Citadelle des Morts: Into the Castle and Pack-a-Punch

From the village to the castle

The Pack-a-Punch of Citadelle des Morts waits at the very bottom of the castle, in the Oubliette Room. Getting there is a walk from the Town Square up through the village, onto the walls and down through the halls of the keep. The official guide of the map suggests reaching it before the end of round 10.

Courtyard

The yard below the keep, with the AS VAL, an Arsenal and a GobbleGum Machine. Its great front door cannot be bought: it has to be blown open.

Two ways out of the Town Square

A western door to the Nature Path and the Hilltop, where a Mystery Box spot, the Kompakt 92 and Deadshot Daiquiri wait, and an eastern door to the Village Ascent, with the XM4 and a GobbleGum Machine. Both roads climb to the Courtyard of the castle.

Hillside Ramparts

The walls above the Courtyard, reached through one of two doors. They hold the LR 7.62, Elemental Pop, Melee Macchiato, the Exfil radio and two Oil Traps.

The Rampart Cannon

In the middle of the Ramparts stands a cannon with a lion head. Its crank wheel has to be turned a full half circle while the zombies come at the player; the cannon then fires into the front door of the castle and breaks it. From then on it becomes a fast travel: for 500 Essence it fires the player across the map to the Town Square, sliding down the roof of the Tavern.

Rampart Cannon

“Launch to Town Square”, 500 Essence a shot. A hidden quest adds a second target, the Dining Hall.

Entrance Hall

The first hall of the keep, with Juggernog, a Level II Armor Vest, a Crafting Table and, at the top of its central stairs, the dragon statue of the fire sword. From here two paths lead to the Pack-a-Punch: west through the Sitting Rooms and the Undercroft, or east through the Dining Hall and the Dungeon.

Turning on the Pack-a-Punch

There is no power switch. The Pack-a-Punch is trapped in the Oubliette Room behind a door to buy, and the map’s objective marker leads there:

Open the door of the Oubliette Room.
Break open the cage in the room. A Doppelghast is held inside and comes out.
Kill it and pick up the Blood Aetherium Crystal it drops.
Place the crystal in the portal: the Pack-a-Punch Machine wakes up.

A first level of Pack-a-Punch costs 5,000 Essence. The Oubliette Room also sells a Level III Armor Vest and holds a GobbleGum Machine. Turning on the Pack-a-Punch also starts the Bastard Swords: from round 10, zombies in great helms begin to drop the stamps that free the swords.

The cage of the Oubliette

A Doppelghast locked inside: the last obstacle before the Pack-a-Punch. Doppelghasts are new with this map; elsewhere they only appear from round 12.

Cave Slide

“Slide to Town Square”: for 500 Essence, a slide through a cave and the sewers brings the player from the depths of the castle back to the Town Square, landing on the scaffolding above the Tavern.

Traps

Boiling oil pouring from the battlements over the zombies crowding a gate, Citadelle des Morts, Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Zombies

Oil Traps

1,000 Essence, on the Ramparts: they pour boiling oil over the doors that lead into the Courtyard. Zombies covered in oil die after a while, and fire, from a Molotov or Napalm Burst, sets them alight.

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Point of Power Traps

Red circles marked with runes and an eye, around the map. Each costs 1,600 Essence and makes the players inside it deal more damage to the zombies. They only work once the Pack-a-Punch is on, and the main quest uses four of them.