Black Ops 7 Zombies – How to Repair and Upgrade Old Tessie

Zombie mode returns Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 A new map for Cursed Ashes. The roads in Cursed Ashes are treacherous, so you'll need new wonder vehicles on the map to survive. Here we'll guide you on how to repair and upgrade Ol' Tessie to make your truck even more powerful. We'll also provide some helpful tips for finding and respawning trucks.

The complete upgrade mission requires the use of the unique Necrofluid Wonder Weapon on the map, and you need to start following these steps as soon as possible. You can refer to our guide How to Unlock the Necrofluid Wonder Weapon. You can also collect parts early in the game for later steps, so it's a good idea to read through the parts you need for the Tessie Turret upgrade before you start.

Completing all of Ol' Tessie's upgrades will also unlock a Black Ops 7 trophy/achievement called “I Heard You Like Upgrades.”

Ashes of the Cursed Miracle Vehicle Explained

Ol' Tessie is a new magical vehicle for Ashes of the Damned. The map does not have a traditional map layout, but instead is a huge map with six main points of interest connected by dangerous roads.

At the start of the match, you'll be guided through the first two enhancements to Ol' Tessie, including the powerful Pack-a-Punch upgrade, but then the quest marker disappears. There are also more powerful upgrades that the game doesn't tell you about, and there are some helpful tools and tips to help you keep your magical vehicle in good shape.

When you're driving Ol' Tessie on connecting roads, it's important to keep moving forward at all times. She's fragile in her initial state, so you don't want her to break down and leave you stranded in the road. You can repair her with salvage, or let her regenerate health over time, but it's really hard to do that and stay alive, especially in a solo match.

The roads on the map are littered with glowing plant pods and you need to swerve and avoid them as they will explode and cause a lot of damage to your truck. Predator enemies will also grab and deal damage, so don't stop until you reach the next POI and then the Predator will disappear.

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TEDD upgrade

The initial mission marker will lead you to the TEDD section in the spawn area so you can quickly get your first upgrade in the match. You take the part from the Quick Recovery room and interact with Ol' Tessie to install it.

Package upgrade

After completing your first upgrade, your quest marker will direct you to Ashwood. You need to follow the objective markers to turn on the power here before you can enter the garage. You can add the Pack-a-Punch upgrade here as well as the other hidden upgrades mentioned below.

It's also worth mentioning that this Pack-a-Punch upgrade means you can upgrade your gun at any time. You can even use the machine from the truck without getting out of the car.

This Pack-a-Punch upgrade also adds power to the truck, so you can escape those pesky marauders and get to your location faster.

Hate upgrade

The next upgrade will add the giant mouth of the abomination from Black Ops 6. To do this, you need to go to Exit 115. A special zombie called “Chef” will spawn in and around the restaurant. kill this zombie and Pick up the freezer key It will go down.

Go into the restaurant and use the key to the locked refrigerator. This gets you the Abominable Corpse upgrade. The parts were brought back to Ashwood's garage and installed via an upgrade bench.

With the Abomination Head upgrade, you will be able to use R1/RB to fire beams from the Abomination's mouth. This will help kill enemies in your path.

Turret upgrade

This final upgrade takes time and a lot of effort to collect parts, one of which isn't available until after round 15. You need a map Necrofluid Gloves Miracle Weapon As well as the previous Abomination upgrade for Ol' Tessie to collect the serum parts for this part of the mission.

Predator's Eye

Collect the predators at Van Dorn Farm or Ashwood by killing their eyes with a saw blade trap. You can kill them easily in a special round and one of them will drop Predator eye part.

human skeleton

Use the throwing ax to chop at the legs of the corpse hanging from the rafters of the barn. You want to target the first body you see hanging in the middle, just above the haystack.

It will drop part of the foot to the ground. Throw the Molotov on this shard to get and collect it human skeleton parts.

widow's lantern

Enter Blackwater's hut. Pick up the spore jar Located on a shelf under the kitchen sink. Then head to Van Dorn Farm and interact with the dead horse on the road in front of the farm.

You need to wait 3 to 4 rounds for the spores to grow on the horse, then you can collect them for Widow's lantern fungus section.

Hoarding Shell Blocks

Use Old Tessie's Hate Beam to attack the glowing purple flowers in the path. One of them will fall Hoarding the Shell Block Section Go pick it up.

Powder of the Forgotten

Get the Elf Tea perk from Zarya Cosmodrome, then you need to go to Ashwood's tailor shop to find the mirror. While the Wisp Tea is active, stand next to the mirror in the room and shoot the mirror with the Necron Glove. this will drop powder of forgotten parts.

mysterious body

The last part you're able to collect requires you to kill a zombie bear with Old Tessie's Hate Beam attack. These bears don't start spawning until after round 15, but knock them down with the beam to collect Mysterious body fragments.

Once you have all the serum parts, you can combine them in Yuri's laboratory to complete the second half of the turret upgrade mission.

Make the serum in Yuri's laboratory

Go to Yuri's Laboratory at Zarya Cosmodrome. This is found by opening the metal storage room door opposite the door you opened for the Support System area of ​​the map, where you command Klaus to help you obtain the canister of the Necrofluid Gauntlet.

First, interact with the bowl of white powder on the table. This will result in three lines of symbols, each decoding to one of the parts of the serum you collected. These ingredients on the table must interact in the order they appear on the board.

Using the first symbol of each line will determine the required section:

> = human skeleton

L = hoard shell blocks

C = Widow's Lantern

C with a dot = Predator's Eye

L with a dot = mysterious body

You can see my example in the image above, which gives me a dotted L, a dotted C, and a regular C. This means I need to interact with the Mystic Limb, Predator Eye, and Widow's Lantern Mushroom in that order.

If done correctly, red smoke will appear and you can continue with the steps. If black smoke appears, you need to try again in the next round.

If the smoke is red, you can interact with the table to add blood to the mixture. Doing so will Begin Lockdown Survival Steps. Be prepared. It's a tough place to survive, so make sure you have something to help you. Turret Lethal Gear, Insta-Kill GobbleGum, Armor and Perks.

If the lock fails, you can try again in the next round. Once you survive, you can continue the mission, which now requires you to collect keys.

Collect three keys

Three glowing keys are hidden on the path between POIs. Some key spawn points are out of reach, so you'll need the Necron Gloves to help you get to these. Inaccessible keys can be shot with the Necrofluid Gauntlet, and then you just have to reload the weapon to pull the item to the ground.

Each glowing key needs to be brought to the diamond-shaped box in Ashwood on the west side of the map. This will look like the weird locked item that appeared in the mirrored steps shown above.

Nightbird Key (Red Key)

The red key can be found in the Orda Graveyard, which is reached when heading to Exit 115 from Ashwood, staying on the correct route. From a distance you will see it glowing red.

The known key spawn points are:

• Inside the dinosaur skull on the mountain
• Behind dinosaur skull on the road
• Just on the road past the restaurant leads to a Project Janus vehicle. The keys may be in the back of the car

You can't regenerate health while holding the red key, so be sure to jump on Ol' Tessie and head straight to Ashwood to deposit it.

Brown Bear Key (Yellow Key)

This glowing key can be found on the road leading from Ashwood to the Zarya Cosmodrome.

The known key spawn points are:

• On top of a collapsed radio tower suspended above the road
• There is an array at the top of the tower
• Approach the Ashwood signpost as you make your way to the spaceport site, high on the cliffside

Holding this key will force you to switch to a dedicated melee weapon, so again make sure you jump on Old Tessie and head straight to Ashwood to stash it.

Turtle Key (Green Key)

This green glowing key can be found on the beached ship on the road from Ashwood to Van Dorn Farm.

Known spawning locations:

• Located inside the opening of the blue container near the stern of the ship
• between the barrels under the boat
• Inside the window of a small room on the deck of a ship

This key will disable your dash, thus slowing you down, so again make sure you jump on Old Tessie and head straight to Ashwood to deposit it.

Once all three keys have been stored, you'll be treated to a brief cutscene. You can collect DG-2 turret barrel part Once completed. Bring the parts back to Ashwood Garage to complete Ol' Tessie's final upgrade.

Tips and Tricks for Finding and Restoring Old Tessie

Old Tessie can automatically regenerate health over time. You'll know this is happening because a green light glows around the truck. She can also be repaired faster through salvage.

Cursed Ashes is a massive map that's easy to separate from your truck, especially in co-op play. You can use the button on the outside wall of Ashwood's Garage to respawn the truck for 1,000 points, or you can go to the teleport pad inside the garage and pay 500 points to teleport into the truck wherever it is on the map. This makes reuniting with teammates and positioning the truck faster than driving down the road.

If you're not in Ashwood and need to get to the garage, you can use the springboard at one of the main points of interest to get back there. The jump pad only costs 500 points, so it's a cheap way to jump around a POI when needed.