The First Room

On ZFRR, the First Room of Liberty Falls is the east end of the town, where every game begins: the Abandoned Rooftop where the players appear, the Pump & Pay gas station and its roof, East Main Street and the Motor Lodge, a two-storey motel whose balcony and parking lot are open from the start. As everywhere in Black Ops 6, each player starts with a weapon of their own loadout, so the run never depends on a wall weapon.
The guides name two barriers out of the area, each sold for 1,500 Essence: one by the Motor Lodge, towards the back of Fuller’s Liberty Lanes, and one on East Main Street, towards Riverside. One list of the map’s doors also puts a door on the Abandoned Rooftop; whether it is a third way out of the First Room, and at what price, no source we found says, and none of the footage we checked shows a price on screen. No perk machine, Crafting Table, Arsenal or Pack-a-Punch stands inside: they are all beyond those barriers.

The Abandoned Rooftop
Where the team appears, behind sandbags, looking over the whole town and the church on its hill. The Rampage Inducer sits up here: switched on, it makes the zombies faster and more numerous to speed up the early rounds.

Pump & Pay
The gas station of East Main Street, with a burning tanker truck in front of its pumps. Its roof can be walked on, and a Mystery Box spot stands beside it, but the Box never starts there: its two first spots are in Liberty Lanes and on Riverside.
The Motor Lodge
The motel on the other side of the street. Upstairs, the door of Room 202 bursts open when a player comes near and zombies pour out of it: inside is the workbench of the Thrustodyne M23, which cannot be finished without the parts hidden in the rest of the town. A vending machine downstairs, by the barricade, gives a random reward each round to a crouched punch.
The barriers
1,500 Essence each according to the guides, by the Motor Lodge and on East Main Street, where a blue energy barrier closes the street beside Godwin’s Attic. In a First Room game none is ever bought.

GS45
750 Essence, a pistol on a wall of East Main Street, Uncommon.

DM-10
1,500 Essence, a marksman rifle on the top floor of the Motor Lodge, Uncommon.
Dark Aether Field Generator
A trap outside the Motor Lodge, 1,000 Essence: it slows the zombies, dissolves them and kills them with Dark Aether energy. The Purist solo record of round 60 is still using it at round 50.
Ammo Cache
On East Main Street: 250 Essence to refill the ammo of the weapon in hand, more once the weapon is Pack-a-Punched. The Purist solo record uses it.
GobbleGum machine
On the parking lot of the Motor Lodge.
Exfil radio
On East Main Street, to call the helicopter out of the town.
Enemies
The map lists zombies, Armored and Heavy Zombies, Manglers, Vermin and Abominations; Vermin, the spiders of the Dark Aether, fill the Max Ammo rounds. In the record footage, ordinary and special zombies alike die in the trap of East Main Street.
The Liberty Falls leaderboard keeps five categories, each with boards for solo and for two, three and four players. Purist is the reference and the default tab; the four others come in two groups, No Support and With Support, each split between No GobbleGums and All GobbleGums, and count in the player ratings with a lower difficulty. How a round of Black Ops 6 compares with a round of the older games is explained in Black Ops 6: Rounds. The rules:
Doors closed
Reach the highest round you can without opening doors, and play every round in full. Glitches and exploits are not allowed in any category.
Purist
None of the game’s help: no Field Upgrade, no Crafting Table, no Arsenal, no GobbleGum, no Support, no perk and no Mystery Box, and no Self-Revive beyond the one each player starts with.
No Support
Armor plates can be picked up or bought on the wall, but not the armor of the Crafting Table, and nothing from its Support section. In solo, only the starting Self-Revive; in co-op, three Self-Revives at most per player, dropped by the zombies and not crafted. Scorestreaks are best left on the ground.
With Support
Every Support item may be used.
GobbleGums
On the All GobbleGums boards they are allowed, but not a gum that has timed out. On the No GobbleGums boards none is used, except Anywhere But Here to get unstuck, with a timestamp; keeping the three Whimsical gums in the pack is advised, since one taken by mistake does not void the run.
Video
The whole game must be recorded, with every player’s point of view in co-op, except on the With Support, All GobbleGums board. A Twitch video must be saved as a highlight, since past broadcasts are not accepted; a YouTube video must be public or unlisted.
Black Ops 6
Every game is played on the latest patch. Saving and quitting or crashing the game to void a down, a Dying Wish or a game over is not allowed, and a patch that changes the balance of the game can reset a board.














