The First Room

On ZFRR, the First Room of Shattered Veil is the Garden Pond, where every game begins: a garden below the mansion of Sam Colton Hall, with a pond crossed by a stone bridge, a fountain, stone balustrades and stairs under the trees. Like on every map of Black Ops 6, each player starts with the weapon of their own loadout.
The Garden Pond has two ways out, both closed by a door to buy: west, up the stairs, to the Conservatory, and east, to Shem’s Henge. Both lead on to the Motor Court and the mansion. No source checked gives their price. In a First Room game neither door is ever bought.
A Mystery Box spot
The Garden Pond is one of the nine places the Box can stand, and the Starting Room mode of 2025 listed it among the utilities of the room. Each spin costs 950 Essence.
The teleporter
One of the two Fast Travel Teleporters of the map stands in the Garden Pond, 500 Essence a trip; the other is at the Supply Depot, deep in the underground. Taking it leaves the room.
Rampage Inducer
The Garden Pond has one, the Starting Room mode listed it among the utilities of the room. Switched on, it makes the zombies spawn faster and move faster, up to round 55.
GS45
750 Essence, a pistol at Uncommon rarity, on a wall of the Garden Pond, the only wall weapon of the room.
No perk machine
None stands in the Garden Pond. The nearest, Quick Revive in the Conservatory and Speed Cola in Shem’s Henge, are behind the two doors.
Dark Aether Field Generator
A trap for 1000 Essence that slows, dissolves and kills the zombies in its field. The room also has an Ammo Cache and a GobbleGum Machine.
Free items
A Combat Axe lies at the spawn; it chops the wooden logs beside it, under which the document My Warheads appears. The audio log Shadow Benefactor lies beneath the stone bridge.
What stays out of reach
The Crafting Table and the Arsenal, the nearest in the Motor Court and the Grand Foyer, and the exfil, whose helicopter only lands in the Motor Court.
Enemies
Zombies, and in the special rounds the Toxic Zombies, which explode when killed and leave a pool of poison: the solo Purist record of Apasbeau meets them under the stone bridge at round 22. The other enemies of the map are listed below; no source checked says which of them reach the Garden Pond.
The Shattered Veil leaderboard keeps five categories, each with boards for solo and for two, three and four players. Purist is the reference and opens by default. Two groups follow, No Support and With Support, each split into No GobbleGums and All GobbleGums; they 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
The starting loadout and nothing else. No perk, no Mystery Box, no GobbleGum, no Field Upgrade, no Arsenal, no Crafting Table and no Support, and no Self-Revive beyond the one each player starts with.
No Support
No scorestreak, and nothing from the Support section of the Crafting Table; picking up a scorestreak should be avoided. Armor plates are picked up or bought on the wall, never at the workbench. In solo, only the starting Self-Revive; in co-op, up to three per player, dropped by zombies.
With Support
Every support item may be used.
GobbleGums
On the No GobbleGums boards, the only gum allowed is Anywhere But Here, to get unstuck, with a timestamp; keeping the three Whimsical gums in the pack is advised, as one used by mistake does not void the run. On the All GobbleGums boards every gum is allowed, but not the timed-out gum.
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.
Video
The whole game must be recorded, with every player’s point of view in co-op on every board but With Support, All GobbleGums, whose rules do not ask for it. A Twitch video must be saved as a highlight, since past broadcasts are not accepted; a YouTube video must be public or unlisted.







