Treyarch Remove Nuketown 2025 Playlist From Black Ops 2

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Nuketown 2025, the hugely hyped multiplayer level that formed much of Black Ops 2’s pre-launch pre-order campaign, will see its playlist removed.

Treyarch had a 24/7 server running the map continuously, and it was by all accounts rather popular with fans of the game, which was released last week. The studio’s David Vonderhaar has stated this evening that the playlist will be ending, though. And soon.

“Double XP weekend is official over,” he said. “That means Nuketown 2025 / 24-7 is as well.” It doesn’t sound like it was his decision, though. “I know. RIGHT? Don’t kill the messenger,” he added. He also said that the 24/7 playlist will be back for “special events,” though.

Gutted? Well, according to Vonderhaar “you can always play it with your friends in Custom Games” although obviously you won’t get any XP for doing so.

Loyal pre-order customers are rightly disgruntled by this, especially after such a short run – a matter of days. Quite why they couldn’t feed Nuketown into normal rotation for those with the map is anyone’s guess.

Update: Apparently, they’ve bent to pressure and added a small maps rotation called “Chaos Moshpit” which contains the Nuketown map. Vonderhaar has tweeted “You killed the messenger, but I still fight for the users. RT to #bringbackNuketown2025 and we will add to a small maps moshpit,”

The full map rotation for the new playlist is Carrier, Cargo, Express, Hijacked, Slums, Standoff, and Nuketown 2025.

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35 Comments

  1. Yeah bit of a bugger this I didn’t really play it while it was on an I bought the Hardened edition too but I certainly won’t be losing any sleep over it but they should have kept it or stuck it in rotation not just made it playable in custom matches and to not say anything about it is a bit out of line…at least nuke town hasn’t been removed from zombies…..yet.

  2. …..and the news for COD just gets worse and worse.

  3. Well thanks for that treyarch and activision that is bull big time
    i am willing to bet it will be included in the 1st of many chargeable dlc packs
    I wasn’t able to download nuke town zombies or nuke town 2025 till saturday due to the code problem so i missed most of the double xp have they said if they are gonna make it right for the gamers (and no double xp wont make up for)

    • Yep, this is pretty big bullshit indeed, Lurch. Not happy in the slightest.

  4. it was inevitable, how would they be able to afford maintaining that server for more then a week?

  5. That’s a bit shit of Acti. Preorder our game and we will throw in a map that you can play 24/7*

    *for the first week before we turn off that server and force you to use custom games in order to use that map

    If they couldn’t afford to run the server for it, why not add it to the other servers but only allow those who have it to play it? As they will do that with any map add-on so why not this?

    Also, didn’t most people preorder it just for the map? If so then that must feel like a massive slap to the face.

    • I did, and I feel like I’ve been shat in my face.

  6. This is seriously poor from Activision/Treyarch. How can they advertise a free map and then take it away?

    Absolutely disgusting service from a bunch a fuckwits at Activision. I will be writing to watchdog, I suggest you do too.

    • It’s back.

      Vonderhaar Tweeted “You killed the messenger, but I still fight for the users. RT to #bringbackNuketown2025 and we will add to a small maps moshpit,”

      They’ve put up “Chaos Moshpit” a rotation which includes “Carrier, Cargo, Express, Hijacked, Slums, Standoff, and Nuketown 2025 in the rotation.”

  7. Can’t say I’m too fussed. Hijacked is the new Nuketown ;)

    • Hijacked is a lot of fun and I can get a lot of kills on there. You just have to be wary of the team respawning behind you. Really good small map

      • Lol, tell me about it. Such a crazy little map – particularly on HardPoint, as I found out last night lol.
        Usually pick up a good 30-40 kills or so each time that map crops up (though I usually die about as many times lol!). Was perfect for levelling up during the double XP weekend :D

  8. And their next step? Paid-for servers where you will be free to run Nuketown all day long to your heart’s content, so long as you hand out the mullah for it. It seems to have worked for BF3, so they’ll probably follow suit.

    They’ve given you the ‘Nuketown taster’ and for those craving more they’ll gladly paid to have it back again.

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