- For other uses, see Jingle Hells (disambiguation).
Jingle Hells is a limited time Zombies based mode featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. It is a Christmas-themed mode with several gameplay features and themed visual changes.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]
- "Happy Holidays! Take Part in the festivities by throwing snowballs at zombies to make them drop presents. Keep an eye on those snowmen!"
- — In-game Description
Jingle Hells was added on December 16th, 2020 as part of the Season One update. Takes places on variant of the map Die Maschine, it changes the map to being more themed around Christmas with a large amount of minor visual changes. Alongside the visual changes, there are some major changes between the regular Die Maschine and the Jingle Hells variant, such as the Mystery Box being totally vacant from the map, even if a Fire Sale Power-Up is active as well, the inability to complete Seal the Deal as the standard anomalies to the Dark Aether are disabled.
There are also the inclusion of Presents which can drop random rewards such as equipment and guns, two new Tactical equipment in the form of Snowballs that slow down zombies on impact and Coal that simply deals damage, destructible Snowmen that can contain presents or Zombies. There was also an exclusive Power-Up called "Naughty or Nice" which took the form of a boot; the Power-Up had two outcome "Naughty" or "Nice" with "Naughty" allowing Plaguehounds to spawn for 30 seconds and "Nice" dropping a Present.
Alongside the visual and mechanical changes to the map, all the enemies have had a visual makeover to fit the redesign of the map alongside a naming change. Standard Zombies have become "Nussknackers", Plaguehounds have become "Blitzenhunds", Megatons have become "Un-Ded Moroz", Megaton Blasters have become "Wreath-Wraiths", Megaton Bombers have become "Ol' Tannen-Bombs" and Heavy Zombies have become "Tinsel".
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6[]
- "Happy Holidays! Take Part in the festivities by throwing snowballs and obtaining presents from frozen zombies. If a cold front moves in seek any shelter you can. Keep an eye on those snowmen and stay safe out there!"
- — In-game Description
Jingle Hells returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and was added on December 17th, 2024 as part of the Season One Reloaded update. It takes places on a variant of the map Liberty Falls.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6[]
Trivia[]
General[]
- One of the round change cues is a Christmas themed version of Alone.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]
- The appearance, alongside the name of the redesign of the Plaguehound is in reference to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
- Most of the renames are taken from both Slavic and Germanic Christmas ideas, such as Ol' Tannen-Bomb being a portmanteau of Bomb and O Tannenbaum.
- Un-Ded Moroz is a take on the Slavic legend Ded Moroz and the word undead.
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