Nuketown Zombies BO3 Custom: Game Modes

The Game Modes menu

Nuketown Zombies Legacy opens a Game Modes menu before the game starts. The host picks the gameplay, the weapons, the HUD, the difficulty and the bots there; the map then plays with those choices for the whole game. The mod-friendly version of 2025 has no such menu.

Survival

Its options are Start Game, Setup Bots, Select Difficulty, Change HUD, Weapon Kits and Gameplay Style; Change Map is greyed out. A button at the bottom right enables the eight-player mode, and another shows the patch notes.

Select Difficulty

Easy, Normal, Hard or Realist, which “sets the combat capabilities of the AI”.

Game modes

The first column lists Survival, Gun Game, Rush, Gauntlet, Pack-a-Punch Challenge and Zombies World Records, but only Survival can be picked: the others are greyed out. The screen reads “Version 1.3b” with a beta tag.

Setup Bots

Adds bots to the lobby; a video thumbnail shows the choices from No Bots to 3 Bots.

Experiences

Black Ops III Experience

The default: eight perks, and a perk limit of four that “some reward” can raise, in the words of the release notes.

Classic Experience

The feel of Black Ops II: four perks with a limit of four, no Alternate Ammo Type, no sliding, no collision between zombies, and no Zombie Shield.

Weapon kits and HUD

The weapon kit replaces every wall weapon and the contents of the Mystery Box with the weapons of Black Ops, Black Ops II or Black Ops III. The HUD can take the look of the same three games, with the perk icons of Black Ops II in the Black Ops II HUD.

Bots and eight players

Bots can fill the lobby. According to the release notes, they buy wall weapons, doors and perks, use the Mystery Box, revive the players and follow them. The map also accepts up to eight players, a feature Clix called experimental, “because we push the game into his proper limit”.