Rules
Community maintained rulesets for Call of Duty: Zombies
Full gameplay is MANDATORY. Small amounts of missing footage because of a stream cutting out is fine - as long as no crucial moments in the game are missed.
You can avoid missing footage by recording at the same time.
This rule is very broad, but it applies whenever you cannot find an information about something specific. In some categories, you'll find rules that are essentially a duplication of this one, but for something specific, this means, the community discussed that one specific thing.
Emulator definition ambiguity
This rule technically makes playing on Linux unlegit, because the game is ran through an emulation layer. This has never been enforced, but the rule has not been updated either.
BO1 explicitly voted in:
sv_cheats DVAR to 1 is NOT ALLOWED unless otherwise specified.
Substituting a player in a coop game is NOT ALLOWED.
Substituting a player means a different person joining for another session within the same game, the same set of players need to play throughout the entire game.
| Platform | Rule |
|---|---|
| PC - Steam / CD | NOT ALLOWED |
| PC - Plutonium | REQUIRED FOR PC |
| Xbox 360 / One / Series | ALLOWED |
| PS3 | ALLOWED |
PC Plutonium voted in
A verified community patch is REQUIRED for runs on PC, and must be used only on Plutonium.
This was done to prevent cheating and for further enforcement of the rules.
Covering Plutonium anticheat output on the gameplay is NOT ALLOWED. The output is the text in the upper right corner on the screen, and list of checksums listed in the upper left part of the screen.
Check your stream overlay alignment BEFORE starting the game, make sure it does not cover any of important information on the screen.
These are the protected elements
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FOV changes are ALLOWED, but must not go above 120.
FOV Scale does increase the FOV, make sure combined they don't exceed the upper limit. Calculate it by multiplying your FOV with FOV Scale value.
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Solo-Op is ALLOWED via the following methods:
- Connecting from multiple instances of the game from the same computer.
- Two people physically controlling the game at the same time.
- Using bots to fill player slots.
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Fixed Backspeed is ALLOWED.
This rule permits modification of player_backspeedscale and player_strafespeedscale dvars up to a value 1.0
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Fast Knife exploit is ALLOWED.
Fast knifing is holding the fire button and then knifing rapidly
Bypassing the 25 day Black Screen is ALLOWED.
BIOS method is allowed, but as of Plutonium R5260 it can be done with the command cl_fix_25day_blackscreen 1
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The use of the pause_hard command is ALLOWED.
This command freezes your game to prevent certain things from crashing it, and allows for Co-Op pausing without leaving the game.
Automatic trap timers are NOT ALLOWED.
Automatic trap timer is a timer that reads trap cooldown state from the game directly. Timing the trap manually is ALLOWED
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Removing stun effect with a grenade is ALLOWED.
By damaging themselves with a grenade, player can remove any stun effect, eg. traps or Wunderwaffe
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Disabling Plutonium anticheat functionality is NOT ALLOWED. The following DVARs CANNOT be disabled:
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Removal of foliage, smoke effect, and fire is NOT ALLOWED.
You can use grenades to remove foliage from the map.
Changing config values except for whitelisted ones listed below is NOT ALLOWED:
- FOV
- FPS
- Fast Restart bind
- Hostname
- HUD graphics changes
Campaign difficulty exploit is NOT ALLOWED.
Difficulty settings can carry over between campaign and zombies, which changes player statistics. Zombies is meant to be played on "Regular" by default.
Players do not need to do anything unless they loaded a mission beforehand, in which case just restart the game on PC, for console however you will need to load a campaign mission on the "Regular" difficulty, as it will save to your config.
Leaving and rejoining after dying to disable "ghost spawns" is NOT ALLOWED.
If players bleed out, the spawn remains active. This is called a ghost spawn
Changing FPS mid game to explicitly save yourself is NOT ALLOWED.
Doing this dramatically increases the chance of surviving as close situation, as zombies are not nearly as sticky on lower frames.
This was brought up during the 2025 vote's initial discussion, there is no stream/recording that we are aware of, however most of the players were in favor of disallowing it.