Terminus — Black Ops 6 Zombies Easter Egg Guide

Activate all three AMP generators — the purple machines. Each one spawns a defence wave, so stay close and hold the area until it completes. Then dive into the water in the Bio Lab and interact to lift the Pack-a-Punch platform; it stays available for the rest of the match.

Budget now: you will need 5,000 points to bribe Dr. Peck for the keypad code later, and MrDalekJD recommends 5,000 more to Pack-a-Punch the Beamsmasher before the hard-drive step. Do not spend yourself dry on the openers.

• Generator 1 — directly in front of spawn
• Generator 2 — Living Quarters, opposite Juggernog
• Generator 3 — inside the Bio Lab

Three laptops around the map need interacting with. This begins the free, guaranteed Beamsmasher build.

Shortcut: a Wonderbar! gum (or other side quests) can pull the Beamsmasher straight from the Mystery Box, letting you skip the whole build. The quest route below is the only guaranteed one.

The other guide: MrRoflWaffles does the laptops in any order and before touching Dead Wire, so treat the order as free. MrDalekJD insists on X first; if a laptop refuses to register, that is the thing to try.

• X — below the Sea Tower, on the docks side near Quick Revive
• Y — up the side of the storage area, just outside spawn to the right, below Stamin-Up
• Z — in Communications, just past the Control Center on a small outcrop

Buy the Dead Wire ammo mod from an Arsenal machine with Salvage and put it on a weapon. Go to the inclined Pack-a-Punch lift and send it moving, then shoot the electrical box visible through the window while the lift travels. It sparks, and the current jumps along the wall to the next box.

Shoot the chain in sequence — three around the lift shaft, then one above the second generator in Living Quarters, then run outside for the final box on the side wall. The doors into the Research Office open.

Confirmation cue: inside, kill the trapped zombie lying on the floor — it drops the EMF fob, a character quote plays, and the fob appears as the leftmost quest item on your scoreboard. This room holds the Beamsmasher bench.

Hold interact on the briefcase on the table in the Sea Tower; it pops open — take the multiphasic resonator. Turn around into Engineering and grab the battery off the desk. Back at the Research Office, interact with the computer to seat the resonator on top of the machine.

Holding interact on the computer shows three sticky notes labelled X, Y and Z plus d-pad dials taking three values. The code changes every game. There is a legitimate maths route on the whiteboards, but both creators just bribe Dr. Peck — pay 5,000 points at his window in spawn and the answer appears on the monitor to his left.

Confirmation cue: the machine starts targeting. Go to the next round and it finishes, marking one island on your tac map.

Do not walk out empty-handed: pick the multiphasic resonator back off the top of the computer before you leave. The island step is impossible without it, and it is the single most common way to waste a round here.

The other guide: the battery pickup appears only in MrDalekJD’s run — it costs nothing to grab, so take it anyway.

Raft out to the marked island. A blue orb floats there — interact to place the resonator beneath it. A horde spawns and one zombie glows and smokes blue: that is the one the orb has picked.

Easiest method: kill the glowing zombie directly over the resonator and its essence deposits automatically. Otherwise it drops an essence orb — hold interact to take it into your hands and carry it to the large orb.

Repeat for two to three glowing zombies until the orb vanishes and flies to the next island. Pick the resonator back up before you leave — it does not travel with the orb. Then repeat at the second island (green orb) and third (purple orb).

Confirmation cue: the screen flashes white and the resonator becomes an infused multiphasic injector, shown red in your quest items. Return to the Research Office bench and build the Beamsmasher.

Pack-a-Punch the Beamsmasher to at least tier 1 first if you can — MrDalekJD reports the step needing the upgraded version. Then find the correct tentacle trap, buy or activate it, and while it is running fire the Beamsmasher’s alt-fire beam along the trapped tentacles. A hard drive pops out.

Which trap? The correct one has a Project Janus keycard lying on the ground directly underneath it — that is the reliable tell, so check the floor rather than guessing.

Take the hard drive to the Guard Station at spawn and hold interact to drop it in the little box for Dr. Peck. He hacks it and starts talking about a specimen in a Bio Lab holding tank.

The other guide: the Pack-a-Punch requirement is MrDalekJD’s only — MrRoflWaffles does not mention it. Upgrading is cheap insurance, so do it if you can afford to.

• Bio Lab — left side
• Bio Lab — on a Bio Lab door
• Wreck yard, near the Juggernog machine
• Spawn, near Peck

Hold interact on the central cylindrical tank in the Bio Lab to wake the step — a specimen called Nathan comes to life and speaks. Now gather three digits, entered in this fixed order. The code changes every game.

Gear up before you enter it. The code triggers a lockdown with masses of sprinting zombies plus an elite Amalgam. Bring perks and a Pack-a-Punched gun above green rarity at minimum, and buy support-station equipment for extra damage.

Confirmation cue: the keypad reads UNLOCKED. In co-op all players must then hold the tank’s levers simultaneously — count down over voice chat. The number of valves matches your player count.

The fight: kill the super-strong Amalgam while sprinters flood in, running coordinated trains in the same direction so nobody crosses paths. Nathan at zero health plays a cutscene — that is the first half of the Easter egg done.

• Digit 1 — the clock outside, read from the Interrogation rooms; take the short hour hand only (4:23 gives 4)
• Digit 2 — the playing card pinned to the corkboard in the Mess Hall
• Digit 3 — the days-since-last-injury safety sign in Engineering, by the crafting bench

Straight after the cutscene, drop into the water in the Bio Lab and grab the gold keycard off the floor below — the exact spot varies by game. Then go to the Communications room and hold interact for several seconds on the computer with green text until it lights up and prompts you.

The other guide: MrDalekJD skips the green-screen computer entirely, but it appears to be what unlocks the shipwreck hatch — do not skip it. He also reports the keycard pickup triggering a small lockdown, so gear up before diving.

Summon a tactical raft and travel to the massive crashed ship. Go underneath it and climb the ladder — a hatch opens into a workshop. Take the node connectors (cylinders) from the table — one per player.

It locks behind you. Picking them up seals the hatch and starts a two-minute lockdown inside the workshop. In co-op put one player on each of the four windows. The cue that it is over is a Max Ammo drop and the hatch reopening into the water.

Carrying rule: you cannot sprint while holding a cylinder — factor that into the swim back.

The other guide: MrDalekJD takes exactly two regardless of squad size.

Fit the connectors into gaps in the pipework. Which pipes are broken varies every game, so check each location — an already-connected pipe is how you know it is not yours this run.

You are vulnerable while fitting: installing runs a crafting animation you cannot cancel. Clear the area first, or have a teammate cover you.

Confirmation cue: Samantha’s dialogue finishes.

• Crab Island (the south island) — on the shore, left-hand side as you land
• Underneath the Sea Tower by the docks, near the rappel cord — look for the visible gap
• The sea caves on the right side, by the Speed Cola tunnel

Collect the gold hacking device at the Guard Station in spawn — hold interact by Peck and let roughly thirty seconds of his audio play before it pops out. Then raft out to the satellite buoys and hold interact at each; your character pulls out a laptop and hacks for about ten seconds.

Timed: after the first hack a two-minute countdown starts for the rest. Full-send between buoys.

Co-op: the driver stays in the boat and the hacker jumps in the water; the driver circles away and comes back for the pickup, which splits the attention of the tentacle monster.

Confirmation cue: a white flash, an immediate round skip, then thirty to forty-five seconds of dialogue. If the dialogue does not play and the timer is still on screen, there is another buoy to find — keep searching until the timer clears.

• Buoy 1 — from the docks turn left, past Crab Island, to the far back of the map
• Buoy 2 — back past Crab Island toward the shipwreck
• Buoy 3 — past the shipwreck, straight north past another island

Head straight back through the tunnel to the Bio Lab. Three devices appear on doors and each takes roughly fifteen seconds of held interact to defuse.

This one can end your run: you have about five minutes. Fail it and the map blows up — it is a genuine fail state, not a retry. Be standing in the Bio Lab before you trigger it.

Solo: cover the fifteen-second holds with Monkey Bombs or Aether Shroud. Co-op: one player holds while the others defend, and bring everyone — the clock does not care.

Confirmation cue: screen flash and the timer disappears. The boss is next, but there is no rush from here — take as many rounds as you want to prepare.

• Bomb 1 — bottom floor of the Bio Lab, to the left
• Bomb 2 — opposite side of the same lower Bio Lab area
• Bomb 3 — upstairs on the second floor, directly above the Melee Macchiato machine

Prep first: at least one bullet weapon at tier-3 Pack-a-Punch and legendary rarity (ideally both weapons), Dead Wire on it, a self-revive kit and a Chopper Gunner bought with Salvage, and a boss-fight gum pack with three ready. Ammo can also be bought at the back of the arena mid-fight. In co-op all players must vote to start.

Movement rules for phases 1 and 2: run a constant train in one direction, and in co-op agree that direction so trains do not collide. The boss surfaces on a side and slams directly in front of itself — that can insta-down you, so never stand in front of where it comes up. Being swatted into the water is survivable; climb back via the ladders, but expect zombies camped at the top.

Phase 1: shoot the big red spore bubbles on its shoulders and sides. Enough damage and it submerges — kill the remaining background tentacles to force it back up.

Phase 2: new health bar. Crits move to the mouth at the bottom of its body and to the glowing spots on its left and right arm-tentacles. Tentacle projectiles get nastier. The Chopper Gunner is excellent here, but your body stays on the ground and can be swatted out of the streak — use it from a corner. Avoid the middle water near the boss; it downs you instantly this phase.

Phase 3: hold the back of the arena. The new crit is the eyes — pop them whenever exposed. When the boss emits blue smoke it is charging a wipe attack: get behind the boxes or it insta-downs you. Never touch the tongue in the middle of the arena — being sucked toward the mouth is an instant down. Idolize trivialises this phase.

The other guide: MrDalekJD describes phase 3 as splitting the arena in half, crossed via the water and ladders, rather than simply holding the back.