The Zombie Mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War offers some booster drinks that grant you various abilities. A YouTuber mixed and tasted these fictional drinks according to the recipes. Most of them he regretted.
What are these drinks? In the Zombie Mode of Cold War, you receive the well-known perks of the game through energy drinks. They can be found in vending machines scattered across the map. Instead of packing them into your loadout beforehand, you take a sip from the can and receive a perk in return.
These extras function similarly to those in the regular game, except that you can have up to six active at the same time and even upgrade them later. You can find more about this in our beginner’s guide to the Zombie Mode in Cold War.
The special thing about the drinks is: They have a list of ingredients. Each of these skill-ups states exactly what it contains. YouTuber JohnyJ25 made it his goal to replicate all of these drinks as accurately as possible and try them out.
YouTuber mixes skill-ups and regrets it
What’s in the drinks? Many of the drinks contained ingredients that are unsuitable or even deadly for humans, including bromine, smelling salts, animal urine, gasoline, and amphetamines. JohnJ25 therefore only used the ingredients that are safe and omitted or replaced the others. He estimated the proportions. His recipes are as follows:
Jugger-Nog (improves health)
- carbonated milk
- whole egg powder
- spinach powder
- iron supplements
Tempo-Cola (faster reloading)
- mineral water
- glucose
- cocoa nut extract
- caffeine
- guarana
- taurine
- cayenne pepper
Quick Revive (revival accelerated)
- cold coffee
- concentrated chicken broth
- anchovy paste
- soda water
Stamina (higher speed)
- lemon juice
- lemon zest
- vitamin K supplement
- capsaicin (cayenne pepper)
Elemental Soda (shots cause elemental damage)
- soda water
- magnesium supplement
- zinc supplement
- calcium supplement
- chromium supplement
Death Daiquiri (aim assist for critical hits)
- white rum
- sugar
- strawberry oil
- ginseng
- turmeric
- ginkgo
- ‘dried newt eye’ (mustard)
By the way, we do not recommend anyone to replicate this. Incorrect dosing, especially of the supplements or allergens, can lead to bad outcomes. Furthermore, it seems that none of these drinks are worth it…
This is how the experiment went: JohnyJ25 tried all of the drinks and cannot really recommend any of them – except for the Elemental Soda, which according to him just tastes like water. The rest is absolutely disgusting.
In the video, you can see him gagging, spitting out the drinks, or nearly throwing up:
Understandably, you might want to skip the drinks now. Who wants to drink cat urine or gasoline? Better to use an Easter egg that strengthens you every round if you don’t want to unnecessarily torture your soldiers.
Whether more drinks will come in the future or whether the developers might adjust the ingredients out of mercy, we cannot say for sure. However, we already know that various new modes and content are planned. Read here on MeinMMO, how the cool Zombie Mode of Call of Duty: Cold War will continue.
