That said however, there’s a clear continuity between Black Ops 4 and current events in Zombies. This is no longer a time-travelling multi-dimensional story, this is grounded in Cold War.” “One of the things I said was that those characters did what they did to try and create a singular world where Zombies didn't exist and unfortunately because of the experiments in World War II, they were only half right. “I think the thing that's really important is that the previous incarnations which we call the Aether story, which involve Richtofen and all those characters, that came to definite end at the end of Black Ops 4 season, and we were passionate about not rewriting his story,” says Craig Houston, Lead Writer at Treyarch. We had to ask how Treyarch decides on what story beats to focus on and which characters to surface from its long-running history. Speaking of narrative, Season 2 appears to step things up a notch with the return of fan favourites like Samantha Maxis - as a playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Zombies and as an operator in Warzone. They're still challenging, but they're not crazy hard like they used to be.”īringing Zombies Closer to Black Ops Lore “So yes, we've definitely made it a priority to make Easter Eggs less obscure, and make sure the steps make sense with the narrative. “I love seeing that though, the first Round 100, first Round 50,” he says. To Lehmkuhl, who has been working on Call of Duty for the last 16 years and Studio Creative Director on Zombies since it first hit with the classic Call of Duty: World of War, this is a step in the right direction.
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“If you look at Youtube now or Reddit, a lot of people are completing their first Easter Eggs, ever – and they've been with the franchise for the full ten, twelve years.” “o much development time goes into these things, and if you look at the metrics, less than two percent of the players were actually seeing that stuff unless it was shown on Youtube,” he says. Less than Two Percent of Call of Duty Zombies Players Completed Easter EggsĪccording to Lehmkuhl the reason for this is to ensure more players experience all of what Zombies has to offer.