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The original challenge to activate a nuclear strike in Al Mazrah returns to Call of Duty: Warzone with its latest seasonal content. It is a massive undertaking that can only be done by the very best. You must have an excellent idea of the map, great survival skills, effective communications with your teammates, equipped with the best weapons and gear, and a bit of luck.
The ability to drop a nuke is currently available in Urzikstan and Rebirth Island. The way to complete the challenge, however, is a bit different for both maps. There is also a new map coming with Season 4 called Incline, which will unlikely support the nuclear quest. So, keep your cross-hairs fixed on either Urzikstan or Rebirth Island.
Dropping a nuclear bomb to end the match remains the greatest Warzone achievement you can pull off. For your efforts, you will unlock a series of exclusive rewards and earn the respect of the Call of Duty community.
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How to Unlock & Complete the Champion’s Quest in Warzone
There are several prerequisites to launching a nuclear strike on the map and all the Warzone players within. It starts with unlocking the Champion's Quest contract by performing the monstrous feat of winning five matches in a row or 30 games within a season. If you complete either of the two prerequisites, your next Warzone match will spawn the Champion's Quest contract on the map. It will be a yellow icon with the letters WZ.
Communicate with your team members before starting the Champion's Quest. They might want to visit a Buy Station to get better weapons or stock up on armor plates. The contract is long and hard, so make sure to be as ready as possible.
When the contract appears on the map, any player from your squad can pick it up to start the Champion's Quest. Doing so starts a new objective that tasks your team to acquire three radioactive elements on the map. It also activates a timer to complete the entire Champion's Quest, failing which will not get you the nuke in Warzone.
Note that the nuke contract plays out a bit differently depending on the Warzone map. For Urzikstan, for example, the timer will be 20 minutes. For Rebirth Island, which is smaller, the timer will be 10 minutes instead.
Other players can loot the Champion's Quest contract by killing your team in Warzone . If that happens, you must track down the enemy players and kill them in return to get the contract back.
Finding the Radioactive Elements
The three elements to find are Beryllium (Be), Plutonium (Pu), and Tritium (T3H) in Warzone. They spawn one after the other, so you need to find the first element before revealing the location of the next one.
For the first element, open your map and head to the location marked with a yellow phone that has a radioactive icon and wings. There should be a special chest here you can loot to get the Geiger Counter. Open your map again to spot a newly marked area. Enter that green circle and use the Geiger Counter as a compass to locate the radioactive cache. The closer you get to the cache, the higher the radiation levels get on the Geiger Counter.
Your team members' locations are marked on the map after picking an element in Urzikstan. When playing Rebirth Island , though, your team members are revealed as soon as the Champion's Quest is activated.
For the second element, you must drill open a safe. Head to the new location, which will be marked with a yellow safe icon. Start the drilling process and prepare to defend the location. Fend off any enemy players looking to steal the nuke from you in Warzone until the safe is opened. Take the next element from inside and prepare for the next challenge.
The third and final element is relatively harder to get. Once you pick up the second element, a chopper will fly by your location. Your team needs to shoot that chopper down to loot its cargo for the final element. Ideally, your entire team can shoot down the chopper quickly provided that your weapons do enough damage, and you have enough ammunition.
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Revealing the Bomb Site
The location where you can activate the nuke is only revealed after collecting all three elements in Warzone. Find a place to bunker down with the radioactive elements and wait until the bomb site location is marked on the map with a yellow radioactive icon.
Activating and Defending the Nuke
In the final stages of the Champion's Quest, make your way to the bomb site and place all three elements into the nuke. This will activate a 2-minute countdown during which enemy players can try defusing the nuclear bomb. If they do, you must activate the bomb again to restart the countdown. If you manage to successfully defend the bombsite, though, the match will end with a brief cinematic where the Warzone map gets nuked to oblivion. This completes the Champion's Quest contract as well.
How to Reduce the Timer on Rebirth Island
Finding all three elements plays out differently on Rebirth Island. Instead of tracking each element individually, your team must wait for each element to drop before holding on to them until the next element drops. This adds a whole new level of danger to the Champion's Quest on Rebirth Island.
The timer for each element drop is 10 minutes on Rebirth Island, which would make the contract impossible since its completion timer is 10 minutes as well. There are several ways to reduce the timer after picking up the first element in Warzone. This is important to do to get the nuke, making the Champion's Quest fairly harder on Rebirth Island than on Urzikstan.
- Opening loot boxes (including duffle bags) reduces the timer by 2 to 3 seconds per container.
- Killing enemies reduces the timer by 5 to 20 seconds per kill.
- Interrogating downed enemies reduces the timer by 10 to 11 seconds per interrogation.
- Completing the Rebirth Island easter egg reduces the timer by 29 seconds per step.
- Buying items from the Buy Station reduces the timer as well. Always spend your money on armor plates because they are cheap and the amount of time reduced is the same for all items. If you are short of money on Rebirth Island, find some Biometric Scanners to trade.
If one of your teammates dies, the timer goes up by 30 seconds. However, if the teammate holding an element dies, the timer goes up by 40 seconds.
Call of Duty: Warzone
- Platform(s)
- Xbox One , PC , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S
- Released
- March 10, 2020
- Developer(s)
- Infinity Ward , Raven Software
- Publisher(s)
- Activision
