️ Work in progress.

Latest: v1.3.3: the Wave Gun from BO1's Moon, plus Electric Cherry and local-game fixes. See the Changelog.

About

Stairway to Hell is Ping998's map, later adapted to Black Ops by HomerJay42: a long climb up 11 floors, each opened by a door at the top of the stairs. I've ported it to Black Ops II zombies on Plutonium T6.

Screenshots

Features

• All 11 floors of the original map, with windows, doors and the power switch.
• 11 perk machines: Juggernog, Speed Cola, Quick Revive, Double Tap, Stamin-Up, Pack-a-Punch, Deadshot, Mule Kick, PhD Flopper, Electric Cherry and Vulture Aid. The last five are the real BO2 perks, jingles included. PhD works like BO1: dive to explode, and no fall damage.
• Mob of the Dead zombies: guards and inmates, as in the original.
• Special rounds: Brutus, leapers and panzers in rotation. Brutus scales with player count and round, and locks perk machines and the Mystery Box.
• The original map's extras: the gravity lever, the buyable ending, and the hidden perk bottle easter egg (shoot them all; they come back for another go and replay the song).
• 14 real Black Ops 1 guns: the PPSh-41, AK-47, Commando, FAMAS, AUG, M4A1, HK21, Stoner63, M60, Mac 10, KS-23, L96A1, WA2000 and Desert Eagle, ported with their original models, animations and sounds. They're in the Mystery Box alongside the BO2 guns, and their Pack-a-Punch versions use the original mod's names and BO1's burning-ember camo.
• Special weapons: the Thundergun (Zeus Cannon), the Wave Gun (dual Zap Guns), the Scavenger (Hyena Infra-Dead) and Cymbal Monkeys.
• Power-ups: Fire Sale, Death Machine and Bonus Points on top of the usual ones.
• Atmosphere: fog that thickens as you climb, and dust, ash, embers and fire on the way up.

Try it on our server

A server is live if you want to test the map without installing anything:

[CUK] Stairway to Hell [EU]: 37.187.250.23:5067

The mod downloads automatically when you join.

Download

Download: zm_StairwayToHell v1.3.3

Changelog

v1.3.3

• Wave Gun (BO1 Moon) in the Mystery Box: the dual Zap Guns kill a zombie with every hit; combine them (aim, or the alt-weapon key) into the Wave Gun, which cooks every zombie in a cone in front of you until they burst. Pack-a-Punch for Porter's X2 Zap Gun and the Max Wave Gun. Brutus and panzers take heavy damage instead of dying outright.
• Electric Cherry: the reload shock now actually damages the zombies it stuns (before, it only did anything when it killed outright).

v1.3.2

• Electric Cherry: the reload shock now has its sounds and a wider reach, and the machine no longer clips into the wall.
• PhD Flopper works like BO1: dive (go prone out of a sprint or a jump) to explode, and no fall damage at all.
• Death Machine power-up now gives the gun, and its HUD icon shows.
• Brutus no longer freezes in place after locking the Mystery Box or a perk machine.
• Vulture Aid: the stink cloud's HUD icon shows properly.
• The perk bottles replay the easter-egg song each time you shoot them all again.

v1.3.0

• Special weapons:
  • Thundergun in the Mystery Box. Pack-a-Punch it for the Zeus Cannon, with a new electric blast.
  • Scavenger (explosive sniper) in the Mystery Box. Pack-a-Punch it for the Hyena Infra-Dead.
  • Cymbal Monkeys in the Mystery Box.
• Pack-a-Punch camo: Pack-a-Punched BO1 guns use BO1's burning-ember camo over each gun's own detail.
• More power-ups: Fire Sale, Death Machine and Bonus Points now drop.
• Brutus locks perk machines and the Mystery Box. Pay to unlock them, as on Mob of the Dead.
• The Mystery Box stays in one spot, as in the original map. The perk-bottle easter egg now repeats: the bottles come back the round after you shoot them all.
• Atmosphere: fog that thickens as you climb, a different look for the lower, middle and upper floors, drifting dust, ash, embers and fire, and ground fog.
• BO1 guns show their proper BO1 icons on the HUD and in the box.
• Stairway to Hell loading screen.
• Gear rustle while reloading the BO1 guns.
• Smaller download: music and jingles are stored compressed, and the sound files are no longer included twice.

v1.2.3

• Electric Cherry fixed: the reload shock now kills or stuns zombies (its damage scales with the round), the machine prompt and HUD icon show properly, and the machine glows red instead of Speed Cola green.
• PhD Flopper and Vulture Aid machine prompts fixed.

v1.2.2

• Zombies don't spawn until a player is actually in the game (no more dying on spawn while the map loads).
• Panzers are much tougher: 15,000 health plus 1,000 per round, headshots do half damage once the helmet is off, and insta-kill no longer weakens them.
• Leaper rounds scale with the round: more leapers (6 per player, plus 1 per player every 5 rounds), up to 3 per player at once, and their health keeps growing (up to 4,000).

v1.2

• 13 more Black Ops 1 guns, real ports like the PPSh, with BO1's models, animations, stats, reload sounds and Stairway to Hell's own firing sounds. All are in the Mystery Box, alongside the BO2 guns:
  • Assault rifles: AK-47, Commando, FAMAS, AUG (with its ACOG red dot), M4A1
  • LMGs: HK21, Stoner63, M60
  • SMG: Mac 10
  • Shotgun: KS-23
  • Snipers: L96A1, WA2000
  • Pistol: Desert Eagle
• Pack-a-Punch: each gun has its Pack-a-Punched version with the original mod's names: AK470000, Predator, G16-GL35, Masonic-4, H115 Oscillator, Stoned69, Marauder6000, Mac n Cheese, Killing Shit 23, Awful Lawton, OVER 9000 and CANNON. The AUG has no upgrade, as in the original mod.
• BO1 guns show their proper colours: wood and blued metal instead of washed-out grey.
• Silenced guns (Commando, AUG, L96A1) sound silenced.

v1.1

• PPSh-41 (real Black Ops 1 port): the original BO1 gun, not a reskin. It keeps BO1's model, animations, reload sounds, 71-round drum and stats.
  • It's back on the secret-room wall, replacing the v1.0 AK-74u placeholder, and is also in the Mystery Box.
  • It fires Stairway to Hell's own sounds, taken from the original mod.
  • Pack-a-Punch it for the Pee Pee Poo Poo, the original mod's name.
• MP40 added to the Mystery Box, with its Pack-a-Punch version, The Afterburner.
• The PPSh has sharper surface detail (real normal and specular maps).
• Proper names and wall-buy prompts for the new guns.

v1.0

• First release.

Install

1. Extract the zip and copy the zm_StairwayToHell folder to %localappdata%\Plutonium\storage\t6\mods\.
   If you're updating, delete the old zm_StairwayToHell folder first.
2. Start Plutonium T6 Zombies, open Mods and load Stairway to Hell.
3. Start a TranZit (Classic) game. The mod replaces TranZit's map while it's loaded.

Known issues / not ported yet

• The Wave Gun's zombies burst with an electric cook and a gore explosion rather than BO1's swell-and-pop (BO2 has no microwave death animations).
• Found a bug? Post it below.

Credits

• Ping998: the original Stairway to Hell map
• HomerJay42: BO1 Stairway to Hell map
• Shep: BO2 port
• Uses Black Ops II assets from Mob of the Dead, Die Rise, Origins and Buried.