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The Widow's Wine icon shown by Der Wunderfizz, a red spider on a black square, Widow's Wine, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Zombies

Widow’s Wine

Widow's Wine, a Perk-a-Cola of Black Ops III and Black Ops 7: a zombie that hits the player triggers a spider web that freezes or slows the horde around them.

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Widow’s Wine is a Perk-a-Cola of Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Black Ops 7. When a zombie hits its owner, a burst of spider web traps the zombies around them, at the cost of a grenade. It was introduced on Shadows of Evil.

Overview

First appearanceShadows of Evil, Black Ops III, November 6, 2015
Cost4000 points (Black Ops III)Free on Zetsubou No Shima2500 to 9000 (Black Ops 7)
EffectA zombie that hits the player sets off a web that traps the zombies nearby
FamilyPerk-a-Cola
JingleJazz
The Widow's Wine icon shown by Der Wunderfizz, a red spider on a black square, Widow's Wine, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Zombies

The icon

A red black widow spider. The colour of the perk is burgundy red, and the drink of Black Ops III is grey.

In the First Room

No map book of the Hub places a Widow’s Wine machine in a First Room. One says that Der Wunderfizz, which sells every perk, can be used doors closed, so the perk is there through Der Wunderfizz:

Nuked

Black Ops 7: through Der Wunderfizz, against the garage at the end of Trinity Ave., there from the start. The book says it sells every perk of the game, for 2,500 to 9,000 Essence, Widow’s Wine included since Season Five Reloaded.

The runs are on the ZFRR leaderboards.

Effect, game by game

The Widow's Wine machine, a thin black art nouveau cabinet framed by spider-web ironwork, Widow's Wine, Call of Duty Black Ops III Zombies

Black Ops III

4000 points. A zombie that hits the player releases a wave of webbing that traps the zombies nearby for 20 seconds: those right next to the player are frozen, those further away are slowed. The grenades of the player become sticky Widow’s Wine Grenades with the same web on detonation. Each web uses one grenade, up to four; two come back at the start of every round, and a zombie killed in a web can drop a blue spider power-up worth one grenade. The knife does more damage, a one-hit kill until round 4, and has a chance to web a zombie.

The Widow's Wine machine in front of a white picket fence, Widow's Wine, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Zombies

Black Ops 7

2500 to 9000. The map books date its return to the Season Five Reloaded update. Its Augments speak of a web explosion and of a cooldown, and of cocooned enemies.

Bosses

Enemies such as the Panzersoldat and the Margwa set off a grenade when they hit the player, but cannot be frozen. The same goes for the Nova Crawlers of the remastered Kino der Toten and Moon, which can empty the stock of grenades quickly.

Upgrades

In Black Ops 7, one Major and one Minor Augment can be equipped, out of eight. After every Augment is unlocked, a final one, Extra Slot, lets the player equip a second Minor Augment.

AugmentTypeEffect
Widow’s BiteMajorWidow’s Bite melee attacks have a chance to trigger a web explosion for free. Melee kills on cocooned enemies give back health.
Web SpinnerMajorA web explosion temporarily adds a slowing field around you.
HatchlingMajorWeb explosions summon a friendly Deathspinner to fight for you.
Tangled WebMajorAll Normal and Special Enemies in the web explosion are cocooned in place, while Elite Enemies are slowed.
HasteMinorDecrease Widow’s Wine’s cooldown.
The Wide WebMinorIncrease the web explosion’s effective radius.
Golden Orb SilkMinorIncrease the duration of the webbing effect.
Sticky GrenadeMinorThrown explosive Lethal Equipment will also cover surviving enemies in spider webs.

Where to find it

Black Ops III

A machine on Shadows of Evil, Revelations and the remastered Ascension, Shangri-La and Moon; a pool of fresh Widow’s Wine behind the Giant Spider boss on Zetsubou No Shima, drunk for free from a still; Der Wunderfizz on Der Eisendrache, Gorod Krovi, Nacht der Untoten, Verrückt, Shi No Numa, Kino der Toten and Origins.

Black Ops 7

A machine on Rex Infernus; Der Wunderfizz on Ashes of the Damned, Astra Malorum, Totenreich and Kowakujo; a machine or Der Wunderfizz on Paradox Junction; and the Survival maps Vandorn Farm, Exit 115, Zarya Cosmodrome, Ashwood, Mars, Nuked, Eidskallen Lighthouse and Tenshu.

  • PhD Flopper: Widow’s Wine takes its place on the remastered Ascension, Shangri-La, Moon and Origins of Black Ops III, a game without dolphin diving.
  • Winter’s Wail: the Black Ops 4 perk that works in a similar way; its internal name is specialty_widowswine.

Trivia

  • The Black Ops III soundtrack has a song named after the perk.
  • On Zetsubou No Shima the machine is a distillery: pipes pump the wine from a pool on the ground into two barrels, and the Widow’s Wine roundel is on a cap of the main barrel.
  • On Gorod Krovi, the perk is also the reward of a Tier 3 challenge at the grave in Belinski Square.
  • The effect of the perk on the knife stacks with the Sword Flay GobbleGum.