Buried Zombies Guide 2026: Easter Egg & Perks

This buried zombies guide exists because the text you gave me had the depth of a puddle. Buried is the Victis crew's last stop, a sandbox map where you get a giant ally, a bank account, and more buildables than any map before it. It is generous with power and merciless with your attention span. Read the whole thing or die confused, your choice.

The Map Nobody Asked to Finish

Buried shipped as DLC3 Vengeance and closes out the Victis story. The entire black ops 2 buried easter egg chain splits into two paths, Richtofen and Maxis, and you can only keep one path's completion active at a time. Finishing one locks the other until you redo it, which is the game's polite way of telling you to pick a side and suffer through it properly.

Perks and Pack-a-Punch, So You Stop Wandering Like Livestock

Knowing the buried pack a punch spot before you arrive saves you from sightseeing while something with too many teeth introduces itself. The buried perks locations are scattered and unguarded, which is Treyarch's version of generosity, take it before you regret it.

2026 Port, Same Old Corpse

The black ops 2 zombies 2026 PS5 release is a straight port, not a remaster, so nobody touched the textures and nobody added mercy. Split-screen works offline for two players with no subscription required. Online co-op for up to four players needs an active PlayStation Plus subscription, and cross-play with other platforms simply does not exist, so your friends elsewhere remain decorative.

The full easter egg on both sides technically requires four players. Solo attempts exist only through PC mod tools, and console players get no such kindness.

• Free Arthur from his jail cell and feed him booze so he clears debris across the map for you.

• Build the Guillotine from parts scattered near the early areas and power it by killing zombies close by.

• Throw a Time Bomb on the Guillotine to reach Round Infinity and search crew corpses for the hidden Switch.

• Pull the four hedge maze levers in the correct order, which you will get wrong at least twice.

• Make a wish at the fountain and survive the sharpshooter target challenge with an assault rifle and Speed Cola.

Completing the richtofen side buried path turns the map icon blue and earns the Mined Games achievement, assuming your group didn't quit halfway through the maze step.

Maxis Side: Mined Games

• Charge a lantern by feeding Leroy candy until he racks up ten zombie kills.

• Place the charged lantern on the Gunsmith rooftop after a jump most players fail on the first try.

• Solve the wall cipher to identify three names, then melee the correct signs with a Bowie Knife to spawn a wisp.

• Escort the wisp to the Gallows while killing nearby zombies to keep it from fading out.

• Repeat the wisp step a second time, since one charge is never enough for this map.

The maxis side buried route glows orange on completion and is generally regarded as the harder of the two, mostly because babysitting a light effect across a haunted map is nobody's idea of fun.

Wonder Weapons Worth the Effort

The Paralyzer is Buried's signature wonder weapon, pulled straight from the mystery box and essential for the Richtofen side's power step. Beyond that, the map leans on its buildables and the giant ally rather than a single flashy gun, so treat any buried wonder weapons discussion as a footnote, not the main event.

High Round Survival Strategy

If rounds are the actual goal, the buried high round strategy conversation is short: hold a choke point, train zombies in a loop, and stop admiring the scenery. Leave one zombie alive when a round ends so you can shop at the box in peace. Corners are where hope goes to die, so stop finding them.

That's the whole map. It won't get easier because you read this twice.