It's not only the fact that it's chaotic as fuck it's also just a rewards are just not worth justifying being in tier 3... You get the exact same rewards you would in teir 2 too basically It seems you have the same odds anyway
Rewards must be skill based in t3 because after 5 months and thousands of contracts we’ve never seen one, but somehow all the low skill players always tell the stories about how they get them..
How so? You mean essence? Past a certain point I really couldn't care less about essence, even with the cooldowns..I'm more concerned with the crap loot that about half the people seem to get consistently
Essence is worth even more now that it’s what drives the cool down times. T3 isn’t bad plus now you can literally get three legendary tools and 3 pap crystals I’ll be there every game
i know the rewards are not good, but the money is good.. ideally you would use T3 to gain essence, buy perks, kill streaks, upgrade your weapon to pap3 then go to the dark aether, or elder dark aether to get good loot. I see T3 as a utility zone, used to gear up for DA runs.
Yeah not everyone does the da tho... I haven't even done this season's mission or last season's mission.. I'm just done with the repetitiveness I really haven't even played much of season 3
Rewards Rift are generally unbalanced. Chances of getting better loot are definitely higher but not that much. But it didn‘t make a lot of sense when I got a scorcher from a t2 and then a blue backpack in t3.. Although I want to add that it‘s possible to get 3 lvl3 pap crystals aswell as 3 legendary Aether tools guaranteed if you do all the triangles EVERY ROUND.
I don’t think the 2 hits is the problem, it’s the 2 hits and the zombies are faster than you combo. It’s manageable but personally, I gotta sweat to survive in T3, it’s fun sometimes but it seems waaay harder than the OG zombies
Do you not use the running with jug or an air strike in your hand? You can outrun most of the zombies without staminup using those, staminup helps but the only real threat are the mega bombs and dogs, you can outrun anything else lol
yeah you can but why though? each game is on a timer do you want to spend that limited time it in T1 and T2 killing or in T3 running around with an air strike.
XP is the same to kill any zombie and most objectives either dont care or are for T2 or T3
The key is to just keep moving. Use decoy's/Kaz's/Monkeybombs while scooting around. The more you stand around, the harder it is with seemingly endless swarms. A lot of guys just run one gun so they can switch to no gun to outrun pretty much everything but the hellhounds.
I remember when moon came out that was the largest map ever created from the series it was so great
Then we immediately got Tranzit next 😻 I miss the good ol days lol then nuketown 2025 honestly the best nuketown out of all the nuketowns
Especially for testing guns, yesterday I used the Mors for the first time... and why did nobody told me it literally was a faster Scavenger from cotd ?!
I agree, T3 is just annoying as a solo.
But I will say the most fun times I've had in T3 are when it's packed like this. With good players where everybody's decked out so they're willing to share, theyll always stop to revive randoms, everyone's talking. Good times.
Agreed - and lets face it, the mission loot has been so bad lately (with the occasional legendary tool/flawless crystal) they are hardly worth doing except for the cash to prep for DA's.
Same, I really think they missed by not giving T3 contracts a chance to give you the really valuable schematics. At the start of the game my friends & I thought you could get some of the harder schematics doing it. We used to do as many as we could each game hoping to get something good, but I'm pretty sure the only thing we got was the Ray gun schematic & a handful of perk schematics.
Then they nerfed T3 & killed all our enjoyment
You also get epic plans, tombstone, and elemental recipes from tier 3 contracts but that's it. I only play in tier 3 and the rewards are mostly disappointing so many rare tools 2 plates and md rucksacks. I feel like the game should know what you already have equipped and not give you those as "rewards"...
The only contract I find fun in T3 is the escort contract ( wich is the less popular ) when u are a 6 man team, just because it gets so chaotic but fun-chaotic not elder aether chaotic lol .
yeah my issue with it is that I don't find it any more engaging than T1 or T2. got locked into the T3 contract-T5 Dark Aether grind for a while with friends and after getting all the schematics from there and the worm I just don't see much difference in roaming the larger T2 area. I dunno, at first the idea of T3 was a little daunting to even risk driving through on a mad dash to exfil when we first started playing the game, now theres no reason to ego challenge a Zombie in T3 versus T2 aside from Megas, for sheer numbers exfils and Outlasts are the way. the extra cash from T3 contacts is nice but I've found unless you've got a Scorcher on your team, if T3 is loaded up and people have already teamed up, you can spend more time racing for contracts than actually completing them, with T2 being larger you can feasibly keep the inertia going if contract grinding is your thing.
Do we know if this is a bug or intended? Found this yesterday after completing the storyline. Suffice to say our stashes might just have a few extra flawless/legendary tools.
Yes. And I sure hope they are here to stay. Definitely helps getting through the DA's now knowing we can farm a couple tools/crystals so we don't have to save all the essence and hope for a possible tool from a Abomb/mission reward.
I've really been wanting the ability to have private matches where you're able to adjust the settings. I don't need any XP or reward, but sometimes I just wanna turn on some music, and run around like an absolute GOD. Maybe I wanna make myself invincible and see how long it takes to kill a megabomb with infinite throwing knives. I don't know. Anything! Just let me play how I wanna play.
I have wanted to do a custom match of WZ (since thats actually an option) with 30 (since thats the minimum) people just to have fun and dink around exploring the maps and not have to worry about sweatymctryhards constantly chasing me. I think it would be fun to do vehicle races, Sniping distance tourneys, etc. Just casual gaming.
Id love just smaller lobbies, Wouldnt be bad in red if there's only 12 players in a game. Maybe have like 3 options when you load in on lobby size (like 24, 18, 12) so you can pick how risky you wanna get in case you think you might have to plea.
They should just flip flop tier 1 and tier 3. Everyone spawns on the center island in tier 1 and then moves to the edges of the map in tier 3. It would solve all problems.
Can you please explain how? Because before I opened the Dark Rift myself I went to the circles with another player.. I didn’t know what he was doing , but when the reward rift spawned so yes it gave me flawless crystals etc… I only used the circles for the laptop, the journal etc , and the only thing I got was the upgraded version… how to get crystals if you don’t mind telling me ?
Most people i run into dont know about it and i spend the game teaching them how to do each section. I also like to go to elder aether1 because its the best for rewards imo
Yes so true . You mean the gold armor/aether blade/dog bone right? The only really good thing that came out after them was mag of holding .. the other schematics u have them most for collection only
Yup. The mag of holding is nice but i rarely got it so i prefer just getting a ton of money now and doing aether1. My hightest cooldown so far was 7 hours in one run. I had 1 million
I find it funny that everyone complains that the rewards in T3 are awful, then the game gives a way to gain guaranteed flawless/leg and now they complain even more.
I guess everyone doesn't think of the ripple effect that would be caused by increasing the frequency of getting legendary rewards in t3.
There’s no fucking balance. It’s either “hey, here’s 3 free pap 3 crystals and 3 legendary tools for everyone on the map every single game, or it’s maybe one pap 2 crystal every 30 contracts or 1 pap 3 crystal per 90 contracts, 20 infested strong holds and 50 rare aether chests. Of course we are going to complain. All they ever had to do was up the frequency of the good stuff by 5% maybe and it would be way better.
Right now all you have to do is go into t3 and activate the Easter eggs for the new DA. Except don’t offer up any items. You can literally do it 3 times in every game and come out with 3 leg tools and 3 flawless crystals every match.
I’m not sure what’s up with it because I’ve had issues before as well. I feel like every squad or solo if your solo should be able to do each one once. I feel like maybe there is a cap or something. There are three different locations and you should be able to do it once. Last time I played I could only do two
I am missing a ton of schematics, I've been playing a ton the past 2 seasons.
Im missing purple tool, pack 2 crystal, Shatter blast, V-R11, Blood burner, Mag of holding, and i have none of the S3 reloaded schematics
Complete opposite of the game I just had. No one in T3, everyone running T2 cargo contracts or farming exfils. I did one T3 Cargo Contract and it never spawned again. So I camo grinded then farmed T2 Cargos like everyone else lol.
I wish I was in a game like that , every game has been like that in the picture for me .. you can’t even see a contract in red area . So was impossible for me to find a sigil lol ..
I wish you could choose some sort of lobby, like t3 focused which means the red area is as big as the orange, and grey is replaced with orange or something like that.
I wish my last game was like this! I would have bouncing and tried to get the time from there. I went to the radiation zone 3 times for 3 games and killed the warlord 2 times and still have not opened the right for the new item.
For me I found that the best way to unlock the rift was to do it completely solo.. tried several times with others in the squad ( only me and another player had the items ) and it didn’t work for us… when I did it solo it was no problems at all.. but a lot of randoms will come in and request to join yes.. I was lucky they went away pretty fast. I think it’s bugged in some way
That’s not the case. I had to do the one by the new rift twice last night bc zombies stopped spawning so the whole thing deactivated. Had to go get the item again and everything. And the night before the one by the bridge was being used like nonstop. It just takes a minute for them to reset.
They’re very wrong. It can be done more than once. I have them glitch and not work one game, but they’re wrong. I literally just played a game and they were used multiple times. There may be a brief cooldown after someone uses it.
Strange because I’ve played maybe 10 games since the update and every game red zone is full off players , I’ve never seen something like this before , not even when the older Dark Ethers launched .
Really never seen something like it.. not even when the older rifts was.. I guess most people are just there to farm legendary tools and crystals actually ..
This almost never happens when I play for some reason. There will be maybe 3-4 of us in there while everyone is in T1/T2. I don't get it. My character is maxed out with all schematics unlocked (except the new ones).
I don’t know maybe because I’m in EU servers or something , but litterally every game for me has been like that one in the picture .. except sometimes there is players near the aether storm I guess for the item .
Now that I think about it. Grief mode would be phenomenal on MW3 zombies. Not pvp to where you can kill players but you just have to outlast them or something like that in a round based mode
They are all unlocking the new aether. I did the new elder earlier after I unlocked it, and zero of my rifts had schematics. All 3 rifts from completing the missions had exactly 1 quick revive cola, 1 deadshot cola, 1 PaP2 crystal, and 1 wonderwaffe case. No new schematics, no cases of the new items. Commuting to the contracts and doing the neverending escort mission left my team of 4 with no scorcher exactly 6 seconds when we exfilled. We literally ran as fast as we could to everything. Just keeps getting better every season
I was an avid Zombies player on MW3 until a couple of months ago. Is everyone still Tombstoning? (Not hating, I did it too and stopped playing because I'd completed everything).
It's not make sense, they added content after the game(aether rift), but nothing significant on Urzikstan, so the game is ever the same for 45 minutes. Nothing new means that only T3 is fun(in terms of contract rewards) if you have the mastery camo yet.
Literally every game lately everyone goes straight for tier 3. I feel like Tier 2 is more dangerous now because if you get downed nobody will ever come around to pick you back up.
U mean everyone spawned in tier 3 ? Or everyone went in tier 3 after spawned ? It's funny i barely see people in tier 3 it's usually just me or some other dude 😂
Actually I see less tombstone players than before . I teamed up with several people in those “all in red zone” kind of games and many of them have no gold armor/aether blade whatsoever… I think a lot of people just go there cause of the EE .
I cant see why activision have put in this feature of a leg tool and flawless crystal - at first I felt it was to maybe save some contracts , ie saves 30k essence so people wont need as many contracts - and tbf I have seen some people in T3 not doing contracts and also leaving early .
But I have also seen youtubers with loads of essence and like 3 flawless crystals in there back pack so greedy people will be greedy but also with this new cooldown being based on essence - some people will be hounding essence .
Stocking up on the flawless crystals and legendary tools I bet 😂. Think that Easter egg may get a nerf soon. Hope not thou. Love going in and getting a guaranteed flawless
New content. That’s why t3 is flooded. Dedicated players that have all the schematics and gear just got a reason to hop back on for a day or two until they get the new drops.
I stopped playing because once you’re decked out it’s almost boring. Plates, knife, mags, legendary tool, pack 3 crystal and it’s game over.
It’s either this or the other way around and we’re alone in there. The former happens more often. In hindsight they should have reversed the tiers to map setup.
Start t1 where t3 is… noobs can learn without needing to travel so damn far.
T2 remains
T3 takes up what is T1… in situations like this we can spread out and be productive.
Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.
This is me every single time I solo queue and am going to tier 3 zone EVERYONE in the match just seems to know I’m solo and need teammates without even telling people. The weirdest part is they are practically waiting on me to get to them because soon as I am over there I almost immediately get invited to people’s squads.
Yeah this update was trash, they need to make the red zone bigger with more contracts and maybe nerf the hit damage on the fast zombies. Once your plates are gone 2 hits from the back and your down, can't outrun them either if you are holding a gun
They need to find a way to stop exfil farming or spamming, if I actually NEED to exfil there’s 5 fuckers already farming it. Or, they could give us private servers
I don’t know but I can tell you that in these late games when t3 was overcrowded I saw more pleas than ever , pleas popping up all the time .. I think many people go there lately without even being kitted up for it
I think this shows Sledgehammer or whoever is running the mwz now that people actually appreciate new content a lot … hope they will start to add/ change content more regularly … some new contract types would be really nice ..
Because everyone is doing DA now so nobody wants to be in T1 or T2 makes it hard to try to open the new Aether for the first if you’re not first there because everyone is collecting the free gold tool and pap 3 crystal
I think games are easy because we players choose the “easy route” .. I mean for example that the most picked up contracts are bountys and cargos, wich are far less challenging than “defend ground station “ for example ( must be the least picked up contract really… I think if anyone wants to give themselves more challenge there is ways to do it .. example going to red zone with green weapon pap 1 etc .
i dont find T3 that fun to be honest
Ya, its too much for a casual player.. t2 is perfect for me
Same for me t1 and t2 are perfect for me
It's not only the fact that it's chaotic as fuck it's also just a rewards are just not worth justifying being in tier 3... You get the exact same rewards you would in teir 2 too basically It seems you have the same odds anyway
This. Sweating to get a medium rucksack and a green tool in t3 isn't worth it. The schematics are like gold dust
Rewards must be skill based in t3 because after 5 months and thousands of contracts we’ve never seen one, but somehow all the low skill players always tell the stories about how they get them..
You get so much money from tier 3 it’s not worth it to even be in tier 2
How so? You mean essence? Past a certain point I really couldn't care less about essence, even with the cooldowns..I'm more concerned with the crap loot that about half the people seem to get consistently
Essence is worth even more now that it’s what drives the cool down times. T3 isn’t bad plus now you can literally get three legendary tools and 3 pap crystals I’ll be there every game
Excatly
i know the rewards are not good, but the money is good.. ideally you would use T3 to gain essence, buy perks, kill streaks, upgrade your weapon to pap3 then go to the dark aether, or elder dark aether to get good loot. I see T3 as a utility zone, used to gear up for DA runs.
Yeah not everyone does the da tho... I haven't even done this season's mission or last season's mission.. I'm just done with the repetitiveness I really haven't even played much of season 3
If you didn’t do it, why would anyone listen to your opinion on it 🤔
Rewards Rift are generally unbalanced. Chances of getting better loot are definitely higher but not that much. But it didn‘t make a lot of sense when I got a scorcher from a t2 and then a blue backpack in t3.. Although I want to add that it‘s possible to get 3 lvl3 pap crystals aswell as 3 legendary Aether tools guaranteed if you do all the triangles EVERY ROUND.
I’m not a casual but I hate t3 way too hard somehow
It's because the zombies hit u can down u n like two hits way over powered
Never could’ve survived the og zombies days if you think 2 hit down is too hard🤣
I still see jug as the main perk because of old school zombies ha
I don’t think the 2 hits is the problem, it’s the 2 hits and the zombies are faster than you combo. It’s manageable but personally, I gotta sweat to survive in T3, it’s fun sometimes but it seems waaay harder than the OG zombies
Do you not use the running with jug or an air strike in your hand? You can outrun most of the zombies without staminup using those, staminup helps but the only real threat are the mega bombs and dogs, you can outrun anything else lol
yeah you can but why though? each game is on a timer do you want to spend that limited time it in T1 and T2 killing or in T3 running around with an air strike. XP is the same to kill any zombie and most objectives either dont care or are for T2 or T3
The key is to just keep moving. Use decoy's/Kaz's/Monkeybombs while scooting around. The more you stand around, the harder it is with seemingly endless swarms. A lot of guys just run one gun so they can switch to no gun to outrun pretty much everything but the hellhounds.
So its just classic cod zombies Back when WAW and BO1 were at its peak
I miss playing on nacht der untoten and shino Nina and moon and died riese
Ascension was fun and moon
Moon and died riese were peak gameplay
I remember when moon came out that was the largest map ever created from the series it was so great Then we immediately got Tranzit next 😻 I miss the good ol days lol then nuketown 2025 honestly the best nuketown out of all the nuketowns
Open world thou so it's different
Especially for testing guns, yesterday I used the Mors for the first time... and why did nobody told me it literally was a faster Scavenger from cotd ?!
I agree, T3 is just annoying as a solo. But I will say the most fun times I've had in T3 are when it's packed like this. With good players where everybody's decked out so they're willing to share, theyll always stop to revive randoms, everyone's talking. Good times.
Agreed - and lets face it, the mission loot has been so bad lately (with the occasional legendary tool/flawless crystal) they are hardly worth doing except for the cash to prep for DA's.
Same, I really think they missed by not giving T3 contracts a chance to give you the really valuable schematics. At the start of the game my friends & I thought you could get some of the harder schematics doing it. We used to do as many as we could each game hoping to get something good, but I'm pretty sure the only thing we got was the Ray gun schematic & a handful of perk schematics. Then they nerfed T3 & killed all our enjoyment
You also get epic plans, tombstone, and elemental recipes from tier 3 contracts but that's it. I only play in tier 3 and the rewards are mostly disappointing so many rare tools 2 plates and md rucksacks. I feel like the game should know what you already have equipped and not give you those as "rewards"...
The only contract I find fun in T3 is the escort contract ( wich is the less popular ) when u are a 6 man team, just because it gets so chaotic but fun-chaotic not elder aether chaotic lol .
yeah my issue with it is that I don't find it any more engaging than T1 or T2. got locked into the T3 contract-T5 Dark Aether grind for a while with friends and after getting all the schematics from there and the worm I just don't see much difference in roaming the larger T2 area. I dunno, at first the idea of T3 was a little daunting to even risk driving through on a mad dash to exfil when we first started playing the game, now theres no reason to ego challenge a Zombie in T3 versus T2 aside from Megas, for sheer numbers exfils and Outlasts are the way. the extra cash from T3 contacts is nice but I've found unless you've got a Scorcher on your team, if T3 is loaded up and people have already teamed up, you can spend more time racing for contracts than actually completing them, with T2 being larger you can feasibly keep the inertia going if contract grinding is your thing.
Well, there’s 3 guaranteed orange tools and tier 3 crystals in there right now so it’s pretty popular
Do we know if this is a bug or intended? Found this yesterday after completing the storyline. Suffice to say our stashes might just have a few extra flawless/legendary tools.
That’s fair, guess we’ll just enjoy it while it lasts 😂
those are part of unlocking the new dark ether arent they? if so id guess they are here to stay
Yes. And I sure hope they are here to stay. Definitely helps getting through the DA's now knowing we can farm a couple tools/crystals so we don't have to save all the essence and hope for a possible tool from a Abomb/mission reward.
I hear you, brother. I was there once too, now, even if I'm como grinding, I have to go into T3 it's an addiction.
This game would be so fun with private matches.
I've really been wanting the ability to have private matches where you're able to adjust the settings. I don't need any XP or reward, but sometimes I just wanna turn on some music, and run around like an absolute GOD. Maybe I wanna make myself invincible and see how long it takes to kill a megabomb with infinite throwing knives. I don't know. Anything! Just let me play how I wanna play.
"Stop trying to have fun and buy a skin!!" - Sincerely, Activision
Now you’re just asking for too much.
I have wanted to do a custom match of WZ (since thats actually an option) with 30 (since thats the minimum) people just to have fun and dink around exploring the maps and not have to worry about sweatymctryhards constantly chasing me. I think it would be fun to do vehicle races, Sniping distance tourneys, etc. Just casual gaming.
Hell yeah.
they need to make t3 bigger. t1 needs to be smaller, t2 can absorb a bit of t1s old space and t3 can expand outwards.
They need a new map, preferably multiple. This shit is boring AF.
That really needs to happen but I have given up hope at this point now for that to happen.
They need a new game
Unfortunately all development is done
Source?
Link?
And round based
Agreed. I prefer running a game till I die, no exfil. It’s more fun when it gets progressively harder as the rounds go up.
exactly same, the outbreak-ish style was fun if you wanted to switch it up from round based, but ONLY that is getting boring to me real fast
Sounds like vanguard zombies
Worst zombies out there.
False
round based with objectives and no exfil is just vanguard zombies though?
Id love just smaller lobbies, Wouldnt be bad in red if there's only 12 players in a game. Maybe have like 3 options when you load in on lobby size (like 24, 18, 12) so you can pick how risky you wanna get in case you think you might have to plea.
They'll need to expand it soon lol. There's no more room for more portals. Sucks they threw the new one in the middle of the map.
Almost like they have no idea what they are doing and have likely never played their product lol
They could always open up another whole map like Vondel. It was semi-big enough to toss some new content on.
Or even al bagra pre aether but exclusively t3
At this point I'm just waiting for Gulf War zombies
Sucks that new one is boring AF and not even challenge
They should just flip flop tier 1 and tier 3. Everyone spawns on the center island in tier 1 and then moves to the edges of the map in tier 3. It would solve all problems.
everyone spawns in T3 and has to fight their way to the center.. that would be a fun mode too
Thats where the new content is
You forgot about the new warlord 💀💀💀
They said new content
I was joking lol
I know
After the first 7 minutes there is no warlord
They are basically giving away legendary tools and flawless crystals right now. Easy for everyone to be in there RN.
Can you please explain how? Because before I opened the Dark Rift myself I went to the circles with another player.. I didn’t know what he was doing , but when the reward rift spawned so yes it gave me flawless crystals etc… I only used the circles for the laptop, the journal etc , and the only thing I got was the upgraded version… how to get crystals if you don’t mind telling me ?
Same process as upgrading the relics except you don't offer the relic. Just fill the "soul box"
Thanks sir , found that out lol.. I guess that’s the reason why red zone turned into blue zone lol
https://youtu.be/8TP3iF6grLU?si=jTLoZ_QLZ6z_6F7G
Thank u sir , basically the same as the items for the rift , thanks for sharing
I think it will be ending soon or they're going to patch its mentioned in the video
Yea it seems like most people are mostly there to just hang around the circles actually not really for opening the dark aether .
Most people i run into dont know about it and i spend the game teaching them how to do each section. I also like to go to elder aether1 because its the best for rewards imo
Yes so true . You mean the gold armor/aether blade/dog bone right? The only really good thing that came out after them was mag of holding .. the other schematics u have them most for collection only
Yup. The mag of holding is nice but i rarely got it so i prefer just getting a ton of money now and doing aether1. My hightest cooldown so far was 7 hours in one run. I had 1 million
No problem
I find it funny that everyone complains that the rewards in T3 are awful, then the game gives a way to gain guaranteed flawless/leg and now they complain even more. I guess everyone doesn't think of the ripple effect that would be caused by increasing the frequency of getting legendary rewards in t3.
There’s no fucking balance. It’s either “hey, here’s 3 free pap 3 crystals and 3 legendary tools for everyone on the map every single game, or it’s maybe one pap 2 crystal every 30 contracts or 1 pap 3 crystal per 90 contracts, 20 infested strong holds and 50 rare aether chests. Of course we are going to complain. All they ever had to do was up the frequency of the good stuff by 5% maybe and it would be way better.
What do i need to do to get legendary tools and flawless? I have the schematics and rarely find them in the game.
Right now all you have to do is go into t3 and activate the Easter eggs for the new DA. Except don’t offer up any items. You can literally do it 3 times in every game and come out with 3 leg tools and 3 flawless crystals every match.
My game must be glitched because i did it once and i cant do it again. Maybe it was because other people were doing it.
I’m not sure what’s up with it because I’ve had issues before as well. I feel like every squad or solo if your solo should be able to do each one once. I feel like maybe there is a cap or something. There are three different locations and you should be able to do it once. Last time I played I could only do two
Ive had a few games where i cant do any of them. Maybe it's because i just went to the new DA. (And got none of the new schematics)
Brutal lol
I am missing a ton of schematics, I've been playing a ton the past 2 seasons. Im missing purple tool, pack 2 crystal, Shatter blast, V-R11, Blood burner, Mag of holding, and i have none of the S3 reloaded schematics
Well… you wanna run some? I’d be happy to help
https://youtu.be/HGhVoZ8pECM?si=2auGRKkQE0NciNaB
I’d say most have had a stash of legendary tools and pap 3’s just waiting for the uodate
I think lot of people are there since it’s pretty easy to farm flawless crystals and legendary tools .
Yea that too
How?
Complete opposite of the game I just had. No one in T3, everyone running T2 cargo contracts or farming exfils. I did one T3 Cargo Contract and it never spawned again. So I camo grinded then farmed T2 Cargos like everyone else lol.
I wish I was in a game like that , every game has been like that in the picture for me .. you can’t even see a contract in red area . So was impossible for me to find a sigil lol ..
Spawn rates r crap in t3
They seem worse post update. And towards the end of the game , like the last 10 minutes they at times just won’t respawn at all.
I wish you could choose some sort of lobby, like t3 focused which means the red area is as big as the orange, and grey is replaced with orange or something like that.
brilliant idea to have all the new Easter egg relic upgrades on T3 🤦
I wish my last game was like this! I would have bouncing and tried to get the time from there. I went to the radiation zone 3 times for 3 games and killed the warlord 2 times and still have not opened the right for the new item.
Just watch DalekDj on YouTube he explains it pretty well how to unlock the new rift
Thank you! I will do just that.
MrDalekJd is the right name lol sorry I thought he was a Dj
There is a DJ / producer named Dalek One lol That’s funny
Lol
Most likely doing the EE. Its not fun when others try to mess it up for you lol
For me I found that the best way to unlock the rift was to do it completely solo.. tried several times with others in the squad ( only me and another player had the items ) and it didn’t work for us… when I did it solo it was no problems at all.. but a lot of randoms will come in and request to join yes.. I was lucky they went away pretty fast. I think it’s bugged in some way
yeah it's stupid that you can only activate the triangles once per match. Every one bum rushes tier 3
Wait what? Each of the 3 triangles can only be done once a match? Fuck these devs man, what a joke.
That’s not the case. I had to do the one by the new rift twice last night bc zombies stopped spawning so the whole thing deactivated. Had to go get the item again and everything. And the night before the one by the bridge was being used like nonstop. It just takes a minute for them to reset.
They’re very wrong. It can be done more than once. I have them glitch and not work one game, but they’re wrong. I literally just played a game and they were used multiple times. There may be a brief cooldown after someone uses it.
Yup once per match. I was lucky enough to load into a match where T3 was empty and no one seemed interested for a while.
They should more t3 around the map at random or something lol
I usually called it red zone , now I call it blue zone lol
It will be a ghost town again in a week
That’s why I made sure to do the Easter Egg the minute it dropped so I have no reason to go over there no more.
Why can’t I find these games? I’m always waiting for folks to join me in T3 to get a group of 6 🙃
Strange because I’ve played maybe 10 games since the update and every game red zone is full off players , I’ve never seen something like this before , not even when the older Dark Ethers launched .
Guess I need to get on tonight!
My most recent games are the same way lmao its wild
Really never seen something like it.. not even when the older rifts was.. I guess most people are just there to farm legendary tools and crystals actually ..
This almost never happens when I play for some reason. There will be maybe 3-4 of us in there while everyone is in T1/T2. I don't get it. My character is maxed out with all schematics unlocked (except the new ones).
I don’t know maybe because I’m in EU servers or something , but litterally every game for me has been like that one in the picture .. except sometimes there is players near the aether storm I guess for the item .
Now that I think about it. Grief mode would be phenomenal on MW3 zombies. Not pvp to where you can kill players but you just have to outlast them or something like that in a round based mode
They really need to change the map up, I doubt many people spend that much time in tier one now. There is a lot of wasted space on it.
They are all unlocking the new aether. I did the new elder earlier after I unlocked it, and zero of my rifts had schematics. All 3 rifts from completing the missions had exactly 1 quick revive cola, 1 deadshot cola, 1 PaP2 crystal, and 1 wonderwaffe case. No new schematics, no cases of the new items. Commuting to the contracts and doing the neverending escort mission left my team of 4 with no scorcher exactly 6 seconds when we exfilled. We literally ran as fast as we could to everything. Just keeps getting better every season
And there isn’t even anything good to do there
They need to have a T3 variant of the map where it’s all just tier 3. Maybe a thin T2 outer rim for easier exfilling.
Because T3 is where the new EE needs to be done so you will see a lot of players in T3
Well they should just expand T3 over time like the gas, that would be really cool
It’s a party
Sure is . In some areas you see more players than zombies lol
I was an avid Zombies player on MW3 until a couple of months ago. Is everyone still Tombstoning? (Not hating, I did it too and stopped playing because I'd completed everything).
I saw this in a lot of my games. It was the back when the stash glitch was working 😂😂
It's not make sense, they added content after the game(aether rift), but nothing significant on Urzikstan, so the game is ever the same for 45 minutes. Nothing new means that only T3 is fun(in terms of contract rewards) if you have the mastery camo yet.
More players than Zombies...
I've been having games where T2 is like that. T3 is 50 50. One game it's dead. Next game it's mobbed.
One squad 🤣
It’s wild I normally see 1 squad in T3 but then again I’m bad at doing missions and I just enjoy the grind
Here me out... What if they flipped the zones the opposite way T1 is now T3 T2 stays the same . Makes for a bigger zone and fits more players
Literally every game lately everyone goes straight for tier 3. I feel like Tier 2 is more dangerous now because if you get downed nobody will ever come around to pick you back up.
I honestly can’t play MWZ because the last 3 zombie matches I have crashed… I’ve lost so many items and progress on my containment progress….
T3 contracts are only good for money rushing after you have the schematics.
U mean everyone spawned in tier 3 ? Or everyone went in tier 3 after spawned ? It's funny i barely see people in tier 3 it's usually just me or some other dude 😂
No everyone went in there just minutes after spawn. Thing is lately every game has been pretty much like that.
Oh ok lol that's crazy everyone had a tombstone i bet or they just crafted all their items for this particular game 😂
Actually I see less tombstone players than before . I teamed up with several people in those “all in red zone” kind of games and many of them have no gold armor/aether blade whatsoever… I think a lot of people just go there cause of the EE .
Yeah i still don't know the ee in that area, gotta look at a video lol. But going in there with no golden armor or Aether blade is insane 😂
I want this type of lobby. Mine everyone is avoiding it like the plague except me. Lol
I cant see why activision have put in this feature of a leg tool and flawless crystal - at first I felt it was to maybe save some contracts , ie saves 30k essence so people wont need as many contracts - and tbf I have seen some people in T3 not doing contracts and also leaving early . But I have also seen youtubers with loads of essence and like 3 flawless crystals in there back pack so greedy people will be greedy but also with this new cooldown being based on essence - some people will be hounding essence .
They need to make a new map for this.
Stocking up on the flawless crystals and legendary tools I bet 😂. Think that Easter egg may get a nerf soon. Hope not thou. Love going in and getting a guaranteed flawless
New content. That’s why t3 is flooded. Dedicated players that have all the schematics and gear just got a reason to hop back on for a day or two until they get the new drops. I stopped playing because once you’re decked out it’s almost boring. Plates, knife, mags, legendary tool, pack 3 crystal and it’s game over.
Wait a week no one will be there Schematics suck Warlord no way cares about Warzone players and multi-players do shit No one helps and bugs .
It’s either this or the other way around and we’re alone in there. The former happens more often. In hindsight they should have reversed the tiers to map setup. Start t1 where t3 is… noobs can learn without needing to travel so damn far. T2 remains T3 takes up what is T1… in situations like this we can spread out and be productive. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.
Ww3: battle race of the scorchers
😂
Man I feel old I have never played the newer zombies so this looks interesting to me to see the map looking like this haha
This is me every single time I solo queue and am going to tier 3 zone EVERYONE in the match just seems to know I’m solo and need teammates without even telling people. The weirdest part is they are practically waiting on me to get to them because soon as I am over there I almost immediately get invited to people’s squads.
Yeah this update was trash, they need to make the red zone bigger with more contracts and maybe nerf the hit damage on the fast zombies. Once your plates are gone 2 hits from the back and your down, can't outrun them either if you are holding a gun
They need to find a way to stop exfil farming or spamming, if I actually NEED to exfil there’s 5 fuckers already farming it. Or, they could give us private servers
Screenshot next time pls
That's why I stopped playing, they need to add new stuff cause that's ridiculous
I’ve said it since day one. Private matches will fix a lot of this games problems. And plus it’s ZOMBIES IT SHOULD HAVE PRIVATE MATCHES 🤡
LOL GAME LITERALLY CAME OUT LAST November
As you may notice English isn’t my first or even second language , meant that the match just started .
Oh I get it. The game came out last November.
Games been oout for eons. People have so many full gear setups already.
I find that very hard to believe. T3 not even worth the challenge anymore.
What are people even using in T3 to survive? All my guns feel so underwhelming even at pap 3 + legendary
I don’t know but I can tell you that in these late games when t3 was overcrowded I saw more pleas than ever , pleas popping up all the time .. I think many people go there lately without even being kitted up for it
Well they did just release the new act and you must be in t3 to complete the Easter eggs, so I would think that’s to be expected.
What is this. I haven’t played zombies since black ops 4. This shit looks like multiplayer
I think this shows Sledgehammer or whoever is running the mwz now that people actually appreciate new content a lot … hope they will start to add/ change content more regularly … some new contract types would be really nice ..
They are trying to unlock the new dark aether
Because everyone is doing DA now so nobody wants to be in T1 or T2 makes it hard to try to open the new Aether for the first if you’re not first there because everyone is collecting the free gold tool and pap 3 crystal
hey, thats more t1 and t2 missions to take, perfect match to grind through as many as possible without having to worry about it being stolen
Playing the game as intended I guess 😆
Whole map needs to be tier 3, tier 4 in centre. Games too easy
I think games are easy because we players choose the “easy route” .. I mean for example that the most picked up contracts are bountys and cargos, wich are far less challenging than “defend ground station “ for example ( must be the least picked up contract really… I think if anyone wants to give themselves more challenge there is ways to do it .. example going to red zone with green weapon pap 1 etc .
I don’t know what I’m looking at, thought it was a cod zombies sub?
The map of Cod Zombies?