Why People Hate This Black Ops 6 Mission…

Summary

In this video, Inkslasher discusses the controversial mission "Emergence" from Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The mission has garnered significant attention and criticism due to its inclusion of zombies and its departure from traditional Call of Duty gameplay styles. Set within a mysterious facility in Kentucky, the mission involves the character Case, who breathes in a gas known as Cradle. This gas leads to hallucinations and transformations, altering the narrative and gameplay dynamics. The backlash stems from reused assets and the unexpected introduction of zombies, which some fans feel detracts from the series' core style. The video explores these criticisms and contrasts them with the mission's positive attributes, even likening it to iconic games like Bioshock.

Highlights

• The "Emergence" mission in Black Ops 6 is trippy and mind-bending, setting it apart from typical Call of Duty gameplay. 🤯
• Fans were surprised and divided by the presence of zombies in the campaign, a first for Call of Duty missions. 🧟‍♀️
• The mission reveals significant details about Case and the Cradle project, vital to the game's narrative. 📜
• There's a strong divide among players: some love the mission's uniqueness, while others criticize its reuse of assets. ⚔️
• The mission could have been more impactful by replacing zombies with mannequins and having boss fights with main characters instead. 🤔

Key Takeaways

• "Emergence" is considered controversial due to its inclusion of zombies, a departure from traditional Call of Duty missions. 🧟‍♂️
• The mission is central to Black Ops 6's story, revealing critical plot points about the character Case and the Cradle project. 📖
• Fans are divided on the mission, with some appreciating its narrative depth and others disliking its deviation from the Call of Duty norm. 🤔
• Reused assets, such as fighting familiar zombie bosses, are a major point of criticism among players. 🧐
• Despite its flaws, "Emergence" is appreciated by some for its unique and mind-bending approach to storytelling. 💭

Overview

'Emergence' is an intriguing mission from Black Ops 6 that challenges what players expect from a Call of Duty campaign. It's set in a creepy facility where the protagonist Case inhales a gas called Cradle, leading to some wild mind-bending sequences. This mission reveals crucial story elements about Case, such as his origin and role in a secret project, making it central to the game's plot.

A significant portion of the player's divisiveness comes from the inclusion of zombies in 'Emergence.' For some, this shift away from traditional military-style gameplay felt off-brand for Call of Duty, while others found the narrative depth compelling. The mission's bizarre, atmospheric experience is likened to games like Bioshock, attracting fans who appreciate storytelling that bends reality.

One major criticism of 'Emergence' is the reuse of zombie assets, which many players have encountered in other parts of the Call of Duty series. Although intended to enhance the mission's horror and unpredictability, these familiar elements felt lazy to some. Despite this, 'Emergence' remains a favorite for players seeking fresh, innovative approaches within the Call of Duty universe.

Why People Hate This Black Ops 6 Mission… Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Call of Duty has never been afraid of controversy especially in their campaigns one thing that comes to mind right away is no Russian from the original Modern Warfare 2 it was controversial because well you were doing some controversial things in that mission however Black Ops 6 has been weird for this because when I put out my review for the game as a whole for the whole Campaign which will be linked down in the description and after the video if you want to check that out but when I put that out there was one piece of feedback that I received on that video that I did not expect you see in the campaign there's this Miss called
• 00:30 - 01:00 emergence and it is this trippy mindbending mission that is probably narrative wise the most important for the story out of any other mission in the game I thought this was a pretty decent Mission however with there being zombies in this Mission and if you didn't play the campaign no you didn't hear me wrong there are zombies in this Mission this Mission started to trct a lot of hate and I wanted to take a look a deeper look at this Mission and discuss why and I don't think the answer is what you are actually thinking so in
• 01:00 - 01:30 this video what I'm going to do is dive through this specific Mission and if you want to see me maybe do this more in the future looking at other specific missions and diving into why they're great why they're horrible or other things altogether show me by hitting that like button on this video and maybe we'll continue doing maybe a little series like this but for this video let's go ahead and answer the question why is emergence in Black Ops 6 so oddly hated s how's it going on your side still looking for a way in the north door's are totally sealed you case and I
• 01:30 - 02:00 are in South Gate utility entrance looks like someone's been through here recently who's the freight elevator chains broken all right M so the mission starts out with us in the Advanced Technologies and applications division inside a facility in Kentucky as we go in case tries to go alongside Marshall when the elevator below him breaks he falls his gas mask breaks and he starts to breathe in a mysterious gas we eventually find out that this gas is
• 02:00 - 02:30 known as cradle which is one of the main parts of Black Ops 6 and also this Mission now I want to be clear this is probably the most important mission to the story of Black Ops 6 there is a lot that is revealed in this mission number one we find out that case the character who we play as in the game aka William Calderon is actually named case because he was case one it's for you
• 02:30 - 03:00 it's fantastic to see you again case one how have you been feeling a friendly reminder that most of the facility is off limits to patients I hope you understand welcome back case through this Mission we end up finding out that case one or case was a volunteer for this project known as cradle cradle we find out was basically
• 03:00 - 03:30 a serum something that could be inhaled which was meant to create super soldiers and case volunteered to be one of these super soldiers only a few know the origins of the pantheon case they were a CIA Branch unknown to even the other Black Ops divisions they developed the Cradle a new generation of operatives would be born of it now after they started to test this out they realized that there were some massive side effects to the cradle and in so they
• 03:30 - 04:00 decided to no longer work on this project but Pantheon separated outside of the CIA and decided to pursue this not for super soldiers but rather as a biological weapon they tried so hard to perfect the cral case but the side effects couldn't be stopped as we know we were the first and last trial volunteer so it makers repurposed it into a biological vcum
• 04:00 - 04:30 instead and this is where people start to not like the mission because as it turns out the cradle that is running through case's veins and the cradle that he is breathing in in this Mission makes you really trip out and turn into a really evil human being and that's when things start to go wild the Cradle project fail this case we were out of control violent deniable and in our rage we set Touch This facility contaminated
• 04:30 - 05:00 with the same poison that runs in our veins remember zombies there are zombies in this Mission so the biggest complaint that I've seen about this mission is that there is zombies in it and I'm going to address that in a minute but I think there's a couple of other reasons as well first of all this Mission does not feel like a Call of Duty Mission whatsoever if we compare this campaign to something like a Modern Warfare game Modern Warfare is very set in milit istic combat whereas Black Ops is kind
• 05:00 - 05:30 of like this more spy Thriller mindbending it is a very different thing and personally I prefer the Black Ops style story where you really have to think about what is going on it's not just militarized combat now you can like what you like but to me this Mission as a whole emergence doesn't really feel like a Call of Duty game whatsoever when I first played it I compared it to Bioshock I've heard other people say atomic heart other games along those kind of styles and honestly it really
• 05:30 - 06:00 does feel like that and I think that's okay because some of the most memorable missions throughout Call of Duty are not the ones that feel like Call of Duty even going back all the way to all ghillied up at the time that didn't feel like a Call of Duty Mission and seeing future games it felt more like a Sniper Elite Mission or some sort of more stealthy combat game didn't feel like Call of Duty the Michael Bay games that they have created whatsoever or moving forward to Black Ops Cold War the KGB Mission didn't feel like a Call of Duty Mission whatsoever most the time you
• 06:00 - 06:30 found out you were sneaking around or talking to other people or talking your way out of getting into combat which some of those missions are my favorite missions of all time and emergence falls under that umbrella for me I loved this Mission when I see people talk about this Mission I see one of two things people either loved it or people absolutely hated it and as I mentioned maybe it's because it didn't feel like Call of Duty but the biggest thing I've seen people say is to keep zombies out of the campaign and I understand that it
• 06:30 - 07:00 actually makes a lot of sense but as a whole I don't necessarily think it's the zombies that are the issue I think more than anything number one it is the reused assets as we go through the four different sectors of this Mission we end up getting into boss fights with various different special zombies we get into boss fights with manglers with mimics with Abominations old zombies that we have seen many many times before throughout Modern Warfare Zombies Black
• 07:00 - 07:30 Ops zombies and Black Ops Cold War these are reused assets and now they are in the campaign and having to have fought these things thousands of times before if you were camo grinding you're probably very very sick of them at this point so to just see them reused almost felt a little bit lazy and quite honestly I think what would have worked a lot better for this mission is not shooting zombies they should have kept the mannequins as the main bad guy and the reason reason why I say that we
• 07:30 - 08:00 already know that case was tripping out that's the point of this it's showing off what happens with cradle and the mannequins were already here in this area it was the first thing that we saw as we worked our way throughout this Mission so if you were going through this and instead of zombies being here they were all mannequins this would make a lot more sense and wouldn't feel like you were being put into a zombies game and then for the boss fights I don't think you should have been fighting an Abomination or anything along those lines I think you should have been fighting
• 08:00 - 08:30 the other main characters in the game so for one of the boss fights you could have been fighting Adler for another one herrow for another one Frank Woods and we've even seen this in several parts as some of the zombies actually turn in to some of these characters it would make a lot more sense narratively as we could see the good side and bad side of case which is brought out by Cradle be brought forward and the whole idea of the campaign where you can't trust your allies be more of a motif instead of just zombies be added in for no apparent reason so yeah I get why the zombies
• 08:30 - 09:00 thing becomes a problem there is another mission where zombies are brought in as well it's called separation anxiety and this is the one where you play as Jane Harrow the main bad guy or antagonist throughout the campaign and when you do zombies are once again brought in however this time we are not fighting against zombie bosses they are used as almost a horr element this mission is straight up pretty scary sometimes [Music] [Applause]
• 09:00 - 09:30 and when they do this they are not making it so that you are fighting against zombies they are very clearly showing you that you are fighting against your subconscious and against evil Jane herrow pushing that element forward whereas when we go into emergence and are playing as case the reason why zombies are there doesn't really make any sense whereas Jane Harrow they are there because she is scared it is showing her as a child and
• 09:30 - 10:00 having to deal with these scary things that are going on in her life and that is presenting as zombies it's almost a metaphor if you will whereas case they're just kind of there to give you something to fight and I truly believe those would have been mannequins instead of zombies and the bosses would have been different this would have gone down as the best mission in any Call of Duty game but it fell short because of reused assets players who want to play zombies just wanting to be in zombies and it being so so unrealistic because they're
• 10:00 - 10:30 zombies people just didn't want that to make any sense because keep in mind the case Mission isn't just in his head he is in that facility and he is kind of battling against something but because they're zombies I think it took away from that overall motif of what the Cradle is what it does and take away from the whole militarized style of Call of Duty I think there was a better way to do this and yeah I still love this Mission and I think this mission comes down to one thing either you loved it or
• 10:30 - 11:00 you hate it and personally I like to see Call of Duty campaigns go further and further away from that militarized combat where every Mission you are just in another battle in another area of the world and it just to me gets a little boring to this it adds more characters it adds more story and yeah sometimes it gets a little controversial but to me I love this Mission but I want to hear what you guys think about this Mission were you pissed that zombies were in it did you care did you like it did you not
• 11:00 - 11:30 let me know what you think down in the comments and if you want me to Deep dive into more Call of Duty missions maybe something along the lines of all gilled up or no Russian or some other missions from Call of Duty games like cleanhouse let me know by hitting that like button subscribing turning notifications on and as always appreciate you guys coming to check out the video and until next time [Music] peace but we're making this you hard and I wonder where you are
• 11:30 - 12:00 M that's the part you always show