Call of the Dead — Black Ops Zombies Easter Egg Guide

Open up through the first ship to its upper control room and throw the power switch (the steering wheel and three-lever console there are used later). Get the V-R11 from the Mystery Box — it does not need Pack-a-Punching for the quest — and carry a dependable explosive (Frag/Semtex, China Lake, Scavenger, Crossbow…) for the generators and the beam. Pack-a-Punch is mobile: after power the lighthouse projects a beam to the current machine, which appears near spawn (right of Quick Revive), by the second ship / Jugger-Nog, or behind the lighthouse — follow the beam and don't leave a gun inside as it moves.

Don't shoot George Romero needlessly — he follows the nearest player and enrages when shot; lead him into deep water to cool him. Keep one slow zombie away from the lighthouse for every control/radio/dial step.

Below the PhD Flopper room, knife the sealed Ultimis metal door to trigger Richtofen's dialogue. Then grab the Fuse from the PhD room — one of three spots: the table on the left, the table immediately left of the PhD machine, or the floor by the locker — and insert it into the fuse box on the right of the door; knife the door again. Next destroy the four red generators with explosives:

• Directly across from the Ultimis door, outside the wall.
• Outside the left window of the Stamin-Up cabin.
• In the water at the rear of the ship (use an elevated deck angle).
• In the gap between the two broken ship sections where the decks connect.

With all four dark, knife the door again to advance. If Richtofen doesn't move on, one generator didn't register — re-hit any still glowing red.

The Ray Gun and Matryoshka Dolls may not count as explosive damage on these generators (they do work later for the V-R11 rod step), so use Frag/Semtex, the China Lake, the Crossbow or the Scavenger here to avoid a silent non-register.

At the three-lever console in the power room: pull the left lever once, leave the middle untouched, and pull the right lever three times. Then use the steering wheel — turn it right twice so the brown handle points to roughly 5 o'clock. In solo this (with the shared opening) brings up the green lighthouse beam; in co-op it surfaces the submarine for the foghorns.

Solo skips this step. Find the single bottle of frozen vodka on one of four railings/ledges — the PhD staircase railing, the upper railing above it, the ship railing by the M16 wall-buy, or the ledge linking the ship halves by the MP40 — then one player knifes it from above while another catches it below before it smashes (a miss respawns it elsewhere). Insert it into the transfer tube left of the door. Then activate the four Morse radios in this exact order: (1) below the power room on a cabinet, (2) on a barrel inside the Stamin-Up cabin, (3) inside a shipping container on the back ship section, (4) under the staircase in the room behind the Ultimis-door wall. When the order is right you hear Morse code and a glowing yellow ellipse appears near the perk machine — that's your confirmation, so don't redo the sequence. A wrong order restarts from radio 1.

Solo skips this step. While the map fog is present and the submarine is surfaced, sound the four foghorns in order: (1) the lighthouse base by the water, (2) just right after the icy slide, in/near the water, (3) the land horn outside the lighthouse doors (closest), (4) the farther land horn behind the rock ahead of the icy slide. On success the submarine shines a green light at the lighthouse. If the horns were sounded in the wrong order (or the submarine wasn't surfaced), the attempt doesn't break permanently — it simply resets at the next round, so wait a round and redo the sequence. Then set the lighthouse security dials to the code 2-7-4-6 (Yellow top, Orange, Blue, Purple bottom).

The dials are linked — setting each number independently won't work: turn Purple to 6; turn Orange until Blue shows 4; turn Yellow until Orange shows 7; keep turning Yellow to 2 (count the turns) and turn Purple that many times; finally turn Blue to 4 → read top-to-bottom 2-7-4-6.

With the green beam active, bring a zombie or crawler to the lower lighthouse and shoot it once with the V-R11 — it turns human and floats up the green shaft. Hit the rising human hard (Scavenger, Ray Gun splash, Matryoshka Dolls or another strong explosive) before he reaches the top — damage him until he slumps and hangs limp like a downed player, which is the cue the rod will drop. If he reaches the top still upright, no rod drops and you retry with a fresh zombie. The Golden Rod then appears at the bottom of the lighthouse — grab it.

Insert the Golden Rod into the transfer tube to the left of the Ultimis door and wait through the full dialogue (don't knife early). When the fuse box on the right starts sparking, knife it once, wait for the final lines, and collect the Wunderwaffe DG-2 power-up in front of the door.