Citadelle des Morts is a brand new Zombies map arriving in Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 on December 5, and Treyarch has launched a brief video to provide gamers a behind-the-scenes take a look at the making of the French-inspired location. The video discusses the design decisions and provides a greater glimpse on the new Doppelghast enemy kind.
Citadelle des Morts is a fortress in France overrun with the undead. Treyarch says Zombies mode has loads of maps “grounded in science fiction,” and for this map, it needed to lean extra into magic. Citadelle des Morts additionally options elemental sword Marvel Weapons. This sounds just like Black Ops 3’s Der Eisendrache map, which was a snowy fortress map with elemental bows. Nonetheless, Treyarch says it has by no means featured a fortress like Citadelle des Morts, as this new design lets gamers journey additional into the claustrophobic bowels of the fortress.
Treyarch additionally pulls again the curtain on the making of the Doppelghast, which is the map’s distinctive particular enemy. This creature has two heads and tentacle-like appendages as an alternative of arms, and the developer says it needed to design the enemy to be as unsettling as doable. The Doppelghast can also be described as being “tremendous quick and in your face,” and the creature’s hasty motion might be seen within the video above.
“We needed to make it have a various perspective, the place the 2 heads are continuously in search of one thing, however they’ve a separate thoughts,” says Anthony Dicenzo, who’s Treyarch’s lead animator for Zombies.
The video additionally reveals off extra of the map’s distinctive traps which can be designed across the fortress theme. This consists of scorching oil traps that may be lit on fireplace and magical runes that assist shield gamers.
Treyarch says gamers could have secrets and techniques to uncover throughout the fortress when the map goes stay. It will embrace the primary storyline Easter egg quest, but when Citadelle des Morts is something just like the earlier two maps, there’ll doubtless be loads of facet quests to find as effectively.
Moreover, Citadelle des Morts’s story trailer might be seen right here. This map’s narrative merges storylines from Treyarch’s beforehand unconnected Zombies storylines.
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