Co-op Nazi Zombies on Plutonium
One of the biggest WaW zombies communities on Plutonium. Four servers, nine maps in the vote, boss rounds, a shop, a points bank that follows you everywhere, and chat that translates itself. All of it runs on our own mod.
People actually play here
More than 4,000 players have joined our WaW servers since we opened them in June, and about 1,500 of them play in any given month. All four lobbies fill up, so if one's full, hop to the next.
4,000+
Players since June.
1,500+
Players a month.
4
Servers. Three in North America, one in Europe.
9
Maps in the vote.
More than vanilla zombies
Everything below is our own mod, and it's on all four servers. Type !commands in game for the full list.
In-game shop
Type !shop or hold Aim and Knife. Guns from a Kar98k up to the Ray Gun and Wunderwaffe, perks, Pack-a-Punch on whatever you're holding, and power-ups like Max Ammo, Insta-Kill and a Nuke. Perks you buy stay with you all game, even if you die.
Points bank
!d to stash points, !w to take them back, !bank to check. It's one bank across all four servers and every map. When a game ends, half of what you were holding gets banked for you.
Help your squad
!gift hands points to a teammate who's struggling. Everyone starts with an extra 500, and if you join late you get catch-up points, so you're not walking into round 20 with a pistol.
Perks the map never had
Mule Kick for a third gun. PhD so your own explosions and falls don't hurt. Stamin-Up. Jugg and Quick Revive on Nacht. And on maps with no Pack-a-Punch machine, you can still upgrade from the shop.
Four servers, one save
Three in North America and one in Europe for lower ping over there. Your bank and stats carry across all four, and your best rounds land on the same WaW leaderboard.
Link your Discord
Type !discord in game, link your account, and you get 10,000 points in both WaW and BO2.
Every so often, something bigger shows up
On the four Treyarch maps the first boss turns up at round 15, then another every 8 to 12 rounds. You get a warning the round before.
Each map has its own
Its own boss and its own intro. On Der Riese it's The Overseer. It's got a health bar, it slams the ground and it brings friends. Take too long and it leaves after three minutes.
Worth the fight
Kill it and you get a Max Ammo plus a bounty, split by how much damage each of you did. The later the round, the bigger the bounty, up to 8,000.
Not feeling it?
Type !noboss. If most of the lobby agrees, bosses are off for the rest of the map.
Chat that translates itself
Type in Spanish and the rest of the lobby reads it in English. Type in English and the Spanish player reads it in Spanish. Nobody has to set anything up.
Nothing to install
Same Plutonium client as always. The translation shows up a second later, only for the people who need it.
Some alphabets get spelled out
World at War can't show Russian, Chinese or Arabic letters, so those come through written in our alphabet. Takes a second to get used to, then it reads fine.
Set chat up how you like
Chat sits in a panel on screen, or the classic look if you'd rather. Move it, resize it, set how long messages stay up and pick your name color. It's all under !chat.
You pick the next map
Nine maps in the vote, and the lobby decides. The rotation is whatever the players want that night.
Classic Treyarch maps
All four originals: Nacht der Untoten, Verrückt, Shi No Numa and Der Riese.
Five custom maps
McDonald's, Alcatraz, Cheese Cube, Nuketown and Kino der Toten. They download by themselves when the map loads. Nothing to install.
Vote at the end
A short vote pops up when the game ends. Most votes wins. If nobody votes, it's Der Riese.
Or change it mid-game
!mapvote starts a vote any time. With one or two of you it has to be everyone, with three or more a majority does it.
The little things that save a game
!pause and !afk
Need a minute? !pause stops the game if everyone agrees, up to 10 minutes a game. Or go !afk and zombies leave you alone for up to 5 minutes while you grab a drink.
!join
Joined mid-round? Spawn in right away and skip the wait.
Locked at round 20
Once you reach round 20 the server closes to strangers, so a random can't walk in and wreck a high round. You get a join code to hand your friends.
!stats and !lb
Your kills, headshots, revives and best round, plus a link to the leaderboard.
!vanilla
Want it the old way? In rounds 1 to 3, if everyone agrees and nobody's bought anything yet, the shop, bonuses and bosses all switch off for that game.
!report
Someone ruining it? !report sends it straight to staff.
Things that were broken, and what we did
The mod on this server is ours, so when something breaks we can go in and fix it. Report a bug in Discord and it's usually handled within 24 hours.
Dog rounds that never ended
A hellhound would wander off and die somewhere the game didn't register, and the round would just never end. Zero dogs on the counter, no next round, Nuke did nothing. You sat there or you quit. Fixed on all four WaW servers.
A map that killed the server
One map took the whole server down as it loaded and dumped everyone into a lobby they couldn't join or leave. Took a while to pin down. It's been gated off since.
You don't get kicked for a fix
A fix waits for your game to finish and goes on at the next map. Your bank and stats stay put on all four servers while that happens.
How to connect
First-time Plutonium setup takes a few minutes. After that, you're one console command away from the server.
Own World at War
You need to legally own Call of Duty: World at War on PC. Plutonium is a free client, but it uses your existing game files; it doesn't include the game.
Install Plutonium
Make a free account at forum.plutonium.pw, download the launcher from plutonium.pw, run it, and log in. In the launcher pick T4 (World at War), click Setup, and point it at your World at War game folder.
Launch the Zombies client
From the launcher, start the T4 Co-Op / Zombies client (not T4 Multiplayer) and hit Play. The game boots into the Plutonium WaW menu.
Connect
Press the console key ~ (the key under Esc), type connect waw.vortexgaminghq.net:28960, and press Enter. If it says unknown command, try /connect waw.vortexgaminghq.net:28960. The North America overflow servers are on ports 28961 and 28962, and European players can use our EU server with connect 146.59.93.149:28960 for lower ping. Plutonium's browser has no favorites, so the console is the dependable way in.
Type !commands in chat
Once you're in, type !commands in chat to see everything: the shop, the bank, gifting, voting and the rest.
Server rules
Short list. Staff play here too, and they'll hold you to it.
- No cheating, hacking, or exploiting.
- Be respectful. No harassment, and don't pressure or force other players to leave the game.
- No griefing the co-op: don't down teammates or end the game on purpose.
- Don't abuse the points bank or gifting (no exploits or scamming teammates).
- No mic spam, and listen to staff.
- Keep it fun for the whole lobby.
Ready to play?
Grab a few friends and run the connect command. Four slots a server, and four servers.