Ancient Evil: Pack-a-Punch

The Sentinel Artifact

On Ancient Evil, the Sentinel Artifact takes the place the power switch has on older maps. It sits in the hand of a headless statue in the Amphitheater. Touching it starts a lockdown: skeletons and a horde of zombies come in, and the players hold until Pegasus arrives and kills every enemy, which ends the ritual and opens the way to the lower parts of the city.

The Golden Bridle

Pegasus can only be ridden with the Golden Bridle. It lies on a pedestal, in one of two places:

the Intersection of Treasuries;
the Stoa of the Athenians.

Taking it makes a Gegenees appear, a six-armed giant. Killed, it leaves the bronze shield needed to build Apollo’s Will.

The Dark Side

Pegasus

With the bridle, the players climb on Pegasus at the Spartan Monument. The horse flies them to the second half of the map, where they stay until the Pack-a-Punch is unlocked.

River of Sorrow

Where Pegasus lands. The Spitfire and the Vapr-XKG are on its walls.

Cliff Ruins

The ruins with the forge of the Pegasus Strike, the Koshka on a wall and a Mystery Box spot.

Python Pass

A passage dug inside a huge dead snake, with the Titan on a wall, the Shrine of Charon and a venom trap.

Center of the World

The hill of the Pack-a-Punch, with the Shrine of Ouranos in front of it.

Freeing the eagles

In Python Pass, find an eagle held in a cage and shoot the cage down. A Gegenees appears: kill it.
In the Cliff Ruins, kill all the skeletons that guard the second cage.
Hit the door of each cage with the special weapon to free the two eagles.
Go to the Center of the World and hold the area while the eagles reveal the Pack-a-Punch Machine.

The achievement Fly Like an Eagle asks for the eagles to be freed without switching weapons.

The Pack-a-Punch

Once the eagles have done their work, the machine stays at the Center of the World for the rest of the game. Portals then appear in a few places, behind the Pack-a-Punch, at the top of the River of Sorrow and at the Spartan Monument, for fast travel between the two halves of the map.

The four Primordial Hands can also be packed, once all four have been redeemed and the Primordial God challenges are done: it turns them into Exalted Hands.

In the First Room

Nothing of this is in reach doors closed. The Amphitheater, the bridle and Pegasus are all beyond the doors of the Temple of Apollo, so a First Room game is played without the Pack-a-Punch, unless a Tribute to Apollo rewards a packed weapon.