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The First Room
On ZFRR, the First Room of Reckoning is the T1 Project Janus Reception, the lobby on the ground floor of Tower 1 where every game begins: a tall hall under burning upper floors, with the Janus logo set in the floor, a reception desk at the top of a few steps, a row of metal detectors and a gallery that runs around it. Like on every map of Black Ops 6, each player starts with the weapon of their own loadout.
The Reception has two doors to buy, one at its east end and one at its west end. Each opens onto an Aetheric Elevator Shaft: the east one rises to the Mutant Research Lab, the west one to the Quantum Computing Core. A written guide gives 1750 Essence for the way up to the Mutant Research Lab; no source checked gives the price of the other door with certainty. In a First Room game neither is ever bought, and the rest of Janus Towers, the launchers, Tower 2 and the Pack-a-Punch, all stay out of reach.
GS45
750 Essence, a pistol at Uncommon rarity, the only wall weapon of the Reception.
Quick Revive
The only perk machine of the Reception. Like every perk of Black Ops 6, it costs from 2500 to 7500 Essence depending on the perks already owned. Perks are not allowed in Purist.
Level II Armor Vest
4000 Essence, on a wall of the Reception, which also has an Ammo Cache and a GobbleGum Machine. The Level III vest is in Sublevel 10.
Rampage Inducer
Next to the broken door of the Reception washroom. Switched on, it makes the zombies spawn faster and move faster, up to round 55.
The red portal
A portal of the Reception that stays dead until the power is restored in Sublevel 10, and then links the two both ways. Doors closed, it never opens.
What stays out of reach
No Crafting Table and no Arsenal, the nearest being in the Quantum Computing Core and the Mutant Research Lab, and no Mystery Box: none of the Box spots given by the official guide is in the Reception.
Enemies
Zombies, then the special and elite enemies of the map as the rounds climb: Armored, Heavy and Toxic Zombies, Manglers, Vermin, Parasites, Doppelghasts, Kommando Klaus and, from round 16, the Uber Klaus. The footage of the two-player Purist record shows Parasites flying over the Reception at round 33.
The Reckoning 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.
