In Black Ops 4, there's considerable talk about ‘The Great War,’ and it wouldn't be out of the ordinary.. if it ever came to fruition — but it didn't.
In Blood of the Dead, when Great War Richtofen gives Nikolai the Kronorium he says ‘‘Read it, learn of your true calling. You must keep your soul, it will be needed to defeat Doctor Monty.’’
In Classified, Primis Nikolai says ‘‘Now we must go, quickly. There is a war to be fought’’ when subsequently questioned by Ultimis Dempsey, he says ‘‘A war, unlike any you have ever seen, The Great War’’
In Alpha Omega, Samantha says ‘‘We're going to fight the war, Eddie. The Great War.’’ Followed by ‘‘Then we're going back to the house to kill him, and burn it all to the ground. Agartha. The Aether. The Infinite. Everything.’’
Looking back at it, it comes off almost.. scummy, to a degree. I mean, you're constantly bringing it up, so.. where is it?
If you're gonna tell me bossing around Victis for an hour was a war..? Did Nikolai just keep lying about some grandiose ‘Great War,’ for it to be nothing? But how come Samantha mentions it?
Like, who wrote this sh-t?
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They blew the budget on Chaos and it Flopped so any post launch Aether plans had to be scrapped or massively reworked.
They actually did have it planned, but due to poor reception the game never got its year 2 content which would’ve been all aether finishing with the great war. Chaos was supposed to get year 1 and then aether finish it all off
But also, it ended up being essentially that the kronorium told Nikolai no matter how much they tried, they would fail the great war. That’s why Nikolai had to keep his soul to safeguard the crew from Dr. Monty for what they were doing to save the universe. Again tho, this isn’t nearly as epic as the ending should’ve been
because it was intended
2 things to have of note here that I want to point out. The great war in the zombies storyline is a pivotal moment for our characters. It’s where they go when the cycle is over, it’s their end game, the finality of it all has been a suggestion since shadows of evil. You point out all this hype for the great war map but we already know that fighting that war is just going to perpetuate this cycle out characters are stuck in. Maybe they’ll defeat Dr monty but what then, they still can’t live normal lies. Richtofen believes that they’re going to fight Monty, he believes that’s what the kronorium will tell Nikolai. However he’s wrong and Nikolai still used that to his advantage. He told them they would go and fight, that they would live as heroes, knowing that the fact they existed was the problem. Nikolai gathered them up for a war, to give them hope of a future, gave them one night as friends before having to execute the hardest decision. The exposure to 115 our characters had doomed them and Nikolai gave them the best ending, if they fought the great war it would have been for nothing essentially. The real “evidence” we have for a great war map is rumors and a crusader NPC in the files, but that could have been for a scrapped chaos map.
I’ll believe a Great War map was intended when someone will find evidences of said map in the file.
Bo4 game’s file were filled with assets from every scrapped chaos map and the ZC2 ramakes, we knew of the Nuketown remake and COTD remake since like december 2018 and the zm_ code for two chaos maps are still in the code.
But yeah a Great War map with ZERO leftover files in the code was always intended I guess…
Pretty sure the intent wasn’t to just straight up lie.
It was planned.
They didn’t have the time or budget.
It’s not that hard to understand
We got a big leak recently about how BO4 was supposed to be. It was initially going to end with a Great War map that was a mega-remake of Origins.
Because when they got their budget cut and had to work on CW they preferred to end Aether with a Call of the Dead remake where you play as the TranZit crew, I mean it’s just objectively better than finishing the story in the next game where they got some more budget to work with. /s
Probably because it was truly their intent as it was the only logical ending, and as you pointed out heavily hinted at multiple times.