Forsaken Guide | Black Ops Cold War Zombies

Chrysalax Savager

The Chrysalax can be Pack-a-Punched without completing an Easter Egg. It's available through the mystery box, challenges, or via the following quest:

1. Unlock Pack-a-Punch.
2. Interact with the Button on the Observation Tower.
3. To craft the Chrysalax, collect three items: Tempered Crystal Heart, Energetic Geode, and Polymorphic Crystal Core. They can be obtained in any order.

4. Tempered Crystal Heart

5. Kill a Tormentor with the Flamethrower Scorestreak. The burn damage from Ring of Fire may also work.
6. When killed, the Tormentor will drop the Tempered Crystal Heart.

7. Energetic Geode

8. Wait for an Abomination or Tormentor to spawn.
9. Locate and stand near a Dark Aether Crystal.
10. Bait the Abomination into hitting the Crystal with its ranged lightning attack, or have a Tormentor explode it.
11. When hit by lightning or exploded, the crystal will be turned into an Energetic Geode.

12. Polymorphic Crystal Core

13. Wait two rounds after pressing the Button on the Observation Tower.
14. Navigate to Jim's Donuts on Main Street.
15. Stand near the Crystal behind the counter. This will spawn three waves of enemies.
16. The three waves are five Plaguehounds, three Tempests, and two Mimics. Once all special enemies are dead, the Crystal is available for pickup.

17. Crafting the Chrysalax

18. In the Particle Accelerator, place the Crystals into the Tub and get 10 Melee Kills near it.
19. Once 10 Zombies have been killed, the Chrysalax will become available for pickup.

'Pyrrhic Victory' Main Easter Egg Quest

Stats (Solo): Difficulty - 5/10, Est. Completion Time - 20 to 40 Mins

1. Prerequisites

2. Unlock Pack-a-Punch.
3. Interact with the Button on the Observation Tower.
4. Obtain the Chrysalax. Note: The Chrysalax is required to fill the Fuel Tank (a future step). While crafting it, you can work on the other steps (Monitoring Device or Housing Unit) in parallel.
5. Like the Chrysalax, you need to collect three items to trigger the boss fight. They can be collected in any order.

6. Obtain and Fill the Fuel Tank

7. Navigate to 'Fuel Processing.' Each player must simultaneously interact with the Processing Tanks. The number of tanks depends on your player count.
8. Once the Tanks have been activated, the area will be locked down and enemies will start to spawn. The player(s) must survive until the lockdown ends and the Fuel Tank falls to the floor.
9. Obtain the Chrysalax.
10. Find three large Aetherium Crystals and shoot the three orbs circling each one. The Chrysalax's Gun Form works best here. Once the orbs are gone, melee the Crystal with the Chrysalax to destroy it.
    • Storage Zone 5 Rooftops
    • The Amplifier
    • Staging Area
11. Once destroyed, the Crystal drops a Crystal Shard that replaces your tactical equipment when picked up. Picking it up spawns a nearby Abomination.
12. Throw the Shard into the Abomination's mouth. Once it swallows it and its tail turns red, kill it and collect the Catalyzed Crystal Shard.
13. Repeat Steps 8-10 for the other two large Crystals.

14. Obtain the Monitoring Device

15. Obtain a Pack-a-Punched Weapon with Dead Wire.
16. Obtain from Zombie Drops or Buy an Arcade Token.
17. Navigate to the Arcade and electrocute a Zombie near the Grand Prix Arcade Machine.
18. Interact with the Arcade Machine to spawn an ARC-XD. Drive the ARC-XD to the TV Store and locate the Loosened Vent behind the counter.
19. Destroy the vent cover with the passive pulses from the ARC-XD and drive through the vent. Position the ARC-XD between the shelf and wall and detonate the ARC-XD.
20. Go to the TV Store and pick up the Monitoring Device from the shelf.

21. Obtain the Housing Unit

22. Wait for an Abomination to spawn.
23. Navigate to the 'Board Room' (Wunderfizz Room) and locate the Housing Unit.
24. Stand below the Housing Unit by the wall and bait the Abomination into charging this wall. Make sure to move out of the way of the Abomination, so it hits the wall.
25. If the Abomination successfully hits the wall, the Housing Unit will fall to the floor and be available for pickup.

26. Assemble and Escort the Aetherium Neutralizer

27. Navigate to 'Main Street' and craft the Aetherium Neutralizer at the workbench by Tombstone.

28. Warning: Point of No Return. Activating the Neutralizer locks you into the Boss Fight. You can still buy perks, armour, scorestreaks, and use PAP, but you can't explore the map or earn points.

29. Interact with the Neutralizer to begin escorting it. The Neutralizer requires Catalyzed Crystal Shards for fuel, which can be obtained by destroying Orange Dark Aether Crystals.
30. Escort the Neutralizer, refuelling as needed, until you reach the Containment Door.

31. Warning: This is your last opportunity to buy perks, armor, scorestreaks, and use the Pack-a-Punch. You cannot come back here during the boss fight.

• Forsaken Boss Fight

• This boss fight breaks down into two parts: how to attack the Forsaken, and how the Forsaken attacks.
• How to Attack:
  1. The Forsaken has four armoured spots that must be broken in order before you can damage him:
     1. Either shoulder (your choice)
     2. The remaining shoulder
     3. Lower Torso
     4. Top of the Head
  2. Breaking each spot reveals a weak spot. Shoot it with one of the two laser cannons.
  3. To charge the cannons, kill zombies in the circle below Sam.
  4. Once charged, Sam activates a cannon and you can shoot the Forsaken.
  5. Repeat Steps 1-4 for all four spots.
• How The Forsaken Attacks:
  • The Forsaken has four attacks: Lightning Slam, Blizzard, Energy Ball, and Laser Eyes.
  • Lightning Slam: The Forsaken raises an arm and slams it down, sending out electric shockwaves. Players caught directly under the hand are instantly downed. The shockwave loses damage the further it travels.
  • Blizzard: Destroying the right arm first causes the Forsaken to raise his damaged arm and spawn two frost zones that slow anyone inside them.
  • Energy Ball: Destroying the left arm first causes the Forsaken to raise his damaged arm and launch tracking energy orbs that damage any player in their radius.
  • Once both arms are destroyed, the Forsaken will no longer use his Lightning Slam attack, however, he will still use the Energy Ball and Blizzard Attacks.
  • Once both arms are destroyed, the Forsaken will shoot a laser out of his eyes that tracks one player, doing damage if they're in the area.
• Once the health bar hits 0, a narrative sequence plays and the Forsaken slowly damages all players until they go down. You can down yourself early (via explosives or Zombies) to skip some voice lines.
• Once all players are downed and the voice lines finish, an in-game cutscene plays, followed by the final cutscene.

'Samantha's Ballad' Song

Link to song on YouTube.

1. Purchase PhD Slider (Tier V Required).
2. You must land near the Scorched Part on the floor using the longer distance slide from PhD Slider. Repeat for all locations until an Aether Bunny spawns.
   • Slide from the Bar Rooftop to the scorched area near the TV Store.
   • Slide from the Video Store Rooftop to the scorched area near the barrier.
   • Slide from the Anytown Rooftops to the scorched area near the theatre.
3. Once you collect the Aether Bunny, interact with the back of Bubby and place the Aether Bunny inside.
4. A two-minute lockdown sequence will start where the player has to defend Bubby from Zombies, Tormentors and Krazny Soldats.
5. Once the lockdown is finished, a large loot chest will spawn in front of Bubby, which contains various loot items along with a cassette tape.
6. When the cassette tape is picked up, the song will start.

Pizza Delivery / Potential Free Ray Gun

Note: The reward for this Easter Egg could be a Ray Gun, but it is not guaranteed.

1. Equip Aether Shroud (Tier III Required). You can swap field upgrades mid-game by selecting a loadout that has it equipped from the pause menu.
2. Navigate to Beach Pizza and, using Aether Shroud, warp through the door.
3. In this room you'll find Ronald Raygun and a stack of pizza boxes. Warning: Do not kill Ronald Raygun or you'll fail the Easter Egg.
4. Interact with the stack of pizza boxes to start a delivery. The Player must deliver the Pizza to one of the following four locations in 45 seconds:
   • Video Store 1F - Cardboard boxes near the mannequin
   • Cinema - Bench near sitting mannequins
   • Bar 1F - Booth near mannequins
   • Burger Town - Booth near sitting mannequins
5. After each order, return to Ronald Raygun for a random loot reward, which can be a Ray Gun. There are four orders total.

Free Perkaholic (All Perks for Free)

1. Interact with the Button on the Observation Tower.
2. Navigate to the Video Store and throw an explosive to the left of this shelf.
3. The VHS should have fallen out from behind the shelf. Go prone and pick up the VHS.
4. Navigate to the TV Store and insert the VHS into the VHS Player.
5. After inserting the VHS, four TVs will light up Blue, Green, Red and Orange.
6. Play three rounds of Simon Says using the four TVs. Round 1 has a sequence of four, Round 2 has eight, Round 3 has twelve. Watch the order they light up, then shoot them in the same sequence.
7. If all three rounds are completed successfully, a single TV will light up green.
8. Purchase the Tombstone perk.
9. Interact with the Green TV to make it turn red. This spawns a Spectral Entity that occasionally corrupts your vision and slowly follows you, attempting to kill you if you get too close.
10. While in The Amplifier, go down and activate the Tombstone Shadow ability.
11. While in Tombstone Shadow, make your way to the Particle Accelerator and shoot the entity that is floating above it to split it into multiple copies.
12. When it splits, shoot the copy with glowing eyes. Repeat until the Entity disappears.
13. Once the entity is gone, the player can revive themselves and upon being revived they will be awarded every perk.
14. The perks are not permanent and will be lost like normal when downed.

Anytown Grand Prix / Free Points

1. Purchase PhD Slider.
2. Navigate to the Bar and go up to the second Floor.
3. Locate the Anytown Grand Prix Arcade Machine and kill a Zombie using the Explosive Slide from PhD Slider near the Arcade Machine.
4. All Players must obtain an Arcade Token either from Zombie Drops, buying from the Arcade Machine Token Dispenser or the free Arcade Token Easter Egg.
5. All Players must interact with the Arcade Machine to start the race.
6. Follow the arrows on the ground with the ARC-XD to complete three laps. Rewards are tiered by finish time: Legendary - 5000 Points, Epic - 4000 Points, Rare - 3000 Points.

Free Pistol Rarity Upgrade

1. Obtain the Pistol you'd like to upgrade.
2. Navigate to 'Anytown West' and pick up the blueprint from on top of the plants in front of the American Records and Tapes Store.
3. Run over to the window of the American Records and Tapes Store.
4. Using the Pistol, shoot all 18 targets across both levels of the store.
5. If all 18 are hit, the pistol's rarity upgrades instantly.

Free Sniper Rarity Upgrade

1. Obtain the Sniper you'd like to upgrade.
2. Navigate to the Video Store Rooftop and pick up the blueprint from on top of the air conditioning unit.
3. Using the Sniper, shoot all 15 targets around the cinema across the street.
4. If all 15 are hit, the Sniper's rarity upgrades instantly.

Free SMG Rarity Upgrade

1. Obtain the SMG you'd like to upgrade.
2. Navigate to 'Main Street' and open the door to Beach Pizza. Pick up the blueprint from on top of the cinder blocks.
3. Using the SMG, shoot targets across three areas.
4. There are six targets in Beach Pizza.
5. There are five targets in Storage Zone 10.
6. There are five targets in Storage Zone 10 Rooftops.
7. If all 16 are hit, the SMG's rarity upgrades instantly.

Free Arcade Token

• Melee the Arcade Machine Token Dispenser to make it dispense an Arcade Token. This can be done only once per match.