Key Takeaways
- Community speculates the green glow on Nuketown Holiday map is a bug, but Activision hasn’t confirmed.
- The glow could be an intentional Easter Egg feature, not a bug, as players initially believed.
- The green glow remains a mystery, leaving players curious about what it means or if it will be resolved.
Since its release as part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 1 Reloaded, something strange has been happening on the Nuketown Holiday map.
In every match, one player seems to have a radioactive green glow to them, making them stand out among the sea of other players and the map’s snowy landscape.
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Season 1 Reloaded was released around a week ago now, and there’s still been no comment from Activision as to whether it’s a feature or a bug, leaving community speculation to run wild.
The Majority Of Players Are Convinced Nuketown Holiday’s Glow A Bug
There have been dozens of threads on the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 subreddit speculating about the Nuketown Holiday glow, with players discussing what it could mean.
The overwhelming theory is the Santa that flies over the map at the start of a match glows green; for some reason, that green glow doesn’t despawn, and instead, it attaches itself to one of the game’s unlucky players.
While a sound theory in principle, if it were a bug, it’s a pretty frustrating one for the player who turns green. It puts a giant target on their back and makes them visible when they may not usually be, so you’d think it would be something Activision would resolve quickly. That doesn’t seem to be the case.
Activision has a public Trello board that lists all of the known issues within the game, but the green glow isn’t appearing there. Unless the company is just oblivious to what’s going on, it suggests that it may not actually be a bug.
Nuketown Holiday’s Glow Is Another Easter Egg
The Nuketown map is notorious for its Easter Eggs.
In this year’s addition to the Call of Duty franchise, if players shoot the heads off all mannequins, they’re transported into a bizarre TV show where the mannequins are part of the audience. In Black Ops Cold War, shooting the dummies’ heads off blessed players with an ‘80s-style digital filter over their screen.
Players are convinced that in Black Ops 6, this green glow is a feature, not a bug. Early theories suggested that the player who got the first kill, first death, or spent the most time camping got the glow, but these have since been disproven.
It’s always good to get the tinfoil hat on, and it will be interesting to see what the actual reason is if and when Activision chooses to reveal it.
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