Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for New Players!

[ChemicalWarfare]

Hello, these are some tips for new players towards COD5 Zombie mod.
Okay lets start!

Zombie 'Drop and Pick up' unlocks.
'Atomic Bomb'- Kills most of the zombies on the map.
'The Skull'- Makes your bullets the deadliness weapon on the battlefield!
'2X Key'- Gain double points when: Fixing boards, or killing zombies.
'Ammo Rounds'- Unlock this and you get max ammo!

Hints
Wait till your points are around 2000, then at round 5 or 6, open the 'HELL' door the unlock a 'magic box' full of weapon surprises!

When you have the 'HELL' door open, try not to go upstairs or it will be 'hell'.

Make sure to have 950 points for the magic box, you may get the Ray Gun:yay:!

Have the double barrel shotgun handy, you might blow a zombies head off!

Try not to open the Upstairs, there's lots of ways to die by a zombie up there.

That concludes these tips, hope you become great!

[RW-RogueWolf]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

Very informative mate, i like to hit the help door around lvl 7 or 8 but thats down to how you play, upstairs is a waste of time. Another good tip.

If you are with a team, have 2 on the door, and 2 defending the rear its a win win situation you can't lose!

[KC-10]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

I disagree with most of those tips.

The double-barrel, is a great way to die. It'll blow a zombie's head off, but then you have to reload it, and with that reload time, you will most likely die. Also, the upstairs offers more ways for the zombies to enter, but it also contains potato mashers, and the BAR. You and a teammate can huddle in the potato masher corner and mow down zombies with the BAR.

[Roamer]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

I always open the upstairs as a last resort. When I'm being overrun and I just need some running room.

Then again there's also the strategy of not opening the door to the HELP room but rather opening the stairs and then entering the help room from upstairs. That way you funnel all of the Zedheads into the stair well. Two guys on the stairwell in the Help room and the other two manning the windows and wall in there. Complete mayhem.

I agree about the shottie, that gun isn't worth choosing at all, it's suicide to have it.

Tommy Gun and something good from the mystery box like one of the MG's, the flamethrower, the FG42 or of course the ray gun.

[-Shifty-]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

In the past 2-3 days I've played 5 zombie matches with 4 clan mates. Each time we tried a different strategy. The best we could come up with so far is this, I made a map for it to show you guys.



First you wait till level 5 or 6 then go into the help room via the "Help" door. DO NOT GO UPSTAIRS

Player 1 and 2 will be the two with the best weapons, preferable LMGs, HMGs or SMGs due the need of heavy firepower. They will each take turns shooting, while one empties his clip the other reloads then waits. So that they don't find themselves both out of ammo and reloading at the same time. They cover the main room from the Help Room but never leave it.

Player 3 will act as a backup to players 1 and 2 if they ever need help, and he can also go to player 4 if he needs assistance. Player 3 will cover the tunnel, this player will have the least good weapons, if he doesn't get something good. Player 3 can just sit there and hold the "Rebuild" key while he shoots at the zombies, hence no need for very good weapons. While he does this he can spam nades into the Main Room.

Player 4 will cover the two windows in the Help Room, he needs good weapons, not as good as players 1 and 2 but better then player 3, preferably a shotgun and SMG.


NOTE: Map is not to scale and some structures are not shown, such as stairs in the Main Room and the numerous pillars all over the map.

[sithdemon]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

You will ultimately need ray guns. Possibly the people watching the door can use two LMGs, but if they get rushed it could be difficult to recover. The ray gun you can still use when your in last stand, giving the person healing you extra immediate support. Two LMGs for the main door, is good for reloading situations. with a good group with VOIP, those two might not need ray guns, atleast for a while.

Alot of these stradegies translate into other maps. However Maps like Vacant and zombie chicken taco (yup thats the real name), alter the gameplay alot.

Vacant is a little more straight forward. There are weapon attachments with some of the weapons. A thompson or ppsh with a drum round is a different story, even the FG42, which is not that great for zombie, is awesome for range with a Scope.

Zombie chicken taco, is a little more elaborate, There are these mystery switches, which we are still figuring out, but basicly, some doors you can only open from other areas, so you need to co-ordinate points usage, to get to certain areas to unlock other areas. meaning you can't be static and hunker down as much. Once you open up a few mystery switches up on the top, you gotta head down to the actual doors. something best done when a round ends, or de-leg a zombie and run down. but for sure as a group. otherwise you'll get over whelmed. It gets closer to Left 4 dead, with having a large area to move around in, and a reason to keep changing locations, even if you have decent weapons in one area, once you go through a few more levels, you'll want to upgrade, and then you decided if making that move now or later makes sense.

Things are getting more complex, not all of it's going to be perfect, but even a little thing like in zombie death, with the house being so tall, and so many windows to the outside, its a map where the sniper rifle shines. Something that small helps with the maps having their own flavour past the layout and weapon situations.

[bradino27]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

1. i like to first open the help, open stairs in help, then sit by the nades so when everytime a round ends we can get a headstart on some of the zombies outside from the balcony.

2. when you start to see the zombies spawning slower and slower throw a nade and leave at least one crawling zombie so you can go get ammo, get both of your weapons reloaded for emergencies, try the mysterybox, and go patch up windows.(especially the ones closer to you so the zombies will have a long walk to you) leaving a crawling zombie is very helpful later whenever the end of a round comes, you have over $4000 so you can try the mystery box multiple times.

'Atomic Bomb'- Kills most of the zombies on the map.
'The Skull'- Makes your bullets the deadliness weapon on the battlefield!
'2X Key'- Gain double points when: Fixing boards, or killing zombies.
'Ammo Rounds'- Unlock this and you get max ammo!

^^^3.
'The Skull'- if there is not TOO many zombies surrounding you, use your knife to save ammo.(the knife is one hit kill also with this power-up)
'Ammo Rounds'- if you see one after a round or when there is a low amount of zombies around, reload both your weapons to save every last bullet

[sithdemon]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

^^^3.
'The Skull'- if there is not TOO many zombies surrounding you, use your knife to save ammo.(the knife is one hit kill also with this power-up)
'Ammo Rounds'- if you see one after a round or when there is a low amount of zombies around, reload both your weapons to save every last bullet

All very true. Using the knife to save ammo goes far. even with out insta kill, remember you have it, even if you at level 20, if you just ran out of ammo, and your getting rushed by a zombie or two, chances are they will be some what damaged, it can't hurt to run in and get a quick slice and then run out. knifing when you have insta kill, helps build familiarity with knifing in general.

Yeah if you have max ammo, tell every one to reload before grabbing it if possible.

But also, don't get it if some one is in last stand, as they will not receive any power up drops. If someones running low on ray gun or LMG ammo, remembering that could make a difference, you want everyone to get that bonus if possible.

[Keyelite]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

Remember, let the zombies in! Especially in the first rounds. You GET points to refortify the windows, plus, you never know what powerup a zombie might drop inside.
Play smart though, don't let them in if you don't think you can handle them, or just let a few in one window, etc.

[bradino27]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

This topic really should be a sticky btw. This is a strategy I used on 'Western' Nazi Zombies map. I got to 56 and just picked up a bayonet and killed myself because I was bored. And sorry I forgot about /record so its a bad quality xfire video.

http://www.xfire.com/video/8d0b0/

[Micster]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

Melee spam when you're reloading.

Oh wait, wrong game.

Uhh...

Pick up a Thompson when you can, it's a great weapon once you open the Hell door. Good early on.

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

The .357 is a one hit kill. At least it was to level 12 before I got overran So if you get that in the ??? box, take it if you dont have a ray gun.

Crunch

[JoMaMaz]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

Don't be afraid of the zombies. Seems silly, but you must remember, you are faster and smarter than them. If you hold your confidence without getting cocky, you can pwn them. Now, this more applies to more 'open' maps compared to 'contained' maps. For example, me, Whiskey, JoeCool and another guy from JoeCool's clan finally just decide to quit at about level 33 b/c it was never going to end. What we did is I would run like mad in and throughout and circles around the zombies, which they will follow the closest guy. So I would run basically in circles in the somewhat open, and dodging in and out every once and a while and it made it easy pickin's for the guys who were at the bridge shooting. This was on "The River" map btw.

Oh, and this could be somewhat cheating by some, but having on the death card for 'shoot to revive' will take away some of the annoying frustration that can come from downed friendlies. Like when I would stop running in circles and decide to run into the house on this map without telling anyone and I would go down sometimes. They would say, "JoMaMaz!, gah, he did it again" lol! :p But they could shoot me from a far instead of dying also. Like I said, not as legit as no death cards, but word.

And I will sticky this thread. :thumbsup:

[imported_Whiskey]

Re: Call of Duty 5 World at War Zombie Mod Handy Tips for new players!

Like when I would stop running in circles and decide to run into the house on this map without telling anyone and I would go down sometimes. They would say, "JoMaMaz!, gah, he did it again" lol! :p

Yeah. Just remember who always went on the Search & Rescue mission to save your overconfident behind when you did that. :laugh:

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But in essence, what Jo wrote above is correct. If you find a map with some space to move around, or even on the default original map if you can line up the zombies in a "convoy" coming after you...if you stay calm, you can just sidestep and sprint past them. This will allow you precious seconds to reload or get out of a corner. As you walk backwards, you can then resume blasting the zombies in the convoy, and when they're lined up like that, you can get headshots more easily when using an automatic weapon (ie. Thompson). This is also quite effective if you have a flamethrower which kills zombies in 1 hit, but takes a few seconds...so if you can run around a bit, you can light them on fire and dodge until they actually die and/or your flamethrower recharges.

[JoMaMaz]

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I was just keeping it interesting. :p It did make it more intense every once in a while, teehee!

Yep, that strategy works quite well. Not to mention, it is fun blasting away a huge group of zombies. And it also makes it exciting knowing you have that many zombies attacking you at once.