Table of Contents:
- Blood of the Dead – Map Breakdown
- IX – Map Breakdown
- Voyage of Despair – Map Breakdown
- Classified – Map Breakdown
IX – Complete Map Overview
How To Unlock Pack-a-Punch
Step #1: Ring The Gongs & Collect The Heads
There are four gongs around the map. When you ring them, they’ll summon one of four special zombie types. Make sure you’re equipped before ringing a gong early in the map, or you won’t be able to kill them.
- Gong #1: Ra Altar Room
- Gong #2: Danu Altar Room
- Gong #3: Zeus Altar Room
- Gong #4: Odin Altar Room
After ringing each gong, kill the special zombie type and collect the head that drops. You’ll need to collect all four special zombie heads.
Step #2: Place The Heads
Travel down into the Flooded Crypts through any of the four towers. They all lead underground. In the Flooded Crypts, go to the Temple. In the center, there’s a strange statue with spikes sticking out of the ground.
Hold [Interact] on the spikes to place heads. Place all four heads around the altar. Once they’re all placed, they’ll slowly sink and the statue will transform into the Pack-a-Punch machine.
Step #3: Pack-a-Punch!
Nothing left to do. Just feed your weapons into the Pack-a-Punch to enjoy some upgrades. The Pack-a-Punch costs 5,000 points per use, and greatly enhances your weaponry.
How To Build The Shield
- Part #1: Blade
- Location #1: Zeus Altar Room – Behind the stairs, on the statue pedestal.
- Location #2: Zeus Tower: Entrance – Opposite the stairs to the Zeus Altar Room, at the base of the statue.
- Location #3: Zeus Tower: Bathhouse – Near the stairs to the Entrance, on a relief.
- Part #2: Shield
- Location #1: Ra Altar Room – In the corner, near one of the stone pillars.
- Location #2: Ra Altar Room – Left of the gong, under the wallbuy.
- Location #3: Ra Altar Room – Right of the gong, leaning against the wall.
- Part #3: Buckler
- Location #1: Odin Tower: Entrance – On the shield rack, in the back-right corner.
- Location #2: Odin Altar Room – To the right of the stairs, next to a spear container.
- Location #3: Odin Tower Cauldron – To the left of the shields mounted on the wall.
How to Get The Death of Orion
Step #1: Build the Acid Trap
To prepare for future steps, you’ll want to build the Acid Trap. There are three parts you need to acquire — once the Acid Trap is constructed (there’s one near the Entrance of all four God Towers) it will be unlocked for every Acid Trap location on the map.
To construct an Acid Trap, acquire all three parts, then interact with a skull switch built into the wall. The parts are always found in the exact same place.
- Part #1: Chains – Found in the underground Temple. Look under the balcony. In a corner, the chains are hanging from a metal hanger on the wall.
- Part #2: Gear – Also in the temple, the big Gear is in a corner under the steps / balconies. Look on the first floor to find it. It’s big, so it’s easier to see.
- Part #3: Pot – The metal pot is the hardest part to collect. You need to complete three challenges. After three challenges are complete, a pot will appear on the center pedestal.
How Challenges Work: To begin accepting challenges, look for the rolled-up hanging banners in the spawn room. Melee attack the rope holding one of the banners up, and challenges will begin to appear. Complete three of them — for each challenge you complete, you’ll get a reward on the podium in the center of the spawn arena.
Step #2: Get The Statue Head
Getting the Scorpion Key requires multiple steps. To get started here, you need to have the Pack-a-Punch unlocked. Once that’s done, you can begin.
- Getting the Statue Head:
- Go to the Danu-Ra Temple Entrance room in the underground. There’s a passage blocked by a law metal fence with a fire brazier down the hall. Shoot the brazier, and it will fall over.
- Go up to the bridge connecting the Danu Tower and the Ra Tower. Look at the ground facing the arena, and you’ll find a burning pointer.
- The fire appears to be a pointer. The pointer is aiming at the tower where the statue head has spawned.
- The pointer aims at one of the four towers. On all towers, the statue head will spawn in the room below the entrance. Usually, it will appear near the center detail.
- Ra Tower: Behind one of the corner fire braziers.
- Danu Tower: In the water in the center.
- Odin Tower: Under the massive cauldron.
- Zeus Tower: In one of the corners of the blood bath.
Collect the Statue Head. Now that you have the head, you can melt it down and collect the Scorpion Key inside.
Step #3: Get The Scorpion Key
The Scorpion Key is acquired from the Statue Head. Before continuing, use the Acid Trap parts on any Acid Trap on the map to construct the trap.
- Getting the Scorpion Key:
- Place the Statue Head on any Acid Trap grating after constructing the trap. Do not activate it yet!
- Once the Statue Head is placed on the grating, activate the Acid Trap to melt the head.
- The head will melt, and leave the Scorpion Key behind.
There’s one more component you’ll need — the Gold Vase.
Step #4: Get The Gold Vase
To get the Gold Vase, you’ll need to get it as a unique reward for gaining Crowd Affinity twice in a row. After getting Crowd Affinity twice, a special message will signal that the Gold Vase has dropped somewhere in the spawn arena.
- How Crowd Affinity Works:
- Look at the bottom-left of your HUD. The symbol represents Crowd Affinity — the better you do, the more the crowd will cheer. When green sparks fly from the symbol, you’ll have Crowd Affinity.
- To get Crowd Affinity easily, complete challenges then melee the rewards on the Challenge Podium to ignore them. If you don’t pick-up the rewards, the crowds seem to like you better.
When you hear the special message, look around the ground in the spawn arena to collect the gold vase. Now we’re ready to get the Death of Orion.
Step #5: Get the Death of Orion
Go to the Arboretum, the lower floor of the Tower of Danu. Look on the second tree from the stairs to the Entrance — there’s a tiny hole on one of the tree surfaces. Melee the hole to insert the Scorpion Key.
After inserting the Scorpion Key, hold [Interact] to place the Gold Vase below to collect the acid. Wait a turn. After one turn passes, pick up the Gold Vase.
Go to the Mystery Box and use the acid on it. A special prompt will appear — when the Mystery Box turns green, use it and the next weapon that appears will always be the Death of Orion.
“Mad Hatter” Easter Egg Song
There are four coins you need to shoot to activate the Easter egg song. The coin is small, but glows brightly and has a green-yellow shine. The coin is a different color in each tower.
- Coin Locations:
- Coin #1: Danu Tower: Entrance – Look out the window. The coin is on the underside of a wooden staircase on the exterior of the map.
- Coin #2: Ra Tower: Burial Chamber – In the corner near a burning fire brazier. To the left, there are two chests. The coin is between the chests.
- Coin #3: Zeus Altar Room – On the side of one of the statue pedestals, right next to the mystery box.
- Coin #4: Odin Tower: Entrance – Look for a low metal grating. Crouch and look inside (face the entrance from the spawn arena) to spot the coin.
