After theEaster eggsin the Zombies mode ofCall of Duty: Black Ops 4went live, it seems likely that many dove in to discover the secrets contained across the four maps: IX, Voyage of Despair, Blood of the Dead, and Classified. Per usual, the main Easter egg often takes several steps to accomplish and can be strenuous to complete. Nevertheless, for those willing to try their hand at the main Easter egg for Voyage of Despair, we’ve compiled this guide.
Of course, it’s worth mentioning that these are easier to accomplish with friends, and it doesn’t necessarily need four players. This meansCall of Duty: Black Ops 4fans can attempt this in a private match with friends, provided that they play on normal difficulty or above. So, without further ado, here’s the steps discovered thus far:
Step 1: Retrieve the Sentinel Artifact
By retrieving the Sentinel Artifact, players essentially unlock power, as some doors cannot be unlocked without activating the artifact in the picture above. It is located across the ship, meaning players will need to navigate the entire ship to get to this artifact. To do so, here’s the door-by-door order players should take to get to this artifact:
After that last purchase, players will be able to cross to the end of the ship and simply activate the artifact in order to move on to the next step.
Step 2: Activate the Pack-a-Punch
After retrieving the artifact the first time, players will need to activate the map’s Pack-a-Punch, which requires players to have the artifact. To do so, players will find four altars that are now glowing red across the map. They cannot be activated before because red orbs from the artifact fly out and activate them. These locations are static and appear in the following locations: Grand Staircase Bottom Floor, Cargo Hold, Poop Deck, and Turbine Room.
Step 3: Agents of Change
After completing step 2, the time displayed on four (of six) clocks will change. Players can identify which clocks have changed because one of the Pack-a-Punch elemental symbols will spawn after the time change. Moreover, players should take notice that there are 4 dials that can be turned on the Bridge in front of the Captain’s wheel. These dials will have elemental symbols on them correlating to one of the nearby clocks.
To complete this step, players will need to align these dials to the clock WHERE THE SAME ELEMENTAL SYMBOL appears. They will move either left or right in 5-minute intervals for minutes and one hour for hour. The Bridge dials alter the minutes; the Engine Room/Poop Deck dials alter the hours. Once these are properly aligned, players will hear a noise and no longer be able to do change the dials.
Players will want to identify these clocks quickly by finding their corresponding symbol, so here are the following clock/symbol locations:
Step 4: Kill the Elemental Catalysts
The next step is to locate 4 outlets across the map, with each spewing a different element. Players will simple need to kill an Elemental Catalyst of the same element next to the outlet. When done so correctly, a ritual symbol will appear on the ground. These outlets are in the following locations:
After killing the elemental catalysts in each location, players will want to all stand on one of these symbols. It’s important to note that players need to complete this task in the following order: the acid outlet, the water outlet, the electric outlet, and the fire outlet. If done in any other order, players will not be able to obtain the real Sentinel Artifact. Otherwise, completing each one will teleport players into a trial where each enemy must be destroyed. Doing so for each of the four circles, and players will be rewarded with the real Sentinel Artifact.
Step 5: Shoot the Leaking Pipes
The next step puts players in the ship’s Boiler Room where they need to shoot each leaking pipe with the Decay Kraken. There are a total of 9 leaks across 7 blue pipes, with some appearing over the player. Once they have all been shot, the fires will be put out.
To obtain the Kraken for this step, the original wonder weapon can be obtained via the mystery box or by a special quest. Then, it will need to be upgraded. If players don’t get it from the mystery box, then here’s how to complete the special quest:
Step 6: Pack-a-Punch the Artifact
After shooting the pipes, the next step requires players to put the artifact into the Pack-a-Punch. This is likely the simplest step.
Step 7: The Solar System
For the next step, players will be interacting with planet symbols across the map. First, players will want to interact with the solar system model in the Cargo Hold, which results in the planets flashing in a particular order. Players will want to make note of this, as they will need to go to each planet and shoot it in that exact order until reaching the sun.
When a planet symbol is shot, a blue orb will spawn that players have to find before it expires. Here are the locations of each planet symbol:
Step 8: The Boss Fight
Once the sun is reached, the final essence will be in the spawn room and interacting with it spawns ice blocks. Destroy these while traveling to the poop deck where the Sentinel Artifact was found, and when the final one is destroyed, a portal will spawn leading to the final boss. It is worth mentioning that several who have faced this boss have encountered a game-breaking blue screen glitch, so hopeful gamers should be mindful when taking the portal.
Thanks go to the entireBlack Ops 4communitywho worked diligently on solving these steps. Nevertheless, several other Easter eggs exist throughout the map which include low gravity fields created by dressing as a zombie in the Galley, bones around the map that open a sage to make a skeleton drive a car, and fireworks that are found around the map by shooting green vials and putting them into a white slot on the boat.
While much of this map remains a mystery, players can rest easy knowing that this Easter egg was worked on by those who helped make this title the best digital sales of Activision. With this guides, players should be able to do this Easter egg and move on to the other maps (IX, Blood of the Dead,Classified).
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4is now available for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
