Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 1 Adds a Pretty Amazing Nuketown Easter Egg

Call of Duty has a history of mannequin-based Easter eggs, but this latest effort added to Black Ops 6 with the launch of Season 1 may be one of the best yet.

Warning! Spoilers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s Nuketown Easter egg follow.

With Season 1 live now (via a mammoth 40GB update), Black Ops 6 players are getting to grips with the new Multiplayer maps and weapons. What they didn’t expect (and developer Treyarch kept this one quiet!) was the addition of an Easter egg for the hugely popular Nuketown map.

First, some background if you’re unfamiliar with Nuketown. This long-running Multiplayer map is set in a Nevada nuclear test town. Call of Duty games over the years have added new twists to the map, but the layout and flow remains largely the same: perfectly balanced cover that makes for rinse and repeat close quarters six versus six combat. Nuketown has also been home to mannequin-based Easter eggs for years, and Black Ops 6 players were surprised to find the map launched without one in this year’s game.

On to Black Ops 6 and this newly discovered Easter egg. Players have found that if they shoot all the heads off the mannequins in the map, the screen switches to a Fallout-style ‘signal lost, stand by’ message. The feed then cycles through a few TV channels in the 90s style (Black Ops 6 is set during the events of the Gulf War) before returning the player to the game, complete with retro filter and audio jingle. This Easter egg, then, puts players ‘into’ the TV, as if they’re now on a show in front of a live audience.

That live audience is made up of mannequins, who watch from outside the map (shoot them and they’ll flash bang you). Zombie mannequins then start crawling out of the ground to attack the player. It’s quite the sight!

Speaking of Zombies, we’ve got Essential Zombies Tips and Tricks to help you get started, plus a guide on How to Exfil. Both Zombies maps are full of easter eggs and secrets; here’s everything we’ve found in both Terminus and Liberty Falls, including How to Pack-a-Punch in Liberty Falls and How to Get the Meteor Easter Egg in Terminus.

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