Shattered Veil is the fifth round-based Zombies map in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, taking players to a moody manor with plenty of dark secrets to uncover. The map has a fairly extensive main questline to follow with a few other easter eggs to discover along the way.

The Shattered Veil main quest involves a lot of random item spawns and tough boss fights, so it can be quite a headache even for experienced Zombies players. Since there’s only a limited amount of time that you can spend in the pause menu during a match, we recommend studying this guide in its entirety before attempting to complete the Shattered Veil easter egg.

How to unlock Pack-a-Punch in Shattered Veil

As always, the first step in this Zombies quest is getting the power turned on and unlocking the Pack-a-Punch machine. Thankfully, there are directed objective markers for this part of the quest.

Make your way inside the manor and follow the objective markers until you reach the elevator. Two parts are required to repair the elevator: a fuse and a circuit board. The fuse is dropped by a special Maintenance Worker zombie found in the library in the eastern wing of the manor. The circuit board is obtained by destroying Richtofen’s computer in the Director’s Quarters on the opposite side of the building.

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With both parts in hand, return to the elevator and fix it to gain access to the underground portion of the map. The Mainframe Chamber underneath the manor is home to the Pack-a-Punch machine, located at the top of a staircase in the Security Overlook with a clear view of the S.A.M. AI.

How to get the Ray Gun Mark 2

Once you’ve unlocked the Pack-a-Punch machine, quest markers are disabled and the real Shattered Veil easter egg begins. Obtaining the Ray Gun Mark 2 is the first step of the main quest. As always, you can pop a Wonderbar Gobblegum and take your chances with the Mystery Box to possibly get the Ray Gun and skip some steps, but here’s the guaranteed way of obtaining the new Ray Gun Mark 2.

After reaching round 10, head to the Mainframe Chamber. A special Lab Technician zombie will spawn. It drops a Floppy Disk when killed. Take that Floppy Disk and head back up to the manor. The Floppy Disk can be inserted into a computer with a small, glowing screen in the corner of the East Foyer. If you head into the manor from the front door and face the T-Rex skeleton, it’s directly to your right. It’s right next to the Stamin-Up machine if you’re having trouble finding it.

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Interacting with the computer will summon a horde of zombies. Defend yourself and interact with the fax machine next to the computer to collect an important message. The document will contain one of four capitalized four letter words: MOTH , CRAB , YETI , or WORM. Remember this word.

With the word committed to memory, go to the Nursery in the west wing of the manor. It’s the room with the PHD Flopper machine. Directly next to the PHD Flopper machine is a chalkboard with several clusters of letters scribbled on it. Your goal is to translate the four letter word from the fax machine into a four digit code.

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To crack the code, take the first letter of your word and find it on the chalkboard. Count how many total letters are in the cluster containing that letter. For example, if your word is MOTH and the letter M is in a cluster with five total letters, then the first digit of the corresponding code is five. Repeat for all four letters in the word and you’ll end up with a four digit code.

With that code, go back downstairs to the Mainframe Chamber and continue into the Service Tunnel to find a Doppelghast named Baztura locked in a glass chamber. Interact with the keypad and input the code to release the beast. Kill it and pick up the Severed Arm it drops.

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Take the Severed Hand to the nearby Supply Depot near the teleporter that brings you back to the beginning of the map. Interact with the Project Janus door on the west side of the room to enter the Armory. The Ray Gun Mark 2 is locked in a display case inside. Use the Severed Arm to bypass the security scanner and obtain the Wonder Weapon.

Upgrading the Ray Gun Mark 2

The next chunk of the easter egg involves upgrading the Ray Gun Mark 2 by collecting hidden canisters and defeating minibosses across the map. You can do these in any order, but we’ve outlined the best sequence below.

Ray Gun Mark 2 Wraith Fire

To get the first canister, you need an LT53 Kazimir grenade. You can craft one, but there’s a free one sitting on a corpse in the Service Tunnel behind a wrecked truck.

Take the Kazimir grenade to the Rear Patio on the northern edge of the map near the Double Tap machine. Behind Double Tap, there’s a hole in the wall where zombies spawn. Throw the Kazimir grenade in front of the opening to suck a canister out of the hole and into the playable area.

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Take that canister to Shem’s Henge on the southern side of the map near the Speed Cola machine. There’s a yellow machine hooked up to a pad with a bunch of yellow wires. Insert the canister into the machine and an Abomination will spawn on the nearby pad.

If you take a look at the surrounding area, you’ll notice a bunch of big and small rocks arranged in a circle surrounding the Abomination’s spawn pad. Bait the Abomination into using its electric beam attack on the small rocks. They’ll start glowing blue when hit. Once they’re glowing, bait the Abomination into charging at the rocks. It’ll knock them into the air where they’ll remain floating.

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Once all three blue rocks are airborne, the Abomination will die and Vermin will begin to flood the area. Protect the pad from the Vermin while the rocks do their thing, and then go and collect the newly-charged explosive canister from the machine. Take it back down to the Supply Depot and place it on the Workbench across from the Armory. Then, place the Ray Gun Mark 2 on the Workbench with it to craft the upgraded Ray Gun Mark 2 Wraith Fire.

Ray Gun Mark 2 Preservation

To get the second version of the Ray Gun Mark 2, you have to solve a simple gas puzzle. You need Tomahawks for this, so craft some before you get started.

To begin, go down to the Mainframe Chamber and investigate the big tube holding a corpse to the left of the crafting bench. A yellow letter will be on the wall to the left of that tube. It’ll either say “A” or “B,” so make note of which one you have.

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Once you’ve learned your letter, head to the southeastern edge of the Service Tunnel where you’ll see some pipes on the wall marked with the letters A and B outside of the playable area past a barricade. Gas is leaking out of these pipes, and your goal is to get the gas to flow to the letter that matches the one by the tube in the Mainframe Chamber.

You can adjust the gas flow by tossing Tomahawks at the red valves along the pipes. The first two valves need to be activated regardless of your assigned letter, so make sure they have gas flowing out of them. Then, use a Tomahawk to activate the valve that leads to either A or B depending on your assignment. Make sure only A or B has gas flowing to it, not both.

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With the gas flowing correctly, head back to the tube in the Mainframe Chamber and use an explosive to blow it open and reveal the second canister. Next, you need to get your hands on an Essence Bomb.

This is one of the more annoying steps of the Shattered Veil easter egg since it’s a bit random. There are several white Project Janus crates scattered across the map. Only one of them has the Essence Bomb. Comb your way through the manor and destroy every white box you see until you find it.

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Here are all of the white crate locations we’ve found in Shattered Veil:

• On the eastern wall of the Armory
• In the southwestern corner of the Service Tunnel across from the ammo cache
• In the Service Tunnel to the left of the armor wall buy
• On the Southwest Balcony near PHD Flopper
• In the West Hallways near Death Perception and the weapon wall buy
• On the West Balcony in the northwest corner of the map
• In the northeast corner of the Overlook up the stairs past the T-Rex
• In the Grand Foyer near the entrance across from Juggernog
• Outside in the Motor Court near the ammo cache
• In the southeast corner of the Motor Court near the crafting table
• On the western side of Shem’s Henge
• On the Lower Terrace by the Gobblegum machine
• On the Upper Terrace to the northwest of the Gobblegum machine
• In the Garden Pond by the teleporter
• In the Conservatory by a hole in the wall

Again, only one of these boxes will contain the Essence Bomb. Happy hunting!

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