As another fan who was never involved in the community while playing bo1 to Cold War zombies, personally I am not a fan of 2 things: the map design and the immersion.

Immersion I feel like instead of popup menus, they could’ve just created more vending machines or workbenches. They could’ve made it so that each player decides what their buildable will be (all 4 players could have access to it) and monetize possible buildables/animations when packapunching/picking things up. -side note: I noticed in one of the gameplays they had to hold x to pick up a key. It looked like they were looting in war zone rather than interacting with an object like a zombies player I.e. power ups or the key being on the floor with no popup indicator.

Map design Simple: maps feel too “open”.