Ascension: Perks and Pack-a-Punch

Six perks

Ascension brought two new perks, PhD Flopper and Stamin-Up, and dropped Double Tap. Mule Kick came later, with an update in 2011. Every machine waits for the power, except Quick Revive in solo, and every one of them is a target for the Space Monkeys.

Stamin-Up perk machine, render, Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies

Perk	Price	Where
Quick Revive	1500 (500 in solo)	Centrifuge room, lower floor (First Room)
Juggernog	2500	Down the stairs from the MPL room, next to the PM63
Speed Cola	3000	By the pad of lander Б, near the M16 and the Sickle
PhD Flopper	2000	By the pad of lander Д, with the frag grenades
Stamin-Up	2000	Near the pad of lander Ф and the AK-74u, by a Box spot
Mule Kick	4000	Under the Speed Cola room, next to a barrier

Quick Revive

Revives teammates faster in co-op. In solo, it costs 500 and gives an extra life, three times at most, and works before the power is on.

Juggernog

Raises health from 100 to 250.

Speed Cola

Faster reloads.

PhD Flopper

No more fall damage and no damage from your own explosives. Diving to prone from a height sets off an explosion around you.

Stamin-Up

Faster movement and longer sprints, useful on a map this big when a machine is under attack across the map.

Mule Kick

A third weapon. It was patched into Ascension and the other maps in 2011, and on PC and consoles it only appears when the game is connected online.

Space Monkeys

The Space Monkeys are the special round of Ascension. They start one to three rounds after the power is on and a first perk has been bought, then come back every four or five rounds. If nobody holds a perk when a monkey round is due, it waits for the next round. The announcer warns “Re-entry detected”, the map turns orange, and the monkeys crash in on small landers close to the players.

Perk thieves

Each monkey runs to a perk machine and pounds on it. A machine that gives in takes its perk away from the players who had it, and the perk has to be bought again. Perks cannot be bought while the round lasts.

Fighting back

Monkeys hit hard up close, slam the ground from a distance, and throw grenades back, even at a player with PhD Flopper. They survive a Gersh Device, which only sends them elsewhere, and flip away from a first Thundergun blast.

The reward

The last monkey drops a Max Ammo, and a Random Perk Bottle on top if no machine was touched. The bottle gives every living player a free perk at random.

What works

Matryoshka Dolls, which they cannot throw back, and Claymores on the stairs, out of their reach.

Pack-a-Punch

The Pack-a-Punch sits in a small room under the rocket, behind the blast doors of the launch pad. Opening it takes four steps:

Turn on the power, on the top floor of the power building.
Ride the lunar lander from each of the three outer pads, Б, Д and Ф, back to the centrifuge, for 250 points each. The ride has to be bought on the pad; calling the lander does not count. The announcer confirms when the three are done.
Press the launch button next to the power switch, which turns green once the three rides are done.
Watch the rocket take off. The blast doors of the launch pad open, and the Pack-a-Punch is on the right.

An upgrade costs 5000 points. Unlike on Kino der Toten, the room stays open for good, and two barriers in it let zombies in. Shooting the rocket down with explosives as it rises leaves a Double Points under the launch platform.

First Room

Only Quick Revive stands in the centrifuge room, and only a solo player can use it without power. There is no other perk, no monkey round and no Pack-a-Punch in a First Room game.