IX
Intel Brief
Dropped into a gladiatorial arena in ancient Rome, the Chaos crew must fight through the undead and the champions of the gods to survive.
Setup Guide
Power
- Open each temple lane (Ra, Danu, Zeus, Odin) and clear paths to every altar room.
- Trigger each temple gong and kill the champion that spawns to collect the ritual head.
- Deposit all four heads at the Temple altar to complete core setup and unlock full map tempo.
Pack-a-Punch Location
Temple center altar, unlocked by placing all four champion heads.
Brazen Bull (Shield)
Primary survivability item for IX. Strong melee utility and critical for Iron Bull upgrade steps.
Ra Altar Room spawn. 
Ra Altar Room alternate spawn. 
Zeus Altar Room. 
Zeus Tower Entrance / Bath area. 
Odin Altar Room. 
Odin Tower Cauldron. Acid Trap
Needed for Scorpion Key route and high-round objective control.
Trap grate used in Scorpion Key chain. 
Crowd jar reward marker after max affinity round. IX
PARTIAL SOLOIX is a long ritual chain built around Death of Orion progression, affinity manipulation, challenge phases, and a two-elephant boss finale.
Open all four temple lanes, run gongs/champions, and place the heads to unlock Pack-a-Punch.
Acquire Death of Orion, process grinder/cauldron/fertilizer chain, and complete Danu underworld pod phases.
Complete skull/champion/obelisk/symbol rooms in order while controlling special zombie spawns.
Raise underground poles and finish the Arena electric-circle phase using Kill-O-Watt stun kills.
Enter the red portal and defeat both elephant phases by stripping armor and focusing face damage windows.
Field Strategies
- Treat arena and bridge as your two safest reset loops; do not trap yourself in narrow altar stairs during specials.
- Assign each player one temple side for faster head collection and cleaner challenge callouts.
- Use Serket and shield shots for revive windows, not random clear, then save specialist for underworld forced-fight steps.
- Control crowd affinity intentionally: max affinity for rewards, bad affinity only when a quest step needs it.
Special Enemies
Come in three variants: Fire (ignites a ground patch on death), Poison (releases toxic cloud on death), and Electric (shocks nearby on death). Identifiable by their glowing colour.
TIP Fire Catalysts - back away before finishing them. Poison Catalysts - shoot from range and let the cloud dissipate. Electric - safe to melee finish if you are already up close.
A massive heavily-armoured gladiator boss that appears periodically in the arena. Very high health and powerful slams. It drops significant rewards on death.
TIP Focus all players' fire on Blightfather immediately. The Sentinel Artifact is effective. Avoid standing directly in front of it - its slam has a wide forward arc.
Death of Orion Chain
Locate and collect the marked skull in Temple to begin the weapon chain.
Use Death of Orion charged shots on the Flooded Crypt grinder, then collect bone mesh output.
Ritual and Challenge Checks
Place bone mesh, charcoal, and crowd item in Zeus bowl to advance the growth chain.
Watch the obelisk flash order and kill only the required special zombie type sequence.
Wiki Intel
https://www.reddit.com/r/CODZombies/wiki/ix/
Temple trial cadence and arena special-round handling are the map's tempo checks.