Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s new version of Nuketown arrived on November 20, and one of the first things people tried on it was shooting off all the mannequin heads to unlock the long-running Nuketown Easter egg. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in Black Ops 7, at least not yet. This isn’t a huge shock, though, as Black Ops 6’s version of Nuketown didn’t unlock the Easter egg right away, either.
A popular video from the Detonated account shows that the mannequin heads on Nuketown 2025 cannot be shot off, thereby not allowing the Easter egg to unlock once they’re all blasted away. People are theorizing that the new version of Nuketown does indeed carry forward the Easter egg that’s been in every version of Nuketown since 2010, but it’s just not active yet.
In Black Ops 6, zombified mannequins sprung forth from the ground for the Easter egg. And as ScreenRant reminds us, when Black Ops 6’s version of Nuketown launched, it also didn’t have the Easter egg unlocked, but it arrived around a week later. If the same pattern holds for Black Ops 7, fans can expect the latest version of the Easter egg to be here soon. Season 1 is expected to launch in early December, and this could be when the Easter egg gets unlocked for Black Ops 7, but that’s just a guess.
The Nuketown Easter egg debuted with the first Black Ops game in 2010 and has showed up, in different forms, for every version of the map since. For the first game, shooting all the mannequin heads would trigger the game to start playing the Rolling Stones song “Sympathy for the Devil.” In Black Ops 2, the Easter egg makes classic Activision games playable on an in-game sign.
In other Call of Duty news, Treyarch made Black Ops 7’s Endgame available to everyone today, November 21. Before, players had to complete the campaign to unlock it. A new update just arrived, too, and it makes some aim-assist changes.
Black Ops 7 launched on November 14, and, in a break from tradition, Activision’s first-weekend social media post about the game did not include any mention of how the game is performing compared to past releases.
For more, check out GameSpot’s Black Ops 7 review. You can also catch up on why one US lawmaker is calling for AI regulations after it came to light that Black Ops 7 developers used AI.
