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ULTIMATE CITADELLE DES MORTS EASTER EGG GUIDE! (ALL SWORDS + SPAWN LOCATIONS TUTORIAL)

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Key takeaways

Gaming

Storyline (what the Easter egg is “about”)

  • The guide walks through Citadel: Des Morts’ Easter egg chain that culminates in a boss fight against a golem.
  • Along the way, you unlock four elemental “incantations” (Light/Lightning, Fire, and the others culminating in Dark/Purple) by:
    • Assembling elemental swords
    • Completing trials that charge four mystical balls
  • After the trials, you use the guardian key and a red cylinder to start the fight, then weaken and defeat the golem through weak-point shooting and surviving its phases.

Gameplay highlights & key mechanics

  • Pack-a-Punch activation early via an Easter egg flow:
    • Remove locks
    • Kill the ghast in the box to get a crystal
    • Insert the crystal into a portal to spawn Pack-a-Punch
  • Elemental sword building:
    • Stamp parts from knight-helmet zombies (for statue exchanges)
    • Element-specific challenges involving things like:
      • parasites / lightning rods / purple-eyed zombies
      • fire grates
  • Major “puzzle systems” in the egg:
    • Symbol shooting (ceiling vs podium during Lion/Light steps)
    • Rings puzzle (Raven sword):
      • Place a fossil part
      • Enter correct codes
      • Spawn/pull purple balls into portals to advance
    • Trap/book page clearing:
      • Find matching trap locations and clear them with kills
    • Statue incantation activation order:
      • Weapon inspect while statues glow
    • Elemental trials charging four mystical balls (Fire / Lion / Lightning / Raven-Dark style)
  • Boss fight mechanics:
    • Shoot behind-the-golem to break seals, exposing weak points on different body parts
    • An immune phase requires survival while zombies spawn
    • Mutant Injector is recommended for large burst damage from safety

Step-by-step walkthrough (condensed)

1) Pack-a-Punch + initial Easter egg setup

  1. Open the map and activate Pack-a-Punch using the orange marker.
  2. Shoot locks off the indicated box.
  3. Kill the ghast inside to obtain a crystal.
  4. Place the crystal into the portal to spawn Pack-a-Punch.
  5. In the next room, after Easter egg dialogue, open the wooden door window flap—Gabriel speaks.

2) Collect 4 red-marked pages (with spawn locations)

  • In the sitting room, collect four pages scattered around:
    • Identifiable by red markings
    • Hold interact (square) on each to get a screen marker
  • If stuck, look for pages with a glowing red eye.
  • The video lists multiple possible spawn spots, including areas near:
    • Stamina Up-facing walls/sofa/TV/fireplace
    • bunk beds/table
    • near zombies/boxes/floor by boxes
    • (A full list is stated to be in the description.)

3) Unlock elemental swords (Light first, then Fire, Lightning/Stag, Raven)

The guide groups elemental sword steps together until round 10.

Round 10: start stamp farming

  • At round 10, knight zombies spawn with helmets.
  • Killing them drops a stamp part used for exchanging at statues.

A) Lion / Light Sword (first element)

  1. Pick up the first stamp and deposit it at the Lion statue.
  2. Identify the correct statue (typically via insignia placement and/or the sword name prompt after drawing).
  3. Shoot the crystal sequence near the crystal beam location (match the guide’s positioning to redirect consistently).
  4. Collect Amulet, then deposit it into the yellow portal.
  5. Complete the soulbox kill phase (~15–20 kills) and open the glowing yellow chest.
  6. With Lion sword active:
    • Find yellow-glowing parasites
    • Melee them using the Lion sword to make the door glow yellow
    • Deposit the charge into the door
    • Repeat until 4 symbols appear, then hold square to enter the chamber
  7. In the chamber:
    • Place Lion sword on the podium
    • Shoot ceiling symbols that correspond to the sequence
    • Retrieve Lion sword and open the chest to unlock light incantations

B) Fire Sword

  1. Obtain dragon stamp (exchange) if needed.
  2. Deposit Fire energy at the dragon statue via 3 separate fire grate runs.
  3. Route tip:
    • One left-side route can kill you unless you melee purple-eyed zombies while taking damage to reset health.
  4. After charging all three:
    • You obtain Fire sword
  5. Use Fire sword / Molotov for bonfires:
    • Ignite wood piles (Molotov shown first), kill zombies
    • Activate charged fire ability using both triggers
    • On the third pile, kill a ghast with Fire sword to get an ank
  6. Drop ank into the yellow symbol holder and finish soulbox (~many kills until complete).
  7. Melee the resulting chest with Fire sword to unlock fire incantations.

C) Stag / Lightning Sword

  1. Get stag stamp, exchange for stag sword/lightning sword.
  2. Collect three lightning rods:
    • First rod: lightning-rod zombie (armored), often near Quick Revive path
    • Second rod: near Deadshot Daiquiri area
    • Third rod: requires Dead Wire
      • Grab Dead Wire and shoot an electrical box to make a rod drop
  3. Place three lightning rods into a vase to trigger storm + purple-eyed zombies.
  4. Kill ~6–7 purple-eyed zombies with lightning sword to charge it.
  5. Shock sequence:
    • Melee the VS/Target vase to transfer lightning (may need repeats)
    • If no shock animation triggers, kill more purple-eyed zombies and try again
    • After the third successful cycle, stop/spinning ends → place the lightning sword into the vase to retrieve the charged sword
  6. Horseshoe charging:
    • Shoot horseshoe on the roof
    • Fire yourself from a cannon
    • Pick up the charged horseshoe
  7. Deposit horseshoe into the yellow insignia.
  8. Fill soulbox to unlock lightning incantations by melee chest.

D) Raven Sword + Dark (purple) incantations

  1. Exchange stamp for Raven sword.
  2. In the alchemical lab, collect one part variant per run (e.g.,):
    • Horn
    • Jawbone
    • Fish fossil (rock)
    • Scorpion fossil
    • Bird heads (listed as possible spawn points)
  3. Return to the deposit point with a metal grate wall slot:
    • Place Raven sword into the slot
    • Enter the correct inner/outer ring combination based on your part (codes referenced in the description/video)
  4. Ring/portal ball mechanic:
    • Purple balls spawn from rings and follow you
    • Drag 3 purple balls into the first portal, then repeat for next portal(s)
    • Close portals when requirements are satisfied to retrieve Raven sword
  5. Talon acquisition:
    • After Pack-a-Punch area: use cave slide with a bullet weapon
    • Shoot a startled raven to get a purple talon
  6. In the water room:
    • Place talon on yellow symbol
    • Soulbox (~20 kills) → melee chest unlocked to get purple dark incantation

4) Melee Machiato step: pages → traps → animal symbol order

  1. Purchase Melee Machiato (part can be found on battlements).
  2. Go to the water room with the wool panel and melee wool to open a symbol panel.
  3. Use the 6 vial symbols (roman numerals I–VI = 1–6):
    • Hold square on 6 vials to reveal the symbol order
    • Shoot the panel wall in that order to spawn a Red Orb
  4. Deposit the four pages into the wall opening.
  5. Determine animal page symbol order:
    • Example order given: Raven → Lion → Deer → Dragon (top-right to bottom-left interpretation)
  6. Clear trap locations using page symbol order:
    • For each page symbol, find the matching trap on the TAC map
    • Activate it and get ~10–15 kills
    • If you fail, wait for the next round and retry
  7. After all four traps:
    • Four animal symbols appear on the wall
    • Use incantation boxes in the knight room to activate statues in the correct order:
      • Take the correct incantation
      • Stand at statue, use incantation
      • Weapon inspect immediately while glowing
      • (Inspect removes the glow and lights the statue yellow.)
    • When all four are activated, pick up the mystical orb dropped from the sky.

5) Elemental challenges: charge 4 mystical balls (Fire, Light/Lion, Dark/Raven, Lightning)

  1. Fire challenge
    • Put orb into the courtyard ball holder
    • Get fire elemental kills
      • Fire sword charged attack recommended; Molotov allowed
    • When charged enough, pick up the ball
      • If it resets to “start elemental challenge,” you didn’t meet the kill requirement
  2. Light/Lion challenge
    • Put orb into the opposite ball slot (near the called-out area, e.g., near vulture raade)
    • Giant green balls appear—stand in them to help charge the orb
  3. Dark/Raven challenge
    • Put orb into the water-room ball slot
    • Get void kills that “suck” and drop zombies from the sky
    • Incantation/charged purple sword abilities may help (Shadow Rift mentioned)
  4. Lightning challenge
    • Put orb into the lightning slot
    • Use electrical incantation + lightning sword charged attack for shock-based kills until charged

Result: four balls charged → proceed to the boss fight.

6) Boss fight: Golem

  1. Prepare
    • Get as many perks as possible (Tier 3 Pack-a-Punch recommended)
    • Bring a bullet weapon (Ray Gun not recommended by the guide)
    • Bring Mutant Injectors and potentially GobbleGums
  2. Start sequence
    • Place a ball at the animal-wall hole so the wall recedes
    • Grab Guardian Key and take the red cylinder
    • Return to spawn and place cylinder; team votes to begin
  3. Fight mechanics
    • Early: shoot the back to break a seal (enables more damage)
    • Look for glowing weak points on different body areas (arms/shoulders/knees/wrists/chest/face, etc.)
    • It’s a bullet sponge—use lots of ammo
  4. Immune phase
    • At roughly ~20% health, the golem becomes immune
    • Survive while zombies spawn (incantations not required during immune time)
  5. Late phases
    • If weak points aren’t exposed, break them open like the initial back seal logic
    • Use Mutant Injector Cannon for large damage (~15K to 40K mentioned) and safety
  6. Win condition
    • Final phase: chest opens → shoot chest until it dies
    • Easter egg complete

Strategies / key tips explicitly emphasized

  • Crystal redirection placement trick: stand where the beam points to redirect consistently.
  • If parasites/charges don’t spawn, move to the next round to refresh.
  • For the Fire-grate route that can kill you:
    • Melee purple-eyed zombies while low health to instantly reset health.
  • For the Lightning rod shock step:
    • If it fails, keep killing purple-eyed zombies until the shock animation triggers.
  • For the Dark void challenge:
    • Focus on “suction” kills so zombies are pulled and dropped from the sky.
  • Boss:
    • Shoot glowing weak points
    • Use Mutant Injectors for high burst damage and safety
    • During immune phase, survive first

Gamers / sources featured

  • Video creator: Mr R waffles (mentioned at the start as the guide narrator).

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