Voyage of Despair — Black Ops 4 Zombies Easter Egg Guide

Buy your way from the Forecastle toward the stern and interact with the Sentinel Artifact on the Poop Deck — a burst of energy scatters four glowing spheres and wakes the four Pack-a-Punch pedestals. Activate all four; the Pack-a-Punch machine assembles at the last pedestal you interacted with (so you can choose where it starts by saving your preferred pedestal for last) and then rotates location every few rounds.

Solo vs co-op: identical objective; co-op just opens the ship faster. Do this first — every later stage assumes the Artifact is live.

• Poop Deck — beside the Sentinel Artifact plinth
• Turbine Room — lowest stern machinery level
• Lower Grand Staircase — foot of the central staircase
• Cargo Hold — flooded bow interior

From about round 12, a Stoker (coal-armoured mini-boss) appears — shoot away its coal plating, then kill it by hitting the exposed glowing weak point. It drops a key. Open the key chest at its random spawn, then kill zombies beside it to feed it souls until it vanishes and relocates — repeat for three fills total. After the third fill a floating object appears telling you where a tentacle will hurl the Kraken; collect the weapon from the box that drops at that deck.

Solo vs co-op: fully solo-capable — the chest simply fills slower with one player’s kills. The Mystery Box can also give the Kraken, but this route is free and reliable.

• Chest room (each fill, randomised) — Mail Rooms
• Chest room — State Rooms
• Chest room — Galley
• Chest room — Provisions
• Chest room — Turbine Room
• Drop object → telescope = Poop Deck
• Drop object → compass = Boat Deck
• Drop object → globe = Mid-Deck (source-listed; web guides most often document telescope/compass)
• Drop object → binoculars = Forecastle (source-listed)
• Drop object → pliers = Aft Decks (source-listed)

Feed the Kraken into Pack-a-Punch. The base upgrade is the Cirein-Croin Crasher; each subsequent insert (6,000 points, pick up the dropped plasma to refill ammo) lets you pick one of four elemental variants. You need the Poison variant, Jormungandr’s Fang, for the pipe stage — an Ice variant is the pick for the boss.

Variant map: Jormungandr’s Fang → Poison; Grip of Akkorokamui → Ice; Inkanyamba’s Roar → Electric; Breath of Leviathan → Fire.

Alt route: the Poison Kraken can instead be built via the Distillation Kit — one part each in the Galley, Cargo Hold and 1st Class Lounge, assembled at the Engine Room bench, then a Poison Catalyst killed with the Kraken to fit the poison component. Most runners just Pack-a-Punch it.

Inspect all six clock rooms; only four have a nearby alchemical symbol. For each active clock, record its symbol + time together. Then set the four minute dials on the Bridge console (each labelled with one symbol; top = 00, five-minute steps) and the four hour dials — two on the Poop Deck (the lined triangles) and two in the Engine Room (plain up/down triangles), assignments fixed by position. When all eight are right a completion sound plays and the dials lock; if any still turns, one symbol/value pairing is wrong.

Per match: which four clocks are active, and their times, change every game — read your own clocks; never copy a video’s values.

• Clock room — Mail Rooms
• Clock room — Bridge
• Clock room — Upper Grand Staircase
• Clock room — 1st Class Lounge
• Clock room — Galley
• Clock room — 3rd Class Berths

After the clock lock, sweep the outlet rooms — four now show an elemental marking (one each Poison, Water, Electric, Fire). Kill a matching-element Catalyst zombie right beside its outlet to charge it (normally one charge per round; a portal/symbol cue confirms). Then complete the ritual trials in strict order: Poison → Water → Electric → Fire, collecting the Artifact fragment after each completion flash.

Per match: which rooms hold which element is randomised — record room + element as you find them. Possible outlet rooms include the State Rooms, Upper Grand Staircase, 3rd Class stairway, Aft Decks, Dining Hall and 1st Class Lounge.

Solo vs co-op: soloable; co-op only helps clear pressure during each trial. Confirm the charge cue before leaving an outlet.

• Poison outlet — kill a Poison Catalyst at it → complete first
• Water outlet — kill a Water Catalyst at it → complete second
• Electric outlet — kill an Electric Catalyst at it → complete third
• Fire outlet — kill a Fire Catalyst at it → complete fourth (last)

With the Poison Kraken (Jormungandr’s Fang), sweep the Turbine Room’s upper and lower machinery for nine small leaking pipes — a valid poison hit seals each leak. The room only begins flooding after the ninth registers. Wait for Pack-a-Punch to rotate into the now-flooded room, insert the Sentinel Artifact, and retrieve it after the processing cue.

Recovery: if it will not flood, one pipe is unsealed — re-sweep both rows slowly; only the Poison variant counts.

• Sweep upper machinery row — leaking pipes
• Sweep lower machinery row — leaking pipes
• Both port and starboard sides — nine leaks total

Interact with the nine planet symbols dotted around the ship to activate them, then read the Solar-System model in the Cargo Hold — the planets flash in a random order. Write the full sequence. From open-deck sightlines, shoot each planet in the sky in that order; each drops a glowing orb at its own symbol on the map. Collect each orb before shooting the next planet, and leave the Sun until last.

Per match: the flash order is fully random every game — read the model yourself. If an orb is missing you fired the next planet too early; return to the previous symbol and search the floor.

• Sun — Forecastle
• Mercury — Mail Rooms
• Venus — Millionaire / State Rooms
• Moon — Lower Grand Staircase
• Mars — Boiler / Turbine Room
• Saturn — Bridge
• Jupiter — Engine Room
• (remaining symbol) — Aft Decks
• Uranus — State Rooms floor

Prep first: open every direct door, clear the round, reload, and put the slowest player at the front. Interact with the Sun orb — ice begins racing bow-to-stern and destructible ice blocks appear along the route. Destroy each block completely before advancing (explosives / high-damage fire), one player watching the rear freeze, until the final block on the Poop Deck breaks. Then enter the final ritual circle: the team transitions underwater to recover the Artifact, then is transported into the boss fight.

Failure is recoverable: if the freeze catches you the attempt resets for a later round — you do not rebuild the whole quest. Do not detour for drops mid-sprint.

Solo vs co-op: soloable but tight — a movement perk (Stamin-Up) and pre-cleared route are what make the sprint safe; in co-op split the clearing and block-breaking roles.

The Odin’s Eye boss moves through five ship locations, teleporting on a cue (not a fixed timer). It only takes damage during its laser / charge windows — firing outside them wastes ammo.

Phase 1 — Poop Deck: clear the enemy quota, stay out of the beam, wait for the teleport.

Phase 2 — Engine Room: hold the narrow lanes, remove Stokers/catalysts fast, keep the centre clear.

Phase 3 — State Rooms: first damage window — hit the exposed eye during the laser (an Ice Kraken and Hellion splash shine here).

Phase 4 — Promenade Starboard: repeat the laser-window damage in the long deck lane; use the shield to cross pressure but don’t block teammates’ firing lanes.

Phase 5 — Poop Deck: the Eye attempts a lethal charge — pour every high-damage weapon into the exposed window to interrupt the charge, then finish its health to trigger the ending. If the charge completes, the team is downed, so save Specialist and max ammo for this phase.