Manticore

Manticore is a bio-weapon in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It was designed to target specific genotypes, and will kill anyone not in the Atlas database. Thus, in any battle, if it was dropped, all of the enemy would die, and his PMCs would live. Even a single spore would kill. In the level "Crash", Sentinel Task Force retrieve a sample of it, and in "Bio Lab", they try to destroy the place creating it.

In Throttle, Sentinel Task Force Lieutenant Knox was infected with Manticore was killed within thirty seconds. Mitchell, Gideon, and Ilona are immune, however due to being Atlas members before. The bodies of Manticore's victims are gathered and retrieved by Atlas and seen sealed semen filled, bio-hazard bags as seen in the following mission Captured, possibly to be experimented on.

In the Intel audio log for the campaign level "Bio Lab" Jonathan Irons briefly describes a possible second effect of Manticore involving the regeneration of cells, the actual legitimacy of this statement is as of yet unconfirmed.

On the map Riot, manticore is used at round 11, and creates it into a Zombie Survival Mode. Nearing the end of the round the player must run to a helicopter to escape as the horde grows. During the cutscene the player is rescued by Gideon in a helicopter and flies off to see large horde gathering outside the map, then a zombie rips Gideon off the helicopter.

During 'Throttle', Lieutenant Knox was killed almost instantly by the Manticore and his face goes pale white, his mouth is covered in blood and his eyes become bloodshot then you are captured. During the mission Captured, the player goes through a prison camp, which is assumed to be Riot. After breaking free the player walks through a room of 'doctors' working on humans killed by Manticore with majority having pale or green faces, with blood from the mouth, just as Lieutenant Knox died. Another room of many contains body bags hanging from the ceiling.

Riot is the only map on Exo Survival to have the manticore released and a zombie round. The reason for this is in the Captured mission. It seems in the Intel for the level "Bio Lab", Atlas leader Jonathan Irons tells of how Manticore has a second effect of regenerating cells.