The online shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has a myriad of maps at launch. The classic Nuketown is expected to follow later with a radically different look.
What is the story behind the Nuketown map? Nuketown is a classic Call of Duty map that has appeared multiple times in previous installments of the series. The setting is a small-town America that serves as a testing ground for a nuclear bomb.
However, the new version of the map in the multiplayer mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 breaks with this tradition.
New map speaks Russian
What is different about the new Nuketown map? In an initial teaser tweet from Nuketown, a snow-covered place sign is visible. It says “Welcome to Nuketown” in English, but the letters are pseudo-Cyrillic. And the “O” in “Town” features a red Soviet star.
The text of the tweet, however, is actually written in Cyrillic and reads: “Посетите нас снова … Впервые здесь”. This literally translates to German as: “Visit us again…. for the first time here”.
This suggests that the map will be set in Russia for the first time and likely shows a Soviet testing ground for nuclear weapons in the icy winter.
What is included in the map? More than the Russia setting in winter with snow and ice is currently known about Nuketown. We will report on it when we learn more about the new Nuketown in Black Ops 4.
When will Nuketown be released? As previously reported, Nuketown is not among the 14 initial multiplayer maps in Black Ops 4. It will be released for free in November as a download. You do not need the controversial Season Pass.
Fun fact: In the large battle royale map of the Blackout mode there is a larger island that is also called Nuketown and resembles the classic map.
What do you think of the idea that this classic CoD map is now getting a different setting?
