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The First Room

The Hangar during an early round, with the Moon Pool door at the back and an Atlas 45 in hand, Carrier, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Zombies

Carrier is the first Exo Zombies map with two starting rooms. The team is split between the Hangar and the Gun Deck, with at most two players on each side, and the official tips of the map warn that « the match begins with the group split in pairs ». On ZFRR each side is a First Room of its own, ranked on its own board: the MK14 side is the Hangar and the Bulldog side is the Gun Deck, after the only wall weapon of each.

Every player starts with an Atlas 45 pistol and four frag grenades, and without an exoskeleton: the Exo Suits are in the Cargo deck, behind the doors. Both sides have a door to the Armory for 1,250 points, and each has a second door for 750 points: the Moon Pool from the Hangar, the Med Bay from the Gun Deck. The 3D Printer, the Mystery Box of Exo Zombies, starts in the Armory.

The Hangar: MK14 side

MK14

500 points, a semi-automatic marksman rifle, the only wall weapon of the Hangar.

Hangar doors

The Moon Pool door, 750 points, and the Armory door, 1,250 points.

Hangar power switch

Below a ledge. The power switches of the ship are needed for the Exo Upgrades and the Exo Suits.

Hangar Exo Medic

Outside the locker room, on the ledge across from the 3D Printer spot: 500 points in solo, where it works as a self-revive, and 1,500 points with other players, where it makes reviving twice as fast. It is the only Exo Upgrade that does not need the exoskeleton.

Hangar 3D Printer spot

In the locker room, next to the crew lockers. The 3D Printer only comes here after it has moved away from the Armory.

Captain DJ’s locker

One of the crew lockers, with an eye scanner. It holds the fourth data tablet of the main quest, and a shark toy of the music Easter egg sits on top of it.

Hangar teleporter

A teleporter stands in the Hangar. The main quest guides place the second data tablet beside it and say it only becomes usable once that tablet is picked up.

The corridor above the power switch

A passage that leads round to the Gun Deck, where the player drops down. It can only be reached with an Exo Suit.

Security

A 500-point security system above the power switch, out of reach at the start of a game.

The Gun Deck: Bulldog side

Bulldog

500 points, a semi-automatic shotgun, the only wall weapon of the Gun Deck.

The Gun Deck, open to the sea on one side, during an early round with an Atlas 45 in hand, Carrier, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Zombies

The deck

The Gun Deck is open to the sea on one side.

The vault door

The four data tablets of the main quest are placed here, and the C4 that ends it opens it.

Gun Deck doors

The Med Bay door, 750 points, and the Armory door, 1,250 points.

Gun Deck power switch

Inside a shipping crate.

Gun Deck Exo Medic

The second Exo Medic of the map, with the same prices as in the Hangar.

Gun Deck 3D Printer spot

On the bottom floor, under the walkway near Exo Medic. Like the Hangar spot, it is empty at the start.

The fishing pole

On the upper level. The main quest builds it from parts given by the Weapon Disposal Machine of the Armory.

The second Upgrade Station

To the right of the fishing pole, unlocked once three data tablets of the main quest have been retrieved. The other Upgrade Station is in the Armory.

The Carrier leaderboard has three categories: MK14 side and Bulldog side, played in solo or with two players, and Mixed, played with two to four players. Its rules:

Doors closed

Reach the highest round you can without opening any door or barrier.

Full rounds

Every round must be played in full, and glitches and exploits are not allowed.

MK14 side

All players must play on the MK14 side.

Bulldog side

All players must play on the Bulldog side.

Mixed

From two to four players, under the common rules of this list alone.

Platforms

On PC the S1X client is allowed. Playing on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 is not allowed, because the game plays too differently on the previous generation.

Video

The whole game must be recorded. A Twitch video must be saved as a highlight, since past broadcasts are not accepted; a YouTube video must be public or unlisted.

Overview

Carrier is the third Exo Zombies map of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, released with Supremacy, the third DLC pack of the game. After the end of Infection, Lennox of the Sentinel Task Force shoots Oz, calling him the source of the infection, and has Lilith, Decker and Kahn sedated. Oz’s narration calls them Atlas’s « prized pets »: an Atlas carrier shoots down the Sentinel aircraft, and the survivors and Lennox end up on board the ship. Its in-game description reads: « The source of the contagion has infected Atlas’s prized super-carrier! Fight with up to 4 players to survive against the endless waves of mutant zombies! » The other Exo Zombies maps are in the book of Advanced Warfare.

GameAdvanced Warfare

Map packSupremacy, the third DLC pack

ReleaseJune 2, 2015 on Xbox One and Xbox 360July 2, 2015 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC

LocationAtlas Oceanic Research and Development, an Atlas carrier in the Pacific Ocean

DateNovember 24, 2054, evening

CharactersLennox, Lilith Swann, Jim Decker and Kahn

StartThe Hangar and the Gun Deck, two players at most on each side, with an Atlas 45, four frag grenades and no exoskeleton

Characters

Lennox replaces Oz, who was shot by Lennox himself in the ending of Infection.

Lennox

Played by Bruce Campbell, a Sentinel officer and the new playable character. He carries the LZ-52 Limbo on the character selection screen.

Lilith Swann

Played by Rose McGowan, the IT specialist of the Atlas lab. In the ending she is the first to hear Oz’s voice.

J

Jim Decker

Played by Jon Bernthal, the former security guard of the lab. He fires his HBRa3 at the crates where Oz hides in the ending.

K

Kahn

Played by Bill Paxton, the executive of the lab, who leads the way to the escape pod in the ending.

Areas

Beyond the two starting rooms, the ship has six areas. The Cargo deck holds the Exo Suits, and teleporters link several areas for 100 points, a price that rises with each use in the same round.

Armory

Behind the 1,250-point doors of both sides. It holds the first 3D Printer spot, the main Upgrade Station, the Grenade and Weapon Disposal Machines, the HBRa3, the Contact Grenades and the Teleport Grenades.

Med Bay

Behind the Gun Deck’s 750-point door: Exo Stockpile, the Tac-19, a 3D Printer spot and a Decontamination Zone.

Moon Pool

Behind the Hangar’s 750-point door: Exo Health, the AMR9, a 3D Printer spot, a Decontamination Zone and the shark cage over the open water.

Bio Lab

Exo Slam, the ARX-160 and a second, broken teleporter that the main quest repairs.

Cargo

The Exo Suits, the MP11, a power switch and Chompy, the lawnmower that circles the deck.

Lift

Exo Reload, and the way between the Moon Pool, the Armory and the Cargo.

Enemies

Carrier has every zombie type of the earlier maps except the Oozer: zombies, EMZs, Chargers, Exploders, Spikers, Meatbags, Hosts, Security Dogs and Goliath Exo Zombies, plus two new enemies.

A Blinker in its blue exosuit lunging at a player, Carrier, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Zombies

Blinkers

Zombies in a blue exosuit that teleport short distances towards the players. In Carrier, some Security Dogs, recognisable by their blue eyes, and the Goliaths can teleport too.

Atlas Strike Teams

Human soldiers that teleport in to guard the gas bombs Atlas plants on some rounds. Zombies ignore them.

Gas bombs and Atlas Strike Teams

Exo Upgrades

Upgrade	Cost	Area
Exo Medic	500 in solo, 1,500 with other players	Hangar and Gun Deck
Exo Slam	2,000	Bio Lab
Exo Stockpile	2,000	Med Bay
Exo Reload	2,000	Lift
Exo Health	2,500	Moon Pool

Exo Stockpile is new in Carrier: it raises the ammunition a player can carry by 20%, adds one lethal and one tactical grenade to the maximum, and gives two grenades of each type per round instead of one.

Weapons

The two sides have one wall weapon each, the MK14 and the Bulldog, both for 500 points; five more wall weapons are spread across the ship, from the MP11 at 1,000 points to the Tac-19 at 1,500. The 3D Printer costs 1,000 points a use and holds the new LZ-52 Limbo, whose shot draws a laser line that cuts through a row of zombies, and the M1 Irons. The Armory sells the new Teleport Grenade, which teleports its thrower to where it lands and kills the zombies around that spot.

LZ-52 Limbo

A directed energy weapon from the 3D Printer, with an eight-round cylinder. It kills in one hit until round 12 when it is not upgraded.

Grenade Disposal Machine

A free pachinko machine in the Armory that pays points for each grenade thrown into it, up to 1,000 per grenade according to the official tips.

Carrier: Weapons

Power-ups and scorestreaks

Advanced Repulsion Turret

A new Orbital Care Package item that sends out pulses which damage and slow the zombies caught in them.

Explosive Touch

New in Carrier, shown as a star: while it lasts, zombies that touch the player die at once.

Open Fire

New in Carrier, shown as an infinity symbol: unlimited ammunition for every player for a short time.

Sentinel Reinforcements

A new Orbital Care Package item that brings up to four Sentinel soldiers for about a minute. They can revive players and defuse gas bombs.

Main quest: Flotsam & Jetsam

The main quest of Carrier is named after its achievement, Flotsam & Jetsam: the players gather four data tablets, place them in the vault door of the Gun Deck, then blow the vault open with C4 to sink the ship. It goes through a hidden power generator behind Chompy, a fishing pole built from the Weapon Disposal Machine, a laser maze run while drunk, a trip to a desert island and a shark in the Moon Pool.

Carrier: Flotsam & Jetsam

Secrets

The shark

Killing enough zombies on the squares above the Moon Pool draws a shark under them. It is needed for the main quest and for the Mad Hops achievement.

Chompy

An automated lawnmower in the Cargo deck that mows down the zombies in its path. It can be started by hand for 500 points, or by the Security power-up, and players can ride on top of it.

Mars, the Bringer of War

The music Easter egg, from The Planets by Gustav Holst, starts once three shark toys are found: on top of Captain DJ’s locker in the Hangar, on a corner shelf of the room between the Hangar and the Gun Deck, and in a corner of the Lift.

Achievements

Carrier came with ten achievements and trophies, for 250 Gamerscore: Ensign at round 10, Admiral at round 30, Flotsam & Jetsam for the main quest, and seven challenges tied to the new features of the map.

Carrier: Achievements

Trivia

The internal name of the map is mp_zombie_ark.
Parts of the multiplayer map Parliament, also from the Supremacy pack, appear in Carrier.
The intro is narrated by Oz, who wakes up as a zombie on a stretcher at the end of it.
In the ending cinematic, Oz reappears as a zombie in front of the escape pod. The four survivors escape as the ship sinks, which leads to Descent.
Flotsam and jetsam are two kinds of wreckage from a ship.