• 8 players
  • 39 records
  • 3.2

Ascension

BO1 PC : available Xbox : available PlayStation : available Plutonium : available

A Soviet cosmodrome under the snow, with a rocket that launches exactly once and takes part of the map with it. Ascension brought the Gersch Device, the Matryoshka Dolls, the lunar landers that carry you between zones, and the Space Monkeys.

The monkey rounds are the map's signature and its cruelty: they ignore you completely and go for the Perk-a-Cola machines instead. Lose a machine and the perk is gone for the rest of the game. The Thundergun returns in the box, and the Pack-a-Punch only opens once the rocket has fired.

The First Room is the bottom of the launch site, a long room with a pit in the middle and the M14 and Olympia on its walls. There is enough space to run a loop, which is rare on Black Ops, but the stairs behind you open a second front the moment you commit to a direction. On a First Room run the monkeys are the real wall: you have almost nothing to defend the machines with.

Leaderboard
First Room World Record 62
Rank Nationality Player Time Platform
1 United States Zaiydo PC
2 World AetherUSLOW PC
3 Spain testerXVI PC
4 United Kingdom GamingGhost PC
5 France NuKer PC
6 United States Knlls PC
7 France Fanchoo29kk PlayStation
8 United States Myst1ry PlayStation

Fast, not far

A First Room speedrun is the opposite exercise of a high round : the room is the same, the goal is not. Instead of holding the spawn as long as possible, you clear the set number of rounds as fast as you can.

Which means the two boards never mix. A run that would rank first here would not even enter a high round board, and the other way around.

The rules are those of the room itself : no leaving the spawn, no exploit that skips it. What changes is the clock — it starts when the player spawns into the map and stops on the round-up animation of the round being run.

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