The First Room

On ZFRR, the First Room of Rex Infernus is the bedroom of Her House where the game begins, on the upper floor of the house that the Entity gave the crew. It is a small, wrecked room: a bed under a lamp, a wardrobe and a chest of drawers, a phonograph by a curtained window, a chandelier, and holes torn in the walls, one of which looks into the bathroom next door. Like on every map of Black Ops 7, each player starts with the weapon of their own loadout, and 500 Essence.
The objective on screen is “Holdout in Her House”. In a normal game the phone rings downstairs at round 3, and answering it opens the front door and a portal to the Nexus Forge. Doors closed, the team never gets there: the objective stays on screen for the whole run, round 27 included in the solo record.

The other side of the room
The wardrobe and the chest of drawers with its lamp, beside another hole torn in the wall.
The bedroom door
“Locked Door, Open access to new areas”, for 1250 Essence. In a First Room game it is never bought, and the rest of the house, the stairs, the front door and the whole Nexus stay out of reach.

Warden 308
1450 Essence, a marksman rifle at Uncommon rarity, the wall weapon of the bedroom, next to the phonograph. It is the only weapon of the First Room besides the loadout.
What stays out of reach
The other wall weapon of the house, the CODA 9 for 500 Essence, upstairs past a barricade; Quick Revive, the only perk of the house, on the floor below; and no Mystery Box, no Pack-a-Punch, no Crafting Table and no Arsenal, all out in the Nexus.
Enemies
Zombies, then Armored and Heavy Zombies, and the two spiders of the map: Deathspinners, which the solo record shows inside the bedroom at round 27, and Web Mothers. In the same run, webs cling to the screen at round 20.
The Rex Infernus 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. The Starting Room mode of the game is not the same thing: since September 2026 it opens the whole house. How a round of Black Ops 7 compares with a round of the older games 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.
No GobbleGums
No gum is used at any time, from the pack or from a machine, and none is broken down for Essence. Keeping the three Whimsical gums in the pack is recommended: one used by mistake does not void the run.
With GobbleGums
Every gum is allowed, and so is breaking gums down for Essence, but not the timed-out gum.
No glitch
Glitches and exploits are not allowed on either board.
Black Ops 7
Every game is played on the latest patch, and saving and quitting or crashing the game to void a down or a game over is not allowed.
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 boards 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.










