the endgame
the button that ends the black ops ii story. it needs all four of you to have finished all three quests, all on the same side.
- players
- 4
- solo
- not possible alone
- difficulty
- time
- about 20 minutes
- reward
- the ending, and every easter egg across the three maps reset so any side can be done again
difficulty and time are an estimate made while writing, not a measurement.
before you start
- Tower of Babble, High Maintenance and Mined Games, finished by every player, all on the same sidethis is the whole difficulty. one person in the lobby on the wrong side and the button does nothing
- every NAV table built with the right Navcard in iton all three maps
- four players
the steps
there is a box on the wall with a grid of lights on it, three across and four down. one row per player, one column per quest: Tower of Babble on the left, High Maintenance in the middle, Mined Games on the right.
orange is Maxis, blue is Richtofen. twelve lights in one colour is the only state the button works in, and this is the fastest way to find out which person is short of what.
tipcheck it before anybody starts a run rather than after. it is the only place the game tells you what it thinks you have done.
with all twelve lights the same colour, walk up to the tracker, open it and press the button underneath.
Richtofen's ending: he takes the Aether, Maxis stops existing, and he moves into Samuel's head. everybody keeps a permanent
Fire Saleand aMule Kickthat carries four weapons instead of three.Maxis' ending: the map goes orange, Maxis takes the Aether and puts Richtofen's soul into one random zombie. that one has blue eyes among all the orange, and drops a powerup every time it is killed.
you only get this wrong oncethis wipes every easter egg you have done on all three maps. that is the point, since it is what lets you run the other side, but it is not reversible.
arrow keys or j and k to move, d to tick this one off.
all of it, done.
what that got youthe ending, and every easter egg across the three maps reset so any side can be done again
next on this mapMined Games, Maxisor pick something else
where this came from
- Mined GamesCall of Duty Wiki, read 2026-09-07
one source. most guides here have two; this is one nobody else has written up.
more on Buried
- Mined Games, Maxismain questbuild the gallows instead, escort the wisp on foot across the whole town twice, and ring nine bells to a switchboard.
- Mined Games, Richtofenmain questbuild the guillotine, decode a tic-tac-toe cipher off a wall, and go sixty seconds into a future where nothing you shoot dies.
- Always Runningsongthree teddy bears around the buried town, one of them in the house nobody wants to be in.