Story Quest «Forsaken»

A guide with a detailed description of the Forsaken story quest, as well as several local easter eggs (secrets).

Introduction

Location:

• Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
  
• Zakarpatska region
  
• Test site "Anna"

Date of the event:

• July 4, 1985

Forsaken Intro:

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Story Quest (Pyrrhic Victory)

Before you try to get the local wonder weapon in the usual way, I recommend using the following additional activities on the map:

• 🥚 Easter Egg «Raygun's Pizza»
  
• 🥚 Easter Egg «Arcade Machines»
  
• Or try to get a wonder weapon in the form of a legendary reward for completing tasks

Tasks to complete for the Forsaken story quest:

1. Free Zykov
   
2. Obtain the wonder weapon Chrysalax
   
3. Obtain individual elements of the aetherium neutralizer
   
4. Create the Aether Neutralizer Mechanism
   
5. Break through to the Forsaken
   
6. Defeat Forsaken

🟥 Wonder weapon Chrysalax

The player has several ways to get this weapon:

Random Easter bunny loot	Chance is unknown and very risky
From a mysterious box	Small chance
Legendary reward for completing tasks	Medium chance
By completing certain actions	GUARANTEED

In order to get this weapon, you need to get 3 special crystals:

• Polymorphic Crystal Core
  
• Energetic Geode
  
• Tempered Crystal Heart

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Polymorphic Crystal Core

It will appear on the map for the next round after the entire location is infected with aether crystals. It is located in the donut shop on the main street (second location).



After successfully defeating several waves of regular zombies and minibosses, the crystal's force field will disappear and you can pick it up.

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Energetic Geode

To get this crystal, you just need to provoke an Abomination to electrocute it, so that it hits a small purple crystal, which are plentiful all over the map.

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Tempered Crystal Heart

To get this crystal, you need to kill the Tormentor miniboss with fire. The Flamethrower is the best choice, as the Molotov cocktail is not a reliable item in this regard.

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After the player has obtained all 3 crystals, they need to interact with the liquid in the particle accelerator to put all the crystals in it.



Then you need to kill a dozen zombies nearby with a melee weapon.

But it's much easier with a tomahawk.

Creating an ether neutralizer

In order to get to the Forsaken, it is necessary to break through a powerful ethereal field that can kill characters very quickly.

So they need to create a device that will allow them to break through this barrier.
To do this, you need to collect 4 items:

1. Fuel tank
   
2. Tracking monitor
   
3. Housing Unit
   
4. Catalyzed crystal shard (3 pieces)

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Fuel tank

To do this, you need to interact with the refueling device located on the Fuel Processing level In order to start the fueling process, you need to interact with any of the available devices.
After that, a force field will appear, and the player will need to defend against the crowd of zombies for a certain time. After all this, you can take a tank of fuel.

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Tracking monitor

To do this, you need to have a weapon with the ammunition modification "Dead Wire" or the field modification "Tesla Storm." And make sure that the electric charge activates the arcade machine next to "Der Eisendrache"
After that, this slot machine will be available, where for 2000 essence the player will launch a special ARC-XD machine
Use this machine to get to the store room with the TVs
Leaning against the edge of the storeroom to blow up ARC-XD
Pick up the required monitor

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Housing unit

This object is located in the room with Wunderfizz in the corner on the ceiling.

You need to make Abomination hit this corner so that the item falls down

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Catalyzed crystal shard

This step requires the Chrysalax wonder weapon.

There are three large crystals on the map with purple orbs flying around them, These orbs must be destroyed by any means necessary. Note that each time you destroy a ball, all the following ones are accelerated.
After all three orbs are destroyed, the large crystal itself must be destroyed with Chrysalax A Crystal Shard will fall out of this crystal
Immediately after this, the round will automatically end and an Abomination will appear nearby, where you must throw the resulting fragment
Abomination will eat this crystal, after which it must be killed to get a Catalyzed Crystal Shard from it
Repeat this procedure with the other two large crystals

Path to boss fight

Table for creating the device is located on the same main street.
Once the Aetherium Neutralizer device is created and activated , there is no turning back.
In order to successfully move on, you need to come out of hiding from time to time and destroy the orange crystals that serve as fuel for the device.
At the end, the player will be given all the necessary tools before starting the boss fight — crafting table, Pack-a-Punch and other

Boss fight

The battle with the Forsaken will be easier than with Valentina — the player will have enough space, as well as an OP wonder weapon that can restore not only health but also armor after killing a zombie.

Laser cannons are also a must-have element that will deal the main damage to the boss. To charge them, you need to destroy zombies while standing under Maxis. However, the laser is powerless against the Forgotten's armor, which can be easily destroyed with conventional weapons.

The boss fight takes place in three short stages:

1. Shoulders
   
2. Belly
   
3. Head

During each stage, the Forgotten One will have only one vulnerable point (respectively) that needs to be broken. A Death Machine or Flamethrower will do just fine.

As soon as the armor of the vulnerable point is destroyed, you must immediately stand behind the laser cannon and shoot it. One charge is enough to take down a quarter of the boss's health.



When the Forsaken loses all of its health, it will summon four crystals to try to regenerate, and the crystals themselves will deal constant damage, most likely resulting in a player's death.



But there is nothing to worry about - this game moment does not mean that the player has failed at the very end. The developers just make you a little nervous.

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Story results:

— Samantha Maxis has closed the portal to the Dark Aether, while simultaneously being stuck there;
— The Forsaken is captured;
— Outbreak zones start to close;
— Requiem has been disbanded;
— Requiem's management and drumming group are taken into custody (to the tune of "We'll Meet — Again" sung by Vera Lenn) - this music was also played in the WWII zombie mode (by Sledgehammer).
— The Director was Edward Richtofen all the time;
— Kravchenko will die in a next year in Afghanistan (according to the plot of Black Ops II);
— Peck will go to the place where the ethereal nuclear warheads were sent in 5 years to "meet old friends".

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For completing the storyline, the player will receive the Dark Ops achievement "Pyrrhic Victory":

Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.

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🎵 Musical Easter Egg

Unlike the previous three round-format maps, Forsaken requires different actions:

1. You must first purchase the perk "PhD Slider"
   
2. Then, using this perk, slide and land in such a way that the explosion from the fall is not far from the existing trail

For a successful Easter, we strongly recommend that you obtain the wonder weapon Chrysalax in advance and level it up to the very end.

Two of these craters will give a random boost, and one will give an Aether Bunny
Then, interacting with the back of the Bubby robot, you need to insert this rabbit there.
The robot will start throwing healing burgers, and the player will be tasked with guarding Bubba for a few minutes. During this time, the robot will be attacked by many zombies, as well as several Krasniy Soldiers. The robot is not very resilient, so the player needs to act as quickly and aggressively as possible
For successful defense of the robot, a reward chest will appear next to it
Rewards include a perk tin, random weapons (possibly even a Chrysalax), and the music of «Samantha's Ballad»

🥚 Easter Egg «Raygan's Pizza»

In order to meet Ronald Raygun, you must have the field modification «Aether Shroud» in advance and move through the door next to the perk «Stamin-Up»

When interacting with the pizza next to Raygun, the player will have less than a minute to deliver it to one of the 4 available locations in the next location:

After each successful delivery, Raygun will give out a random reward — from 500 points and power-ups to Ray Gun. But the chance of getting the right wonder weapon is not very high.

🥚 Easter Egg «Sharpshooter»

The principle of this Easter egg is similar to the «Aether tool» from Mauer der Toten, namely, by interacting with a piece of paper on the location, you need to quickly shoot down targets to upgrade your weapon.

There are three tasks for three types of weapons:

Pistols
Submachine Guns
Sniper rifles

Successfully hitting all targets with the specified weapon will AUTOMATICALLY increase its rarity by one level (instead of giving an aetheric tool).

🥚 Easter Egg «Arcade machines»

There are several arcade machines on the map that offer their own mini-games:

• World at War
  
• Der Eisendrache
  
• Enduro
  
• Grand Prize

To use each of these machines, you need to have an arcade token that drops sometimes from zombies
You can buy a token for 10,000 essence at any time
Or you can get a one-time free token by hitting the dispenser

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World at War

Here, the game offers the user to plunge into the cruel realities of «Nacht der Untoten», offering only a 1911 pistol. In a limited time, the player needs to survive and successfully complete three stages, after which he will receive some resources.

Despite the fact that the game conditions are as harsh as in the original World at War map (death in 3 hits), you can use another Black Ops Cold War trick — change the weapon's to a custom one.

In this way, the player will not only get more convenient modules, but also an additional 7 rounds of ammunition in the case of a pistol if the drawing had an akimbo modification.

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Der Eisendrache

As in Outbreak, the player's task is to feed the dragon. There will be only ordinary zombies here, but the player will encounter reinforced and armored versions, which can be a problem at the initial stage.

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Enduro

Nothing unusual - here you have to collect essence with the help of a very poorly controlled RC-XD. The player has one minute to do everything.

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Grand Prize

In order to activate the slot with this game, you need to kill a nearby zombie with the PHD Slider perk.

(The machine is not activated during the rounds when evacuation is available)



After that, the machine will become available and you can start the race for an arcade token (but if there is more than one player in the match, then a token for each!). The faster the player drives three laps, the better the reward.

To get the maximum reward, you need to drive these three laps faster than 100 seconds. For the "epic" reward, you need to do it in less than 130 seconds.

🥚 Easter Egg «Perkaholic»

This secret allows you to get all the perks in the game in a few "simple" actions.

First, you need to throw an explosive into a specific space between the rack and the wall. After the explosion, there will be a cassette below, which can only be picked up from a lying position.

The existing cassette can be used at a nearby TV store. Next, the player will see the local version of the «Richtofen's Grand Scheme» from the «Moon» (Black Ops) map - four screens will gradually light up. The player's task is to correctly reproduce this combination with shots. In general, the task consists of three stages:

1. combination of four
   
2. a combination of the previous four + a new four
   
3. a combination of the previous two fours + a new four

The first mistake rolls back the progress to the beginning with a new combination. Zombies will continue to hunt the player at this time!

When playing in a cooperative, it is recommended to make one player a decoy so that you can focus on memorizing and reproducing the code.

IMPORTANT: if suddenly the edges of the combinations contain the same numbers (for example, 3412-2341), then you need to shoot the "second" TV exactly twice, even if there is no sound signal for the second shot and you think you missed

In case of playing solo, either try to complete tasks between rounds, or leave one or two zombies, and stand on the table and walk back and forth so that they constantly jump over it. It is recommended that you decide which TV gets its numerical/letter value, so that you can write down the desired sequence in the chat.

As soon as the player completes this part of the task, the TV in the center will light up and you will have to interact with it.



Then the screen will go dark for a few seconds, and a mysterious voice will sound nearby - it will be "something" that can kill with its touch and pass through objects.



It will chase the player until he or she completes the Easter egg hunt - 10 seconds at intervals of several minutes.

To complete it, you need to buy the «Tombstone Soda» perk (level 2) in advance, then die and change into a spirit form.

In this form, it is necessary to run to the particle accelerator to notice the same "something" that needs to be shot. As soon as the player does this, it will create clones and hide between them. The player's task is to find the right one in time, which is not easy in distorted color correction, and shoot it.

Remember, zombies are not going anywhere.



The signal of the successful completion of the Easter egg will be the same sound as during the completion of the stage with the TVs. After that, the player has to pick himself up to get all the perks in a few seconds.

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• The Pact (Super Easter Egg of Zombie mode)
  
• No Target Glitch (Cold War Zombies)
  
  
• Story Quest «Die Maschine»
  
• Story Quest «Firebase Z»
  
• Story Quest «Mauer der Toten»
  
• Story Quest «Forsaken»
  
  
• All about Outbreak mode
  
• Story Quest «Ravenov Implications» (Outbreak)
  
• Story Quest «Entrapment» (Outbreak)
  
  
• All about Onslaught mode

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[Princess]

I think you forgot a step
There's one of the key components in the board room (near wundefizz) which should be achieved by making an abomination ram the corner from which it hangs