Shaolin Shuffle — Infinite Warfare Zombies Easter Egg Guide

Power is local — each switch only lights its own district, and the Pack-a-Punch coin route through the sewers stays sealed until all four are on. Flip every one:

• Spawn Subway — on a support pillar inside the starting station.
• Disco Inferno roof — on the wall to the left of the Quickies perk machine.
• Park / Deadeye — on the wall to the left of Deadeye Dewdrops.
• Main Street / Bang Bangs Subway — across the tracks, to the left of Bang Bangs.

Do all four before hunting the sewer coin or assuming a dead door is bugged — a district can look powered while still missing its own switch.

Three items open Pack-a-Punch, each with several possible spawns — grab whichever is present:

• Pink Cat Flyer (opens the club's front door) — one of four: on the garbage left of the Dojo; a chair in front of Racin' Stripes on the nearby rooftop; a stool around the KBS corner on the Disco roof; or the ground in front of the Pink Cat.
• Coin (opens the locked projector room inside the Pink Cat) — fixed: in the sewers directly under Tuff 'Nuff. All four power switches must be on to reach it.
• Film Reel (repairs the projector) — one of five: the Disco second-floor couch right of Rack-9; the Pink Cat couch by the right entrance; the Main Street Subway boxes between the booth and lockers; a sewer box at the stairs by Tuff 'Nuff; or the wall holes right of the Rat King's throne.

Use the Flyer on the Pink Cat door, the Coin on the locked room to the left, then load the Film Reel into the projector. A wall portal opens for about 30 seconds of Pack-a-Punch, then cools down for roughly a minute.

Pest Control can't begin until at least one player has a Tier 2 Chi Shuriken. From round 5, let Pam Grier's current line finish, interact, and drink one of the four gourds around the Dojo — Dragon, Tiger, Crane or Snake (pick for comfort; the animal has no bearing on the quest). Activate the Chi and complete its displayed Tier 1 melee-kill challenge; the upgrade adds the chargeable Shuriken, which splits into three when fully held.

Start these kills while you finish the power / Pack-a-Punch route so the Shuriken is ready the moment the Eye branch opens. Chi melee or Shurikens also smash the Torii gates and open the paired fast-travel doors (Racin' Stripes roof ↔ Main Street by Blue Bolts; Heebie Geebies alley ↔ lower Main Street Subway).

Advance Pam only after each voice line ends until she says the line about the one who terrorises these streets — that activates the rat cages. Throw a charged Shuriken (not a knife or grenade) at any occupied cage; a rat bolts out and runs to the next cage. Chase it just closely enough to track its route and shuriken each cage in turn. After the sixth cage the cage vanishes with no rat, and a large yellow soul circle appears there.

• Reliable starting cages: up the ramp from the street in front of the Dojo, and in the side hall of Heebie Geebies.
• Decorative cages can look occupied — watch for the actual rat exit animation before committing a shuriken.

Lost the rat? Go back to the last cage you definitely opened and scan both directions — it waits at the next cage. The path isn't fixed (it depends on the starting cage), so trust the audio and cage movement over any set route.

Train zombies just outside the yellow circle, lead them in, and kill them while they stand inside the boundary — roughly 15–20 kills. The zombie (not just you) must be inside when it dies; the circle disappearing is the completion cue. A wave of Ninja Zombies then spawns — kill every one and pick up the Locker Key from where the circle was.

Check the ground carefully before the round ends; if the key never dropped, re-talk to Pam (a stalled line can hold it back).

Take the key to the symbol-covered locker at Main Street / Bang Bangs Subway and open it — inside, the word 'SOULKEY' is scrawled on the door, which both confirms you've found the right locker and is what drives the symbol order you shoot around the map. That arms the four-symbol sequence. Fire one clean shot at each glyph, in this exact order:

• 1 — right of the Dojo: the first / left-most of the two visible symbols.
• 2 — Disco Inferno bottom-floor bathroom: the second symbol from the left.
• 3 — the wall right of the Volk near Deadeye: the first symbol from the left.
• 4 — the same Volk wall: the second symbol from the left.

A wrong or repeated shot resets the sequence to symbol 1 — you don't need to reopen the locker, just start again at the Dojo-right glyph. (Older notes put symbols 3–4 at a lion statue; the current reference places both on the Volk wall by Deadeye.)

With all four symbols registered, return to the Dojo and interact with the glowing circle on the pavement out front to summon the first Rat King. Damage him while a teammate controls the Ninjas; when he dies, pick up the Eye he drops. It fills your tactical slot and is needed straight away for the Brain branch.

Return to Pam and advance her only after each line ends until she says you must once again face your enemy. Now activate the Eye in the tactical slot and aim to reveal hidden orange Rat King symbols — only one is active at a time. Shoot it, wait for the Eye to recharge, then find the next; six in total. All thirteen possible sightlines:

• Spawn — above the train.
• Dojo street — the barber-shop window left of the Dojo.
• Dojo — above the main door.
• Heebie Geebies — behind the left-stage speaker.
• Bombstoppers — on the police-car door behind the perk.
• Heebie ramp — the first zombie spawn on the right as you climb.
• Deadeye / RPR — the far building right of the RPR Evo wall-buy.
• Deadeye wheel — on the clothesline by the Magic Wheel.
• Trail Blazers hall — the floor of the blue room (jump to see it).
• Disco roof — the water tower left of the KBS Longbow.
• Disco skylight — an air duct seen through the roof drop-down.
• Main Street — on the Disco Inferno sign above the Magic Wheel.
• Bang Bangs Subway — behind the stairs on the Bang Bangs side.

Because only one is live at a time, a spot you already checked can go active after the last hit — restart your scan loop (Spawn → Dojo → Heebie → Deadeye → Disco roof → Main Street → Bang Bangs) after every symbol. On the sixth, a subway phone starts ringing.

Answer the ringing, interactable phone in either subway (clear the area first). It plays Morse code for a three-digit number — dots are short beeps, dashes long. Let the call hang up naturally; a hit or an early exit makes it replay. The six possible numbers:

• 281 · 407 · 420 · 596 · 713 · 818.
• 281, 596, 713 and 818 have a unique first digit; 407 and 420 both open with 4 (....-), so listen to the last digit — five long beeps is 0 (→ 420), --... is 7 (→ 407).

Read the Film Registration number at the lower-left of each Nightmare Summer poster and pick up only the match. Poster sites: Spawn Subway (Up 'N Atoms side of the train); the wall left of the Dojo; the Dojo upper ramp right of the Magic Wheel; the Bombstoppers alley wall; the Disco roof beside the skylight drop-down; and the bottom of the Main Street Subway stairs.

Decode the beeps here: Morse decoder. Grab the wrong poster and Wyler laughs, the number is discarded, and you must shoot six fresh orange symbols before a new call — read the small number twice. Sources disagree on whether the live phone glows red; go by the ringing and the prompt, not the lamp.

Mount the matching poster on the spotlight fixture on the Disco Inferno roof — the beam paints a large X on a nearby window. Destroy the X with a grenade or other explosive and kill the Ninjas that spawn. A starting letter appears on the wall by the street drop-down, and six selectable glyphs appear around the roof:

• Glyph 1 — immediately left of the displayed word on the wall.
• Glyph 2 — around the corner from the zombie spawn behind Quickies.
• Glyph 3 — right of the Magic Wheel, on the underside of the scaffolding.
• Glyph 4 — inside the zombie spawn beside the wall clock.
• Glyph 5 — the back-left roof wall, across from the clock.
• Glyph 6 — on a white table left of the KBS Longbow wall-buy.

Translate the six glyphs to letters, then shoot only the glyph for the next letter that continues the displayed prefix; a correct hit extends the word and spawns a fresh set of six. A gong confirms the finished word. The full A–Z glyph key (recreated as original artwork) and the whole accepted-word pool now live in our rooftop cipher key — click each glyph you read to build the word and it tells you the only letter that fits next. The letter the game actually accepts on the wall stays authoritative; use the decoder to confirm, not override, what you see.

A wrong glyph resets the word to its first letter, and about nine wrong tries can lock the board until next round — translate all six before firing. Blue Bolts warning: the electric discharge from reloading near a glyph can select it, so reload away from the six positions or skip Blue Bolts while solving. If a prefix can't be reconciled, deliberately reset for a new word rather than guessing.

Rooftop Cipher Key

Shaolin Shuffle — Disco Inferno roof

The Disco Inferno rooftop wall paints six glyphs from a fixed A–Z cipher; you spell one map-themed word by shooting them in order. Tap the glyphs you see (each tile shows our redraw of the key glyph plus its letter), and the accepted-word list narrows live — when one word is left, that is the answer.

Tap the glyphs lit on the Disco Inferno rooftop, left to right. The accepted-word list narrows as you go — when one word is left, that's the answer.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

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Word so far: — (62 matches)

Next glyph is one of: A B C D F G H I K L M N O P R S T Y Z

ACTORSANCESTORARCADEARTHURAUDITIONBASEMENTBEVERLYHILLSBLACKCATBOATBREEDERBROADWAYBRUTECHARMSCOMICBOOKSCRANECRYPTIDDANCEDEATHDIRECTORDISCODRAGONFAIRIESFORGEFREEZEGHETTOHARPOONHIVESINFERNOKATANAKEVINSMITHKRAKENKUNGFULOSANGELESMCINTOSHMEMORIESMEPHISTOPHELESNEWYORKNIGHTFALLNUNCHUCKSOBELISKPAMGRIERPINKCATPUNKSRATKINGREALITYTVREDWOODSROLLERCOASTERROLLERSKATESSAMANTHASHAOLINSHIELDSHUFFLESLASHERSLIDESNAKESPACELANDSTAFFSUBWAYTIGERTREESYETIEYESZAPPERS

After the gong, go to the RPR Evo wall-buy near Deadeye Dewdrops and interact with the Rat King symbol. Defeat the second Rat King and pick up the Brain; only return to Pam once it's visibly collected.

Advance Pam until she mentions the enemy holding the final ingredient. For the next three rounds a cigarette-burn mark shows top-right of the screen; after the third marked round the game jumps ahead three rounds and walls of fire trap the team on the street outside the Dojo. Kill everything; when the fire falls, grab the turnstile component before leaving and install it in the broken turnstile at the spawn subway.

Then head to the Mule Munchies / Bombstoppers alley, climb the wooden ladder and shoot the Rat King symbol in the window — that spawns the first glowing soul circle. Fill each active circle with ~5–10 kills inside its boundary, then find the next; a gong confirms all five. The five sites:

• Mule / Bombstoppers alley — near the ladder route.
• Disco private room — behind the Ghosts 'N Skulls arcade cabinet.
• Park path — near Deadeye Dewdrops.
• RPR Evo area — beside the wall-buy near Deadeye.
• Spawn Subway — near the Hornet wall-buy.

As with the yellow circle, the zombie must die inside the ring; trust the disappearance and gong over any manual count.

In the Disco Inferno, interact with the second-floor DJ booth — a passive zombie with a glowing Disco Ball over its head appears on the dance floor below. Before killing the carrier, lead at least one ordinary living zombie fully onto the dance floor; only then kill the carrier so the ball transfers to the replacement. Repeat this controlled hand-off ten times. After the tenth, no new carrier appears and a gong plays; a Rat King symbol appears on the street in front of the Pink Cat — activate it, beat the third Rat King and collect the Heart.

Two things reset the whole chain: killing the carrier with no replacement on the floor, and killing the carrier when it's the round's last zombie. Start with a healthy group and keep several spares alive off the floor.

With the Eye, Brain and Heart in hand, kit up before committing — the finale's Max Ammo only drops after a trial completes, so entering under-gunned can soft-lock it. Confirm before you speak to Pam:

• A Pack-a-Punched, high-reserve bullet weapon with a full reserve (the Eye trial needs you to shoot wall / ceiling symbols — melee and explosives alone won't finish it).
• Tuff 'Nuff and your chosen perks bought; emergency revive / crowd-control Fate & Fortune cards ready.
• At least one Chi Shuriken charged for the Rat King's staff.
• No one still holding a temporary setup weapon instead of a final one.

Speak to Pam in the Dojo once her dialogue is free, then travel into the sewer lair — this commits the team to the boss.

The fight alternates damage the Rat King → he retreats to the rafters → complete one organ trial, repeated until all three organs are cleared. On entry, damage him until he jumps up and the Eye, Heart and Brain appear on the floor; interact with an organ first, then the large centre-floor symbol to start that trial. Order is free, though many teams do Eye first while ammo is full. Each finished trial gongs and drops a persistent Max Ammo in the centre — save it until needed.

• Eye trial — the central eye scans every ~10s (your tactical Eye can scan too), revealing pink glyphs on the walls and ceiling; call them out and shoot every one. If you're slow, shield impacts add extra glyphs.
• Heart trial — acid fills sections around the outer edge; kill a zombie standing in a puddle to clear that section, working round the perimeter before he dumps another layer (don't stand in the acid waiting).
• Brain trial — friendly blue-eyed zombies spawn and attack the Brain; don't shoot them — keep the Rat King and hostile Ninjas off them (a shuriken to his staff helps a lot). If one dies, another replaces it.

After the third gong the Rat King becomes vulnerable — spend your saved Max Ammo and cards, dodge the yellow shield marker, and finish him. The ending plays and the Soul Key spawns in the centre; pick it up. In a Director's Cut run it's the Talisman instead.

Some solo runs are reported to spawn Pam Grier as an AI reviver in the lair; the field guide doesn't confirm this, so don't rely on it.