Der Eisendrache Trivia Quiz

Answer: Find and kill Tank Dempsey

This, for a lot of players, is where the story stopped making a lot of sense. You really needed to brush up on in-game lore, tediously watch cutscenes and really listen to even seemingly obscure in-game dialogue to fully understand just what is going on.

On The Giant, the goal was to find and kill Richtofen- not Primis Richtofen, but Ultimis Richtofen. The reason for this is that the Ultimis versions of these characters must die, and their souls must be contained in the Summoning Key. This is done to resolve a space/time paradox caused by the simultaneous existence of the same person in the same universe. It will also later be revealed to have an even grander purpose on the Revelations map.

As such, one of the central goals on this map's quest is to find and kill the Ultimis version of Tank Dempsey.

Answer: Providing random power ups

Upon using it and after waiting a short time, the gondola will deliver a random power up to the player. Upon killing a zombie, it has a chance to drop a Tram Fuse which is needed to activate the gondola.

Answer: Kill Richtofen

His exact wording is "I will take whatever measures are necessary to ensure you do not leave this castle alive."

Up to this point, Richtofen has been deceiving Groph. As the team initially arrives, Groph will warmly greet Richtofen, as the two previously worked together as part of Group 935, a group Richtofen has since abandoned.

Once Groph sees Takeo, Nikolai and Dempsey with Richtofen, he grows suspicious and asks Richtofen why he is associating with their enemy. The aforementioned three were test subjects of Group 935, and directly opposed them during World War II.

As Groph finally uncovers Richtofen's true reasoning for being here, he becomes enraged and makes the above proclamation towards him.

Answer: Kill zombies near the dragons

The player must kill a zombie near the dragon they are feeding, wait for the dragon to finish devouring it, then repeat the process. This must be done eight times per dragon.

Answer: A Wonder Weapon

The Wrath of the Ancients may be freely retrieved from the staircase below Speed Cola and just above the Undercroft. It is a bow and arrow firing flaming shots, that can and absolutely should be upgraded.

Answer: Panzersoldat

While he is intimidating and still very threatening, the Panzersoldat is missing one key piece that made him such a menace on Origins; the Panzersoldat cannot use a ranged grab attack against players here, with this move being replaced by him shooting out a series of Electric Charges; when stepped on, players will be disabled from sprinting briefly and be unable to turn around.

Panzersoldats are still threatening to the point where players will want to at least have their Wrath of the Ancients ready to face them starting on Round 8. They may not quite put the fear of god into players like on Origins, but players who underestimate them will take a quick death all the same.

Answer: Yes

Fortunately, this entire quest and every single step could theoretically be done by a single player. Any quantity of players can finish this quest, and no particular step even really favors having extra hands on deck.

It is worth noting that players must acquire Wrath of the Ancients, and then this bow must be upgraded once for every player in the game. If attempting this quest with one friend, two Wrath of the Ancients bows will eventually need to be upgraded before players can finish the entire quest.

Unfortunately, the workload will actually get to be really tedious if the player does not have an internet connection to the game. If playing offline and solo, the player will be required to get all four different upgraded versions of Wrath of the Ancients before finishing the quest. If playing online, but solo, the player only needs to upgrade one bow. As such, there is a massive advantage to actually being able to connect to the game's servers. Even then, though, it is still possible to do this entire thing all alone.

Answer: Shoot it with Wrath of the Ancients

This is, unfortunately, highly time sensitive and also must be done correctly four times over the span of one round. If failed even once, players will be locked out of this step until ending the round and advancing towards the next one. Items will only stay electrified briefly before players run out of time. There are eight possible locations across the map for these items to appear. Annoyingly, if a player comes upon a location where an electrified item could be, but isn't, and the player shoots the location anyway, it will immediately fail the step on the spot.

The Stamin-Up perk is recommended for this step, to help players move around the map more quickly. If players find themselves needing to shoot a gun near a potential spawnpoint that is not electrified, they are heavily recommended to have a secondary gun that isn't Wrath of the Ancients, thus letting them defend themselves without risking step failure by inadvertently shooting a non-electrified item.

Answer: Four

As there is a maximum of four players per game, there is always going to be one unique bow variant a player could choose. Options include the Wolf Bow, the Fire Bow the Lightning Bow and, my personal favorite, the Void Bow. Each of these bows are incredible, and the player can't go wrong with any of them.

As such, they should make the decision based on leniency; which bow do you think is more fun? Looks cooler? Easier to acquire?

Answer: Interact with a locker

There are four possible symbols Groph will use to lock this locker, and he will use three of them in randomized order. Players must ensure to memorize exactly which symbols are used, and in what order they are used. As this occurs, players must also ensure they collect three different fuses from the room. Once Groph is finished locking the locker, players will be forcibly returned to the present, so they don't have very long.

Answer: Protect

The actual function of the Death Ray itself is not really important, but setting it to Protect will activate a group of computers resting off to the side of the Death Ray. Players must interact with these computers. In these computers, they must input the locker combination they saw from Doctor Groph in the past.

Failing this step has a really annoying consequence of forcing players to shoot electrified items, go back to the past, and get a new combination from Groph. As such, players really, really should ensure that they have the locker combination memorized before beginning this step.

In my personal experience, failing this step is typically what frustrates players to the point of giving up entirely. While failing this step is absolutely not an insurmountable setback, it can be extremely tedious to make it to this position, only to have to backtrack on the slightest mistake.

Answer: Samantha Says

The four computers players interacted with earlier will now be used, in three different locations, for this step. Each computer will showcase a symbol, then the largest computer will showcase a symbol. The player must find the small computer which had the same symbol that the large computer displayed, and interact with it.

The minigame gets progressively harder, and zombies will appear to try and distract the player, keeping their attention away from the computers. For this reason, a Gobblegum to slow them down such as Idle Eyes, In Plain Sight or Undead Man Walking would be a great idea for this.

They must complete the Samantha Says game at each of the three computer locations.

Answer: A rocket crashes down

Anybody in the area as the rocket crashes down will, unsurprisingly, be immediately downed regardless of how much health they had.

This rocket happens to contain Ultimis Tank Dempsey, whose death is needed to finish this quest. Unfortunately for our crew, Ultimis Dempsey may have been killed by the crash, but his soul is needed for the Summoning Key. Dempsey's body is sealed inside the rocket, which is protected by an electrified door, so there is still more work to be done yet in accessing it. Apparently, physical barriers find a convenient way to work against the Summoning Key when it's to the inconvenience of the player.

Answer: Kill zombies with the Wonder Weapon

Unless playing solo, players cannot simply brute force this step, as the ghost will indicate which version of the Wrath of the Ancients must be used when players stand near it. A color will fill a portion of the player's screen, directing them on which bow to use.

The color will only be of upgraded bows players have actually acquired, so this step will not punish less-than full teams for not getting very specific upgraded bows. That said, upgrading Wrath of the Ancients is mandatory to finishing this step, so all players involved must at least have gotten this far. Each player involved will eventually need to contribute to this step, as it takes place in four different locations.

Answer: No

After players have finished assisting the ghostly figure with upgraded Wrath of the Ancients, it will disappear. Doctor Groph will loudly curse them out for doing this and, as he does so, the sound of this figure entering his room can be heard.

It is difficult to say if Groph is killed during this sequence, though either way he will be killed after the boss fight, so it's not terribly important. However, once the creature is heard entering his room, Groph begins to lose his mind and sounds numerous alarms within his quarters and at the Der Eisendrache facility. He will curse the player(s) out one last time and promise that they will die, before he goes silent and is never heard from again.

Answer: Ragnarok DG-4

The Ragnarok DG-4 does not take up a weapon slot, instead functioning as Specialist Equipment. It can either be used to jump and slam down with, causing an infinite damage explosion sure to wipe a horde out, or the Ragnaroks can be placed on the ground, causing a huge electrical explosion meant to defend any ally inside of it.

To advance into the boss room, players must take their Ragnaroks to the Undercroft and approach the anti-gravity tiles. Each player must place their Ragnaroks down atop their own anti-gravity tile. Once every player has placed their Ragnaroks down correctly, they will proceed towards the boss room.

Answer: One freakishly huge Keeper

This Keeper resembles the Keepers seen on Shadows of Evil, only it is way, way bigger than they were. It will spend the entirety of the fight, hovering over the center of the circular boss room it resides in.

Answer: Ragnarok DG-4

The Keeper will make loud gargling sounds, sounds which seem anticipatory. It will begin to charge energy inside its chest as it hovers in place. If left uninterrupted, it will eventually touch the ground and cause a series of electricity to shoot out from it in all directions, immediately one shotting anyone it hits.

There are structures players can hide behind to evade this attack if it does launch, but there are also legions and legions of zombies and Panzersoldats in the room that will make standing one's ground for extended periods of time to be exceedingly difficult to potentially impossible.

To prevent this attack, one player with a Ragnarok DG-4 must run to the spot the Keeper is going to touch down on, and they must place the Ragnaroks down on this spot. Doing this will repel the Keeper as it tries to touch down.

Repelling the Keeper in this way is also how players are meant to actually damage the boss; as it is recoiling from the impact of Ragnaroks, the Keeper's huge open chest cavity is exposed which is the only area it can take damage from.

As such, proper use of the Ragnarok DG-4 is required in order to win this fight.

Answer: Blow up the Moon

On the Moon map, players capped off that quest by shooting a bunch of rockets at the Earth and blowing up major portions of it. They get to return serve in this instance, as they will shoot rockets at the Moon to blow a portion of it up.

The specific location on the Moon they target is Griffon Station, where Doctor Groph is located. The aim here was to blow it up, killing him in the process.

Answer: Kill him and take his soul

Initially, the group presumed him dead on the rocket landing. However, upon approaching it, Richtofen will realize that he is actually still alive. This is very bad, however, as they need him dead. Richtofen will proclaim this, then he will use the Summoning Key's power to entangle and suspend the other three in mid air to prevent them from intervening.

After explaining why Ultimis Dempsey must die, the other three agree to go along with Richtofen's plan. Primis Dempsey suggests that, if someone has to kill his Ultimis self, that it should be him that does it. Richtofen agrees, lets Dempsey down from his captive spot, and Dempsey does the deed after having sorrowful words for his other self.