General Black Ops Zombies strategy guide

November 22nd, 2010 at 9:00 am · 154 Comments

Nazi Zombies, or just Zombies in Black Ops is pretty freaking fun. Shooting zombies and buying kick ass weapons just never gets tiring. In Black Ops, however, the zombies gametype is much more difficult. That’s where I come in. This week, I’ll be doing a series of guides for all things Zombie. First up, the general strategies, then money making. Finally, map strategies for both Black Ops maps.

Let’s check out some general strategies, after the jump!

General Strategies

  • When you start off, everybody needs to pick a window or general area and stay there. Don’t gank your friends zombies. Nobody likes THAT guy.
  • By the very nature of guarding a window, you’ll have your back to your teammates. Communication is key. Tell everybody whatever you’re doing when you’re doing it, and for godssakes, if a zombie gets through your window, tell a friend.
  • Get out of the main area after round four. If you wait any longer, the crappy starting weapons will send you to an early grave. The idea is to get the best weapons you can, as early as you can, to stay alive as long as possible.
  • Find the mystery box! It’s extremely important to get some better weapons as quickly as possible. If you can stay in that area for a round or two, even better.
  • Don’t place claymores and bouncing betty’s in front of the door you’re guarding. Put those behind you, so when you’re forced to back up because of an untimely reload, that bomb will protect your retreat and keep anything from sneaking up on you from behind.
  • In the later rounds, its vital to aim for the head. They take much more damage from head shots.
  • Save monkey bombs for when a teammate becomes downed. Throw the monkey bomb out to get the zombies off your tail and quickly revive the person.
  • If more than one person goes down, the one with the ray gun is top priority.
  • At the end of each round, keep one zombie alive, either by trapping it behind a barrier or let it chase you around. Then your other three teammates are free to go get new weapons or perks as needed.
  • Double Tap is a waste of money.
  • If you can only choose one, get quick reload over Juggernaut. Quick reload will keep zombies from ever touching you.
  • The person with the worst weapons must guard the window. Ideally, shotguns and pistols work great for keeping them at bay.
  • Never use a ray gun to guard a window, you’ll inevitably hit a plank, causing splash damage to the user.
  • Don’t stand close to the window you’re guarding. Zombies will reach through and smack you.
  • Go through portals one at a time. If you go into one together, you’ll both get downed and you’ll lose your perks.
  • Before grabbing a max ammo, make sure you don’t have any downed teammates, because they won’t get the max ammo if they’re down. Also, be courteous and make sure that ll of your teammates have reloaded to maximize the power up.

These are just some general strategies. I’ll post my guide to money making and map specific guides later this week!




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  • Midtown

    Your tips are absolutely fucking stupid. Not only are most pointless, you actually have ones in there that are flat out WRONG.

    So basically… after people read your so called guide, they are going to be worse than if they hadnt ever seen it.

    • http://gmail.com zmbislyr

      agreed

    • brandon

      ok never take speed cola over jugger nog, that would be completley retarted ,,, i agree with this guy,, the user who made this guied is stupid

    • http://sarcasticgamer.com willis

      if you don’t go all together in the portal everyone else who isn’t is doomed, so I agree with midtown, your those type of morons that leave their teammates for themselves, nobody likes that guy!

    • ppolillo

      Loser. I assume your on welfare with that iq of yours

  • Midtown

    And to Lono, i’ll offer you more constructive critique of your article if you actually request it, but i just had to comment because your bullshit effort needs to be removed, so as not to mislead newer players.

    I have been to level 36 by myself. With my two roomates we max out around 42-44, it just gets pointless by then because it takes about 1 full hour to beat each level, since the zombie waves never stop spawning until then

  • http://www.google.com Skastope

    Midtown, shut up. Almost all of his points are fantastic for new players. Get over your self-inflated ego. The only point I have disagreement with is the double tap one. Double tap is amazing if you happen to have the HK-21 or the RPK in the later rounds, helps keep the flood of zombies at bay.

    Another tip you may want to add, have one person of the group focus on the crawlers, and making crawling zombies.

    • http://gmail.com zmbislyr

      disagreed dumba**

    • http://sarcasticgamer.com willis

      What about going one at a time into the portal, it doesn’t matter if you could get down because that has never happened to anyone in all the games I played and seen, the only time that happens, is when zombies reach you before you teleport.

  • Ben

    This is one of the worst guides that I have ever seen.

    -First of all, the thundergun is much better than the raygun when teammates are downed.

    -The best way to keep a zombie alive is to turn it into a crawler with a grenade. You do not want to get downed by a fast zombie when you are trying to repair windows and buy weapons.

    -Double Tap is not a waste of money. It can be especially useful on automatic weapons.

    - You should almost always get juggernaut as the first perk. It will keep you from ever getting downed by sneaky zombies or crawlers

    - You should usually try to take everyone in the teleporter at the beginning of every round. Throw grenades at all the zombies on the stage and keep buying them until you have to teleport back. This will kill a lot of zombies.

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      double tap is so worthless, they got rid of it for Ascension. Yep, worthless, waste of money and bullets.

    • http://pepoleme brick

      yes u right hell yeah zeuses cannon is better than poters x

    • brandon

      i agreee with you,,,, this guy is retarted and will make people worse at this game,,, but double tap is a waste of ammo for automatic weapons i only use it with ray gun

  • http://sarcasticgamer.com the white man

    Ok he has some good points midtown but i can see your point here’s wat i dont agree with-

    1 when multiple teammates go down revive the first one down or the closist one because if you keep letting the one without a gun die he wont beable to get a gun
    2 double tap is worth it if you dont have a more powerful gun it will put more bullets in the zombies
    3 jug beats all
    4 aiming for headshots is the least you should think about it will take to long plus there moving
    5 and wthell be courtious in ZOMBIES
    6 the best stratagie is to by all doors and all traps ok and wall guns upgraded suck after round 15 if you get monkeys dont waste them and ben you should by the teleporter at the end of the round to stay away from zombies spawning at the teleporter(kino)

    • http://gmail.com zmbislyr

      what about raygun upgraded

      • http://idno JUSTtH3wAY

        No u little kid,why waste ur time trying to get a dumb ass mother fuking raygun!U r the biggest asshole ever!The raygun suks a bunch of cock and its useless!Try getting to round 47 with a fuking raygun they are fuking worthless it izent even a REAL fuking gun u dumb shithole but i forgot u havent made it past round 12 DUMB SHIT ASSWHIP COCK BITCH SON OF A FUKER
        y dont u just go and masterbait because u havent u dumb shit OH I FORRGOT U DONT HAVE A DICK!

      • Pvt Caboose

        Why would you use such shitty grammar to troll someone asking a simple question? If all he’s been told is how great the raygun is then why not ask?

      • http://sarcasticgamer.com willis

        zmbislyr, I wouldn’t listen to JUSTtH3wAY, the RAYGUN is beast , but the part about round 47 is right but, all the weapons become useless to except for the thundergun.

  • http://gmail.com zmbislyr

    i wonder why i already know all this crap
    u r a stupidhead whoever created this crap

  • http://gmail.com zmbislyr

    lono’s a dbag lono’s a dbag

  • illicit

    K, these tips are completely worthless. Lono, go fking learn to play zombies. BTW fking Speed cola over Juggernog???

    • brandon

      ikr hes stupid

  • ilikepie

    speed cola… over juggernog? wtf?

  • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

    all day.

  • http://goat.com bookie

    THATS STUPID AS FUCK. THOSE TIPS ARE STUPID AND FAKE. JUST STOPWAT UR DOING AND DONT PL AY GAME EVER AGAIN U MAKE URSELF LOOK BAD

  • F@*%InGN00Bs

    i was just playin a solo game at a certain point you rely on traps it takes 2 shots from an upgraded ray gun to kill a crawler at round 28 at the first rounds buy juggernog at round 30 a nova zombie killed me in 2 hits and i had juggernog when it usually takes 5-6 hits at the beginning
    so jug over speed at the beginning. SPEEDY COLA IS NOT A WAIST IT DOES NOT BURN AMMO IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT IT KILLS THEM FASTER

  • http://gofuckyourself.net Raixion

    Come on guys, don’t be assholes. Lono, you’re right about most of the stuff, the main problem with this is you putting Speed Cola before Juggernog. I mean, thats enough for you to be considered mentally retarded right there. But otherwise, I agree.

    • http://sarcasticgamer.com willis

      You can stop being a kiss up Raixion,
      1: Everyone should go in the Teleporter because if there’s sucky people surviving on the least bit of guns they got and your help, there gonna die and get PISSED
      2:You can easily get guns and reload barriers by making a CRAWLER(just to let you know lono) by throwing a grenade or if someone has a raygun, shoot him in the legs, it’s easier because it won’t move as fast unless it’s angry, but everyone can get guns and gain some money instead of one idiot getting down by one zombie he couldn’t shoot
      3: Revive someone who’s closer so they can help you as backup or to revive everyone else, if you can revive the raygun guy if he’s by himself or if he’s going to die soon, and don’t save him if somelse with good guns is dying soon.

  • http://www.google.co.uk andy

    knife and pistol til round 5 but may need to move earlier depending on financial situation and how the game is panning out, spread cost of doors out between each other (there is 4 doors to the stage with prices of 750/1000/1250/1250), players with least money opens cheapest doors, switch on power, buy bowie knife, stab as much as possible till 2500 is saved for juggernog, stab/shoot as much as poss for a few rounds and keep crawler to rape the shit out of the mystery box till suitable weapon is found (HK-21 / RPK / RayGun are best), stab/shoot as much as possible til 5000 saved then pack-a-punch save more for speed cola (3000) then save further for quick revive(1500), then walk round the map doing laps bein careful not to get stuck on couches/doorframes/crawlers etc. shoot what is infront of you allowing the ones behind you to chase you, every so often when in a large open space (!!!NOT on staircases or in tight spaces i.e cloakroom or under stairs in the first room!!!) turn around and shoot at zombies until quite close then continue to run to next large open space in the next room, make sure that everyone runs together so when shit jus gets too much you can all make a quick escape in the teleporter continue this routine until some1 fucks up or you get sick of killin zombies

    crawlers should be kept at the end of every round after level 9 to board the windows and reactivate the teleporter

    some people like to use to teleporter at the start of every round to thin the amount of zombies out but i personally prefer to do about 2 or 3 laps of the map before i use the teleporter

    in higher levels the traps are crucial! but be careful to know which switch activates which trap as i have seen many people set a trap then run straight into it by accident at level 39 causing the game to end

    hope this is helpful, and this is just the strategy that i use because it works for me, most people find their own strategy that works or adapt other peoples strategies so i dont care if anyone thinks its bullshit

    knevitt08 (XBL)

    • http://idno JUSTtH3wAY

      my stratagey is i get a m14 then i protect ALL BARRICADS then wait to round 3-4.Then i kill ALL ZOMBIES BUT ~1~ and i throw a grenade in back of him to blow of his feet at this point u should have more than 500 points.then u go torward the Quick Revive machine and get a Quick Revive then get infront of Quick Revive machine and the crawling zombie should be infront of u.then when it hits at the same time jump and u will be ontop lf Quick Revive machine .But if u bye 3 Quick Revives then the machine will disapere and u will be oit of the map! Imade it to Round 22 until i got down to get ammo and got sarrounded so use ammo wisely!

      • fail

        round 22 isn’t good. And if you need an m14 to protect barracades, you suck. And you’re a gay-ass glitcher.

  • http://pepoleme brick

    u right thunder is way better

  • http://pepoleme brick

    is that glitch patched?

  • http://www.lougle.com swede

    LOL you can tell who the turbo geeks are, very passionate and have a vocabulary only vast enough for cursing. Grow up you fannies. You only act hard because it is a near impossibility that you will bump in to these people. You wouldn’t be so brave face to face, i’ll happily put money on you crying, cowards. Anyway shouldn’t you be in school? Reading your comments have been the most entertainment I have had in my 6 month tour of Afghanistan so far, thanks for the laugh. It would be great you read your strategy guide, why are you even reading these if you are sooooooo amazing?

  • SUCKITMOFO

    who cares its all about the fun u n friends have shhoting up zombies… i suck n i no it but its fun to play zommbies … n y the hell does it matter to get to level 47 or watever… its awesome to play n thts final :)

  • SUCKITMOFO

    n y the hell are u guys fighting its a fuckin GAME!!!!!!!!

  • SUCKITMOFO

    the army guy has a point u guys are retarded!!!

  • carlos

    wtf dizz shyt sucks yoo i better than all of ya stupid ass i made it up 2 round 54 by myself with mah sexy ray gun and thunder gun upraded i dont give a fuk if i waste my money fuk it and ya suck if ya have ps3 and wanna play with me to go 2 a higher level than ur shyt hole add me nikeboii45 aii.

  • pat

    so i dont see the greatest advice on this guide but it could be a lot worse. thundergun>ray gun no exceptions. juggernaut>everything double tap isnt useless forslower firing automatcs like the HK21 or the calamity and jane even though you should never pack a punch cz-75 you guys leaving comments seem to be really dickish i got to level 41 solo Kino 38 solo ascension and i did both of those with a ray gun it is essentiali mean just because your game sucks more cock than courtney love dosent mean you have to go hate on people trying to help… chill out

  • Brad

    Some of the things the OP I disagree with and I’ll put some of my own personal thoughts which work for me

    1. Always have one wall weapon because you will eventually run out of ammo with two mystery box weapons. The MP40 I prefer because the AK7U is outside and it is far too easy to get trapped but both of these guns are great points whoring guns. I also don’t think these should be upgraded because ammo costs way too much (4,500)

    2. Open up the top right door, the following door and the two doors to the stage so that way you have a circle you can continuously do laps around the map and the zombies eventually swarm behind you making you feel safe about turning your back and firing

    3. Juggernog is an absolute must and you should always get it as early as possible because sometimes you can get double bitch slapped which without it means game over

    4. Always have the teleporter charged and ready at the start of every round as an escape route for when things get out of hand

    5. In the later rounds you won’t have time to aim for the head and shooting at their body is a great way to accumulate points quickly. You will have to keep purchasing ammo but 500 points for a few thousand gained per round with the MP40 is a pretty good investment

    6. Try and always have a minimum of 2,500 points on you at all times so that if you do go down you can buy juggernon immediately, especially in later rounds

    7. The thundergun is probably the only gun you should upgrade, imo, but there are a few exceptions. The starting pistol is a great hidden gem but it can knock you down if you fire it too close to your body and the AUG upgraded comes with the masterkey attatchment which is brutal on the dogs.

    8. The bowie knife is a waste of points, it is slow and leaves you vulnerable after using it. The upside is it is pretty much a 1 slash kill on dogs up until the late 30′s rounds.

    9. This is just something personal I do but after about wave 20 I don’t even bother repairing the windows unless I get the contained drop, just keep doing laps and let them all follow you and you won’t even realise you’re not boarding back up.

    10. The mystery is not that great so try not to waste too many points on it. If you get a thundergun you’ll never need to go to the mystery box again unless you want to try your luck for monkey bombs.

    That’s pretty much what works for me on Kino, I routinely make it up to the late 30′s to mid 40′s but it just gets way too boring for me.

  • Brad

    One more thing, you should save the Max Ammo and Nuke drops until the later rounds because they will keep coming back but they are limited so it is best to save them, particularly max ammo, because you will get a max ammo drop everytime you kill the dogs so keep that when you really need it and when you upgrade your weapon make sure you use all the ammunition first because you’ll get a full clip back with your upgrade so don’t waste precious ammo!

    Hopefully my thoughts help some people.

    • Weylin

      Wait, so if you get, say, instakill early on in the rounds, it will appear less often in later rounds? If this is the case, then fuck getting instakill until round 15-20+ xD

      • JacobW1

        I”LL DO THAT

  • cock

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  • cock

    whoever plays on xbox 360 is actually is playin the shitbox gay60 ps3 is way better

    • JacobW1

      YEAH IM I ANNOYING?

  • cock

    PLay ascension you noobs ascension beats stupid kino faaaaaaags

    • JacobW1

      YEAH BUT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAD WONT GIVE ME PACK WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • cock

    kino fra

    fffaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggsssssssssss buy ascension bitches ps3_rulez

  • Fuk U Carlos

    Carlos you are a fucking mother fucking ass homo faggot. You think you are cool not only talking, but WRITING like that?!?!?! You cock sucking fucking wannabe fucking wankster. U should have your sorry ass beaten and sodomized for acting like such a fucking fool.

    • JacobW1

      u fuk dont talk like that to carlos he is right and … WHATEVER

  • Fuk U Carlos

    And all you mother fucking homo ass PS3 losers. Fuck you. You are fucking panty waste. Infact you aren’t even good enough to be panty waste. You are the anal leakage of a fucking donkey. Go stick your cock in your dogs ass.

    • JacobW1

      FUCK YOUR MUM LIL BITCH GO SUCK YOU MUMS VAGINA OHHH I FORGOT YOU DONT HAVE A MOUTH SO U CANT MOTHER FUCKING SUCK UR MUMS VAGINA

  • ps3_rulez

    @Fuk U Carlos xbox 360 is gay just like you fag.
    get a PS3 . Yore fucking panty waste BITCH

  • Weylin

    Hahahaha, watching you kids fight is so fun. This is a strategy guide, albeit a not-so-good one, Brad’s comment above is ideal. Well, for some on-topic stuff: I play solo and usually make it to round 20-26. I just knife them until round 4, and let them in on rounds 1 and 2 for any perks like max ammo (so you can do more point-whoring with your pistols before knifing them!). If I did everything right, and did not waste a quick revive, I will be leaving to the door on the right towards the MP40 room with over 5000-6000 points. If the random box does not appear in those two rooms, or the room next to it, then I settle with the MP40 AND the Stakeout (Stakeout gets PaP’d, is a really good zombie killing machine til about round 20ish). After the shotgun becomes useless, I go to the mystery box for a better gun like HK/RPK, Ray, Thundergun

    • brandon

      lol agreed …. not a very good guide but if u guys accually saw the people in reall life u guys woulnd act so tough and cuss people out because pretty much all u guys are pussies fighing over a game….lol

      • JacobW1

        BRANDON IS RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHTTTT! DAMN WHY DO I WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS, I NEED TO WRITE IN LOWER CASE! ok are you happy

  • Weylin

    I also play with my brother and my friends online. I try hard to stay with whatever shitty (usually) team I have. Most of the time, I end up minding my own business because my team mates have no idea what they are doing, and either keep dying or getting themselves in bad situations. I revive them when convenient, though. Usually, I play with people I know, because it is more fun when your team knows what the hell they are doing, xD

  • carlos is gay

    PS3 4 life u bitches are gay who ever sed u plyin on gay box 60 is fuking right u fuking gay fany sukers 60

    • JacobW1

      CARLOS IS RIGHT NO MORE XBOX XBOX XBOX…. WHOOOOOOOOOO

  • cock

    @ Fuk U Carlos
    Get a ps3 and a life prostitutional manwhore go get some money to buy yourself a ps3 you probably have a 360 arcade cheap ass bitch

  • dick

    double tap is a life saver. if you ever get cornered then it will kill the zombies alot faster and juggernog should always be first thing bought when power is turned on and if you have sucky guns and low points go buy a mp40. kills the zombies a gives you ALOT of points (do not upgrade)

  • Your Brain

    Hello. You have been rotting me continously with your lack of intelligent thought process. For example, this thread. Your mediocre arguement over consoles has done nothing but damage more of my vital brain cells. Niether console is superior, and both have a vary of pros and cons. Please, spare me any further torture and just enjoy your games. There is no “right” way to play a game that’s only true intended and designed purpose was to be for fun and entertainment.

    To the orignal poster, thank you for contributing what you felt was a reliable guide based on your own experiences. Yours is but another strategy along with many others. While it may not last as long as others, or vice versa, it seems to have worked for you.

    Thank you for your time. In the future, please nuture me properly. You know how to properly type, spell, and speak. If not for anyone else, then please do so for my sake. You’ve damaged me enough already.

    • JacobW1

      NERD !!!!!!!!

  • JacobW1

    Hey its me again sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i tried the rape train strategie but why do the zombies coming out the barrier stop coming out when you have the perfect rape train. i hate that rule because i was up to round 32 and i made 4 perfect rape trains on the round because the zombies stopped comeing then i killed the rape train then its like everything started again FUK why do strategies have unexpecting things?

    OK ANYONE WANT TO ANSWER ME JUST REPLY OKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKOKOKOKOKOKOKOKOKOKOOKOKOKOKOKOKO…. OK (SO IF U WANT TO ADD ME ON ONLY PS3 ADD ME JACOBW1.) AND ALSO THANKS FOR REPLYING!!!

    • http://sarcasticgamer.com willis

      Well the higher you go the longer the round, so when you kill a zombie more come to replace the dead ones until the limit of zombies is reached, that’s how it works with the zombies’ health, it increases by each round so you need more hits for zombies to where you can only leave traps.

      • JacobW1

        OH THE COMPLETLY SHIT!!!

  • JacobW1

    WAIT I FORGOT LOOK AT THIS!!! (SNICKERS) OHHH SORRY GUYS ITS NOT WORKING :(

  • invisable cortez

    its a fucking game every single one of u need to get a fucking life go outside and do something stop being so damn lazy SO STOP ARGUING DICKHEADS :)

    • JacobW1

      i do both stupid idiot so fuck your mum

  • Chris

    The raygun is good until later rounds get the thundergun go into a teleporter with everyone(kino) dont steall kills in the begining tell someone if zombies break through your door and get a mike if you dont have one juggernog first priority double tap is not needed with powerful guns until later rounds and buy doors for people dont be cheap all right

  • http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2010/11/general-black-ops-zombies-strategy-guide.html alex

    So…
    I (ME not you or other guys) knife and use my pistol till round 5/4, buy the first door and if other guys dont buy I buy the next too.
    Then I buy the mp40 and stay using that thing and search for ramdom box, then I run laps around the map till round 15/16, then I use the PaP-mysteryboxweapon.
    and use that thing till 30.
    Then I use traps and runn around the map.

    This is MY strategy, if u use other strategy I don’t care, do what you want. ITS A GAME