20+ UNTOLD ZOMBIES FACTS (leaked by treyarch devs) 

Justice for Rodolfo

#21 Liberty Balls expands and contracts based on the temperature of the weather on the map.

Basically Jesse Snyder is the goat and we all owe him for our beloved game mode.

Seeing my boy Jimmy in someone’s thumbnail really is nice to see. It’s almost like the community forgot about him. This guy brought us iconic maps and had the best story in the mode.

Where is Mr Rodofolo? is he safe? Is he alright?

"Paris wasn't epic enough, so they made Moon instead." ... Man, where are those kinds of decisions for Cold War and Bo6?

2:10 The fact that he was able to create one of the most fundamental and influential zombies mechanics within a single day is impressive and just makes what we are getting today seem that much sadder 😢

Treyarch in 2009: The Paris map isn’t epic enough, so we’ve decided not to release it Treyarch in 2024: LiBeRtY bAlLs

5:50 Max Porter almost got fired for creating the Ray Gun and putting it into the campaign as an easter egg

I LOVE BEING AN OG ZOMBIES FAN & LIVING THROUGH MANY OF THESE

Bruh i just freaked out. the flash game at 1:34 is the exact reason i found zombies way back in the day. I loved that game and wanted something on console similar and i stumbled across cod zombies. been here ever since.

God, I remember beating WaW on a school night in 4th, 5th grade & zombies starting up 😭 scared the hell outta me

The reason there’s a 1911 that shoot projectile rockets is because of the world at war death card the king of hearts which allows you to shoot explosives out of your pistol when downed it wasn’t foreshadowing pack a punch but that pistol was repurposed when der reise was made. The finger gun is called a default weapon and that is in the game as a place holder to make sure guns load properly into levels.

The best part of #11 was when you did the little shimmy spinaroo, your friend telling you it’s not gonna work, and then getting the ray gun first try. The complete silence on their part followed by your “told you” 😂😂

We went from not wanting power ups to fourteen hit downs ☠️🎮

"nah paris aint lit enough" *Fucking creates a map where youre on the moon an blow up the earth instead*

3:59 when you saw this in your game you instantly knew theres a modder in the lobby

These guys knew how to make something fun and entertaining in every detail, it’s simple and entertaining. Absolute magic seeing zombies evolve through WAW to BO3.

the finger gun was probably a test gun used to test out weapon mechanics in the game, it has appeared in a lot of cods actually. the explosive 1911 is a remnant of the campaign death card that lets you shoot a 1911 with explosive rounds and not an early pack a punch idea, though it may have inspired the papped 1911.

i’m not gonna lie, the zombie that goes “sam” i always thought it sounded like “fail” and that the zombie was laughing at you

Really good video! Nice too see some old Zombies content :)

Milo has been the realest lately. Leading the zombies community atm. We appreciate you.

Fact 1: liberty balls 🧟

the last stand is so sick I can't believe that inspired zombies!

Man I still remember how me and my buddies would OBSESS over the radios back in WAW days. I’m pretty sure I straight up believed (or gaslit myself into believing) that the Tunguska meteor actually hid element 115 and all the radios from the maps were actual classified government tapes that treyarch had put into the game to make people believe it wasn’t real 😂😂

Jimmy Z was the man.

Back when zombies was a passion project

Number 11: makes me feel somewhat proud that I remember finishing the campaign and being pretty stoked to be playing the secret mode! It was such a cool idea and I think really got people interested as it made it somewhat exclusive at first

12:10 I’ll be honest, without that “grappling” bug, WaW zombies wouldn’t have the tension that it has. It makes the zombies more dangerous up close, a bit like Killing Floor’s grappling mechanic to discourage you getting close to them, heightening the tension and defensive game flow

8:22 Who is that xd

The Last Stand?! I haven't heard that name in years! I remember playing that game so much when I was younger

Incoming lawsuit from Nintendo

Anyone else have PTSD from the flytrap EE on Der Riese because they watched the "See Samantha's ghost" video? First ever screamer I saw and it TRAUMATISED me

1:59 only those who worked on it fell in love with it "instantly", the higher-ups almost were going to cancel it when they found out 3:29 it's not a preview of the packed m1911... it's just the m1911 used for the dirty harry death card 4:03 read the weapon name "Default Weapon", it's a fallback weapon 4:59 half the zombie animations are literally straight ripped from the campaign, they didn't get "lucky" and there (probably) was no list 5:43 fun fact, the little resistance ray gun easter egg almost got Jesse Snyder fired from tryarch

3:59 for those who don't know the funky finger gun is called "default weapon" and is basically the base weapon of the engine itself so it can be accessed in all older cod with the command

I didn’t know that the hanging body can instakill you. I remember being a kid and messing with it and randomly dying and I always thought I was crazy lol

Alot of people dont know this but the "pap" m1911, is actually from a death card called the "dirty harry" in the campaign. You could use these cards in coop i loved playing coop online and having some on it was super fun.

Liberty Balls!

zombies was def. the biggest side mode ever made. so much love for little details !

don’t forget to do the zombies legacy series you promised us!!

I did not know the death sound was a hint towards the next song ee. Very interesting

Oh and did we all forget how intense the sound was on WaW?? Walking into anything had a unique noise that made you feel immersed

Milo, real guy here no Ai. I loved this vid! Took me back, had those old school bo3 vibes. I think the biggest thing missing nowadays is the sense of speculation. That was such a key part back in bo1 bo2 and even bo3. Mfs had hour long videos just theory crafting the story. It was truly lightning in a bottle, I don't know how, or even if it's possible to get that spark back tbh. Good ish in the vid tho, keep it up!

I could watch videos like this for hours

"This made Alex Mason a compelling character" Mason: KISS MY ASS

crazy nostalgia in this vid for me dude i remember being 8 years old staying up all night to download der riese and only being able to play one match before school, that and beating the campaign then playing nacht with my cousin over and over being like wtf was so cool

You can tell zombies had a soul back then when it was a small dev team that was developing the game cuz they loved it. I wonder what the og devs think of whats become of there passion project

Fast zombies are called "verruck super sprinters" for reason 😊

the zombies community is falling apart at the seams but roflwaffles gives us new reasons to smile :) you’re so appreciated milo!

"It wasn't EPIC enough"... Can anyone imagine them cancelling a map for THAT reason today?

Bro I've been around you since Black Ops 1 and your stuff still does not get old. Stay who you are Milo.

This is an old school style video, love it Milo.

Damn, I had no idea zombies was based on The Last Stand! We played that so much in school and stuff, the comparisons are definitely there now you mention it!

All I can think of when I hear the name Schneider is Nickelodeon, amongst other disturbing things. 💀 Nah, but seriously, I loved this video, Milo. Learned some new fun and neat things about the great minds behind our beloved game mode. And that game, The Last Stand or whatever it was called, I remember playing as a kid on some flashgames website, that's crazy 😂

6:15 For those extra nerds who want to know, the name for the PAP’d Ray Gun comes from H. Porter, a group 935 scientist responsible for creating the Ray Gun in game. H. Porter was indeed named after the creator/dev of the Ray Gun, Max Porter (who was the one who almost went to the chopping block for sneaking it into the WaW campaign). God I miss Zombies having depth…

headless zombies attacking you originally being a bug makes so much sense when you realize that headshots were intended to kill faster, but the head exploding happens after (x) damage to the head, and when the zombies health goes over a headshot kill it doesnt instakill, insted keeps going

Man it made me so happy to see you're still doing RU-vid, congrats on 2m subs dude - keep smashing it!

Watching this is helpful for mourning the unique and fun gameplay mode zombies used to be. It’s helping me to accept that it will never achieve its former glory.

I remember revisiting WaW and getting hacks from “GhostFaceKilla” and allowed me to use the finger gun pistol or run around as a jet model. Good times.

Wow, so the character dialogue was what made treyarch unique breaking that tradition. While recent cod: "ye were gonna ignore that, because... We're new devs and we never bothered to check and have no meaning of what builds atmosphere..."

Wake up honey, new MrRoflwaffles video just dropped

Just wanted to let you know the community things you do like the Rodolfo posts make me engage with your videos. I don't even care about CoD anymore, haven't for years. But you as an entertainer have me coming back every time. Cheers!

As someone whose been playing since WaW and who knew most of these, I think its a good way to teach the newer fans about the modes past. Should do a vid like this every couple months or one for every zombies game etc.

I'm sure that exploding heads were a part of World at War campaign, if you use an LMG or a Shotgun

The mystery surrounding world at war still fascinates me to this day. The very small subtle Easter Eggs dropped into the maps created such community driven intrigue into the potential story that the zombies mode may be hiding.

So glad to see Milo’s channel doing so well recently, been killing it 🔥

I played the last stand so much on my first smartphone like 13 years ago knowing it had an influence on cod zombies really warms my heart

Wow what a throwback! It’s crazy to think that I’ve been through it all and knew most of these except some minor details in just before it was published

In regards to #4: it should be noted that the explosive 1911 was used as a Death Card modifier for campaign.

Milo, I've followed since 2014. Im really happy for you hitting 2mil, congratulations! I wish we could bring the whole community back into bo3 and just use the mod tool to create our canon. Think the community could probably do a better job, especially if someone like you wrote the lore. Well that's dreaming, but still a nice dream.

The explosive pistol was from the campaign co op death card. It somehow got into zombies.

Repost from Reddit Folks, I've come up with an idea that I think should be rewarded. I was watching Dalek's new video about the classic mode in BO6 zombie mode and realized that this is a very difficult mechanic to implement in terms of balance and it seems in will never appear in a game(on release for sure). And then it hit me 💡. What prevents us, as a community, to make our own "classic mode"? It could be as simple as * Don't use armor plates (yeah, it'll be hard, but that's what classic mode is for, right?). * Don't use resources and everything that can be bought with them: score-streaks, weapon rarity improvement, etc. * Turn off the interface to the max. Leave only as it was in bo3. No radars, no experience numbers on half the screen, no compasses, etc. * Don't use the loadout system. Just create a loadout with 1911 or other starting pistol. Field upgrades can be used, they are cool. Note: If score-streaks appear in mystery box, you can just not pick them up. Imagine like if teddy bear appeared in a box. Exception: the injector that turns you into a mangler, I think you can still use it if it drops. Sounds so bad ass to me.

Shopping mall sized maps with rounds, where round 1-80 are filler, are SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Man The Last Stand 1&2 were incredible. I just replayed them when I saw they were on steam and finally beat them as I never could as a kid. I really wish they would expand or remake those concepts especially TLS2

I’ll never forget the first time I finished World at War. I always let the credits run, devs used to give us trophies for that back then lol; I remember perking up at the shot of the airfield, being like “wtf is that” and then getting absolutely terrified at the zombie sprinting towards the screen. Fantastic stuff.

This is so nostalgic, so many memories of easter eggs, community speculation. I remember being so hyped for verruckt and the story of the marines in the trailer.

I knew the Super sprinter question because I remember playing Verruckt for the first time and being absolutely terrified that there was a zombie that was chasing me that fast

These are some really cool facts! No wonder the zombie animations are so good!! The actor was a pro zombie 🧟 Jimmy and the og zombie team did gods work 🫶

Nintendos lawyers will arrive by the end of the week

The grenade 1911 was most likely there because it was in the campaign as a death card that gives you it when you go down and is found on the level that has the building nacht was based off of

Dang, that bit about power-ups possibly not being included is wild to think about. Imagine how different of a game zombies would be without ever having a max ammo. High rounds would not be the same, lol.

Miss these type of videos from the community.

This is my favorite video I’ve seen uploaded in a good while 😁 more of this please!

I remember the rituals... [10:20] For us, it was shooting the box 3 times, melee, jump spin, shoot 3 times, melee. No idea why. As a kid, I never even began to question it, I was happy believing it. Mew under a truck.

Crazy how some of the most meaningful things are done in such minimal time and effort constraints

I’ve been trying to find the name of The Last Stand game for literally YEARS, I couldn’t ever remember it, thank you!

Man I'm soo grateful to have loved through this era of zombies

Its a shame on what COD Zombies has become today :(

#22 Rodolfo secret EE in 3rd zombie map. Hint: it involves rocks and sacrifice

The content recently really is bringing back the good old days

The passion that used to go into creating this mode was incredible.

This was really well made! I'm a long time zombies fan and even learned some new things myself

OMG "The Last Stand" was legit my main go-to when i was in middle school. I've played that game probably everyday on my lunch break in the library. Good old days of 2008

I absolutely love the song Easter eggs, really put me in that mood. I started at w.a.w. and since then my zombies songs from the maps are 2hrs long lol

Zombies was inspired by Last Stand!? That's crazy!! I remember playing that game all the time on our laptop with my brothers

are you still planning on making a first in the world compilation? id really be interested in a video like that

My favorite theory from back in the day was when people at school would say that if you shoot the door on the truck until it opens on round one, if you make it to round 100 you get to fight zombie Hitler and escape

the last stand was so sick. used to go into my dads office and play it all the time on his computer. they released a roughlite game a few years ago called last stand aftermath that’s pretty fun, definitely worth the 20 usd.

we need more videos like this Milo, love them

10:19 for me, I always thought that if you pressed square at the moment the question marks flashed yellow it would give you the ray gun