Ray Gun

"I don't know who Ray is, but his gun rips!"

- Tank Dempsey after picking up the Ray Gun in Nazi Zombies

The Ray Gun appears in Call of Duty: World at War the single player mission Little Resistance and the zombie levels Nacht der Untoten, Verrückt, Shi No Numa and Der Riese. It also appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops, in the zombie maps Kino der Toten, Five as well as Dead Ops Arcade. The Ray Gun is one of the most powerful weapons in the game, but is not available outside of these minimal appearances without the use of cheats or mods. It is unknown why the game producers put this in the game, but it is most likely for fun, or possibly as a reference to the Japanese attempts to make a 'Death Ray', similar to the Germans attempt at making a Wunderwaffe. The Ray Gun's appearance is of a generic '50s Science-Fiction film ray gun.

The Ray Gun is often the most favored weapon in Nazi Zombies due to its one-hit kill strength (up to about round 17 even when pack a punched) and its splash damage. Although it is less effective at long ranges (as the 'ray' moves slower than a bullet, but still quickly), it's pinpoint accurate - meaning that the player should aim his shots carefully. The Ray Gun can hold 20 shots inside its magazine, which is, strangely, stuck into the barrel (the magazine seems to be two batteries stuck into the barrel). Since most people tend to fire one shot at a time while using the Ray Gun, reloading won't be too frequent, and plus, reloading only takes about three seconds.

Finding the Ray Gun
The Ray Gun can only be found in the Mystery Box. Using the Mystery box costs 950 points. In Shi No Numa and Der Riese it is more common at later levels (15+), however on Nacht Der Untoten, it is more common on lower levels. The only maps guaranteed to get the ray gun are maps such as Anzio and others for the computer. See Mystery Box for a more in-depth explanation.

The single-player mission Little Resistance also features the Ray Gun as an Easter egg. After using the first artillery strike, head onto the beach. Starting from the far right side, there are three puddles. Jump into (and then out of) these in order (right, middle, left), until the player reaches the last puddle. Stay in this puddle for a while and look towards the tree line. After a while, the ground will shake and a deep, garbled, voice speaks. Contrary to popular belief, the voice is not Japanese. Four Shisaa statues will arise from the ground holding a ray gun. The ray gun has a laser-cross-hair sight, comparable to the Red Dot Sight from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The gun the player is given has maximum ammo, and the player can come back to the statues and get a new gun an unlimited amount of times. It can be used to destroy the tanks (2 shots) at the end of Little Resistance instead of calling an air strike. Due to it being a pistol, many people believe this weapon to be semi-automatic. However, holding down the fire button shows that it is in fact fully automatic, meaning it can be very efficient at killing zombies and Japanese alike.

On the iPhone
The Ray Gun also makes an appearance in the Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies app for the iPhone with a few differences from its counterpart on the console. It causes no splash damage to the user and loses its one shot kill abilities much earlier, at about round 17. Along with these differences, it is not fully automatic on the iPhone, only semi-automatic. Obtaining it on the iPhone gives the player the "Space Man" achievement while using it to kill 100 zombies gives the player the "Laser Face" achievement.

Appearance
The Ray Gun is crimson in color. It has some meters on it, and it contains something that appears to be some sort of Red Dot Sight system. Although one exception to this is that it's not a red dot, it's a red cross-hair. The cross-hairs appear to rotate alternatively on a vertical and horizontal axis, as if they are on a holographic screen. At the back of the gun, it appears to have a cog-shaped object with three rectangular-shaped bars atop it. There is a large handguard in front of the grip, and some sort of gauge on the sides of the gun, directly below the bar that acts as the rear sight (somewhat), which has a disputed purpose. There is also a toggle switch on the Ray Gun, next to the gauge, which has an indefinite purpose, but it could be used as firing mode selector, like on modern weapons like the M16, and it is set to fully automatic. This is a reasonable explanation since this is a "futuristic" weapon. On the side, title "Blast-O-Matic", possibly the official name, can clearly be seen on the back under the voltage gauge. Some players call this the "Hair Dryer" because of its appearance.



Tips

 * The Ray Gun has "splash damage", and thus hurts the user if the blast hits a surface or enemy close by.
 * Players will often use a high powered gun such as a machine gun, then switch to the Ray Gun for backup.
 * If in Last Stand during a zombie round it's good use to defend the remaining team who may revive the user by shooting the ground repetitively, rather than using the ammo to kill random Zombies. The splash damage will kill any zombies attacking the player's savior, allowing him/her to be revived at less risk.
 * The Ray Gun can and WILL push the player back if fired while standing still, but most players don't notice it.
 * The Ray Gun will lose its one shot killing power around wave 35. If it is upgraded it will begin losing its power at around wave 45. Because of this it is best to upgrade other weapons first.
 * It can also destroy Japanese tanks in the mission "Little Resistance" with three to four hits (if aimed right 1-2 hits).
 * If one obtains Porters X2 Ray Gun, it will contain 80 bullets in Last Stand (because the player receives two pistol magazines when downed). Sometimes when all players have run out of ammo a player will deliberately down themselves to use this free ammo before being revived and repeating the process.
 * The user must acquire a Ray Gun in the Mystery Box, not from the wall. This means the player cannot get more ammo unless the pickup "Max Ammo" or another Ray Gun is received.
 * If a player upgrades a Ray Gun in the Pack-A-Punch machine, the magazine will double to 40.
 * There is near a 10% chance of getting a Ray Gun on the first time going to the Mystery Box.
 * The Ray Gun is always available in the Mystery Box, but players are most likely to get it at rounds 15+.
 * The Ray Gun seems to have four metal bars on the back, and the highest is used for aiming.

Pack-A-Punched
When upgraded, the Ray Gun becomes Porter's X2 Ray Gun, with the upgrade, the magazine capacity is more or less doubled, spare ammo increased to 200 from 160, deals 2x as much damage (2000 vs. 1000), shoots red rays instead of green, and the splash damage is reduced, but the player can still see it. Also, should a player get downed with Porter's X2 Ray Gun the player will have a large amount of ammo to cover teammates. "Porter" is a reference to Max Porter, the person that designed the gun for the game.

The Ray Gun is one of the best weapons to upgrade, but as the regular Ray Gun is still more powerful than most upgraded weapons except the Wunderwaffe, it is recommended that other weapons are upgraded first. If the player shoots continually, they will be noticeably pushed backwards.

Call of Duty: Black Ops
The Ray Gun is available in Call of Duty: Black Ops, only in the Nazi Zombies game mode. While still being very powerful, the gun has a tendency to make crawlers on later rounds more often. Although this can be very useful, it can also create problems for the player, as the the player may be caught unaware by them.

When the player gets the ray gun from the box the player goes into an animation where they fiddle with the gun before it is able to be used, in an action that seems to be maybe turning the gun on.



Trivia

 * It's highly probable that the Ray Gun is American-made, as it can be seen in the weapons vault at The 00002042.jpggon during the cutscene where JFK and the others get ready to fight Zombies.
 * Above the left-hand radar on the gun pictured, the player can see (in black) an alien firing a ray gun, strongly hinting it isn't from this planet. The alien also bears a slight resemblance to the aliens in the arcade games Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid HD.
 * When the player receives the Ray Gun from the mystery box while on Verruckt the character will say something like "This ain't standard issue!" or "This is the weirdest gun I've ever seen!" or "Does this come with a manual?", and occasionally will shout "I got the spaceman gun!" or "It's like a gun that shoots rays!" or "This thing better pack a punch!" or "Is this a toy?"
 * The Ray Gun isn't available on the Wii version of World at War, but is on the Wii version of Black Ops in Kino Der Toten
 * The Ray Gun is among the worst weapons to Reload Cancel, with a half-second delay.
 * On the PC version of the game, if the player lowers gravity, when they shoot the ray gun at the ground, the user will then be pushed up into the air.
 * If the Ray Gun really is a gun from aliens, they use the same Arabic Numerals as on Earth. If the gun is observed in the light, the player can see that there are numbers and letters next to each one of the bars, such as 220V and 230V. However these could have been added by humans that got hold of it.
 * It is possible that the technology used in this gun is Japanese because the Japanese were known to experiment with microwave technology in WWII. They actually made prototypes like the Ray Gun, but were not nearly at the same scale.
 * On the front of a ray gun, there is a black flame design.
 * When acquired in campaign mode, a deep voice can be heard chanting, but it is not Japanese.
 * The pickup symbol is the same as the Colt M1911. This can only be seen through modding. Unless you switch the ray gun with a weapon in "Little Resistance"
 * When the Ray Gun has to be reloaded, the character toses in the chamber of the gun a battery like device which has a radiation hazard signal on it.This could hint that it is powered by nuclear power.
 * The ray gun's third person appearance is the same before and after it is upgraded in the Pack a Punch Machine.
 * The Ray Gun may be a human-made weapon, as it is in the achievement Acquire Waffe Weapons, which is obtained by getting the Ray Gun, the Wunderwaffe DG-2 and the Monkey Bomb. The Monkey Bomb is known to be human made, and the Wunderwaffe is based on a real life item, so the Ray Gun may be as well as it is a Wonder Weapon, and therefore possibly part of the Nazi Wunderwaffe program. If this is true then it is unknown how the Ray Gun appeared on White Beach, Peleliu.
 * When used on Little Resistance the player can shoot a dead Imperial soldier and after a few seconds their skin starts to decay and and they look like zombies from Shi No Numa. This works best when they are shot in the face.
 * By accessing the terminal on Black Ops, it is proven that the Ray Gun was infact built by Dr Maxis "Based on designs found at the Rising Sun facility in SNN"
 * In Little Resistance the Ray Gun can destroy a tank with one or two blasts.
 * In Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt, and Shi No Numa, the electricity rays going to the front aren't there, however it is on Der Riese.
 * In the iPod Touch and iPhone app, the Ray Gun is Semi-Automatic. Also, in the iPhone version, the one hit kill ability is lost at round 17, and users will not suffer splash damage with this version.
 * On Little Resistance, if the user fires the Ray Gun at a barrel, it will burn a hole in it.
 * The Ray Gun is the first fictional gun to appear in the Call of Duty series and was the only fictional gun to appear in any of Call of Duty's Single Player Campaigns, until the Thundergun could be found in Numbers.
 * It seems early when the game was released the ray gun had a green frame not a red one. This could of been an easy notice if the player played Nazi Zombies more than multiplayer or Story modes.
 * Sometimes, if the player shoots a zombie in the foot or in front of them, it will become a crawler. However, this doesn't always work.
 * If the player looks closely at the sights, they will notice that the front sight spins.
 * When the player switches weapons and the Ray Gun is equipped (ex. he had the Ray Gun equipped and switched to the MG42) the ray gun's switch is quite slower than other weapons.
 * In third person on the top of the Ray Gun, the Seal of the Emperor (also known as the Emperor's family Chrysanthemum) is clearly visible. This may indicate that this is a Japanese weapon, because most Japanese weapons were stamped with the Seal of the Emperor.
 * It is possible to carry only a Ray Gun in Little Resistance. First, the player swaps his primary weapon with the Ray Gun and then swaps his secondary weapon with the Ray Gun.
 * In Call of Duty: Black Ops, your first shot after equipping the Ray Gun will make the screen vibrate.
 * Considering all the possible origins of the gun (American- seen in JFK's armory in the "Five" cutscene, German- the fact that it is a Wunderwaffe, Japanese- by the fact that it is obtained in the level Little Resistance, which is set in Japan, and the Seal of the Emperor being on it), it is possible that there was a "race'" for the first successful Ray Gun by Nazi Germany, America, and Imperial Japan. This makes it possible that each Ray Gun the player acquires is a different one (or at least of different origin,) The one used in Five is American-made, the Ray Guns in Little Resistance and Shi No Numa of Japanese origin, and all others manufactured by Group 935.

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Acquiring this weapon on Little Resistance