Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
102 Achievements
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Xbox One
Xbox Series
Abnormal Energy Bill
In Tag Der Toten, light up all the totems in a single match
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How to unlock the Abnormal Energy Bill achievement in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - Definitive Guide
“Hey amigo, it’s me, from the lighthouse…”
You must complete all 5 Totems (3 challenges each, 15 challenges total) to get this achievement. This can be completed in solo or as a shared achievement, so once it's done in a game, everyone in that game will unlock the achievement. (Don’t let the length of this guide intimidate you, this is actually fairly easy to unlock.)
The order you do the totems in does not matter, however, once you’ve started a totem, you must complete all the challenges for that particular totem and collect the reward, before moving on to the next one. The amount of zombies killed for each totem scales depending on whether you are doing solo, duo, or quads. After each completed challenge, you will be able to redeem a reward at that Totem.
To be able to interact with the Totems, you must go up to Lighthouse Level 4 and hear from the Hermit (just unlock the staircase to get to the top level of the lighthouse, no need to press anything to interact with him). Once he gives his initial speech, you can interact with the totems. Simply walk up to each Totem, and interact with it to start. The Totems look like a scarecrow with a speaker for a head, and a metal helmet on top.
Lighthouse Station Totem (2nd Floor outside Lighthouse)
1. Kill enemies with headshots and collect brains (25 solo/50 quads) (Reward: Carpenter)
2. Kill enemies with a Shield bash (20 solo/40 quads) (Reward: Full Power)
3. Pick up pee jars in Lighthouse Level 4 and empty them in the Beach water (3 solo/5 quads) (Reward: Self-Revive)
Lighthouse Station Totem Challenge 3 Method: Pick up, one at a time, the pee jars from Lighthouse Level 4, around where the Hermit drops down the pallet. You CANNOT sprint, jump or drop off any area with the jar, or it will break, and you’ll have to pick it up again. You’ll still have your weapon out, so you can shoot. There won’t be a visual indicator that you have the jar, but their is an audio indicator (pee swishing around). Go down the stairs, and leave the Lighthouse to the right, and go through the Lighthouse Approach aka, the blue rock cave. Veer left once on the beach to the water, and press X once in the water to empty the pee jar (their will not be a prompt, but their will be an audio cue once you empty the pee jar and the counter on your screen will go up). Do this three times for solo/five times for quads, and claim you reward.
Beach Totem (Right before you get on the boat)
1. Kill enemies with snowballs (13 solo/26 quads) (Reward: Bonus Points)
2. Kill enemies using the Lighthouse Trap (15 solo/30 quads) (Reward: Instakill)
3. Complete SOS messages around the map (3 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Break Freeze Faster)
Beach Totem Challenge 3 Method: You must throw snowballs at the SOS to fill in the missing spaces in SOS. You can see the first SOS message (on the side of the boat) from the Beach or the Gangway to get on the boat. The second SOS message (on the side of the boat) is right outside of Artifact Storage beneath the ship, you can see the message from the Sunken Path. The third SOS message is on the side of the Lighthouse, you can see it from the Lighthouse Cove. Once all SOS messages are filled in with snow balls, claim you reward.
Forecastle Totem (On the back of the boat)
1. Kill enemies while standing still (25 solo/50 quads) (Reward: Carpenter)
2. Kill enemies with melee attacks (10 solo/20 quads) (Reward: Fire Sale)
3. Find soup ingredients, add them to the cooking pot, and add water (3 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Armor)
Forecastle Totem Challenge 3 Method: There are three ingredients you have to pick up (one in the Gangway (on the ship), one on the Beach (out front of the ship), and one in the Boathouse (building near spawn)). Once you’ve collected those three ingredients (1/3), you must go to the very edge of the boat in the Forecastle, with the cooking pot and interact with it to put them in (2/3). Once the ingredients are in the pot throw a snowball into the pot, aka adding water (3/3). Once your delicious soup is made, claim your reward.
Gangway Soup Ingredient Locations (Jar): On the counter corner, on the red booth, or on the food cart in the middle.
Beach Soup Ingredient Locations (Vegetable): On the barrels as an eggplant, waters edge corner brush as corn, or in the wheel barrel to the left of the tommy gun wall buy as cauliflower.
Boathouse Soup Ingredient Locations (Meat): On the kitchen stove, on top of a barrel, or on a wooden crate.
The ingredients only spawn once you’ve started the challenge, so don’t bother hunting for them in advance.
Frozen Crevasse Totem (Left pathway after spawn)
1. Kill enemies while standing in freezing water (20 solo/40 quads) (Reward: Bonus Points)
2. Shatter frozen zombies (6 solo/12 quads) (Reward: Max Ammo)
3. Play the Hermit’s favorite tune on the bells in Docks (5 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Extra Snowballs)
Frozen Crevasse Totem Challenge 3 Method: In the spawn area there are four bells, each plays a different note. You’ll want to shoot them in a specific order, random each time. The totem plays the notes, so if you turn on subtitles, you can see the note that gets played, and shoot the corresponding bell. I’d recommend (the lazy way) just shooting the bells until the counter goes up (1/5) then keep going. When it goes back to 0/5, you’ll know that’s the incorrect bell. Restart with bell you got correct first, and keep going till you get all 5/5 correct, then claim your reward.
Specimen Storage Totem (On top of the mountain, all the way on the right side)
1. Fling Zombies (15 solo/25 quads) (Reward: Instakill)
2. Kill enemies while riding on a zipline (10 solo/20 quads) (Reward: Full Power)
3. Complete the whack-a-mole station using snowballs (3 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Half Price Traps)
Specimen Storage Totem Challenge 3 Method: On the Loading Platform, right outside of where the challenge totem is, they’ll be an area with a target, and snowballs in front of it, this is where you’ll play three rounds of whack-a-mole. Fairly simple, just pick up snowballs and when the puppets pop up, toss a snowball at them. You’ll have to throw a snowball at the target to start the round up each time. Might be easier in duo/quads so that way someone can hold a zombie isn’t coming after you every time you do this. Multiple people can also play/throw the snowballs at the same time.
Achievement should pop for you/everyone once you’ve collected the final reward from the final Totem.
Not my video, but the shortest, and to the point video I could find:
You must complete all 5 Totems (3 challenges each, 15 challenges total) to get this achievement. This can be completed in solo or as a shared achievement, so once it's done in a game, everyone in that game will unlock the achievement. (Don’t let the length of this guide intimidate you, this is actually fairly easy to unlock.)
The order you do the totems in does not matter, however, once you’ve started a totem, you must complete all the challenges for that particular totem and collect the reward, before moving on to the next one. The amount of zombies killed for each totem scales depending on whether you are doing solo, duo, or quads. After each completed challenge, you will be able to redeem a reward at that Totem.
To be able to interact with the Totems, you must go up to Lighthouse Level 4 and hear from the Hermit (just unlock the staircase to get to the top level of the lighthouse, no need to press anything to interact with him). Once he gives his initial speech, you can interact with the totems. Simply walk up to each Totem, and interact with it to start. The Totems look like a scarecrow with a speaker for a head, and a metal helmet on top.
Lighthouse Station Totem (2nd Floor outside Lighthouse)
1. Kill enemies with headshots and collect brains (25 solo/50 quads) (Reward: Carpenter)
2. Kill enemies with a Shield bash (20 solo/40 quads) (Reward: Full Power)
3. Pick up pee jars in Lighthouse Level 4 and empty them in the Beach water (3 solo/5 quads) (Reward: Self-Revive)
Lighthouse Station Totem Challenge 3 Method: Pick up, one at a time, the pee jars from Lighthouse Level 4, around where the Hermit drops down the pallet. You CANNOT sprint, jump or drop off any area with the jar, or it will break, and you’ll have to pick it up again. You’ll still have your weapon out, so you can shoot. There won’t be a visual indicator that you have the jar, but their is an audio indicator (pee swishing around). Go down the stairs, and leave the Lighthouse to the right, and go through the Lighthouse Approach aka, the blue rock cave. Veer left once on the beach to the water, and press X once in the water to empty the pee jar (their will not be a prompt, but their will be an audio cue once you empty the pee jar and the counter on your screen will go up). Do this three times for solo/five times for quads, and claim you reward.
Beach Totem (Right before you get on the boat)
1. Kill enemies with snowballs (13 solo/26 quads) (Reward: Bonus Points)
2. Kill enemies using the Lighthouse Trap (15 solo/30 quads) (Reward: Instakill)
3. Complete SOS messages around the map (3 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Break Freeze Faster)
Beach Totem Challenge 3 Method: You must throw snowballs at the SOS to fill in the missing spaces in SOS. You can see the first SOS message (on the side of the boat) from the Beach or the Gangway to get on the boat. The second SOS message (on the side of the boat) is right outside of Artifact Storage beneath the ship, you can see the message from the Sunken Path. The third SOS message is on the side of the Lighthouse, you can see it from the Lighthouse Cove. Once all SOS messages are filled in with snow balls, claim you reward.
Forecastle Totem (On the back of the boat)
1. Kill enemies while standing still (25 solo/50 quads) (Reward: Carpenter)
2. Kill enemies with melee attacks (10 solo/20 quads) (Reward: Fire Sale)
3. Find soup ingredients, add them to the cooking pot, and add water (3 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Armor)
Forecastle Totem Challenge 3 Method: There are three ingredients you have to pick up (one in the Gangway (on the ship), one on the Beach (out front of the ship), and one in the Boathouse (building near spawn)). Once you’ve collected those three ingredients (1/3), you must go to the very edge of the boat in the Forecastle, with the cooking pot and interact with it to put them in (2/3). Once the ingredients are in the pot throw a snowball into the pot, aka adding water (3/3). Once your delicious soup is made, claim your reward.
Gangway Soup Ingredient Locations (Jar): On the counter corner, on the red booth, or on the food cart in the middle.
Beach Soup Ingredient Locations (Vegetable): On the barrels as an eggplant, waters edge corner brush as corn, or in the wheel barrel to the left of the tommy gun wall buy as cauliflower.
Boathouse Soup Ingredient Locations (Meat): On the kitchen stove, on top of a barrel, or on a wooden crate.
The ingredients only spawn once you’ve started the challenge, so don’t bother hunting for them in advance.
Frozen Crevasse Totem (Left pathway after spawn)
1. Kill enemies while standing in freezing water (20 solo/40 quads) (Reward: Bonus Points)
2. Shatter frozen zombies (6 solo/12 quads) (Reward: Max Ammo)
3. Play the Hermit’s favorite tune on the bells in Docks (5 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Extra Snowballs)
Frozen Crevasse Totem Challenge 3 Method: In the spawn area there are four bells, each plays a different note. You’ll want to shoot them in a specific order, random each time. The totem plays the notes, so if you turn on subtitles, you can see the note that gets played, and shoot the corresponding bell. I’d recommend (the lazy way) just shooting the bells until the counter goes up (1/5) then keep going. When it goes back to 0/5, you’ll know that’s the incorrect bell. Restart with bell you got correct first, and keep going till you get all 5/5 correct, then claim your reward.
Specimen Storage Totem (On top of the mountain, all the way on the right side)
1. Fling Zombies (15 solo/25 quads) (Reward: Instakill)
2. Kill enemies while riding on a zipline (10 solo/20 quads) (Reward: Full Power)
3. Complete the whack-a-mole station using snowballs (3 solo/duo/quads) (Reward: Half Price Traps)
Specimen Storage Totem Challenge 3 Method: On the Loading Platform, right outside of where the challenge totem is, they’ll be an area with a target, and snowballs in front of it, this is where you’ll play three rounds of whack-a-mole. Fairly simple, just pick up snowballs and when the puppets pop up, toss a snowball at them. You’ll have to throw a snowball at the target to start the round up each time. Might be easier in duo/quads so that way someone can hold a zombie isn’t coming after you every time you do this. Multiple people can also play/throw the snowballs at the same time.
Achievement should pop for you/everyone once you’ve collected the final reward from the final Totem.
Not my video, but the shortest, and to the point video I could find:
7 Comments
I can also confirm you can get this achievement in Casual (Solo). Thank you McAwesomePT!
By LordFightALot on 03 Oct 2019 15:48
How do you activate the lighthouse trap? For me, it says trap is unavailable
By GSR CAOR on 03 Oct 2019 23:53
There are five totems on the map. Each one will give you three challenges in turn, and each challenge will give a reward for completing them. To be able to activate them, you'll need to give the Hermit the blue rock from the cave. Note that I’ll be listing challenges as they are in solo, if you’re playing with more people the numbers will be higher. You can only have one totem active at a time, you can do them in any order but you must finish the whole totem before starting another.
Frozen Crevasse:
Frozen Crevasse:
- 20 kills standing in freezing water- Simple, there's freezing water everywhere. Just make sure you return to land every so often so you don't freeze.
- Shatter 6 frozen zombies- Easy again, three body shots or one headshot from a snowball will freeze a zombie, you can then shoot or knife them.
- Play the Hermit's favourite tune on the bells in Docks- The Hermit will give you 5 notes, you must shoot or throw snowballs at the bells in the correct order. If you missed the notes, you can interact with the totem again or just use trial and error by watching the challenge progress. A is on the pole next to the power, C is on the right corner of the Boathouse, E is outside the map to the left of the Strife and G is next to the little ramp you start on.
- Get 25 headshots and pick up dropped brains: Simple, just keep in mind you need to interact with the brains to pick them up.
- Kill 20 enemies with a shield bash: Simple, the shield parts are in Docks, Frozen Crevasse/Lagoon and Lighthouse. The shield takes damage from shield bashes however so you may want to stick.
- Pick up 3 Pee Jars from Lighthouse Level 4 and empty them in the Beach Water: Yep, you read that right. You need to get from the Pee Jars next to the Vapr wallbuy to Beach without running, jumping, falling or ziplining. Not too bad, just save one zombie at the end of the round and have a shield on your back and you’ll be fine.
- Kill 13 enemies with snowballs: Self-explanatory, one headshot or three body shots will do it.
- Kill 15 enemies with the Lighthouse Trap: There are three lighthouse trap activation points. Directly opposite the totem, next to the Brew Perk and outside the Boathouse. If you gather up zombies first you might be able to get them all in one activation, if not you'll have to wait for it to recharge.
- Complete SOS Messages around the map: You must do this by throwing snowballs at the gaps. The first is directly in front of you, the second is on the lighthouse and the third is on the other end of the ship above the Pack-a-Punch in Frozen Path.
- Kill 25 enemies while standing still: Another easy one, you can move between kills, just make sure to stand still when you get the killing shots.
- Kill 10 enemies with melee: Shield bashing is by far the easiest method for this, so use that.
- Find soup ingredients, add them to the cooking pot, add water: The soup ingredients can be found in the Gangway Kitchen, somewhere in the Beach area and in the Boathouse. Interact with the pot to add them and throw a snowball in to add water.
- Fling 15 zombies: The easiest way I found for this is to train a bunch of zombies, then when I'm ready run onto a flinger and lay down on it with my shield protecting most of my back until it flings. Though this does not have to be in one go, so you can play it safe by doing a couple at a time.
- Kill 10 zombies while riding on a zipline: The easiest way by far for this is to get rid of your snowballs, train a big group near a zipline (one of the facility ones would be easiest), then throw a Wraith Fire at your feet just before you zip, this should kill a good amount of them and will possibly finish it in one go. If you don’t have wraith fires, other grenade types could work in the same way to a lesser effect, or you can just shoot the closest ones to you when you first hop on the zipline.
- Complete 3 rounds of the whack-a-mole station using snowballs: The station is just outside on the Loading Platform, you start each round by hitting the target, then you must hit every puppet as they pop out the pipes. This can be frustrating on solo because it’s hard to hit puppets while avoiding zombies, you should save a zombie to make it as easy as possible. If playing with others, get one of them to hold the zombie elsewhere.
This guide was translated automatically.
The achievement can be obtained on easy difficulty. There are 5 scarecrows in total. 1st at the starting location, 2nd at the lighthouse, 3rd on the beach, 4th on the ship, 5th at the base. Everything is done simply and solo. Video guide for all tasks. They are easy, I advise you to do them in the same order as in the video.