Modern Warfare Zombies – How To Quickly Revive Teammates Without Perks

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 introduces the largest cooperative zombies experience in a Call of Duty game to date, with up to 24 players deploying in multiple squads to the same mission area. While often operating independently of each other, Modern Warfare Zombies is a cooperative game mode at its heart, allowing players to help others who are not squad members with supplies, field upgrade effects, and even revives. While the maximum team size on deployment is capped at 3, players can further squad up in the game to a maximum of six players per squad.

With such an emphasis on teamwork, it is no wonder that Activision snuck in a clever way for players to almost instantly revive their allies, even without the Quick Revive Perk-a-Cola active. While players will find this revive technique works best on direct squadmates who are actively communicating with the party, players can use this trick on any downed player from any squad that is using proximity chat and has the necessary equipment.

To use the rapid revive effect, players will want to be sure they have at least one self-revive equipped and that teammates are close enough to reach players to begin the revive process before the downed teammate fully bleeds out. This trick does not work when reviving completely dead players and will require good timing, communication, and coordination between the downed squadmate and the reviver.

When downed, call for a revive and mention the equipped self-revive for use. When ready to come in for the revive, the reviving player should announce to their downed teammate that they are about to rush in and start the revive, prompting the downed teammate to begin using the self-revive.

If the reviving teammate begins their revive process while the down teammate is in the middle of using a self-revive, the revive progress for the reviving teammate will be partially complete – carrying progress over from the self-revive. Because the teammate finishes the revive process rather than the revive being completed by the downed player, the self-revive is not consumed, allowing players to utilize this technique repeatedly throughout multiple deployments without ever expending the equipped self-revive.

The downed player can also flutter the self-revive input to keep the self-revive progress without completing the revive – tap the input repeatedly as the blue revive bar approaches full to maintain the progress. If timing and coordination line up, players can reduce the revive time to less than half a second, although players can also improve this trick even without perfect timing if they can acquire Quick Revive.