Easter eggs have been a major part of theCall of DutyZombies experience sinceCall of Duty: Black Ops’ first DLC offering in 2011, butCall of Duty: Vanguardbroke a decade-long Easter egg-hunting trend for the series. Treyarch, the development team responsible for the currentCall of DutyZombies experience, promised that a main Easter egg quest would be added to the game following community feedback suggesting thatCall of Duty Vanguard’s Season 1 did not include enough Zombies content, and, while the studio made good on that promise, the final result hasn’t been to the community’s liking.
A brief mission broken into two parts, players must first recover the Decimator Shield,a new wonder weapon that’s been introduced alongside the classicCall of DutyZombies Ray GunThis can be achieved by completing a series of portal objectives and locating several crystals and runestones throughout the hub map. This culminates in a brief boss fight against Zabella the Deceiver, an ally of Kortifex, which takes place in the Dark Aether.
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After she is defeated, players must interact with two more runestones and return to the Dark Aether. There, the Decimator Shield’s special ability can be used to destroy four anchors tethering a page from the Tome of Rituals. Once this is done, the page can be collected, and all players will be returned to the Terra Maledicta hub map, the firstCall of Duty: VanguardZombies Easter egg quest complete.
The most common grievance voiced seems to be that the meager content offering doesn’t justify the several-month-long wait for this new content drop, while others voiced that the new Easter egg quest is far too dialogue-heavy and focused onCall of Duty: Vanguard’s new Dark Aether entities. Additionally, many Zombies fans still aren’t sold on the new objective-based structure of the mode, and, while an alternative experience that’s closer in terms of gameplay toCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Outbreakhas been suggested, the developer seems invested in staying the course despite the communal outcry.
Members of theCall of DutyZombies subreddit seem particularly disheartened by this new content drop, as many hoped it would redeem the mode from its rocky start. Thus far, reigning sentiment suggests thatthe newCall of Duty: VanguardZombies hub map and the rest of the Season 2 contentwon’t revive a struggling experience and that many hardcore fans are planning on returning to previous entries in the series to get their fill ofCall of Duty’s iconic horde mode. It’s worth noting that there may still be a few extra additions that are yet to be discovered, though fans will likely have to wait until Season 3 or beyond to uncover any more meaningful hidden content.
Call of Duty: Vanguardis available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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