Call of Duty: Black Ops III

This trophy is for completing a part of the Easter Egg on Moon. Moon actually has 1 very long and difficult Easter Egg, but this trophy is only for completing the first half of the entire EE luckily. As such it’s actually a pretty easy trophy, and can be done solo before round 6 if you’re lucky!

The only luck-based things you need are the Zap Gun from the Mystery box (looks like a dual-wielded Ray Gun), and getting the Excavator to go to Tunnel 6 (luck based). There is more info regarding these in their respective steps (Step 3 for Excavator, and 4 for Zap Gun).

Here are the steps for this EE:

Step 0: Open up the map and turn on the power.

You start off the map in Area 51, so rack up some points here if you can. I usually try to buy Juggernog first if the perk machine appears, otherwise I restart the map.

Then head off to the Moon. I recommend opening up Tunnel 6 first and following the linear path to get the underground pyramid, where the power switch is located.

If you have any extra points, open up the lab as well. It’s located up the stairs from the pyramid and will be needed for step 2.

Step 1: Complete the Simon Says game outside the receiving area.

Easy step, go back to the receiving area (where you first landed on the moon), and head outside towards Tunnel 6. You’ll see 4 computers flashing with Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow.

They will at first light up going left to right then back left, just to show you which colours correspond to which screen. Then it will flash a random colour on all 4 screens, simply hit on that screen.

You will have to repeat 5 more times, for a total of six colours in a row. Once you did them all correctly, the 4 screens will flash green a few times and then turn off.

If you make a mistake, the screens will flash red and you’ll have to start from scratch again.

Step 2: Obtain the Hacker and hack the 4 buttons.

Now you will need to enter the lab area. The lab consists of 3 floors, and it located in the room right after the underground pyramid.

There is an object called the Hacker that looks like a rectangular brown book that you’ll need to find. It spawns randomly across all floors of the lab. It is usually along the outer edges of a room; sometimes on gas canisters, sometimes on a computer terminal desk. The game will prompt you to pick it up with , so find it and pick it up.

Next, you will need to find 4 big red buttons along a wall on the second floor of the lab. Equip the Hacker with , and it will prompt you to hack any of the buttons for 500 points.

As soon as you hack one of the 4 buttons, a hidden timer will start (it’s about 1 minute) and a randomized computer terminal will become hackable. There are 8 terminals across all the floors of the lab (3 on the top and bottom, and 2 on the second floor), and only 1 will be lit up with a green light. Find it and hack it, then another one will light up. Once you have hacked four of them, go back to the 4 buttons and press on each.

If done correctly, the panels will light up with red and green flashing lights. Make sure all 4 are on and flashing to be done with this step. There is also a voice in the background that tells you how much time you have left in case you are worried that you might run out of time.

Make sure you keep the Hacker for the next step as well.

Step 3: Wait for the excavator to destroy Tunnel 6.

This step requires a bit of luck. Usually the first excavator starts working around round 5 or 6. It can be difficult to tell which excavator is activated, so the best thing to do is run to the receiving area and look outside or look at the excavator panels.

There are two panels facing Tunnel 6, and one facing Tunnel 11. Of the two facing Tunnel 6, the leftmost one is the one that has to be lit up. If that panel isn’t lit up, feel free to hack the other panels so that the excavator doesn’t destroy the area (If it destroys an area, you need the space suit to not die, so you wouldn’t be able to use the Hacker in that area).

My advice is to use this step to decide whether to do the EE or do the Ground Control trophy, meaning if Tunnel 6 isn’t excavated early on (like before round 15 for instance), you might as well go for the other trophy instead at this point.

Once Tunnel 6 is breached (You’ll hear a loud sound and some beeping), use your Hacker to hack the panel to remove the excavator, and then you can continue the EE.

Step 4: Find the Vril Sphere and move it around.

Before starting this step, I suggest increasing the brightness of your game, as the hallways are pretty dark and it is tough to spot the item you need. You will also need the Zap Gun for this step.

The Vril Sphere is an egg-like item that appears where the excavator blade was in Tunnel 6. It starts next to the doorway leading to the underground pyramid. You must either knife it or shoot it with any gun and it will start moving/bouncing around.

The first time you knife the Vril, it moves down the hallway and lands in a corner on the ground across from the Gobblegum dispenser. Then it moves down another hallway & lands on top of a sign that says "6" on a pillar near the L-CAR wall buy. Finally it ends up outside the receiving area on top of a satellite dish.

This is where you need the Zap Gun. Equip it, and press to change to it’s secondary form, the Wave Gun, then fire a shot into the sphere on the tip of the satellite dish. It will fall down and move towards Tunnel 11.

Now continue knifing/shooting the sphere and following it through Tunnel 11.
First it will be on the right wall sitting along a vertical pipe, then it will go up into the rightmost corner of the ceiling opposite Stamin-Up. Then it will land on a metal cylinder to the right of the underground entrance. Finally, it will go underground and land in a gap at the bottom of the pyramid to complete this step.

Step 5: Fill the tube with zombie souls.

A tube on the right side of the pyramid will rise, and you simply need to get about 25 kills near it. Once that’s done you’ll see the tube filled with blue souls, and zombie kills will no longer fill it anymore.

Then pull the switch on the wall near it (looks just like the power switch), and you’ve finished this Easter Egg! The trophy will pop for all members in the game.