Strange things are happening as excitement builds for Activision and Treyarch’s next Call of Duty game.

Following a series of Snapchat teases that began after a discovery YouTuber Drift0r made while revisiting Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the game has been updated once again to display the following in-game message:

“And so it begins…” with the same tree and blue tint found in previous Snapchat clues.

As our friend PrestigeIsKey and his followers discovered upon further inspection, players will also notice that, after the update, the “B” is now missing from Ballista, the “4” is missing from AN-94, and the “1” is missing from the +100 score you earn for getting kills.

If you were to gather up the missing numbers and letters, it would spell “B41”. As you probably already know, the B41 is a 25 megaton thermonuclear weapon that was deployed by the United States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960’s and, now, it might have some sort of connection to Call of Duty 2015.

UPDATE 1: Call of Duty YouTube Commentator TmarTn pointed out in his latest video that the “7” from MP7 and one of the “L”s from the Double Kill medal are also missing, so we might have to dig a little deeper than the connection to the B41 bomb. As of this writing, the missing numbers and letters are B, L, 1, 4, and 7.

There’s also this hidden emblem in the picture above that PrestigeIsKey also tweeted out:

Oddly, @blackfire561 may have linked it to this real life company, Watermans Applied Science, who sport the same trident logo.

Lastly, Activision has released additional official marketing material in the form of social media headers and profile pictures. Here’s what the Twitter header looks like:

It’s hard to make out, but it looks like it could either a pool of blood or floating burning embers. We’ll have to wait to find out.

UPDATE 2: It’s kind of a long shot, but the marketing image above does resemble elements from Call of Duty: World at War’s key art, specifically, the burning embers. That could merely be a coincidence, however.

Yesterday, we rounded up a few extra clues that lead us to believe the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division will play a role in Call of Duty 2015.

What do you make of all the hints and teases left out so far?

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As fans dig deeper into the ongoing Call of Duty 2015 viral videos teased by Activision, new discoveries are beginning to at least narrow down the possibilities with regards to the game’s setting or story.

Having a looking at some of the clues offered thus far in Activision’s Snapchat teasers, a rough pattern can be noticed, one that links to the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division, aka the “Screaming Eagles”, which originally began operations in 1942.

As fans have already determined, the helicopter briefly shown in Activision’s second teaser is quite clearly the Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk, which was first piloted by members of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade in 1979. Another reddit user pointed out that the snow-covered hill, also in Activision’s second teaser, looks awfully similar to the Ardennes Forest, a region that spans parts of France and Germany, but mostly Luxembourg and Belgium. The Ardennes region became home to the Battle of the Bulge that began in December, 1944, a battle the 101st Airborne Division was involved in around the city of Bastogne.

UPDATE 1: Activision’s latest Snapchat teaser, as of this Tuesday evening on April 7, makes mention of a “frozen forest,” likely referencing the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge once again.

The 101st Airborne Division is mostly noted for its involvement in World War 2 — the D-Day landings and airborne jumps, Operation Market Garden, the liberation of the Netherlands, Battle of the Bulge — as well as the fight for Hamburger Hill during the Vietnam War. It wasn’t until after 1974 when it became an air assault division that the 101st would begin piloting helicopters. Most recently, the 101st served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But enough of the Wikipedia-inspired history lesson. How does the 101st potentially tie in to Call of Duty 2015, or what many are anticipating to be Call of Duty: Black Ops 3?

Here’s the kicker. As YouTuber TheGameWarrior pointed out, voice actor James C. Burns, who voices Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2 protagonist Sgt. Frank Woods, can be seen wearing the the 101st Airborne Division logo on his cap in two of his most recent videos. Clearly, between these teasers and Burns’ videos, at least some measure of emphasis is being placed on the 101st. We’re just not exactly sure where Activision is trying to lead us on this one.

Activity picked up on Burns’ YouTube channel just over one week ago with this video:

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In another video, Burns mentions that he “will be talking about the next Call of Duty game in whatever limited fashion [he] can” in his upcoming videos, which appears to confirm his involvement in the upcoming game being developed by Treyarch. We reached out to Activision for comment and will update you with what we might find out.

Expect more details as we inch closer to Call of Duty 2015’s official reveal, likely to take place early May.