Call of Duty is a famous action shooter game and loved by many players. COD Zombies is a dynamic game mode with many mysteries yet to be discovered by the player. Every real zombie mode ending requires a lot of puzzle solving and cooperation to figure out how to progress beyond the endless hordes of zombies.
In Zombies mode, the beloved Origins map contains elemental staff that are used and upgraded to create devastating effects. One of them is the Ice Staff Code, with a high rarity but a powerful effect that can fight the zombie army. Here are the codes and upgrades for the Ice Staff in COD: Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles.
How to get Ice Staff in CoD Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles
Getting the basic Ice Staff Code is a pretty simple task as long as you know where to find it and when it appears. The three components of the staff, the gramophone, the precision record, and the elemental gem are all scattered across different areas, so it can take a while to get all the pieces.
How to get Ice Staff ingredients and gems in CoD Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles
The three ingredients needed by the staff are found when they are buried in the snow on the map. These piles can only be found when snowy weather occurs on the map. As for the gem, it is found in a different location completely separate from the three components:
- The first staff member will be in the snow between the spawn point and the Workshop.
- The second staff member will be in a snowdrift in the center of the map.
- The third staff member will be in a snowdrift near the map’s church.
- The scepter’s elemental crystal will be found in the Crazy Place area and will reveal inside a pedestal when you reach the three-element area. You will need Gramophone and Blue Record to do so.
How to obtain the Gramophone and Blue Record in CoD Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles?
Gramophone and Blue Record are much easier to get than parts. The gramophone always appears in the Excavation Site on the floor, while the Blue Record appears near Generator 2 on the shelves inside the Tank Station.
Once you’ve collected all the ingredients, go to a place called Crazy Place to find the Ice Gem storage platform. It opens when you reach for it, revealing the gem and allowing you to retrieve it. You should now have the complete base form of the Ice Staff Upgrade, but if you want to upgrade it, you’ll need to keep moving forward.
How to Upgrade Ice Staff in Call of Duty?
To upgrade the Ice Staff, you will have to solve a series of puzzles of varying difficulty. There are 3 puzzles with increasing difficulty and it needs to be solved before accessing the upgrade. The first puzzle in Crazy Place is the hardest, asking you to decipher a pillar and a bunch of floating stones.
To solve the puzzle, you need to match the pillar with the dots and shoot the floating symbols with the Ice Stick located on the ceiling. Make sure to shoot the symbols in the correct pattern to solve the puzzle. Here is a decoded list of the correct symbols on the column and the corresponding floating symbols to shoot:
- Single open circle: An upside-down triangle.
- Single black circle: An upside-down triangle atop a line
- Two vertical black circles: An upside-down triangle atop an “L.”
- Two horizontal circles, the first black, the second open: An upside-down triangle atop an upside-down “F.”
- Two horizontal circles, both black: An upside-down triangle atop a line and a lone upside-down triangle.
- One black circle followed by two vertical black circles: An upside-down triangle atop a line followed by another upside-down triangle atop a line.
- Two vertical black circles followed by one open circle: An upside-down triangle atop a line followed by an upside-down triangle atop an “L.”
- Two vertical black circles followed by one black circle: An upside-down triangle atop an “L” followed by an upside-down triangle atop an upside-down “F.”
- Four black circles arrayed in a square shape: An upside-down triangle atop an “L” followed by an upside-down triangle.
- Three horizontal circles, the first black, the last two open: An upside-down triangle atop an “L” followed by an upside-down triangle atop a line.
- Three horizontal circles, the first and last black, the middle open: An upside-down triangle atop an “L” followed by another upside-down triangle atop an “L.”
- Two horizontal circles, the first black, the second open, followed by two vertical circles, both black: An upside-down triangle atop an “L” followed by an upside-down triangle atop an upside-down “F.” Note: the shapes should be more elongated when compared to the two vertical black circles followed by one black circle.
After solving the Ice Staff Upgrade Puzzle, you must find and destroy three tombstones. The first one is near Generator 4 next to the KN-44, where the giant robot’s muddy footprints are. You will have to shoot it with your Ice Staff and hit it with another weapon after the tombstone is frozen.
The next tombstone is not too far from the first and you can find it near the Excavation Site in front of Generator 4. For the last tombstone you have to go back to Generator 2 and go to muddy road behind it. You will discover the final tombstone to upgrade Ice Staff Origins next to the giant robotic hand.
The final puzzle will appear on the Excavation Site and you need to find that place to solve it. To solve this puzzle, you need to find the rings and arrange them so that they all light up blue. This will create a floating orb that you need to shoot with the Ice Staff.
Finally, return to Crazy Place and place the Ice Staff on its pedestal. Stand near it while killing zombies to fully charge it with their souls. After killing 30 zombies, the employee will be fully empowered, meaning its upgrade is finally complete.
Conclude
So you know how to get and upgrade Ice Staff Origins in Call Of Duty Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles. One suggestion for you to defeat the giant group is to use the power of the blizzard, but be careful when doing that, it can affect your life.
