Haunted Forest

"I see you have come back. Welcome, to my Haunted Forest! No more flowers or pretty little lights, you shall traverse in the dark. You have twenty minutes to defeat my challenges and prove your worth to me. You did the Forest His way, now you'll do it my way."

- The Angel

The Haunted Forest is an activity introduced as part of the Horrors of Extinction event for Call of Duty: Age of Extinction. In this activity, players will be facing against enemies and mini-bosses chosen by The Angel. Just like the Verdant Forest, the Haunted Forest will remain as a permanent game mode in the game.

Unlike the Verdant Forest, Difficulties will only affect how many enemies are encountered and how powerful they are. The Haunted Forest uses the same Difficulties as the Verdant Forest, however. The Haunted Forest also gives players only 20 minutes to clear all six Branches, if not running out of time before hand, players will be taken directly to The Angel Boss Battle.

At the end of the activity, players will be rewarded with Nexus Fragments depending on the amount of Branches they've cleared and how many Mini-Bosses they killed during their run of the Haunted Forest.

Reveler's Tonic
"(laughs) Your Tonic is useless in here. You don't need your Mysterious Supers to prove your worth!"

- The Angel

Due to The Angel's takeover of the Verdant Forest, players will be unable to use the Reveler's Tonic, thus rendering the Mysterious Super useless without it. However, this does not mean players won't deal any damage against The Angel or the other Bosses.

Instead players will be able to use their Class Abilities against the Bosses as well as certain Abilities.

Branches
Unlike the Verdant Forest, each Branch players clear will bring them to a Boss Battle and once killing the Boss, they'll need to clear another Branch. These Branches will get increasingly more difficult as players continue to pass each one.

Enemies players encounter in these Branches include:
 * Grimm
 * Cryptids
 * Zombies
 * Cyborg Zombies
 * Nexus Apparitions
 * High Value Tier Grimm

Some Branches will even contain a Nexus Apparition mini-boss who are known as "Daemons", these enemies will add more time to the Boss Battle once clearing a Branch.

Modifiers
Modifiers are special properties which are assigned to the Haunted Forest. All modifiers stack with the effects of currently equipped Relics. In private matches, these modifiers can be chosen by the host. In public matches, these modifiers are assigned automatically and by random. All Specialized Weapon Variants deal 30% less damage against all enemies; this also includes their Weapon Perks. Health regeneration is now dependent on player movement. Stationary will not regenerate health. Walking regenerates health while sprinting will regenerate player health at an increased rate. Health regeneration is a lot more slower than usual. In exchange, enemies will drop Nexus Orbs which will heal players completely. The Haunted Forest timer starts at 15 minutes. Killing enemies extends this timer up by two seconds. High-Value Tier Grimm will add five seconds. All Specialized Weapon Variants will have their Weapon Perks disabled for the duration of the match. In exchange, Class Abilities have decreased cooldowns. Melee damage is greatly increased and all melee kills reloads weapons. In exchange, all enemies will also deal increased melee damage. Movement speed, both while standing and while crouching, is increased; additionally, Class Abilities are more powerful and certain Class Abilities have longer active times.
 * Prism
 * Momentum
 * Attrition
 * Timewarp: Killing Time
 * Elite Soldier
 * Brawler
 * From the Shadows

Bosses
These Bosses will be fought in order and players will fight the first three twice. In the second battles against these Bosses, they'll become "Nightmare" versions, being particularly more powerful and stronger.
 * Branch 1 - Zack
 * Branch 2 - Robert
 * Branch 3 - Dave
 * Branch 4 - Nightmare Zack
 * Branch 5 - Nightmare Robert
 * Branch 6 - Nightmare Dave
 * Branch 7 - The Angel

The "Nightmare" Bosses are not difficulty-locked to the Nightmare difficulty, which was introduced in the Extinction's Revelry's event as that difficulty is exclusive to the Verdant Forest.

Trivia

 * Unlike The Angel; Zack, Robert, and Dave were killed by The Angel whom had turned them into evil reflections, bringing them to the Haunted Forest.