Easter Egg Guide: Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 --
Secrets: Free LGM-1 Wonder Weapon Guide -- Musical Easter Eggs -- Space Walk / DG-2 Turret -- Jump Scare -- Friendly Ravager Bongo -- Nikolai Back Story / Goat Toy -- Twin Ghosts -- Insta-kill Wisps -- Gramophone's Easter egg -- Purple Skulls / Free Perks -- Free Powerups --
Map Layout: All Areas --
Hi guys,
In the Astra Malorum Zombies map, you can activate special Gramophones that play classic Zombies music from previous games and also reward you with free perks, loot, and salvage.
There are 3 VINYL RECORDS hidden around the map. These need to be picked up one at a time, then placed into any one of the 3 GRAMOPHONES around the map which I will show the locations for below.
Once a Vinyl Record is inserted, the Gramophone will begin playing music and activate a Soul Box challenge. To charge it, you must kill zombies in a specific way, which differs for each Gramophone. Simply killing zombies normally will not work, each one has its own unique requirement.
When the Soul Box is fully charged, you’ll receive your reward. If you fail to complete it before the timer runs out, don’t worry, just advance to the next round and try again.
You can inserting the VINYL RECORDS into the GRAMOPHONES in any order, the VINYL RECORDS are not specific to a GRAMOPHONE location and can be used in all.
Vinyl Record Locations
Location 1 - Museum Infinitum
This VINYL RECORD is to the left of the CRAFTING TABLE in the Museum Infinitum area of the map, in the corner, up on a section of the WOODEN COLUMN.
Look up and you will see the VINLY RECORD, however to get it, you will need to JUMP up toward it and hit the INTERACT button to successfully pick it up.
Location 2 - Machina Astralis
This is located in the middle floor of the MACHINA ASTRALIS area. This is to the left of a GRANDFATHER CLOCK that is near to where the stairs take you down to the lower floor of this area.
The VINYL RECORD is sitting inside a WOODEN CRATE and can be picked up simply by interacting with it.
The closest GRAMOPHONE to this disc is actually in the ACRHIVE OF ORBS area, to the right hand side of the STAMIN-UP PERK MACHINE.
Location 3 - The Luminarium
This is one of the more harder to see VINYL RECORDS, mainly because it is in such a dark corner of the LUMINARIUM area.
Luckily it also has a GRANDFATHER CLOCK next to it, which we can use as a marker for our search.
It is to the left hand side of one of the WALL GUN BUYS in here, then you will see the GRANDFATHER CLOCK as shown below:
Simply go to the dark corner, the left hand side of the clock and hold the INTERACT button and you should pick up the VINYL RECORD.
The good news is, there is a GRAMOPHONE located in the LUMINARIUM, so you will have a short walk to insert the record into a GRAMOPHONE.
Gramophone Player Locations
Location 1 - Museum Infinitum
There is a GRAMOPHONE just facing the SPEED COLA PERK MACHINE in the MUSEUM INFINITUM area of the map, next to the GUN WALL BUY.
All you have to do here is MELEE the zombies in order to get the GRAMOPHONE to harvest the zombie souls, which will be a GLOWING PURPLE ENERGY WISP floating towards it.
You will have to get around 15 to 20 kills for each of these GRAMOPHONES, they are a hungry bunch, before it stops charging.
You will know you have completed this GRAMOPHONES challenge, as it will spit out a guaranteed RANDOM FREE PERK, extra salvage, essence etc. as a reward for playing the record in this machine.
Location 2 - Archive of Orbs
There is a GRAMOPHONE in the ARCHIVE OF ORBS area, where all the books are kept on the SHELVES that relate to how many times the STATUES in this room need interacted with.
It is also to the right hand side of the STAMIN-UP PERK MACHINE.
Place a VINYL RECORD onto the GRAMOPHONE and this time, instead of using MELEE to destroy zombies, we will need to destroy them using LETHAL EQUIPMENT, such as grenades, molotov's etc. in order to charge up the GRAMOPHONE'S SOUL BOX MECHANIC.
The easiest way to do this is by using MOLOTOV's as they last a lot longer when thrown inflicting constant damage to any enemy walking within the fire.
Sometimes 3 MOLOTOV'S is tricky to get 15 to 20 kills with this many, however if you trigger and insta-kill powerup when you get to this GRAMOPHONE, it becomes extremely easy to kill zombies very quickly charge this gramophone with souls.
When it is completed, it will spit out another FREE MYSTERY PERK for you to use, as well as more salvage, essence etc.
Location 3 - Luminarium
In the LUMINARIUM area, there is a GRAMOPHONE located in the corner of one of the rooms, between 2 SOFA'S / COUCHES.
Place a VINYL RECORD into the GRAMOPHONE and this time in order to charge up the SOUL BOX MECHANIC, you will need to use a FIELD UPGRADE to get kills with, such as MISTER PEEKS or DARK FLARE for example.
Once you get the kills with the FIELD UPGRADE, this will start to charge the GRAMOPHONE SOUL BOX until there is about 15 to 20 souls in it.
Once completed it will spit out the FREE RANDOM PERK and the usual essence, salvage etc.
One interesting thing about this Easter egg is that you can continue to do this with the GRAMOPHONES in the game, activating them charging them up with zombie souls, all throughout the play through.
The only thing is, you will not get more RANDOM FREE PERKS, your rewards will simply be HIGH VALUE LOOT rather then the perk, which in itself can be extremely useful.
So it is worth continuing when you are short on cash, powerups etc to activate this Easter egg so that it can be called upon again when needed.
Thanks for reading as always.
Henry
