Every secret of Nuketown Zombies: the three teddy bears of Samantha's Lullaby, the mannequin song, the shed song at population 15, Marlton in the bunker, the five Moon transmissions, the round 25 switch, the rocket and the bus horn.
Nuketown has no main quest, but it hides more than any other Survival map: three songs, a voice in a bunker, recordings from the Moon and the round 25 switch. Almost all of them share the same conditions:
A game started on a later round in Custom Games does not run them.
The default setting. With Magic off, the power-up shed stays empty too.
Nothing runs on Easy.
Three teddy bears are hidden on the map. Each one gives off a faint sound until you hold the use button in front of it; a high-pitched sound confirms it. The order does not matter, and the third one plays Samantha’s Lullaby, the loading screen song of Moon.
In a window of the yellow bus, on the side facing the truck. In the street, no door needed.
On the top bunk of the small bedroom upstairs in the yellow house. Front door 750, then 1000 to go upstairs.
In the green house backyard, seen through a gap in the fence of the small garden at the back left. Front door 750, then the back door 1000.
Shoot or knife the head off every mannequin on the map. The game keeps 28 of its 54 mannequin spots each game, picked at random, so the hunt is never the same; some stand in the houses and the backyards. The last head starts an 8-bit Coming Home. Before the title updates of Black Ops II, the same Easter egg played an 8-bit Pareidolia instead.
The third song comes from the power-up shed of the yellow backyard, whose power-up can only be taken once per game. Take that single power-up at the wrong moment and the song is lost for the game.
An 8-bit track with Pareidolia and Re-Damned plays. The clock must have moved at least once before, which happens after the first kills.
The two dials of the “Welcome to Nuketown” sign turn by one for every zombie killed, and roll over after 00.
Its hand moves each time the counter reads 99, 66, 33 or 00, and the clock chimes every fourth move.
Every move of the clock swaps the power-up behind the shed door, always in the same order: Nuke at the start, then Double Points, Insta-Kill, Fire Sale and Max Ammo, and round again. You can see which one is waiting before you pay.
Hit the door of the fallout shelter in the green house backyard, with the knife for example, and Marlton Johnson answers from inside with one of his TranZit lines, picked at random. It works once per round. In the story, the bunker is how Marlton survives the rocket and later joins the TranZit crew.
Five recordings of Richtofen play from the television of the green house, following his progress on Moon:
| Recording | When | What is heard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Start of round 3 | The egg bouncing around, and Richtofen cursing Maxis |
| 2 | A round between 4 and 8 | Richtofen logging into a computer as “Teddy” |
| 3 | A round between 10 and 16 | The pyramid opening and Samantha rising |
| 4 | A round between 18 and 21 | Richtofen setting the Vril Generator |
| 5 | Start of round 25 | Richtofen and Samantha switching souls |
The fifth recording ends the story of the map. As it plays, every zombie on the map is killed at once, the next ones come with blue eyes instead of yellow, and Richtofen becomes the announcer in place of Samantha. B2 allows a First Room player to switch the eyes to blue with the patch in a custom game.
When the game is over, the end screen does not show the usual view of the map: the camera follows one of the rockets fired from the Moon down onto Nuketown, until the screen goes black.
Once per game, in a round between 5 and 9, the horn of the TranZit bus sounds near the street, as if it were leaving.
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