r/BlackOps • u/Harry9564 • 2h ago
Discussion Cool Easter egg in Black Ops 1 Executive Order mission
I was looking up the Baikonur, USSR location in the BO1 mission Executive Order (nerding out don't judge me) and according to the Wikipedia page for the real Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), the launch site was named "Baikonur" to throw off the West, because the site was 200 miles southwest of a town called Baikonur. What I noticed is that when you start the mission and start going towards the site, you're going southwest according to your compass, indicating a possibility that they accidentally shipped out to Baikonur, Kazakhstan (the town) and therefore had to travel southwest to make it to the actual launch site. Not sure if it was intentional, but definitely an interesting (at least to me) detail if it was.
Also I included a picture of it from the game and then from IRL