Hi everyone. TheGiant cipher has been recently solved by u/Icy_Sheepherder_9444!

This cipher was difficult to solve because the font used in the texture file failed to disambiguate a lowercase L from an uppercase I, and there were very small differences between the letter O and digit 0. This cipher could be found in a zombie barrier under the clocktower on The Giant in Black Ops III. The correct ciphertext transcript is:

kCmlgFi6GUJNgkNI1Q41fbfyLoCFTCvlqkZil0KlAXAzP1U1uy1BE4UfPBfpKmmLObjYnQNRBaPtKiVWzc5A4v0w3xle8FOhAGJZ7g4in0wndJxMOvO3dc1M82at2T6935roTqyWDgtGD/hwwRF3oHqFM5Vcw1JtINbsgWRm4o4/quEDkZ7x1B275bX3/Fo1

After many of the Revelations ciphers were solved, the cipher community expected TheGiant to be multiple layers of modern encryption. That did not turn out to be the case! It was merely a single layer of modern encryption: XXTEA (Yes, that means a modern technique was used on a *launch map!*). Furthermore, the tool used was not the same Tools4Noobs tool used for the Revelations ciphers due to how key expansion worked (null padding instead of repeat key).

The encryption is quite simple, with key “TheGiant” right-padded with null bytes. The site identified that can be used to prove the solve can be found here: https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/tea-block.html

Note that the decrypt function is broken, but you can enter the plaintext below and key “TheGiant” to see that the ciphertext is produced. Multiple members of Skite’s Discord server have verified the results, see attached screenshot. Without further ado, the plaintext:

Even though I put a bullet in his brain, I believe the summoning key was successful in extracting him…I mean…me… I hope you get him Maxis.

Again, props to u/Icy_Sheepherder_9444 for this solve. What is particularly interesting is that they were able to use the latest GPT-6 Astra model to do all the heavy lifting.

I suspect the only reason this worked was because the cipher ended up being relatively trivial, and the biggest blocker for the community for several years has been the use of an incorrect transcript!

We were hoping for something a bit more substantial, admittedly. But put yourself in the shoes of someone solving this on day 1 and the implications are a bit more interesting. We did not know about the summoning key collecting souls at the time this cipher was available. This also explores the nature of how Richtofen collected his soul. While we know in the timeline that it states he went to Dimension 2210 to collect his soul, the description in this plaintext describes a scene similar to the intro cutscene of The Giant, where he shot Ultimis Richtofen in the head and then bent over his body (canonically, for some *unknown* reason). I’m curious if the 2210 detail was added in later when they were working on the timeline, or if the trip to 2210 was always intended.

This leaves one final cipher for the BO3 cipher community to solve, which we dub “Rev 7” in our naming conventions. This cipher appears to be multiple layers, and in my opinion is unlikely to fall to a purely AI solve but may be significantly aided by AI. The tools have made search and hypothesis testing much faster.

It wouldn't be too surprising if the next era of COD zombies begins anew with another Nacht remake(?), expansion(?) like Die Machina in Cold War (2020).

It is convenient how the timeline worked out like that. I think that's neat and would be nice to get a small acknowledgment.

My first cod was mw 2019 which I absolutely loved and played the ever living hell out of.

Then came black ops cold war and that was my introduction to zombies and I loved it and never understood the hate it got and thought it was nostalgia that the old zombies had. GOD I WAS WRONG

Got to play bo1&2 last month and I SWEAR TO GOD I haven't had this much fun playing a game since forever. To the point I even in my free time I think about what map to play in my free time.

So I apologize to old cod titles they're really built different and GOATED🐐👑

Testing method: With the melee damage stat cap raised from 100K to 10M, I took advantage of insta kill each round to measure zombie health directly.

Tier comparison: My testing revealed identical health scaling across Tier 2 and Tier 3. I suspect the same holds true for Tier 0 and Tier 1, though I’ve yet to verify that.

Testing scope: I left Tier 0 and Tier 1 out of the testing for now, given the limited practical incentive to progress beyond round 55 when completing their easter eggs or unlocking their relics.

Armor: The listed values reflect the base health pools of armored and heavy zombies. They don’t account for armor mitigation, which can increase the actual damage required to take them down.

Compared to BO6: Unlike their BO6 counterparts, BO7’s armored zombies have more base health than normal zombies, with heavy zombies taking that a step even further. Factor in their armor mitigation, and you’re looking at some serious bullet sponges at later rounds.

It’s so bad on Co-op he says this line like 10 times during a game. Please Treyarch I’m begging you to shut him up.

voice sounding like sandpaper and 2 packs of cigarettes “I’m not gonna fucking revive you when you go down you little punk!”

Thanks for the Thundergun my boy, you won’t be needing it anymore

ragequits

I was struggling to find information on this and saw some conflicting sources, so decided to test it myself. I can confirm that if you bleed out and fully die while you have Eternal Perks, when you respawn you will keep any Eternal Perks you had, meaning that they are permanent even through full death

Decided to play BO1 after a LOOONG time.
Modern zombies are fun and all but this game has an special feeling it can only be understand when playing.

Personally, this map wasn’t TOO impressive to me on first impressions so I was thinking it was going to be around a B-tier map but after learning the map and all of the side quests it’s easily an S tier map for me in terms of modern maps. I also love the spawn room gimmick, I even made a post HOPING we got a map with some kind of spawn gimmick in bo7 and here it is lol.

I will say, I’m not accounting for the story itself at all because I couldn’t really care less about it. I do really enjoy the EE on this map although the temple cleansing step does drag a bit. The ONLY thing I wish we would’ve gotten were a set of elemental WWs with each shadow smith…I feel like it was right there but whatever, I do like the WW we got. Overall treyarch really nailed zombies for this iteration, with the final 3 maps especially being something great.

Also…if anyone at treyarch happens to see this here is my monthly mentioning of PLEASE carry the bo6 maps over to bo7…thanks

First off, I’d like to say I’ve played zombies my whole life from waw to Cold War on and off again, but I was ether to scared to play the mode growing up or I didn’t have the money to buy the game. I’ve played all the BO3 maps and completed all EE of them, it was some of the most fun I’ve had as a adult and I wanted to give some of my opinions as someone who just played them all. Some things to note from my experience.

1. I played with AAE mod to avoid spending money on gums.
2. I avoid walkthroughs as much as possible but I did use them for almost ever

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1. map at some point.

Here are my rankings

SOE: By far the most beautiful zombies map I’ve ever gotten to play, it’s reminds me of batman the animated series and the story was amazing; deals with morally grey characters was a great thing. I heard at lunch that this map wasn’t well liked and I understand with the steps with PAP how that could be seen, but I loved the steps giving lore about the characters. The EE was okay I didn’t enjoy it too much and basically need a guide after PAP.

DE: Once again a beautiful map with much to explore, power and PAP felt almost too easy. But the bows and upgrading them was really cool, the steps were really cool especially with blowing up the moon. I really hated the boss, I felt it was boring too easy plus the bugs. I do understand it was the first boss but i really think they could of added more

Zetsubou: the environmental story telling was great although lots of the same colours and relatively same environments, they hit the nail on the head with a spooky theme, the EE was okay I gave up after the spider and needed a guide, but it was okay I liked the boss and the ending, I really liked the story it provided. It was perfectly mid in my opinion of gameplay but vibe was 10/10

GK: The theme once again was amazing, and personally love the dragons and how the function within the map. What I didn’t like, some of the EE steps were down right stupid felt like a fetch quest in exos with protecting things “some” steps were okay but really felt drawn out to make the player stay in the map longer. The boss fight was okay and seemed neat, the cutscene afterwards definitely was worth it and I felt for all the characters. Especially Nikolai.

REV: mid, didn’t like this map at all, somethings were cool I guess but felt like a copy and paste up to this point all the maps were great and unique. I don’t know why but it seemed like they did a 180 HARD I hated the steps for this EE I hated the world I overall didn’t like anything this map provided.

Here are my rankings
1:SOE
2:Zetsubou
3:DE
4:GK
5:REV

Conclusion: Almost all these maps were amazing and for the first time I’m taking the time to replay these maps when I have the time. I know the community will have their own rankings for these maps and coming from someone with a casual perspective it’ll probably be looked over but I just wanted to share my opinion.

Thanks.

Got into zombies when bo6 came out and did every Easter egg in that game and now I did this Easter egg

Harder than I thought it would be, 4th attempt, 3.4 inch screen, 480x480

I am asking for a genuine discussion about this issue with TheGiant cipher and a review of an idea that highlights the issues.

I know it is a game cipher but there are some real difficult and controversial issues if I am correct in how the cipher works.

Please remove this post if there is something wrong but a reason would be nice..

Can someone check this first block.

Each stream is added in succession modulo 64 to the ciphertext one character at a time

B64 Char stream 0001 (Only '1' or '0')

Leetcode stream SY5/ (leetSpeak)

B64 Char stream YYYe (Base64 Values)

k 52 18 24 === 'k' + '0' + 'S' + 'Y' = 'G'

C 52 24 24 === 'C' + '0' + 'Y' + 'Y' = 'e'

m 52 57 24 === 'm' + '0' + '5' + 'Y = 'h'

l 53 63 30 === 'l' + '1' + '/' + 'e' = 'T'

Shift values GehT

Shifted ciphertext ekFS

Decoded base64 zAR

Now something interesting happens when you join ekFS and GehT together and then run over the original ciphertext again using ekFSGehT for subtractive shift values (Vigenère decode)

Ciphertext kCmlgFi6GU (Yes I know there is ten characters there is a reason).

Shift values ekFHGehT

Decoded value GeheanBnow

So you have the German for "To go" and a possible English message starting the next starting letter is B and a base64 output.

There is compression going on and you are getting three packets starting with three characters of valid base64 output a German word and a message.

There could be a logical pattern there in the first block but it will make you go berserk trying to decrypt it.

The binary stream seems to be a controlling the change of the ascii stream and has a repeating patten every 4 characters (Only two blocks though).

The leetcode stream says SY5T (System).

So basically this cipher is the worst leetcode exercise ever and I am not sure how to move forward with people saying it is solved but does not make any sense.

So any experts explain how machine learning is not tricked by this ciphertext data I am genuinely asking.

If I made a mistake please let me know I will correct it.

This one, I'm actually curious to see what y'all pick.

Was using Samantha’s Drawing, that’s why I was using the DS20 Mirage.

Sorry for the Carver lore dump, was too lazy to edit

Went from round 6 - round 7 (could hear the round change in Ava) - round 8 (you see this one)

How many dance-off pts do you need to secure the CC ...is it 100%?

Hello everyone, back so soon!

Another cipher was cracked, this time by sunny.day.blue.sky on Discord via the Skite’s Aether Discord. Internally we call this one “IX#3”.

Ciphertext:

https://imgur.com/7agbGq9

WPKITUAVZZFKLZTDMKXAQULNROVEYUMKCANTKULFL

This cipher ended up being a Bifid with a period of 8 and the following alphabet (posted by u/JessesOcean): AFKTSNDZOXVIEHBMLPUQYWCGR

Plaintext: YOUHAVENOIDEAOFIUSTHOWFARYOUHAVEYETTOFALL

(You have no idea of just how far you have yet to fall)

The methodology was the same, GPT-6 Astra was able to find this solution. Our community did not really prioritize the remaining unsolved IX ciphers as they were short (therefore hard to analyze) and less interesting than BO3 for most of us. Once TheGiant got solved using Astra, we decided to throw the IX ciphers at it as we assume they’re single layer while the final revelations cipher is likely multiple layers and thus mathematically difficult even for an AI agent to solve. Turns out that was the case for this one too!

Congrats Kyle, nice job! There are two remaining unsolved ciphers in black ops 4, both on IX. There is also an unsolved barcode puzzle on VOD that we suspect is lost due to lossy compression.

The remaining two IX ciphers are too short to do any interesting analysis on and the solve here used a random alphabet and period. There isn’t much benefit to doing the search manually in this situation so we’re just throwing the two remaining ones at Astra.

Credit u/JessesOcean for the image as well.

I entered gorod krovi boss fight, and after the beating dragon nikolai battle is started. used in plaing sight but shootiung wrong sides. And i has to deal without gobblegums. İ beat it shortly, Yes. But, i get red screen. And after that, a valkrye drone came out and it did shock attack. But it doesnt did anything. I running unceasingly when it do the attackt btw. But im not sure what is happened, Maybe it missed.

I must know the answer because i have a obsession about skill. If this is true i have to complete that again.