Call of Duty: NEXT Reveals the Global Systems of Black Ops 6: Key Innovations Across Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone

This might sound intimidating to try, but Omnimovement is designed for players of all different skill levels, and you’re able (and encouraged) to learn how to really take advantage of these maneuvering innovations prior to your first Beta match:

In the Multiplayer Beta, you can access the Training Course by selecting “Find a Match” in the Lobby. You’re dropped into the MP Map Protocol (which is otherwise a launch map), where Frank Woods is on hand to offer you some “encouragement.” It’s here you can fully learn your Omnimovement capabilities, as well as optionally testing out the Intelligent Movement system (see below).

Omnimovement Basics: At its most basic level, Omnimovement allows you to Sprint, Slide, and Dive in any direction. Be sure you perfect the following:

• Sprinting forward, sideways, or backwards.
• Shooting targets while sliding or diving forward, sideways, or backwards.

The 180 Degree Combat Dive: Combine Omni-Sprint and 180-degree dives like a true Black Ops action hero with a technique designed to show off Omnimovement and act as a springboard for your own maneuvering combinations. You can:

• Sprint towards the edge of a building, then dive from the edge.
• As you’re diving in mid-air, you quickly rotate yourself to face an enemy situated behind you.
• As you finish your dive, you should be firing to eliminate the enemy.

Combat Supine: Master the supine position to effectively counter ambushes and enhance your combat skills.

• Drop to a prone position, then rotate your Operator for a complete 360-degree view of your surroundings.
• Locate the positions of nearby enemies.
• Then fire to eliminate the enemy quickly as they appear, all the while staying in the supine position.

Combat Slide and Dive: Use the element of surprise against enemies by combining Omni-Sprint with Combat Slides and Dives.

• Quickly sprint towards a door (closed or open) or another threshold.
• Evade enemy gunfire by Diving or Sliding through the opening.
• Then quickly aim and fire to eliminate enemies positioned to the left or right of your ending position.

Intelligent Movement

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In addition to Omnimovement, Black Ops 6 also features Intelligent Movement, which is a brand-new way for players to customize three elements of how Operators traverse the landscape. Available in the Keyboard & Mouse or Controller Options under “Movement,” you’re able to adjust the following features:

• Sprint Assist: Choose whether you want to manually or automatically sprint, tactically sprint, how much of a delay you want before sprinting begins, and if the assist occurs while sprinting sideways or backwards (due to Omnimovement).

• Mantle Assist: Customize whether you want you automatically mantle over no objects, low obstacles, or all obstacles that can be mantled.

• Crouch Assist: This enables crouching and sliding when your intent is to move through a valid opening (i.e., one requiring you to crouch).

• Corner Slice: Allows you to simulate a corner slice, the act of inclining your weapon (and camera) when adjacent to or moving around a corner. This doesn’t affect your aim. Default is “on.”

Sprint Assist: You can choose how this behaves. This can be switched off (default), turned on, or just related to Tactical Sprint Assist.

• Off: Sprint is activated manually with the Sprint button.
  
  
• On: Full movement input will activate Sprint after the Sprint Assist Delay time.
  
  
• Tactical Sprint Assist: Forward movement input will activate Tactical Sprint after the Sprint Assist Delay time. Sideways and Backward movement can also be separated to activate Sprint after the Sprint Assist Delay time.
  
  
• Sprint Assist Delay: This is the amount of time (in milliseconds) of movement input before Sprint Assist activates. You can choose from zero (default) to 1,000 milliseconds (or one second) delay in 50 millisecond increments.
  
  
• Sprint Assist Sideways and Backwards: Default is “on” and allows Sprint Assist to activate when moving in the specified directions.

Mantle Assist: You can choose how this behaves. This can be switched off (default), set to Low Mantle Assist, or turned on.

• Off: Mantling (the movement over traversable objects) is activated contextually with the Jump button.
  
  
• Low Mantle Assist: Mantle Assist activates when sprinting towards low obstacles.
  
  
• On: Mantle Assist activates when sprinting towards all obstacles that can be mantled.
  
  
• Sideways and Backwards: Mantle Assist can also be activated when sprinting sideways or backwards towards low obstacles. Default is “off” for both, though they can be set to “on” for either or both movement options.
  
  
• Tactical Sprint Only: You can set Mantle Assist to activate only while Tactical Sprinting. Default is “off.”
  
  
• Mantle Cancels Reload: Mantle Assist activates while reloading, canceling the reload. Default is “on.”

Crouch Assist: You can enable or disable this function:

• Off: This is the default setting and allows you to Crouch or Slide manually with the Change Stance button.
  
  
• On: Crouch Assist activates when Walking or Sprinting forward towards a valid opening.
  
  
• Tactical Sprint Only: Crouch Assist only activates when Tactical Sprinting towards a valid opening. Default is “off.”

With a more streamlined navigational experience, choosing a Loadout has never been quicker and easier. This includes a reworking of the Weapon Gunsmith to make it much more approachable, allowing you to choose from the vast array of unlockable weapon attachments with a renewed set of confidence that the build you’re making is suited to your exact style of play.

And thanks to the Black Ops 6 Global Weapon Builds (read on for more intel), your weapon creations can be shared across Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone!

It all starts in the Weapons Menu, and it’s here you’ll choose your Loadouts. While Black Ops 6is set to bring an exceptional arsenal of weaponry and equipment to the game – including 12 weapons all-new to the franchise – the following information details the streamlining and innovations made to the Gunsmith, beginning with Attachments.

Gunsmith: Attachments

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Looking back at how approachable the weapons systems of Black Ops 2 was, served as a huge inspiration for the Weapons Team, and though there are no plans to return to that system, the focus for Black Ops 6 is to condense and streamline Attachments so a player always feels positive and understands the bonuses when it comes to utilizing the Gunsmith. Here are some of the changes:

• Gaining the Advantage: Attachments almost always come with a benefit (Pro), and not a detriment (Con), so you know you’re creating a weapon more potent than the base version.
  
  
• Optics for All... : Almost all Optic Attachments are shared across all weapons in a Weapons Class. For example, unlock the Red Dot Sight with a SMG and you’ll be able to equip it to all SMGs in the Weapon Class.
  
  
• ...Everything Else is Unique: All other Attachment Types – Muzzle, Barrel, Underbarrel, Magazine, Rear Grip, Stock, Laser, and Fire Mods – are unique to the weapon in question.
  
  
• Getting Specific: Instead of having a weapon function – such as ADS speed – being affected by multiple attachments that are difficult to keep track of, they are related to a single Attachment type.
  
  
  • For example, equipping a “Rear Grip” Attachment will always improve your handling, and the grip you choose will boost a unique combination of handling stats (to Sprint to Fire Speed, Slide to Fire Speed, Dive to Fire Speed, ADS Speed, or a combination thereof). All the different grips are designed to improve the weapon’s potency, not reduce it.

• Information is Power: The net result of this new system – which we’ve just scratched the surface of – is that it allows players to make informed weapon-building decisions easily and create effective Builds without constantly needing looking up “meta” builds online.
  
  
• Details Matter: Don’t mistake this streamlining as “dumbing down” the Gunsmith, as your Firepower, Accuracy, Handling, and Mobility statistics can also be seen in an expanded view, with individual elements like Reload Quickness, Recoil Gun Kick, and Bullet Velocity all available to compare in granular detail. There are over 30 stats you can view and improve in the expanded view. Note this view will not be accessible during the Black Ops 6 Beta.

Gunsmith: Weapon Leveling

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Every Black Ops 6 weapon has its own Weapon Leveling journey to progress through and complete. Most Primary Weapons have between 40-50 Weapon Levels, with each level providing access to a different Attachment unique to the Weapon or a Class Optic that can be used with any Weapon in the Class. While we’re talking Optics, players will no longer need to unlock each Weapon’s Optic “Node” as part of the Weapon Leveling journey. Instead, players will have access to the Optic Attachment Category from Weapon Level 1 and can immediately equip any of their favorite previously unlocked Class Optics when starting out with a new Weapon.  

Gunsmith: Global Weapon Builds

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Weapon Camos are cosmetic patterns that cover a large portion of every weapon and are unlocked via specific “Camo Challenges”. For Black Ops 6, expect a serious undertaking, set to test the mettle of even the most battle-hardened grinder! The variety of camos to unlock at launch is impressive, includes a dedicated camo track for Call of Duty: Warzone for the first time.

Veterans of Black Ops should be happy to learn that the way many of the camos are unlocked takes inspiration from previous titles.

All three modes have a full set of Camo Challenges, for each weapon in Black Ops 6 Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone. Each Weapon’s Camo journey is broken up into three categories – featuring a mix of elements from traditional Black Ops Camo Systems of past as well as modern Camo Challenge elements seen in recent titles:

Step 1: Military Camos: Progress through nine linear Military Camo styles, usually by reaching Headshot milestones with the weapon. Launchers, Knives, and Shotguns have different criteria.

Step 2: Unique Camos: After completing the Weapon’s nine Military Camos, players will gain access to two Challenges to earn Unique Camos. Each Weapon has two Unique Camos, per mode (six total). Unique Camos can be completed in either order, and once completed Unique Camo swatches can be used with any other Weapon that has also completed its nine Military Camos.

Step 3: Mastery Camos: Once through the Military and Unique Camos, advance into the weapon’s four Mastery Camos. See below for a full reveal of these Mastery camos!

Expect this exact same trackable setup in Zombies and Call of Duty: Warzone, effectively meaning three sets of unlockable camos depending on the game you’re playing. Black Ops 6 also has a “Camo HUB” menu to help you keep track of all your weapon camo unlocks, where you can check each weapon class (for example, SMGs or Handguns), and how your grind is going on a per-camo challenge, per-weapon basis!

Let’s delve into the three different camo types:

Military Camos

Nine Camos Per Weapon, per game (27 per weapon)

These camo types are consistent across every gun in the game, and progression is extremely straightforward. For the majority of Primary Weapons, you unlock Military camos in order by completing Headshot challenges, and you unlock Military camos in order, one by one. Once you’ve unlocked all Military camos for your weapon, you unlock the Unique Camo category.

Unique Camos

Two Camos Per Weapon, per game (six per weapon)

These unlock and are accessible in a similar way to how camos are obtained in Modern Warfare® II and Modern Warfare III. These are unique camos you can only earn with the specific weapon you’re using, but once unlocked, these camos can be applied to any other weapon. Unique Camos have unlock criteria that are more tailored to the playstyle of the weapon. Complete both Unique Camos (in either order) and you graduate to unlocking Mastery Camos!

Mastery Camos

Four Camos Per Weapon, per game (12 per weapon)

Featuring some of the showstopping patterns ever seen in a Call of Duty game, the final focus of your camo grind is unlocking the fabled final four Mastery camos! While we can’t reveal the unlock criteria yet, expect specific, and then general challenges incorporating unlocks across your weapon categories, to unveil Mastery camos in all their unrivalled glory!

Multiplayer Mastery Camos

The Zombies Mastery Camos: Mystic Gold, Opal, Afterlife, and Nebula.

• Mystic Gold Camo: Complete all Military and Unique Camos for the Weapon and then complete the Mystic Gold Camo Challenge.

• Opal: Earn Mystic Gold Camo for all Weapons in the Weapon Class and then complete the Opal Camo Challenge.

• Afterlife: Earn Opal Camo for all Weapons in the game and then complete the Afterlife Camo Challenge.
  
  
• Nebula: Earn Afterlife for all Weapons in the Game and then complete the Nebula Camo Challenge.

Call of Duty: Warzone Mastery Camos

The Call of Duty: Warzone Mastery Camos: Gold.

There are sets of Calling Cards per mode to unlock, and this menu system also has pages that summarize your progress throughout each set in percentage terms, with the unlock criteria for each Calling Card still readable even after completion. Fans of receiving “100 Percenter” completion animated Calling Cards should be pleased to learn these are also returning, allowing you to prove your dedication and mettle with friends and foes alike. Make sure you add your three favorite Calling Cards to your showcase as part of your Player Profile in the Social menu.

Finally, it wouldn’t be a Black Ops game without Dark Ops Calling Card Challenges! Not seen since Black Ops Cold War, these involve tasks so fiendish, the unlock criteria is [[REDACTED]] until you complete them! These don’t count toward your percentage completion, but they are the ultimate, classified set of Calling Card rewards available!

Emotes and Sprays

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Adding to the personalization of your Operators are the return of Emotes (a physical taunt or movement) and Sprays (iconography you primarily daub on walls, either to tag them or to tactically flag a location for your teammates).

Leveling Overview: Black Ops 6 Launch Content

At launch, begin your leveling journey with the familiar system, with 55 levels to unlock as you receive Experience Points (XP) based on your in-game actions across all game modes. As you progress through the levels, you’ll unlock a variety of item sets from all three game modes (Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone).

Expect to unlock additional content to your Loadouts. Examples include:

• Default Loadouts (predetermined with recommended armaments)

• Custom Loadouts (your own customizable loadouts)

• Weapons, Tacticals, Lethals, Field Upgrades, and Scoresteaks Perks and Wildcards (some of the Perks and Wildcards you can pick from)

• Zombies Ammo Mods and GobbleGums

The tracking menu for your Level also flags whether the item you’re unlocking is for Multiplayer-only (examples include Perks and certain Field Upgrades), or for All Modes (including MP, RBZ, and WZ, examples include base weapons and certain Lethals).

Leveling Overview: Black Ops 6 Beta Content

The exact same principle applies to the Levels you can reach during the Black Ops 6 Beta, with a few additional caveats:

• You can only reach Level 20 during the first Weekend.

• You can hit the Beta maximum of Level 30 during the second Weekend.

• In addition to the previously listed unlockable items you can utilize during the Beta, additional Beta Rewards are available for reaching certain levels, including an Emblem, Emote, Charm, Calling Card, Loading Screen, Spray, Weapon Blueprint, and different Skins for Westpoint (Operator). Check the full complement of Rewards, and the level you need to reach each of them, in this Guide.

• Beta rewards will be added to your account at the launch of Black Ops 6 on October 25***.

• Whether you reached Level 30 during the Beta weekends or not, all Beta leveling content will reset when the game launches.

Leveling Completion: The Road to Prestige

When you’ve amassed enough XP – in the full version of Black Ops 6 – to completely unlock all 55 Level, moving up the ranks from Private I to Commander and you’ve filled the Level 55 XP bar, you receive the option to take your grinding to the next level.

Welcome to Black Ops 6 Prestige.

Prestige Overview

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What is “classic Prestige?” For the uninitiated, this is an incredibly in-depth leveling system coming to Black Ops 6 Multiplayer and Zombies at launch, and to Call of Duty: Warzone at Season 1, that rewards your dedicated grind with dozens of truly spectacular and unique rewards. Prestiging is purely optional and can be done at any time once you’ve leveled up to Level 55.

Choose not to Prestige, and your Level caps at 55, and you can continue playing as normal.

Choosing to Prestige

Choose to Prestige, and you enter Prestige 1. You gain access to the following:

• Prestige 1 Icon: You receive your first Prestige icon, which slots into the center of your Level insignia for all players to see.

• Prestige Menus: You can access the Prestige menu screens and gain quick and easy descriptions of how the system works, with viewable rewards.

• Prestige Level Climb: You are now able to climb through 10 Levels of Prestige, each inspired by a title in Call of Duty: Black Ops history.

• Rewards: Concerned there may be a lack of rewards for Prestiging? Fear not: Black Ops 6 has the most rewarding Prestige system ever in a Call of Duty: Black Ops game.

• Prestige-specific Rewards: There's plenty to unlock, and this includes rewards per Prestige, including Operator Skins, Blueprints, and more.

• Prestige Mastery: Complete all 10 Prestige Levels to graduate into Prestige Master, with 1,000 Levels to climb through, also with additional rewards.

Of course, with this being “classic Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige”, but with a large-scale improvement to the earnable rewards, your level is also reset. Here’s how this works:

• Level Reset: Your Level is reset to Prestige 1. This means all content level unlocks from 1-55 are relocked and must be unlocked again. This includes all the Loadout content – including weapons, equipment, and perks – that you unlocked during the previous leveling.
  
  
• Keep Your Progress: However, all your Weapon Levels, Operators, Challenge Progress, Weapon Builds, and Customizations are kept. For example, the AK-74 is unlocked at Level 7. It becomes locked until you level back up past Level 7, but once you do, any prior progress you made with that weapon continues from when you Prestiged.
  
  
• Permanent Unlocks: Each time you Prestige you acquire a “Permanent Unlock”. You can keep this indefinitely, or better yet, use it to unlock a single item of your choice within the Levels. For example, if you don’t wish to wait until you’ve leveled back up to Level 7 to unlock the AK-74, you can use the Permanent Unlock and have immediate access to the weapon. Players are encouraged to make strategic choices about which items to permanently unlock, also giving you more control over your gameplay experience by ensuring access to your preferred gear.
  
  
• Permanent Unlocks (Additional): Note that Blueprints and Equipment skins that you may own also permanently unlock items, including the “base” version of the item.
  
  
• Prestige Rewards: As previously noted, once you’ve Prestiged, you gain access to earn otherwise-unobtainable Prestige Rewards, Prestige Challenges, and an increased XP reward for completing Daily Challenges.
  
  
• Stats Reset: Your combat stats – such as your current Elimination/Death record – start fresh every time you Prestige. However, you can always view your career stats across all your levels in the Combat Record menu.
  
  
• Seasonal Content: Items acquired from a Battle Pass, Store Bundle, or in-game Event are never locked.
  
  
• Prestige HUB: A Prestige menu with rewards showcases is now accessible. Highlights include visuals showing how far you’ve progressed through the Prestige system, and the rewards across future Prestiges, even those you haven’t unlocked yet.

Prestige Leveling

If you took the plunge and entered Prestige, your level resets to Level 1, Prestige 1. The date you entered Prestige is recorded, and you receive [[REDACTED]] instant rewards. Now, as you level up and re-unlock the Level rewards, you also unlock the Prestige rewards as well.

Each Prestige has a theme, featuring a variety of content across Multiplayer and (where appropriate Zombies) related to a specific Black Ops title from the franchise’s past history. For example, Prestige 1 features rewards inspired by 2008’s Call of Duty: World at War.

Specifically, some of the rewards are an homage to the Zombies content in that game. Look for a showcase of this nostalgia and nightmare-fueled content in our Black Ops 6 Prestige blog closer to launch!

Premium Rewards: Though the Black Ops 6 Prestige Progression System is global across Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone, free-to-play players will receive fewer Prestige rewards compared to those who own Black Ops 6. If you decide to subsequently purchase Black Ops 6 while Prestiging and in Call of Duty: Warzone, any previous, premium-only rewards are instantly granted.

Additional Intel

RICOCHET ANTI-CHEAT on Day One

Global Anti-Cheat (MP, RBZ, WZ)

With every Call of Duty launch, RICOCHET Anti-Cheat™ continues to develop new technology, mitigations, and detections to protect our player experience. During the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Beta, we will be testing features and monitoring telemetry. We know this work is ongoing and #TeamRICOCHET is focused on further advancing its systems to help prevent, capture, and remove cheaters from our games. We look forward to the full force of the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat system for Black Ops 6 Day One at launch.

Black Ops 6 Beta Rewards

Earn cosmetic rewards by reaching Player Level milestones throughout the Multiplayer Open Beta that will persist through the launch of Black Ops 6 when it releases on October 25***.  

The rewards and required levels follow:

• Level 2: “Beta Tester” Animated Emblem 

• Level 6: “Beta Tag” Spray 

• Level 11: “No Bugs” Weapon Charm 

• Level 15: “Quick Draw” Emote 

• Level 20: “Squish” Westpoint Operator Skin (only unlockable during Weekend One)

• Level 20: “Squash” Westpoint Operator Skin (unlocked during either Weekend)

• Level 23: “The Truth Lies” Loading Screen 

• Level 27: “Beta Expert” Animated Calling Card 

• Level 30: “Bug Smasher” Weapon Blueprint

Pre-Order Digitally and Get the Reflect 115 Camo Pack, Vault Edition Available

*Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III / Call of Duty: Warzone on the pre-ordered platform required to redeem Woods Operator Pack and Reflect 115 Camo Pack. Sold / downloaded separately. Must be redeemed by October 25, 2025.

**Actual launch date(s) and platform availability of Open Beta subject to change. See www.callofduty.com/beta for more details. Minimum Open Beta duration is 2 days. Limited time only. Internet connection required. Online multiplayer subscription may be required.

***Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 required to redeem. Sold separately.

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