I just realized this skimming through this thread. DIE RISE WAS A TEST FOR MOB OF THE DEAD!
Think about it. Sliquifier? Almost the acidgat.
Acidgat shoots liquid, but the raygun and winter's howl looked similar. Was one a test for the other? no.
Because being a trippy version of yourself makes you a ghost
The roof in Die Rise takes a ton of effort to get to. Um, Mob of the dead much?
So was the top deck of the boat on Call of the dead being copied? What about the rooftop lunar lander on Ascension? Or maybe the roof of the diner in Tranzit?
No idea where the hell the box is. Mob of the fricking dead!
the box on die rise always spawns in the same spot. Not to hard to get to, just not worth going for. Mob of the dead's box is usually in the warden's office. little harder to reach, but not too bad.
Minions? The guard in mob of the dead!
No. Not at all. The jumping nova crawlers are just the nova crawlers from Kino, Five, and the phasing crawlers from Moon. the guards were meant to be a toned down version of Romero. A dev who worked on the mob said that the map was trying to be inspired by Call of the dead (hence the similar name and mappack progression). Not trying to bring you down, just my point of view.
Mob of the dead is a creative new map, yet Die Rise was a remake. This just clicked.
So jumping down flights of elevators, being able to jump across areas of a zombie map, sliding down slabs of concrete, and the implementation of elevators is uncreative? I admit it wasn't too innovative, but it did take some creativity. Mob of the dead was quite creative as well however. By this logic, you could say moon was a test for tranzit as a large map. Technically, all the maps are tests. Especially Nacht as it was the first map. Verrückt was the first perk map as well as with traps. Isn't that a test? Is the random perk locations of Shi No Numa a test for future maps? What about the teleporters and pack a punch on Der Riese. It's all arguable, but I don't see how Die Rise correlates directly as a test for Alcatraz Island's Hell Hole (Cookie for whoever gets that one)
Just my opinion.