Rex Infernus:
Nexus Forge and Pack-a-Punch

Pack-a-Punch

The Pack-a-Punch Machine sleeps inside the Forge. Waking it is the first quest of the map, and it can be done as soon as the crew is out of Her House:

1. Place the World Seed on the central platform of the Nexus Forge. Two Dread Skulls appear.
2. Shoot one Dread Skull until it floats away towards one of the four temples, and keep shooting it until it explodes inside.
3. Pick up the Usurped Flame that lights up in the brazier nearby, carry it back to the platform and throw it into one of the two braziers.
4. Do the same with the second Dread Skull.
5. Turn both cranks of the Nexus Forge. The platform sinks, a staircase forms, and the Pack-a-Punch opens.

Dread Skulls

Floating skulls with burning red eyes. They are the first step of the Pack-a-Punch, a step of the main quest, and the shields of the Warden in the boss fight.

Pack-a-Punch tiers

Like everywhere in Black Ops 7, the machine upgrades a weapon in tiers, and wonder weapons and melee weapons can be upgraded too. The cranks on its sides also serve the Warden’s Blight quest: they “surge” the Nexus and light the braziers with an Astral Flame.

Void Claw and Void Talon

Once the Pack-a-Punch is open, small pedestals with a glowing green orb hand out the Void Claw, the grappling wonder weapon that is new with Rex Infernus. It is free and it is the way the map is crossed.

Void Claw pedestals

Pillars around the map, each with a green orb. Interacting with one gives the Void Claw for a limited time; it can be taken again and again.

Void Talon

The upgraded claw. It lasts 60 seconds and is the only way through some steps of the main quest. One pedestal at a time gives it, the one that holds the Eye of the Forge.

Void Claw

A grappling claw with a range of about 23 metres. It is held for 30 seconds at a time, three charges per round, and zips the player to most surfaces. It pulls the purple sparks of the map close, digs up dig sites, kills most ordinary zombies in one hit and breaks the armor of Armored Zombies. A player who uses it to fall off the map, or to reach Her House, is thrown back with heavy damage.

The Void Talon comes from a return to Her House:

1. From the Nexus Forge, shoot the basketball in the broken window of the house until it glows blue and falls off the map. This can be done as soon as the crew is out of the house, at round 3.
2. Over the next rounds, four blue symbols appear on the house, one every round or two. Note their order.
3. On an Exfil round, shoot the symbols in that order. The Exfil booth then sends the team back to Her House, where the Twins drop a Raw Aetherium Crystal.
4. Upstairs, fire a charged shot of the Pack-a-Punched Warden’s Blight into the bathroom that cannot be entered. The Eye of the Forge falls to the floor.
5. Take the Eye, kill the Ravagers and Doppelghasts that come in, then answer the phone: the Twins open a portal back to the Nexus Forge.
6. Hold the interact button on a Void Claw pedestal to set the Eye in it. That pedestal now gives the Void Talon. Shooting the Eye with an ordinary Void Claw takes it back, to move it to another pedestal.

Traps and machines

Titan Trap

A stone Titan that draws the nearby zombies in and smashes them with its fists, for Essence. Standing in front of it for a moment also wakes it up for free, but then it only strikes in front of itself and can hurt any player. The main quest kills its mist zombies with the Titans outside Veytharion Passage and Caltheris Passage.

Dravakar’s Anvil

In the Dravakar Inner Sanctum, opened by the Warden’s Blight quest. It breaks a weapon down into Aetherium Crystals and Aether Tools matching its Pack-a-Punch tier and rarity, and gives the Necrofluid Gauntlet once one weapon of each class has been broken down.

Armor, Arsenal and Crafting Table

Level II and III armor vests hang in four places, the Nyxara Sanctuary, the Veytharion Sanctuary, the Dravakar Sanctuary and the Caltheris Main Chamber. The Arsenal stands in the Nyxara Sanctuary near the VS Recon, and the Crafting Table in the Veytharion Sanctuary beside the Shadow SK.