Key Takeaways
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Nuketown remains a popular map due to its small size and produces some frenzied matches.
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One player surprised many by spawning a giant jumbo jet during the Battle of Nuketown.
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This incident was potentially linked to 3D spatial rendering, making it an unforgettable moment for players.
Nuketown is infamous for being one of the smallest maps in Call of Duty history, but its size allows for some frenetic matches and has made it one of the most popular maps in the series. The maps have been carefully designed to maintain a small footprint while providing adequate cover when needed.
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14 years later, Call of Duty fans are still obsessed with Nuketown.
Let's celebrate its history as the iconic map returns in Black Ops 6.
There's little room to add anything else, so imagine our surprise when one player somehow spawns a giant jumbo jet in the middle of a map battle.
Nuketown's Mysterious Spawn Plane
In a short video posted to Reddit, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 player Anomli gets hooked on Nuketown's popular Domination Mode game.
Anomli approaches the center of the map, takes out a grenade and throws it, but once the explosive is thrown, a huge plane is created in its path. Many comments were quick to point out that it's just like the one in Pokemon, except instead of creatures it's a plane and instead of a Pokéball it's a grenade.
When the plane appears, one of Anomli's teammates can be seen looking confused, further adding to the clip's comedic gold.
While this situation has baffled many on Reddit, user TabbedScamper shared a theory as to why this happened. “For things to render properly in 3D space, they need to be as close to 0,0,0(X,Y,Z) as possible. You can look at this as an example from Minecraft Far Lands. The plane that needs to be called at any point that someone acquires is I'm assuming it's always set to no visibility and stored somewhere on the map, so I think the center point of the plane is at 0,0,0 on the map, and I've also seen where all of the Nuketown maps are displayed outside of this map. Due to the game calling null at a time It immediately became 'invisible'.”
No matter what happened, it was a moment those players will never forget.
Forced to become a rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a time of transition and upheaval in world politics, including the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the United States as a single superpower. With an engrossing story and no rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.
The Black Ops 6 campaign delivers dynamic, moment-to-moment gameplay with blockbuster set pieces and a variety of play areas featuring action-packed moments, dangerous heists, and cloak-and-dagger espionage.
In a best-in-class multiplayer experience, players will test their skills on 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.
Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of round-based Zombies, a fan-favorite mode that sees players take down hordes of the undead across two new maps at launch. After launch, players can expect even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences for both multiplayer and zombies.
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