The First Room

On ZFRR, the First Room of Exit 115 is the open ground of the rest stop: the main road that runs past Reba’s Diner and McDougal’s Service Station, its wrecked cars and trucks, the canopy of the gas station and the collapsed freeway overpass above them. A Survival map has no starting room in the usual sense. Exit 115 has only two doors that can be bought, one into Reba’s Diner and one into McDougal’s Service Station, both for 2,000 Essence, and a First Room run keeps both of them shut. Each player starts with the weapon of their own loadout and 500 Essence.
Footage of a solo game at round 1 shows how far the open ground goes: from the front of the diner the player walks under the gas station canopy, climbs over the wrecks and walks along the overpass, all with the 500 starting Essence unspent. The power is on from the start, since the map has no Power Pump to restore. Fandom places the AK-27 and the Pack-a-Punch Machine inside Reba’s Diner, and Der Wunderfizz, the only perk machine of the map, inside McDougal’s Service Station. No source checked says exactly where the two doors stand inside the buildings, so whether any of these can be used doors closed is not settled here; the footage of the solo record shows its holder with twelve perks at round 45.

Shadow SK
A sniper rifle on a wall outside, by the road, for 1,750 Essence.

XM325
A light machine gun, the other wall weapon outside the buildings, for 2,000 Essence.

The playable area
The official minimap. Reba’s Diner stands in the middle, McDougal’s Service Station at the bottom left, and the overpass comes down at the bottom right; the open ground around them is the First Room.
Rampage Inducer
On a dining table outside Reba’s Diner, by its side entrance. Switched on, it makes the zombies appear quickly and move faster, up to round 55.
Chompy
The living garbage can behind the diner, by the dumpsters. It swallows a weapon or a piece of equipment and gives Salvage back, now and then something better. On a Survival map it stays awake, except during a special round or an exfil.
Vending machine
Outside McDougal’s Service Station. Once a round, a crouched melee on the bottom of the machine makes it drop a random item.
The freeway overpass
The broken highway bridge that hangs over the rest stop, open from the first round. A free Bonus Points power-up hides under a car on its collapsed middle section.
Utilities
Fandom lists a Mystery Box, a GobbleGum Machine, an armor wall buy, an Exfil phone booth, a Crafting Table, the Arsenal, an Ammo Cache, a Saw Blade Trap, T.E.D.D. tasks and Klaus on the map. No source checked says which of them stand outside the two buildings.
Enemies
Zombies from the first round, and Zursa, the zombified bears of Black Ops 7: a Season 01 weekly challenge asked for ten Zursa kills on Exit 115 Survival. No source checked lists the other special enemies that reach the open ground.
The Exit 115 leaderboard keeps two categories, each with boards for solo and for two, three and four players. No GobbleGums is the reference; With GobbleGums counts in the player ratings with a lower difficulty. How a round of Black Ops 7 compares with a round of the older games, and why zombie health stops growing at round 55, is explained in Black Ops 7: 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 either category.
No GobbleGums
No gum is used at any point, from the pack or from the machine, and none is broken down for points. Keeping the three Whimsical gums in the pack is recommended: one used by mistake does not void the run.
With GobbleGums
Every gum may be used, and broken down for points, but not a gum that has timed out. One game goes to one category only.
Black Ops 7
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 the No GobbleGums boards; the With GobbleGums 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.

