Outbreak

### Objective

Survive against the limitless hordes of the undead, completing Operation Threshold objectives and optionally exfiltrating to safety.
Rendezvous with Ravenov and obtain critical research.
Locate the defecting Omega scientists and Exfil.

### Enemies

Zombies, Armored Zombies, Heavy Zombies, Hellhounds, Plaguehounds, Mimics, Russian Mangler Soldiers, Tempests, Disciples, Megatons, Krasny Soldats, Demented Echos, Ordas, Legion, Abominations

**Outbreak** is a large-scale Zombies experience and gamemode featured in *ShooterofIO: Dark Warfare 5* that was released on March 10, 2022 part of the Season Two of content for the game. Taking place mostly in different multiplayer maps known as "realms", sharing several features too. Outbreak takes the Surge Formula and expands on it. Objectives also appear in the mode. Currently, there is 13 realms planned for Outbreak.

Outbreak returns as the only playable mode in *ShooterofIO:* *Modern Ops III* Zombies, the game features all the regions that was added into the mode during *Dark Warfare 5*.

Outbreak features multiple past enemies and many new enemies. Season Three introduced three realms into Outbreak, Standoff, Rampage and Tower. The season also introduced the Survival limited-time variant of Outbreak.

## Overview

At the start of Outbreak, players will spawn in a random location known as a "Realm" with their selected loadout. Unlike traditional round-based Zombies experiences, there is an unlimited number of zombies roaming the realms that players must kill to fill a power-bar that will increase the wave number. Every wave players will be given an objective. Once the player completes the objective, they'll be teleported to a different random realm. Players can purchase perks and weapons like normal. The utilities are also available around each realm.

Players can also complete secondary objectives, called "Realm Events", available in each realm. While exploring the realm, players can encounter small, medum or large chests which offer loot such as weapons, equipment, Salvage, Power-Ups, Armor or Armor Plates, Perks or Ammo Mods. Mimics can also hide as large chests. Common Salvage stockpiles, worth 200 Salvage, can also be encountered around the realm. Small purple crystals can also be found and be destroyed (by melee or gunshot) for loot. Outbreak introduces two new enemies, Krasny Soldats and Tempests. A Demented Echo can also be found in specific locations within a realm, the Echo starts to appear in the second realm.

## Objectives

There are seven objectives available in Outbreak.

### Defend

    One of Doctor Elizabeth Grey's research teams have been overrun trying to sample an undead specimen within a Dark Aether Specimen Analyzer, or "DASA". Players are tasked with recovering the specimen's head and placing it in the analyzer, which will trigger a three minute defense. Players must protect the analyzer from surging hordes until the process is complete.

### Holdout

    Major Mackenzie Carver has identified a large Aetherium growth causing a rapid surge of unnatural Aetherium terraforming in the area and tasks players with destroying it. Upon placing explosives on the growth however, players are sucked into the Dark Aether and placed in a small building on the map, where they must survive a lockdown for three minutes and twenty seconds against the undead while a mysterious voice taunts them. After surviving the lockdown, players will be teleported out of the Dark Aether and watch as the crystal growth is destroyed.

### Retrieve

    A team sent to deliver Aetherium to Doctor Oskar Strauss has been eliminated. Players are tasked with reaching a rocket transport system and locating two Aetherium containment units nearby, which Strauss asks to be brought to the rocket within five minutes before the samples within them are lost. Collecting a unit will slow the player's movement and slowly destroy vehicles if the player enters one, though the player will have access to a unique ability that will kill all nearby enemies once the device is charged. Delivering both units to the rocket and loading them into it will launch the rocket to Strauss.

### Escort

    Grey has deployed a Requiem recon rover in the area to scan for stable rifts into the Dark Aether and deliver the rover's contents to the dimension. Players must deploy the rover from its transport unit and escort it through the map while it performs its tasks, all while defending it from the undead. After a couple of failed searches, either deeming the rift unusable, or attempting to enter but failing and being ejected, the rover will come across a large portal guarded by one or several Special zombies and a small zombies horde. Once the rover reaches the rift, it will force itself into it, sending itself and its cargo into the Dark Aether for experimentation.

### Eliminate

    Carver tasks players to remotely activate Requiem's orbital Dimensional Disruptor, which will forcefully bring out a Dark Aether HVT into reality. Players are tasked with killing the HVT, which will take on the form of an Elite or Special enemy with higher health and a unique name. While weakening the HVT to two-thirds of its health, it will warp itself to another location nearby, forcing players to give chase. After depleting another third of its health, the HVT will warp away one last time. Upon killing the HVT, the objective will be completed.

### Secure

    Players are tasked by Strauss to collect zombies essence after remotely launching two Essence Conversion Modules from orbit. The players will have to defend one module before moving to the next. Once a module has landed, it will draw a plasma field around itself and the players will have to kill the zombies in the circle to collect their essence. Once a module is full, it will reward the players with an item which can be Essence, Power-Ups or even weapons.

### Transport

    A Mobile Harvester Team tasked by Strauss to procure samples of a rare "primordial" type of Aetherium created by Dark Aether Vortexes has been eliminated. Players will be tasked with transporting a modified Cargo Truck fitted with Aetherium Containment Units to two Dark Aether Vortexes. When transported to the Vortex, the Cargo Truck will become temporarily disabled while the Containment Unit collects a sample. Upon collection of a sample, the Vortex will collapse and the Cargo Truck will regain mobility. With both samples collected, they must both be delivered to a rocket transport system, much in the same vein of the "Retrieve" Objective as the Aetherium Containment Units will produce Aether Canisters when near to the rocket for transport.

## Realm Events

Realm Events are side-objectives present at all realms.

### Nuketown

If players arrive in Nuketown, they can complete a hidden quest that rewards them with 15,000 points and can only be done once every match. Start with arriving in Nuketown and head to the sign in middle of the map, shoot the counter twice and then pass 3 waves by filling up the power-bar. Once done, you must choose to stay another three rounds at Nuketown. When you do, a bunch of purple crystals will appear, you must destroy them until you find a special star item that drops that has a orange glow. Pick that up and then interact with the sign counter again and you'll be rewarded with 15,000 points.

### Plaza

If players arrive in Plaza, go to the Collosus Logo sign. Throw a molotov onto it to turn it black. Go to the the side of the map near the ocean and a item that looks like the same star will appear and you can pick it up and access a piece of intel.

Players can also go to three locations to throw molotovs: The Collosus Logo sign, the South entrance, and the ground where you spawn to be given 5,000 points.

## Easter Eggs

"*Outbreak Easter Eggs are completely different from normal ones we do!*"
— Air Studios
Currently Outbreak has no easter eggs.

## Intel

*Main article: Outbreak/Intel*
There is a total of 80 intel notes in Outbreak. 20 intel in each realm.