Black Ops 6 Zombies release date, maps, gameplay mechanics, Augments and new Wonder Weapons

Round-based Zombies is backmost for Black Ops 6, with the fan-favourite mode bringing tons of caller content, alongside immoderate epic nostalgia.

Activision is doing distant with the open-world Zombie acquisition for Black Ops 6, and is alternatively bringing backmost what players ever wanted: round-based Zombies.

Call of Duty players got their archetypal sensation of Black Ops 6 past month, with the Black Ops 6 beta periods giving players constricted entree to the multiplayer mode up of the game's launch. But, unfortunately, determination volition beryllium nary specified beta play for Black Ops 6 Zombies, which, acknowledgment to the existent apathetic sentiment towards Warzone, looks to beryllium 1 of the astir breathtaking additions to a Call of Duty crippled successful years. After a four-year hiatus, Activision is bringing backmost round-based Zombies, with brand-new maps, gameplay mechanics, Augments and Wonder Weapons, but with plentifulness of nostalgia thrown successful too, arsenic the mode's communicative continues the communicative from Black Ops Cold War.

One happening is identical, though, with the purpose of the crippled being to past progressively hard zombie hordes, with caller enemies, caller weapons and power-ups greeting you arsenic you advancement successful the mode. It sounds simple, but it's thing but!

Here's everything you request to cognize astir Black Ops 6 Zombies, including the merchandise date.

Black Ops 6 Zombies merchandise date

The Black Ops 6 Zombies merchandise day is Friday, October 25 on each platforms. The mode goes unrecorded connected the Black Ops 6 merchandise date and volition beryllium disposable to play connected time one. Call of Duty players are successful for a dainty this year, with Black Ops 6 acceptable to merchandise 2 weeks earlier than past year's entry, MW3.

But dissimilar past year, Black Ops 6 won't beryllium disposable successful aboriginal access, with nary editions of the crippled offering aboriginal entree arsenic a benefit, truthful October 25 is the earliest anyone tin play the crippled for the archetypal time.

Black Ops 6 Zombies maps

Two brand-new maps are coming to Black Ops 6 astatine motorboat – Liberty Falls and Terminus. The erstwhile is simply a town-based representation featuring petrol stations, churches, graveyards, bars and an flat complex, and is the cleanable representation for beginners to the mode, arsenic it volition instrumentality a portion to get overwhelmed by hordes of enemies owed to the map's much unfastened areas, and offers plentifulness of ways to temporarily flight including side routes, ascenders, and adjacent zip lines.

Terminus is precise antithetic and is heavy inspired by immoderate of the maps we enjoyed successful Black Ops Cold War, and there's a bully crushed for that, due to the fact that the Black Ops 6 communicative picks up wherever Cold War near off! It's an abandoned investigating installation which, successful the wrong sections has a large circular country astatine its bosom with assorted constrictive bridges connecting the elevated areas on the broadside with the cardinal area. Outside, it's bigger than you think, with beaches and unfastened industrial, car park-like areas.

You tin cheque retired the Terminus representation successful the video linked below!

Black Ops 6 Zombies gameplay mechanics

Following the Call of Duty Next 2024 event, Activision confirmed each the caller gameplay mechanics coming to Black Ops 6 Zombies successful October successful a blog post, with each the info arsenic follows:

• Rampage Inducer: The circular accelerant is disposable if you request your zombies extra-focused connected devouring you.
• Ammo Caches: Manage your Essence to guarantee you tin refill your ammunition astatine immoderate of the Ammo Caches scattered passim town.
• Barriers: Mow down a fewer rotting foes to guarantee you’re gathering up your Essence, arsenic it’s the lone mode to region the barriers, allowing further exploration. Be a squad player, stock the acquisition of a “door buy” with a chap teammate. Initial barriers are laser cordons erected by Project Janus. Later into your exploration, locked doors and debris request clearing.
• Crafting Table: Ensure you find each the Crafting Tables, arsenic they’re a large mode to trade Tactical, Lethal, and Support Equipment.
• Mutant Injection (Support Scorestreak): Can you sojourn 1 of the Crafting Tables and (with capable Salvage) conception an impressively sized syringe enabling you to temporarily alteration into a Mangler, replete with limb cannon, blade, and a lax cognition towards wanton destruction? Yes, you can.

• Mystery Boxes: Feeling lucky? Pay Essence and find a random Weapon oregon Support Equipment here. Note immoderate Weapon you’ve built and saved arsenic a Zombie Build is simply a imaginable reward, with an other Rarity worth imbued into it.

• Wall Buy (Weapon): Grab a circumstantial armament disconnected a partition for a humble Essence spend. This is simply a guaranteed mode to get a rarer (and truthful much powerful) mentation of a circumstantial weapon, and if you larn the limb a Wall Buy offers, you tin physique and prevention a potent Zombie Build of it anterior to a lucifer and acquisition it close disconnected the wall!

• Ascenders and Ziplines: Traverse Liberty Falls astatine much than conscionable crushed level, arsenic determination are galore Ascenders (vertical) and Ziplines (horizontal) allowing entree crossed the map. All lines pb to the extortion of the Liberty Falls Savings & Loans Bank Building, affectionally known arsenic “The Alamo”.

• The Arsenal: “How astir you halt wasting my clip and commencement wasting the enemy?” The new-and-improved Arsenal allows you to walk Salvage collected from fallen foes, upgrading your limb rarity (and damage), and choosing an Ammo Mod (one equippable astatine a clip per weapon).

• Pack-a-Punch Machine: The Pack-a-Punch instrumentality allows 3 levels of betterment to your weapon’s harm and ammo capacity. In immoderate cases, it mightiness adjacent alteration however the limb functions....

• Exfil: Clear a way and mow down the undead lasting betwixt you and an extraction. An exfil aviator is on-hand to rescue you oregon your squad erstwhile the concern gets excessively overwhelming.

Wall Buy (Armour)

The lone surefire mode to get further Armor Plate Levels is to acquisition slots from a Wall Buy.

• Level II Armor Vest (Rare)
• Level III Armor Vest (Epic)

Weapon Rarities

• Uncommon (Green): Tier 2 Damage
• Rare (Blue): Tier 3 Damage
• Epic (Purple): Tier 4 Damage
• Legendary (Orange): Tier 5 Damage

Ammo Mods

• Napalm Burst (Fire)
• Dead Wire (Electric)
• Cryo Freeze (Frost)
• Brain Rot (Toxic)
• Shadow Rift (Shadow)

Black Ops 6 Zombies Augments

Augments are each astir customising your acquisition successful Black Ops 6, arsenic they connection imperishable gameplay advantages you tin use to each Perk-a-Cola, Ammo Mod, and Field Upgrade, which you tin put successful betwixt matches to marque your quality the eventual Zombie warring machine!

There volition beryllium implicit 100 Augments disposable to unlock and equip astatine launch, which are divided betwixt Perk-a-Colas, Ammo Mods and Field Upgrades, with players capable to prime a Major Augment and Minor Augment for each! Major Augments connection a important vantage to the behaviour of the item, with the Minor Augment offering a constricted advantage.

Here's the afloat database of Augments coming for launch:

Perk-a-Colas

• Jugger-Nog: Increase maximum wellness by 100.
• Quick Revive: Reduce the wellness regen hold clip by 50%. Reduce the clip it takes to revive an state by 50%.
• Speed Cola: Increase reload and armour replating velocity bonus by 30%.
• Stamin-Up: Increase question speed.
• PhD Flopper: Immunity to each self-inflicted harm and presumption effects. Dive to prone triggers an explosion, which increases the higher you fall. Immunity from autumn harm portion diving to prone.
• Deadshot Daiquiri: Aiming down show moves to force captious location. Increase force captious damage.
• Elemental Pop: Every slug you occurrence has a tiny accidental to use a random Ammo Mod effect.
• Melee Macchiato: Replace limb weapon butt with a deadly punch that sends enemies flying.

Ammo Mods

• Brain Rot: Bullets woody toxic damage. Each slug has the accidental to crook a Normal oregon Special force into an ally.
• Cryo Freeze: Bullets woody frost damage. Each slug has a accidental to dilatory Normal oregon Special enemies.
• Dead Wire: Bullets woody electrical damage. Each slug has a accidental to stun immoderate Normal and Special enemy, generating a tract that deals electrical harm to adjacent enemies.
• Napalm Burst: Bullets woody occurrence damage. Each slug has a accidental to ignite Normal and Special enemies.
• Shadow Rift: Bullets woody shadiness damage. Each slug has a accidental to spawn a achromatic spread if striking Normal oregon Special enemies, warping adjacent zombies distant and dropping immoderate from the aerial astatine precocious speed.

Field Upgrades

• Aether Shroud: Phase into the Dark Aether, becoming hidden from force detection.
• Frenzied Guard: Repair armour and unit each enemies successful the country to people you. During this time, kills repair a information of your armour.
• Healing Aura: Summons beams of vigor down connected yourself and allies to instantly revive and heal to afloat health.
• Energy Mine: Create a excavation of axenic vigor that detonates successful accelerated succession, dealing lethal electrical damage.
• Dark Flare (new): You make a monolithic vigor beam that deals lethal shadiness damage. The beam penetrates everything successful its path.

Black Ops 6 Zombies Wonder Weapons

Wonder Weapons are precisely what you deliberation they are, Incredibly uncommon and almighty prototype-style weapons that woody exceptional amounts of harm to immoderate force you travel up against, whether it's a regular zombie oregon an Abomination. Here's each Wonder Weapon confirmed for Black Ops 6 Zombies, truthful acold anyway.

Ray Gun (all maps)

The legendary Ray Gun returns! It's got a large ocular makeover for Black Ops 6 Zombies, but it inactive packs the aforesaid devastating punch arsenic it ever has. Firing the limb volition make a almighty ray of vigor that cuts done astir enemies with ease.

Thrustodyne Model 23 (Liberty Falls)

Players who retrieve Black Ops 2 volition beryllium precise acquainted with this Wonder Weapon, but it's been fixed immoderate large upgrades for Black Ops 6! Unlike the erstwhile version, which tended to interruption aft extended use, this 1 has an overheating mechanic instead.

For Black Ops 6 Zombies, the Thrustodyne Model 23 sucks immoderate adjacent zombies into its rotors earlier firing them retired of the back, ripping them to shreds. And, arsenic a secondary fire, purposefully overheating the limb volition motorboat a immense vigor blast, decimating each zombies successful a circumstantial area.

Beamsmasher (Terminus)

Although this limb is akin successful size and signifier to a airy instrumentality gun, don't get it wrong, this limb is the business. The Beamsmasher has 2 firing modes, with its superior mode firing a coagulated beam of Aetheric energy, which is truthful almighty that it simply vaporises enemies connected contact. But, the longer you occurrence the weapon, the much ungainly it becomes to wield.

With Warzone becoming much predictable each year, the instrumentality of round-based Zombies is simply a enactment of caller air, and mightiness good beryllium Black Ops 6's astir fashionable mode, peculiarly for returning players!