COD Black Ops Cold War: Die Maschine Easter Egg Guide

Welcome to the full easter egg guide for the Die Maschine map in Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War, which will reward you with the Seal The Deal trophy or achievement and a Dark Ops calling card! Compared to the previous zombies installment, this year’s easter egg is not too complex or difficult and you should be able to get this done relatively quickly with this walkthrough.

Step 0 – Loadout

Now before we start, we’ll talk setup and loadout! As this year’s Call of Duty allows us to take any weapon into the match with us, we should take full advantage of that. Other than that, it’ll help if you’ve already upgraded perks and skills before really attempting to complete this easter egg, especially if you are playing solo. Here are two loadouts that are pretty decent when going for this, but you can of course use whatever you like!

Solo

• Stoner LMG – upgraded to Uncommon at least, legendary if you have enough salvage and at least double-packed
• D.I.E. Electrobot – works very well against split Megatons and large hordes of zombies
• Aether Shroud – make yourself invisible whenever you have to, like reviving a teammate or surviving
• All 6 perks, but at least Jugger-Nog, Speed Cola, Stamin-Up and Quick Revive last so it will be the least important one of the 4 to lose.
• Armor – at least upgraded to Legendary, Epic if you can afford it
• 5x frag grenades – to quickly kill a stunned group of zombies
• 5x stun grenades – to quickly immobilize any horde
• Fire bow – as your support weapon to quickly burn big groups of zombies

Co-op

• 3x Gallo SA 12 and the Stoner LMG – same upgrades as before, also possible to take 4 Gallos’, but having one player with it so he can take care of mid-range situations
• All 4 D.I.E. upgrades
• 2x Aether Shroud and 2x Healing Aura – for emergency revives and heals
• All 6 perks, but at least Jugger-Nog, Speed Cola, Stamin-Up and Quick Revive last so it will be the least important one of the 4 to lose.
• Armor – at least upgraded to Legendary, Epic if you can afford it
• 5x frag grenades – to quickly kill a stunned group of zombies
• 5x stun grenades – to quickly immobilize any horde (one player should also take cymbal monkeys, but since they are expensive you won’t have too many of them)
• 2x sentry turrets and 2x fire bows – to put down during the boss fight and to clear out large groups in emergencies

Step 1 – Turn on the power and Pack-a-Punch machine

The game shows you exactly where you have to go to find those things, so just follow the white objective markers. You will have to open up enough doors to get into the bunker, flip the power switch, turn on both power boards, make your way to the teleport by the plane or in the pond area, pick up the part and assemble the machine. The waypoints make this step very easy.

Step 2 – Build the Aetherscope

The Aetherscope will allow you to see the anomalies which are part of some future steps, so it’s your very first actual step of the easter egg to build it. It consists of 3 parts which can always be found in the same positions, but in a random order, as only one of them spawns in at a time. You have to enter the Dark Aether through the portal right next to the Elemental Pop perk machine in order to see the parts, however be careful as there will be a few plaguehounds spawning every time you pick one up. If the portal next to the Elemental Pop machine did not spawn, go up the the rooftop of Nacht der Untoten and check for a portal there. Once you have collected a part, the next one will immediately spawn.

Part #1: This can be found on the center set of stairs in the particle accelerator room, right by the portal and the weapon and upgrade machine.

Part #2: Sitting on top of the plane wreck, in the crash site area.

Part #3: In the spawning area (yard) in the space right underneath the stairs by the work bench.

Once all the parts have been collected, the aetherscope can be built by the work bench in the middle of the particle accelerator room

NOTE: Every time you have to teleport to the Dark Aether via a portal during any step of the easter egg, you will only have a limited time in there. If you fail and the time runs out while you are in there, you will have to wait for the portals to respawn again, but do not worry as they will stay in the same spot until the step has been completed, thus making it impossible to miss out on a portal.

Step 3 – Collect the free wonder weapon

This is not a mandatory step, as the Decompressive Isotopic Estrangement machine (D.I.E.) can also be aquired from the mystery box, however completing this easy and short mini-easter egg will get you one for free and most likely save you some time!

Step 1: Defeat the first Megaton enemy that spawns (toxic goliath enemy). The first one spawns between round 6-10. Here’s an image what he looks like:

Make sure to get the first Megaton over to the Pond area to fire a shot at the tree with the fungus, which will be part of a later step. Please refer to Step 4.3 for more information.

Step 2: The Megaton will split in 2 halves. Defeat both halves and the 2nd half will drop a yellow keycard on the floor. Pick it up.

Step 3: Head over to the Weapons Lab (one of the two paths leading to the room where you turn on the power). You can see the area name in top left corner. In the Weapons Lab there’s a machine with broken glass in the corner. See the images below. Interact with it to drop off the Keycard. This will open a shelf in it which reveals the D.I.E. Remote Control (yellow item). Pick that up.

 

Step 4: Backtrack to the “Living Room” area (see area name top left corner of screen). It’s on the ground floor of the building where you start. In one of the walls you can place the D.I.E. Remote Control by holding  . The wall is circled red below. When you stand close to it, you will see a button prompt at the bottom of the screen “D.I.E. Turn on remotely  “.

 

Step 5: This will turn on a trap in the same room (a strong wind sucking in enemies). Have this trap kill 20 zombies. It doesn’t cost any money to activate but there’s a short cooldown on it. You don’t need to get 20 trap kills in one go. After the trap runs out, just activate it again (via the same interaction point shown above in Step 4). It’s recommended you gather a large horde of zombies outside in the yard, then walk inside, quickly activate the trap, walk through the wind trap (doesn’t kill you, but deducts a little health), watch how the Zombies get killed by the trap. After 20 trap kills, the door to the room where you placed the D.I.E. Remote will open. The wonder weapon “D.I.E. Machine” will be in this room, pick it up to unlock the trophy. This weapon is very overpowered, it has infinite ammo (charge-up with  ) and can shoot a blast that instantly kills any enemy (shoot blast with  ).

 

Step 4 – Get the 4 wonder weapon upgrades

These upgrades for the wonder weapon can be gotten in any random order and they can all be done at the same time, so you should make sure to start working on them as soon as you can.

Step 4.1 – Eletcrical upgrade

For this upgrade you will have to use the portal underneath the staircase in the particle accelerator room to go to the Dark Aether, where you will have to find and drain the energy of 3 yellow glowing crystals with the DIE and then shoot it into the weapon box of the electric DIE. You have to deposit every energy one by one, so you will most likely have to teleport twice to get this done.

The 3 locations are:

Location #1: On top of the Nacht der Untoten building, next to the all perks machine.

Location #2: To the left of Jugger-Nog, right by the tunnel entrance in the crash site area.

Location #3: Close to the tunnel entrance by the mystery box location in the pond area.

Once all 3 energies have been shot into the weapon box, the upgrade can be picked up. Make sure you aim at the light bulbs sticking out of the box when you fir the energy into them.

Step 4.2 – Nova gas upgrade

Make your way to the top of the Nacht der Untoten building and use the DIE to suck in the golden gas canister on the shelf just outside your reach.

It will fly over to you and you now have to make your way over to the gas station next to Deadshot Daiquiri and interact with the station. You now have to kill a plaguehound right next to the station and the gas will be sucked up by it.

Pick up the canister, place it on top of the weapon box right by the plane wreck in the crash site area and shoot it with any weapon to blow the box open.

Step 4.3 – Ice upgrade

The first step of the Ice upgrade can be completed long before any other easter egg step, as you only need a Megaton to spawn in and shoot the tree with the fungus growing on it, in the pond area. After it was successfully hit, it will be glowing bright purple.

Now head over to the rooftop of Nacht der Untoten again, and shoot the wooden box with the empty flask inside with the DIE. Pick up the flask in the bond area and place it underneath the fungus from step 1 and wait for it to be filled up.

After about 2 minutes have passed, pick up the flask and bring it to the weapon box right next to Speed Cola and interact with it to receive your upgrade.

Step 4.4 – Fire upgrade

For the fourth and final upgrade you will have to wait for another portal to spawn, this time it will be located in the middle of the pond area, next to the tree of the Ice upgrade.

Go through the portal and make your way over to the Aether teleporter by the crash site. There is a small metal box with a fuse inside, which was previously covered by the plane. Shoot the box, take the fuse and put it into the laser station with the weapon box next to Deadshot Daiquiri.

Now for step 2, you simply have to make your way over to the truck in the pond area and interact with the box on the truck. This was your fourth and final upgrade and now we can finally move on to the actual easter egg steps.

Step 5 – Aquire Dr. Vogel’s computer password

In order to start this sequence with Dr. Vogel’s ghost, you first have to interact with the Dark Aether portal in the medical bay.

Once you are in the Dark Aether, head over to the table in the office with the computer on top, Dr. Vogel’s diary will be on the left side.

Now you have to hand the diary over to the ghost so he can read them out to you, but you are not forced to listen to the entire monologue, you can just activate the second and then the third ghosts and wait for the Dark Aether sequence to end. Here are all the 3 ghost locations, which have to be activated in order:

Ghost #1: In the medical bay right underneath Dr. Vogel’s office in the corner.

Ghost #2: In the reward room on the right side by the wall.

Ghost #3: In front of the workbench where you built the Aetherscope.

Once this sequence ends, just interact with the computer and the test chamber inside the medical bay will be turned on.

Step 6 – Shoot the test chamber with all 4 D.I.E. Variants

To activate the test chamber, you have to shoot the 4 fuses sticking out on each side of the test chamber with the respective variant of the upgraded D.I.E.. To do that, just stand in the same spot shown above, in the Medical Bay by the Speed Cola perk machine. The fuses are as follows:

D.I.E. Thermophaisc (fire upgrade) – it’s the red fuse closest to the Speed Cola machine

D.I.E. Electrobot (electro upgrade) – the yellow circle in the picture

D.I.E. Cryo-Emitter (freeze upgrade) – the blue circle

D.I.E. Nova-5 (Nova gas upgrade) – the green circle

Step 7 – Get the Aether Wrench

Interact with the portal which has now appeared in the medical bay to spawn another anomaly in the same area that you need to go to. After you triggered the two Soviet ghosts talking about the Decontamination Agent, the Dark Aether sequence will end and you can find the Aether wrench right where the ghosts talked and where you interacted with the anomaly.

Step 8 – Repair the chamber with the Decontamination Agent

Now that you have the Aether wrench, you can use it to bang on the tank standing in the starting area (yard) and making a zombie spawn out of it.

Shoot that zombie in the head and then stick a semtex grenade to the hatch of the tank, which will cause it to fire off a shot and knock down the branch of a tree.

Resting on that branch was the Decontamination Agent which can now be found right by the front of the plane wreck in the crash site area.

Pick up the ball and carry it over to the electrical box in the medical bay, exactly where the ghosts from the previous step were talking.

Step 9 – Suck up both halves of a split Megaton

The test chamber is now completely powered up and all it’s missing is the test subject, which in this case are the two halves of a Megaton. You just have to walk them underneath the chamber and they will be sucked in one by one. Once both are inside, you have to go up into Dr. Vogel’s office and interact with his computer to start the procedure. If you are playing in co-op, every player has to be in that room at the same time and interact with the computer.

Step 10 – Activate the final anomaly

Head over to the “Living Room” area of the Nacht der Untoten building and activate the final anomaly.

This will have caused the ghost of Orlov to spawn in the Omega Outpost area (another room in the Nacht der Untoten house) in the corner. After his monologue has finished, there will be a photo of his family on the table in that corner and if anyone in the game interacts with it, you will be teleported to the boss fight, so make sure that you prepare yourself for it first.

Step 11 – Boss fight

Once you have been teleported into the locked-down particle accelerator room, your task will be to defend Olov while he closes the rift. Regular zombies and a lot of Megatons will spawn and you will have to use your equipment wisely. If the enemies don’t interrupt him, he will repair the rift a lot quicker, but you don’t have to worry too much about him actually taking damage, the zombies are just slowing him down. This whole part will take just about 5-10mins and there is nothing special about it other than killing zombies and more or less defending Olov. Whenever you need some ammo, just make sure that you kill the second half of a Megaton and pick up the ammo they drop. Once he repaired the final breach, the zombies will stop spawning and you have to get ready for the final step!

Step 12 – Come on! Get to the choppa’!

This is it, it’s now or never! If you fail this step it’s all over and you won’t get the Seal The Deal trophy / achievement. You have to exit the particle accelerator area through the left door, leading into the weapon lab (Deadshot Daiquiri is here) and jump to where the perk machine is, by the suspended bomb. Throughout this whole section, you cannot run into the blue beams of light, as they will kill you and make your miss your extraction chopper!

Now that you are down here, take the stairs right in front of you, close to the gas canister from the Nova 5 gas upgrade.

Climb over the railing and get back towards the exit of the facility in the control room, make your way up the stairs and go to the right.

Avoid the beam to the left and make your way outside to the crash site.

Go to the right into the pond area, but be careful here since the beams are pretty close together, this is your last obstacle!

If you are now in the pond area, you have done it basically. Run past the Quick Revive machine and hold (PlayStation ) / (Xbox) when the chopper is flying low and you will be extracted. Congratulations, you’ve successfully completed Die Maschine Easter Egg in COD Black Ops Cold War Zombies. As a reward you earn the Seal the Deal Trophy / Achievement and a Dark Ops Calling Card.