nickachu wrote:
Hmm interesting, but turning on the power is pretty important. And it's always the first thing you try to do.
Are the perks new? I don't think they were there when I first played the zombies.
I did manage to pack a punch on Five one time with the RPK that was pretty useful
Turning on the power on Assention gets you access to the Launchers (you need to then trigger all three to launch the missile and get access to the pack-a-punch machine) and it enables the perk machines.
Perk machines are in CODBLOPS but I only have the first map on the previous Zombie game so dont know if they made it - on single player 'revive' is available from the start (and revives you if your downed) on multiplayer you always need the power on for any perk.
Pack a punch normally costs 5000 and basically makes just about any weapon amazing (the majority of the guns shoot lasers and have much larger magazine) , even the initial pistols change to a dual wield grenade launcher.
On Five if you kill the pentagon thief then it starts a sale and you can buy from the mystery box for 10 credits or pack a punch any weapon for 1000 instead of 5000.
Generally in most of the zombie maps the basic strategy is :
First 2 rounds - pistol and knife only
Round 3 any secondary (i normally go for an SMG - which requires a door to be opened on any of the maps).
Round 3 - 8 either gather enough money to open up the map and turn on the power , or find and hit the mystery box a few times to get a much better gun (or get the good knife which is a one hit kill until level 10)
Somewhere around level 8 if you've not got the power on - get the power on , then perks (Juggernaught / Speed cola / etc) and start saving for pack-a-punch
On Call of the dead I go for the Sythe as quick as possible (round 4 or 5 - 750 for the first barrier 2000 for the doors and 3000 for the sythe itself) and then get the power on and get the perks (i still need to go and do the fetch quest for that achievement)
I did try to get the achievement for 'buy every weapon' on Zombies last night but must have missed one (I had everything open and the pack-a-punched LMG but got cornered and downed before I could go back round to try and find what i was missing)