Voyage of Despair

Main Easter Egg

The Voyage of Despair Easter Egg in Black Ops 4 Zombies is difficult due to its complex puzzles that require a lot of note taking. This means a lot of coordination is required from your team if you want to complete any of its Easter Egg steps.

To start the Easter Egg, you need to get the Sentinel Artifact and unlock the Pack-a-Punch machine. These two are the most straightforward Easter Egg steps in Voyage of Despair, so brace yourselves for what’s to come.

Acquiring the Kraken and upgrading it is also essential to this Easter Egg. Make sure to work on this as you go about your playthrough.

Clocks and elemental symbols

After completing the aforementioned requirements, you now need to look for clocks and elemental symbols. Both the clock and symbol are simply near one another, though some of the symbols are sneakily hidden. Take note of the location of the clock, the time displayed on the clock, and the appearance of the symbol.

The clocks and symbols spawn at a fixed location in the map, though their contents largely differ per playthrough. The clock and elemental symbols can be found in the Mailrooms, Captains Bridge, Gallery Kitchen, Grand Staircase, 1st Class Lounge, and 3rd Class.

Once you’ve jotted down the necessary information, head to the Bridge towards the captain’s wheel and look for the four dials that you can interact with. Basically, you will need to match the dials with the respective clock time and symbol.

The minute time for the clocks can be changed in the Captain’s Bridge, while you can change the hour hand in the Poop Deck and Engine Room. The minute hand is adjusted by five minute increments, while the hour hand is adjusted by the hour. Once successful, the dials will audibly lock in place.

Electrical outlets and ritual symbols

The next step of the Easter Egg involves finding four socket outlets that visibly spark blue, green, red, and yellow. What you need to do is kill the ice, acid, fire, and electric elemental zombie near the respective-colored sparking outlet.

There are a total of six possible spawn locations for the electrical outlets: Aft Decks Window, Gallery, Grand Staircase, State Room, 3rd Class, and near the Zeus statue. Make sure to take note of the color and location of each outlet, as you will need to enter these ritual symbols in a certain order.

Once you’ve opened all the ritual symbols, interact with the ritual symbols in this order: acid -> water -> electric -> fire

Make sure to prepare yourself whenever you enter each ritual symbol, as your team will have to face a tough horde of zombies. Some areas are also cramped, making it easy for the zombies to crowd and surround you.

Pipes and the real Sentinel Artifact.

Using the Decay Kraken, shoot at the leaking pipes in the Boiler Room with your acid ammo. There are a total of nine leaking pipes in this area. Once done, Pack-a-Punch the Sentinel Artifact.

Solar system and hologram planets

Find and interact with a total of nine planet symbols in the map. Here’s a quick rundown of the planet locations in Voyage of Despair:

• Mars – Boiler Room
• Mercury – Mail Rooms
• Moon – Lower Grand Staircase
• Netpune – Aft Decks
• Jupiter – Engine Room
• Saturn – Bridge
• Sun – Forecastle
• Uranus – State Room
• Venus – Millionaire Suite

Proceed to the Cargo Hold and interact with the planetary model. Doing this will prompt the planets to flash on the planetary model. Take note of the sequence.

Holograms of the planets will now appear in the sky, and you need to shoot these in the order they flashed on the planetary model. An exemption to this is Neptune, as it will appear from time to time in the water.

Whenever you shoot each planet, a blue orb will appear on the location of the symbol. Once this happens, you have a 30-second countdown to collect the orb.

After you shoot the Sun, blue orbs will appear at the Forecastle, or where you initially spawn in the game. Have everyone in your team interact with the orb to start the next task.

Ice blocks

Blocks of ice will now appear on the ship, and you need to reach the end of the ship as fast as you can. There’s a timer for this task, so you need to double time. Your end destination will be the Poop Deck, or where you first found the Sentinel Artifact.

If you want to destroy this ice block as fast as you can, have someone from your team use the Staff of Ra to melt the ice blocks. Once you have destroyed the final ice block at the Poop Deck, you can now access the ritual symbol portal at the Poop Deck. Entering this portal will lead you to the final boss fight.

Final Boss

This is one of the longest and toughest boss fights in the whole Zombies series, so make sure to prepare yourselves. You should also consider equipping the Water elemental effect for the Kraken, as this can deal a substantial amount of damage to the boss.

There are a total of five phases for the boss fight, each taking on various locations in the ship. Simply survive the onslaught of zombies and deal enough damage to the giant blue eye enemy to complete each phase. The only exception is phase two, as you will be unable to damage the boss

Once you’ve defeated the boss, enjoy and celebrate the ending cutscene for Voyage of Despair.

Side Easter Eggs

Flying Car

This is one of the more amusing Easter Eggs, where a skeleton drives a car around the sky and plays music. It also benefits you in-game, as it drops some random loot drops from time to time.  

To start the Easter Egg, you first need to have the Ballistic Shield and get the Sentinel Artifact. Next, head to the Mail Rooms and melee a safe to pick up the lock code.

Now, you need to find a total of four bones and jot down the codes near it. The three codes are found in the Mail Room. The last one can be seen in the Cargo Hold.

Afterwards, you need to open various safes in the ship with the help of your nifty code cracker. After opening each safe, a four-digit number will appear on your code cracker. Essentially, you need to pick up and insert the bone part for those that corresponds with the code. Don’t forget to pick up the code cracker by using the Ballistic Shield to detach it from the safe.

The safes can be found in the Bridge, 1st Class Lounge, Millionaire Suites, and 3rd Class Berths.

After you have inserted the bone parts in each safe, go to the Cargo Hold and witness the car fade away. Once done, you can now see the flying car in the sky.

Drowning Easter Egg song

You can listen to the tune of Drowning by shooting four coins in the Voyage of Despair map. Similar to the secret song in IX, you can shoot all coins in any order:

• Forecastle – The coin is located on the right flight of steps blocked by a points-unlockable door. Check underneath the stairs to find the coin on a wooden box.
• Lower Grand Staircase – Head to the very bottom of the grand staircase and head towards the Pack-a-Punch pedestal. Turn back from the pedestal and check the ceiling to find the coin.
• Sun Deck – Head towards the lifeboat and try to peek in-between the chests to find the coin.
• Poop Deck – Facing the Pack-a-Punch pedestal, head to the far end of the ship. From here, check in-between the crate and spool of rope to find the coin.

Free Kraken Wonder Weapon

Slay a Stoker by shooting it’s bright glowing weak spots to have it drop a key. Afterwards, you need to acquire the Sentinel Artifact to gain access to one of the five possible spawn locations of a large wooden crate. Its spawn point varies per playthrough, and can be found in either the Mail Room, Turbine Room, Provisions, Gallery, or State Room.

Use your key to open the wooden crate and slay a few zombies to fill it with souls. It will move in any of the five chest spawn locations, and you need to fill it again with zombie souls. After filling the chest three times with zombie souls, you can acquire an item from the chest.

Afterwards, you need to match the item with the randomly spawned mystery item in the Forecastle, Boat Deck, Mid Deck, Aft Decks, or Poop Deck. After matching the item, a kraken will jump out of the water and drop a free Kraken weapon for your perusal. It’s worth noting that you can also acquire the Kraken from a Mystery Box.

Elemental Kraken weapon upgrade

There are a total of four different elemental upgrades for the Kraken: Acid, Electric, Fire, and Ice. First things’ first, you need to collect the Sentinel Artifact to unlock more areas of the map and Pack-a-Punch your Kraken. Afterwards, you need to collect a total of three weapon parts: Chamber, Barrel, and Metal Tubing. These parts can be found in the Gallery, Cargo Hold, and 1st Class Lounge. The fourth requirement is an elemental concentrated item dropped by zombies, specifically the concentrated purity, decay, plasma, or radiance. You only need one of the four elemental items to upgrade your Kraken, but the item used will determine its elemental capabilities.

Also worth noting that the concentrated element dropped will depend on the elemental zombie killed, and the drop rates are purely dependent on luck. With all four parts acquired, proceed to the Engine Room and craft your preferred elemental Kraken upgrade for 6,000 points. You can change the element of the Kraken anytime you want, but be prepared to spend 6,000 points each time.