MW3 Zombies Season 5 Reloaded features the FINAL Dark Aether Rift. Once players complete the final ACT 4 Story Mission, they will be able to complete a quest to unlock the NEW Rift. Players can re-enter the Dark Aether in MWIII Zombies Season 5 Reloaded if they complete an EASTER EGG on Urzikstan. Here’s everything we know about entering the last Dark Aether Rift Easter Egg in Modern Warfare 3 Zombies Season 5 Reloaded:
HOW TO ENTER THE FOURTH DARK AETHER IN MW3 ZOMBIES
To enter the final Dark Aether Rift, you must complete a hidden quest added in Season 5 Reloaded. Much like the Season 1 Quest, it requires you to find 4 artifacts and upgrade 3 of them. Placing them on 4 NEW pedestals will allow you to spend sigils to enter the fourth Dark Aether rift. Here’s how to complete the Hidden Quest:
HOW TO FIND DARK AETHER SIGILS
As a reminder, regular sigils can be obtained by completing tier 3 contracts and getting lucky in the reward rift. Regular sigils can be used to enter any and all Dark Aether rifts.
Free sigils are also awarded to players for defeating the respective bosses that spawn after all artifacts are placed on their pedestals.
HOW TO FIND ELDER SIGILS
Sadly, elder sigils are ONLY obtainable within Dark Aether rifts, and can be found in reward rifts upon completing contracts. If players already have elder sigils from their previous seasonal grinding, they can choose to go straight into the new dark aether rift to grind for the new schematics.
If players don’t have elder sigils in their inventory, then they’ll need to complete contracts in either of the two dark aether rifts that require regular sigils to enter.
COMPLETE THE FOURTH DARK AETHER RIFT
Firstly, you’ll need to unlock the Final Dark Aether Rift. Below is a detailed guide on how to do so.
MR PEEKS ARTIFACT
Enable to earn the first artifact, you must complete the Season 5 Reloaded “Ascension” Act Mission. This mission requires you to travel to the final Dark Aether area and parkour around the map and activate pillars by interacting with artifacts and cleansing the pillars.
Once the cleansing has started, you’ll need to kill zombies for Dr. Jansen. After a brief amount of killing, the challenge will complete. You’ll then need to travel to another pillar and start the cleansing again.
This time however, the Entity will move the artifacts and you’ll have to recollect them. Thankfully, they’re not far away from the pillar, so you can get back to cleansing it as soon as possible. After it’s done, you will need to make your way to the top of the tower in the middle of the map and use the floating vehicles to climb towards the floating platforms above the tower. Keep following the path presented, and you’ll make it to the shipping boat above!
Once all players have reached the boat, you’ll all need to reach the portal on the boat and jump in. You’ll then be teleported to the highest point in the map, and will need to parachute to the other island with a marker. Once you’ve reached the island, you’ll start the boss fight against the Entity.
This boss fight is simple. Firstly, you’ll need to shoot the orbs that show up on the Entity until they’re all gone. After that, the Entity will leave to another island. You and your team will need to just jump from island to island where the Entity is, and shoot the orbs once again. Redo this step until the Entity is defeated. After you defeat the Entity, you should be back at the island you started the boss fight at.
You’ll be tricked with a fake Reward Rift, and then the Entity will come back, this time with a twist. You’ll need to kill zombies to charge Dr. Jansen’s ability to create more orbs onto the Entity. You’ll need to repeat the last step, with the new addition of charging Jansen’s ability. Keep going until you defeat the entity.
After defeating the Entity, you’ll get the real Reward Rift with Mr. Peeks inside! You can then take the portal and leave the mission with Mr. Peeks!
ECHO OF DRUM ARTIFACT
You WILL NEED a Blood Burner Bike for this artifact. Either find one on the map, or spawn one using a Blood Burner Key. After you have one, you need to go to F4 on the map and go to this specific location:
Once you’ve arrived at the Mr Peeks, run over him using the Blood Burner, and follow the arrows to the burned car. If done correctly, you’ll hear Mr Peeks make a noise at each “checkpoint”.
Once you reach the end, a Reward Rift will spawn that will have the Echo of Drum in it.
Afterwards, you” need to migrate to the Opera House and go to this location to begin attuning the Echo of Drum.
Once you make it to the location, climb up and interact with the humming material to begin attuning the Echo of Drum. You’ll then notice the pillars around you began to glow and certain zombies will emit an elemental wisp.
You will need to use correlating Ammo Mods and kill the wisp zombies that match the Ammo Mods. If you didn’t bring any, that’s perfectly okay! Each pillar has a different Ammo Mod that you can equip straight from the pillars! Certain mods that will be used are:
- Cryo-Freeze
- Brain Rot
- Dead Wire
- Napalm Burst
If done correctly, a Reward Rift will spawn with the Attuned Echo of Drum!
ECHO OF DIARY ARTIFACT
Enable to obtain the Echo of Diary, you need to kill 5 Special Zombies with an Aether Blade. A lot of these artifacts need previous schematics/acquisitions, so try and stay stocked! After you’ve killed 5 special zombies, a Reward Rift will spawn with the Echo of Diary!
Once you’ve obtained the Echo of Diary, you need to head to the bird statue outside of where Legion’s Fortress would be (or the FREE Speed Cola Easter Egg if you’re familiar) and climb into the statue from the bottom to find the humming rock.
Once you’ve interacted with the humming rock, it’ll give you a free PhD Flopper perk (in case you didn’t already have it), and it will spawn a Golden Portal you’ll need to enter. Once you enter the portal, it’ll teleport you to on top of the Popov Power Plant where you’ll need to PhD Flopper dive onto a blue shipping container with an eagle on it.
As soon as you spot it, dive off of Popov Power and land on the container. This may take a few tries, but you get plenty of time to retry it. Once you’ve successfully landed on the container, a Reward Rift will spawn with the Attuned Echo o Diary!
ECHO OF GIRAFFE ARTIFACT
To obtain the Echo of Giraffe Artifact, you’ll need to perform an execution on a Mercenary at a Mercenary Camp. This is easily done with the Sergeant’s Beret, so we recommend you bring it if you have it.
After you’ve gotten a little bit set up, head to this white van where a zombie has the humming rock next to him. Interact with the humming rock and you’ll need to kill the HVT Zombie that’s marked. It can be hectic, but if you are set up with good loot, you can conquer this challenge.
After killing the HVT, a Reward Rift will spawn and you will get the Attuned Echo of Giraffe!
PLACE THE ATTUNED ARTIFACTS
After you’ve obtained the Attuned Artifacts, you’ll need to head to the Tier 3 “Ascension” portal and find the podiums in the fountain nearby and place each item in the labeled podium.
Just for a reminder, the items you’ll need are:
- Mr. Peeks
- Attuned Echo of Drum
- Attuned Echo of Journal
- Attuned Echo of Giraffe
Once you’ve placed each artifact, the final Dark Aether Portal will spawn. Kill the HVT that spawns and you can place any type of sigil in peace.
COMPLETE THE CHALLENGES
Once you’ve obtained access to the new Dark Aether Rift, you’ll need an Elder Sigil enable to earn the new schematics, but you can do the following challenges in a normal Sigil run. You’ll enter the Dark Aether and will have to find the three Mr. Peeks Contracts. The contracts will begin the following challenges:
- Outlast
- Spore Control
- Escort
In the Elder Run, you’ll have harder enemies and even less time than usual to complete it, so come in stacked with loot.
NEW PLANS AND SCHEMATICS
- Disciple Bottle
- Spawn a friendly Disciple to wreak havoc against your foes.
- Grenade Bandolier
- Replenish your Lethal and Tactical Equipment over time, allowing you to regularly bombard enemies.
- Stash Increase
- Increase your stash size to 30. Get lootin’.
THE END
Are you happy with the final Dark Aether Rift update in Modern Warfare Zombies? Below is a full gameplay walkthrough on how to complete the FULL Season 5 Reloaded Zombies update!
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