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The First Room

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On ZFRR, the First Room of Shaolin Shuffle is the first subway station, where the four actors start every game in a stopped subway car. Every player starts with 500 points and a Kendall 44 pistol. The station has two levels: the platform along the train, and a hall at the top of the stairs, behind the turnstiles.

Hornet

750 points, a pistol, on the wall at the end of the platform, next to the fire hose cabinet and the «To Street» sign.

Banshee

750 points, a pump-action sonic shotgun, lying on a wooden bench of the platform, under the graffiti, a few steps from Up ‘N Atoms.

Unlike Zombies in Spaceland and Rave in the Redwoods, the starting room has no M1 and no Hailstorm: the Hornet and the Banshee take their place, and both cost 750 points.

Up ‘N Atoms machine

500 points in solo, 1,500 in co-op, at the end of the platform, next to the boarded-up work area. It is the revive perk of Infinite Warfare: in solo it gives a self-revive, up to three in a game.

Lost and Found

A cardboard box near the payphones at the far end of the platform, by the right staircase. After a player bleeds out, it gives back their weapons and equipment: free in solo, 2,000 points in co-op.

The station hall

Up the stairs and through the turnstiles, the hall holds the ticket booth with the ATM of the bank and a pile of debris that blocks the way to the street, a barrier of 1,000 points. That barrier is the first door of the map, and it stays shut.

Power generator

A small box on a white pillar of the platform, near the stairs and Up ‘N Atoms. Until a player switches it on, the way up to the turnstiles stays locked and nobody can leave the platform. It is one of the four generators of the map and opens no door by itself: the hall it leads to still belongs to the station.

The door to the sewers

It opens off the platform but stays locked until all four power generators of the map run, so it never opens in a First Room game.

No Magic Wheel

One of the seven Wheel spots is in the hall, opposite the ticket booth, but the Wheel never starts there: it only moves when a spin elsewhere gives the plush doll, and a Fire Sale fills every spot for 30 seconds. A First Room game is played with the two walls.

No card refill

The only Fortune Teller of the map, which refills the card deck, is in the Heebie Geebies bar, behind the doors.

Skating Diva scenes

They have their own scenes, about one in five, when only they spawn; they glide in on roller skates and explode on contact. The last one of the scene drops a Max Ammo.

Ninja Zombies from scene 21

They appear in a cloud of smoke among the zombies. They hit very hard and teleport away when shot without dying.

Sake gourds stand all around the map, but they only refill a Shaolin style, and the styles are learnt from Pam Grier in the Black Cat Dojo, out of reach doors closed.

The Shaolin Shuffle leaderboard has two categories, each with boards for solo and for two, three and four players: Fate Cards only, the reference, and Fate & Fortune Cards. Its rules:

Doors closed

Reach the highest scene you can without opening any door or barrier, and play every round in full.

Fate Cards only

Only Fate cards are used. Fortune cards are not allowed, and neither is Irish Luck, the Fate card that spawns a random card. On the Fate & Fortune Cards board, any card is allowed.

Not allowed

One-window strategies, Director’s Cut, and glitches or exploits.

Allowed

Binding the shoot button to the scroll wheel or to several keys.

Video

The whole game is recorded, with a clear proof of the category: the pregame lobby, the after-match lobby or the pause screen.

Where to post it

A Twitch video must be saved as a highlight, since past broadcasts are not accepted; a YouTube video must be public.

Overview

The street in front of the Black Cat Dojo at night, with burning wrecks and the towers of the city behind, official artwork, Shaolin Shuffle, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Zombies

Shaolin Shuffle is the third Zombies map of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, after Zombies in Spaceland and Rave in the Redwoods. It came with Continuum, the second DLC pack of the game. The director Willard Wyler sends the four actors into a new film, a kung fu horror story set in New York City in the 1970s, where every inhabitant has turned undead. Its tagline: «She’s the cat with the kung fu claws!»

GameInfinite Warfare

Map packContinuum, second DLC pack

ReleaseApril 18, 2017 (PlayStation 4)May 18, 2017 (Xbox One, PC)

LocationNew York City, in the 1970s: subways, rooftops, clubs, a park and the sewers

CharactersAndre Wright, Poindexter Zittermann, Sally Simpson and A.J. Jordaniels; Pam Grier as guest star

Players1 to 4

StartThe first subway station, in a stopped subway car

After the Giant Slasher of Rave in the Redwoods, the actors are pulled into the next film with the second piece of the Soul Key. The intro shows newspapers about Arthur McIntosh, a businessman found guilty of stealing from hard-working people, then a man sobbing in the sewers who drinks a glowing green flask marked «13» and rises covered in rats: the Rat King, boss of the map.

The map runs from the subway to the uptown streets, the rooftops, the Heebie Geebies bar, the park, the Inferno Club, the Strip with the Pink Cat club, a second subway station and the sewers, where the Rat King has his lair. The four actors wear 1970s outfits, and each carries a New York State driver’s license on the screen.

Infinite Warfare and its five Zombies maps

Characters

The four actors

Andre Wright (Jay Pharoah), Poindexter Zittermann (Seth Green), Sally Simpson (Sasheer Zamata) and A.J. Jordaniels (Ike Barinholtz), back in a new film. Poindexter plays a 1970s punk rocker, Sally a disco dancer.

Pam Grier

The actress plays herself, the «Shaolin Sister», master of the Black Cat Dojo. She teaches the four Shaolin styles and guides the main quest. Once the quest is done, she becomes playable.

W

Willard Wyler

The director, played by Paul Reubens, who narrates and announces the special scenes.

Enemies

Ninja Zombies

Masked zombies in yellow gi with a black belt. They first appear on scene 21, fight with kung fu and vanish in smoke to reappear next to a player.

The Rat King

Arthur McIntosh, turned into the boss of the map. He is fought three times during the main quest, then a fourth time in his lair in the sewers.

Zombies

The undead of the city. Their scenes are the rounds of the map.

Skating Divas

Zombies on roller skates, also called Roller Skaters. They spawn two at a time on their own scenes, about every five scenes, glide in bursts and explode on contact. In later scenes they also appear among the zombies.

Perks

Ten Candy Perk machines stand on the map; only Up ‘N Atoms is in the starting station.

Deadeye Dewdrops

1,500. New on this map, in the small square of the park, by its power generator. It aims at the head, steadies the weapon and adds damage after aiming for a moment.

Up ‘N Atoms

500 in solo, 1,500 in co-op. In the first subway station.

Racin’ Stripes

2,000. On the rooftops.

Bombstoppers

2,000. In the alleyway, by the stairs to the Inferno Club.

Mule Munchies

2,000. In the alleyway, in the corner by the dumpster.

Trail Blazers

1,500. In the lobby of the Inferno Club.

Quickies

3,000. On the roof of the Inferno Club.

Blue Bolts

1,500. On the Strip.

Bang Bangs

2,000. In the second subway station.

Tuff ‘Nuff

2,500. In the sewers, reached once the four generators run.

Weapons

Every game starts with the Kendall 44. Thirteen weapons are bought off the walls, from 750 to 1,500 points, and the Magic Wheel gives a random weapon for 950 points from one of its seven spots.

First subway

The Hornet and the Banshee, 750 each. In the First Room.

Uptown and rooftops

The UDM for 750 on a car outside the Black Cat Dojo; the Erad and the RPR Evo for 1,000 on the rooftops.

Alleyway and bar

The Karma-45 for 1,000 in the alleyway, the Reaver for 1,000 in the Heebie Geebies.

Park

The Volk for 1,500 on a crate, the R-VN for 1,000 on the patio.

Inferno Club

The Rack-9 for 1,000, the Type-2 and the KBAR-32 for 1,500, and the KBS Longbow for 1,250 on the roof.

Kirisute Gomen

A katana on the wall of the Black Cat Dojo, the reward of the main quest: free once the quest is done in the game, 10,000 points in later games.

Nunchaku

A melee weapon earned through the alarm clock side quest, then drawn from the Magic Wheel. Pack-a-Punched, it becomes the Shi no Tsukai, then the Kitsune.

Rat King’s Heart

A lethal that the player squeezes instead of throwing, making the nearby zombies burst. It drops from the Rat King in the third fight of the main quest.

Every weapon, its price and its place

Power and the Pack-a-Punch

The power comes from four generators, one in each quarter of the map: in the first subway station, near Deadeye Dewdrops, on the roof of the Inferno Club and in the second subway station. Once all four run, the sewers open, with Tuff ‘Nuff and the Rat King’s lair.

The Pack-a-Punch is not a machine on the street: it waits behind a projector in a back room of the Pink Cat, on the Strip. Three items open it: a Pink Cat flyer for the front doors, a token for the back room, found under the Tuff ‘Nuff machine, and a film reel for the projector, which opens a portal to the Pack-a-Punch. A second quest with Alien Fuses unlocks the double upgrade.

The four generators, the Pink Cat and the Pack-a-Punch

Shaolin styles

After the first Skating Diva scene, Pam Grier lets the actors drink from four sake gourds in the Black Cat Dojo, one per style of kung fu: Tiger, Crane, Dragon and Snake. A style turns the character into a weapon, with a one-hit melee strike, then shuriken, a Chi ability and an ultimate attack as it levels up. The styles also break the boarded doors and torii gates that act as shortcuts across the map.

The four Shaolin styles and how they level up

Easter egg: Pest Control

The main quest, Pest Control, leads the actors and Pam Grier against the Rat King to recover the third piece of the Soul Key. It goes from caged rats and Ninja Zombies to Chinese symbols, a Morse code message, a rooftop cipher and three fights with the Rat King, each leaving an eye, a brain or a heart.

The circular lair of the Rat King in the sewers, with a hanging chain and a skeleton, official screenshot, Shaolin Shuffle, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Zombies

The final fight

In the Rat King’s lair in the sewers, in four parts, the eye, the brain and the heart each opening a trial of its own.

The reward

The Soul Key piece, the Kirisute Gomen on the wall of the dojo and, in later games, Pam Grier as a playable character.

Pest Control, step by step

Side quests

Skullbuster

The arcade machine of the Inferno Club, unlocked with six skulls. Beating it makes every perk permanent for the game.

Alarm clocks

Three alarm clocks send a player back in time on a timed run, for the character bios and the Nunchaku.

Cats on the Boulevard

The hidden song, played by collecting seven radios.

Buildables

Five mahjong tables build the Boom Box, the Toy Robot, the Lava Lamp, the Zom-B-Gone and the Sentry Gun.

Skullbuster, the alarm clocks, the song and the buildables

Traps

Mosh pit

750, in the Heebie Geebies bar.

Buffer

750, a machine covered in blades that rises from the dance floor of the Inferno Club.

Fire hydrant

350, on the Strip.

Ventilation

750, in the Rat King’s lair.

Achievements

Shaolin Shuffle came with ten achievements and trophies, worth 200 Gamerscore, from Pest Control, for the Soul Key piece, to Exterminator, for beating the final boss as Pam Grier.

The ten achievements of Shaolin Shuffle

Trivia

The game files call the map cp_disco.
The Heebie Geebies bar is based on CBGB, the famous punk club of New York.
The birthdays on the driver’s licenses of the four actors match those of the actors who voice them.
Pam Grier is the third guest star of Infinite Warfare Zombies, after David Hasselhoff and Kevin Smith.
The soundtrack heard around the map includes «Disco Inferno» by The Trammps and «I Wanna Be Your Dog» by The Stooges.
At the end of the main quest the actors land in a black-and-white world, and A.J. asks who turned off all the color: the next map, Attack of the Radioactive Thing, is a 1950s creature feature.