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Ludendorff Cemetery Survival

By Matt Gibbs
GTA Online
Published 17:30 Aug 31 2025 EDT•Updated 22:25 Nov 9 2025 EST
Ludendorff Cemetery Survival
Players fend off undead waves in the snow-swept Ludendorff graveyard in North Yankton.
Mode
Survival (PvE)
Game
GTA Online
Location
North Yankton
Introduced
Halloween 2024 seasonal update
Availability
Limited-time event; remained available through November 6, 2024
Waves
3 (Weekly Challenge target)

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Enemies
Zombies, hulking juggernauts, possessed wildlife
GTA+ benefit
Exclusive Mummy Outfit granted within 72 hours of participating
Status
Disabled

Ludendorff Cemetery Survival is a limited-time cooperative survival activity in Grand Theft Auto Online set in North Yankton.

Introduced as part of the 2024 Halloween update, the mode tasks players with enduring successive waves of zombies, juggernauts, and even possessed wildlife. Its design emphasizes short-form intensity with high replayability. It proved quite successful, helping GTA Online draw record numbers following its release.

Setting and Atmosphere

The North Yankton setting is integral to the Ludendorff Cemetery Survival mode. Its persistent snow, diffuse lighting, and mournful geography set a distinct tone from Los Santos. The choice of a cemetery offers a literal and symbolic terrain for supernatural contagion.

The graveyard’s constrained sightlines, clustered monuments, and narrow paths reward discipline and team spacing. Players must constantly decide whether to hold defensible choke points or rotate across open ground at the risk of ambush by fast-moving wildlife or the inexorable advance of juggernauts.

Across the same Halloween period, Rockstar seeded spectral phenomena throughout Los Santos, inviting players to hunt apparitions at places like the Hill Valley Church and other liminal spaces across the city.

While geographically distinct from North Yankton, these haunted encounters in the city create a parallel narrative arc for the event, in which the living world thins and death-adjacent spaces acquire agency.

The ghost schedules and rooftop apparitions are further examples of this, with Ludendorff serving as the wintery, combat-oriented counterpoint to the urban ghost hunt.

Core Gameplay and Wave Design

A wave-based format in a constrained arena invites classic survival strategies like area denial, target prioritization, and resource conservation. Juggernauts function as anchor threats that demand coordinated burst damage or kiting, while swarming zombies exert positional pressure by punishing tunnel vision and poor spacing.

The inclusion of possessed wildlife throws a monkey wrench into even the most coordinated group's plans. Their erratic movement and low profile stress tracking and reaction times.

Event Availability

Ludendorff Cemetery Survival was a limited time event, remaining available from October 10 until November 6, 2024.

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