Victorious Tortoise

Victorious Tortoise is the shield perk of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies, and it exists in no other game of the site. A shield held out blocks damage from every direction, and a shield that breaks goes off in a defensive explosion.

Overview

First appearanceVoyage of Despair, IX, Blood of the Dead and Classified, the launch maps of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, October 12, 2018

GamesBlack Ops 4

Cost2500 points3500 points as the Modifier perk

EffectA held shield blocks damage from all directions; a shield that breaks triggers a defensive explosion.

ModifierShield bashes knock down Heavy and Mini-Boss enemies.

FamilyPerks of Black Ops 4 Zombies

UnlockLevel 14

In Black Ops 4 each player chooses four perks out of 18 before the game, in the Zombies Create-A-Class. The Aether maps sell them at four machines, Brew, Cola, Soda and Tonic; the Chaos maps at four statues of gods, Danu, Ra, Zeus and Odin, whose altars need no power. Victorious Tortoise only appears in a game if a player has put it in their loadout.

In the First Room

Victorious Tortoise is in a First Room only if an altar or a machine stands there and the player has assigned the perk to it. The books of the eight Black Ops 4 maps of the Hub place one in a single First Room.

Map	Game	What the book of the map says
Voyage of Despair	Black Ops 4	Forecastle: the Danu altar, a green statue of the goddess by the railing, to the right of the spawn, and the only perk of the First Room. It serves the perk the player placed there in the loadout, at the price of that perk.

On the seven other maps, the books give no altar and no machine in the First Room. Those of IX and Ancient Evil mention a perk among the rewards of the banner challenges and of the Tributes of the Oracle, without saying which one.

Even on Voyage of Despair, the shield page of the book says the three parts and the workbench are all behind doors, so a First Room game is played without a shield. The Black Ops 4 rules of ZFRR also name the perk on all eight maps: “Repeatedly using Victorious Tortoise shield explosions to kill full hordes, or camping next to the shield table with it, is not allowed.”

The records of these maps are on the ZFRR leaderboards.

Effect, game by game

Victorious Tortoise only exists in Black Ops 4, in a single version with two levels.

The perk

2500 points. The in-game description reads: “Shields block damage from all directions when held. When a Shield breaks it will trigger a defensive explosion.” The perk does nothing without a shield: it changes the shield the player has built on the map.

The Modifier

3500 points according to Fandom. A shield bash can knock down Heavy and Mini-Boss enemies; Fandom names the Destroyers and the Marauders.

Only one slot gives the Modifier: the Tonic machine on the Aether maps, the Odin statue on the Chaos maps. The perk bought there gains this extra effect once the player owns all four perks, which also speeds up reloading. In the three other slots, Victorious Tortoise keeps its base effect alone.

Where to find it

Victorious Tortoise is available on the eight maps of Black Ops 4; the book of each map says where its altars or machines stand.

The Victorious Tortoise totem held in hand, a stone column topped by a red Roman shield, the green perk icon on its front, Victorious Tortoise, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Zombies

Chaos maps

Voyage of Despair, IX, Dead of the Night and Ancient Evil. The perk is a Perk Vapor, taken at the statue of its slot.

A hand holding the green Victorious Tortoise bottle, its round label printed with the name of the perk, Victorious Tortoise, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Zombies

Aether maps

Blood of the Dead, Classified, Alpha Omega and Tag der Toten. The perk is a traditional Perk-a-Cola, bought from the machine of its slot.

The other perks that only exist in Black Ops 4 are Timeslip, Electric Burst, Dying Wish, Stone Cold Stronghold, Deadshot Dealer, Bandolier Bandit, Winter’s Wail, Ethereal Razor, Zombshell, Blood Wolf Bite, Blaze Phase and Secret Sauce.

Trivia

Victorious Tortoise has no jingle of its own: on the Aether maps the machines play at random one of the “Wunderfizz” jingles written by Jack Wall.