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Main Quest · Shangri-La

Time Travel Will Tell

Shangri-La’s main quest frees — or tries to free — the explorers Brock and Gary from the temple’s time loop, and ends with the second artifact of Richtofen’s Grand Scheme: the Focusing Stone, shrunk down from a giant Element 115 meteor by wonder-weapon beams. It requires exactly four players, because the eclipse that powers every step takes four buttons pressed in the same instant, and one later step needs three players weighing a grate while a fourth rides the slide. The stone-bearer keeps all eight perks permanently.

Difficulty: HardSpoilers: medium
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Preparation

Before you start

Prerequisites

  • • Four players — the eclipse buttons and the slide step cannot be done with fewer
  • • Power on (both water levers)
  • • The Pack-a-Punched 31-79 JGb215 (The Fractalizer) for the finale
  • • Spikemores and an explosive weapon along the way

Walkthrough

Step by step

  1. 01

    Trigger the eclipse

    All four players press the four wall buttons near Quick Revive at the same moment — the sun goes dark and the temple shifts into the past.

  2. 02

    Find Brock and Gary

    In the past, speak to the two explorers trapped behind the wall near the MPL — the quest alternates eras from here, eclipse on and off.

  3. 03

    Work the temple

    A timed symbol-matching puzzle, the four-on-the-waterslide pressure plate, and a diamond shrunk with the Baby Gun and launched by geyser — the temple’s mechanisms, worked one era at a time.

  4. 04

    Gas, spikes and dials

    Ignite the redirected gas leaks with a lured Napalm Zombie, plug the four tunnel holes with Spikemores, and enter the radio code — 16, 1, 3, 4 — on the mud-pit dials.

  5. 05

    Charge the crystals

    Ring the four gongs and feed the Focusing Crystals with Fractalizer beams to recover Gary’s dynamite, then pass it to Brock through the back wall.

  6. 06

    Shrink the meteor

    The beams converge on the giant meteor above the spawn temple and shrink it to the Focusing Stone — collect it on the altar where Pack-a-Punch usually stands.

    Brock and Gary end the quest back at the moment they first found the temple. The loop holds; the stone leaves with you, bound for Griffin Station.

Following along in-game? Switch to Guided Mode for one step at a time on a screen you can read at arm's length.

References

  1. 1.Shangri-La — Call of Duty Wiki — Call of Duty Wiki (Fandom). callofduty.fandom.com · accessed Jul 22, 2026Community-verifiedcorroborate

Last reviewed Jul 15, 2026. Spotted an error? Suggest a correction.