how many times you complete the \u201cmain quest,\u201d which seems to be the new in-game name for the Easter egg hunt.
This push for more players to experience the Easter eggs is an interesting one by Treyarch. These puzzles are time consuming to solve even with a guide. But in a way, it\u2019s almost as if the Call of Duty team has started to treat the mode as Call of Duty\u2019s own version of end-game cooperative content.
These days, players are accustomed to coming together and solving a seemingly impossible task. From solely the puzzle perspective, Zombies has almost a Destiny-like raid vibe to it now, with the true Easter egg hunters working hard on day one to create guides for the rest of us.
For example, players have spent hours combing over every corner of the two new maps \u2014 IX and Voyage of Despair. On IX, the main quest involves finding a hidden skull in a temple and smashing it with a specific weapon type. Players then have to gather a variety of ingredients \u2014 including a pile of feces from the coliseum\u2019s belligerent audience \u2014 transform those ingredients into fertilizer, then charge the fertilizer by killing enemies with a certain weapon perk, which will then allow players to teleport into an alternate dimension to complete a small shooting puzzle.
That\u2019s only part of the Easter egg, and things get far more complicated from there. Those steps alone took players days of playing to discover. The quests for both maps have been completed now, but it took some serious testing and the community coming together to make it happen.
But there is more to discover in each of the maps. Both IX and Voyage of Despair have secret weapons that can be acquired through another vague and strange task \u2014 on IX, it involves poisoning the infamous Mystery Box. The level of detail and obscurity that comes with these Easter eggs is staggering, and falls under the same \u201cHow the hell did anyone ever figure this out?\u201d umbrella that Destiny\u2019s strangest secrets have held.
Zombies has pursued this level of obscurity for many games now, though Treyarch has always been the masters. Since at least the first Black Ops, hardcore Zombies fans have been coming together to find these Easter Eggs and piece together the story of the universe.
Sometimes it\u2019s for a reward like a secret gun that helps you survive more easily, but other times it\u2019s simply a trophy or achievement and a pat on the back. But players don\u2019t pursue these puzzles for the rewards, they do it because the completion is worth seeing, and the complexity behind it gives day-one adopters bragging rights.
Treyarch is encouraging players with visible stats and information directly now, which ties to the broadening of the Zombies scope. It\u2019s a pursuit that should be made by the casual Zombies fan base as well as the hardcore, even if the casual players will need one person guiding everyone else through each time.
Of course, the actual story of the Zombies mode has always been told through these Easter eggs. If you\u2019re thinking to yourself, \u201cThere is a story to Call of Duty Zombies?\u201d then watch the video above. You may not be able to make heads or tails of it \u2014 and who could blame you \u2014 but there\u2019s definitely a through line in the Zombies series.
Zombies has a long lineage, and has evolved significantly over the years. What started as a Easter egg on its own has exploded into a dedicated mode filled with its own, very complex progression system.
If you\u2019re interested in becoming a member of the Easter egg hunt, the Zombies subreddit is filled with players still looking to solve its mysteries .<\/p>\n

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