Call of Duty — Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 1 - All You Need to Know - Part 1

Defeat All Adversaries: Black Ops Season 01 is Here!

The Story So Far

In what could be best described as a hostile takeover, General Alden Dorne completes his power grab with a definitive move against Kagan, and forces Mason along for the ride, trapping him in his own mind.

When Mason wakes from his hallucinatory hell, Dorne has “invited” Mason to the beginning of a new empire for The Guild, high atop the balcony overlooking the futuristic metropolis of Utopia.

Welcome to Project Synapse.

As tThe Guild claws its way back from the ashes of defeat at the hands of David Mason, Alden Dorne, once the trusted right hand of CEO Emma Kagan, seizes his moment. In a ruthless coup, Dorne casts Kagan aside forever, claiming the throne and reshaping tThe Guild’s destiny.

His vision is merciless: capture David Mason at all costs and unlock the secrets buried within the C-Link, the cutting-edge neural tech possessed only by JSOC’s elite.

This is more than revenge. It’s the dawn of a new era, forged in blood and ambition.

Season 01 Roadmap

Get ready for the biggest Season 01 ever, including new free and premium content when Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 Season 01 goes live on Thursday, December 4 at 9AM PT across all platforms.

Black Ops 7: Season 01 Endgame Content

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ENDGAME CONTENT SUMMARY

Endgame is Open: Endgame and the vast Avalon map is now instantly accessible to all Black Ops 7 players as of November 21!

**New Word Events: **Take on multiple new Endgame World Events across Avalon. Face down a giant Zombies-inspired robot, fight off hallucinations near a neurotoxin outbreak, and in the Mid-Season, engage in combat with an advanced VTOL manifested by fear.

New Skills: Power up with eight new Exotic Skills earned by completing World Events; choose to strike with a deadly melee punch, resurrect yourself, or deal devastating critical damage in a variety of ways! Then during the Mid-Season, obtain access to the all-new Phantom Skill Track.

**CODMAS in Endgame: **Avalon gets festive with the arrival of CODMAS in Endgame, bringing snowballs and giftwrapped Supply Boxes into play.

Endgame Intensifies: New World Events and More

With Endgame now instantly accessible and available to all Black Ops 7 players, it’s time to team up, drop into Avalon, and explore this massive new landscape, complete objectives, increase your power, unlock unique Weapon Camos, and take on new threats! Keep pushing into escalating zones of difficulty, calling on other squads to assist if the challenges are too great. Then be sure to exfil safely to maintain your Combat Rating and live another day.

Avalon Rampage: Four Endgame World Events (Launch, In-Season, Mid-Season)

You’ll need to face down threats and build up your Operators’ Combat Rating, Skills, and Abilities, as Season 01 brings four multi-stage Events into the mix to challenge players. You’re advised to be at least Combat Rating 45, call up your squad, and bring your highest Rarity Weapons to the fight. Exotic Weapons will certainly help to turn the tide of battle!

World Event: Colossus of Avalon (Launch Window)

Recommended CR: 45 or higher

A giant mechanical contraption towers over the Avalon terrain, leaving a bloody path in its wake. Expect an emergency announcement breaking into your comms to alert all Operators within the Avalon combat zones to converge on this massive metal threat. Consult your Tac-map for the expected arrival area, and once certain criteria are met, you can watch the terrifying titan fall from the skies, visible across most of the map.

To claim the bounty of rewards on offer for defeating this behemoth, you may need reinforcements outside of your own squad. Tool up, study the giant for weaknesses, expose its core, and take it out! Fail, and the Colossus will blast off into orbit, so don’t delay in your aggression.

Operator Advice: Toppling this colossus will be tough, and smaller robotic enemies are likely to be encountered, so you may wish to think about equipping Black Hat (Minor Ability) or Abilities that assist in your evasion or movement capabilities. As always, Crash Cart (Major Ability) will be an excellent choice to keep you and your squad upright in the battle to come!

World Event: Toxic Tyrant (In-Season)

Recommended CR: 45 or higher

Initial Comms suggest a second major threat to Operators within the Avalon theater of combat: In an event codenamed “Toxic Tyrant,” the emergency alert system breaks into your usual combat chatter to warn you of a severe neurotoxin outbreak occurring in Avalon. Stemming the outbreak requires your top-tier team talent and weaponry, as the enemies spilling out of these fear-based summoning anomalies are powerful and unrelenting.

With time running out, you’ll need to focus on finding the source of this terror and try not to lose your mind entirely when facing the final, large-scale threat let loose by this hallucinatory biological weapon.

Additional World Events: Wraith Wing (Mid-Season)

Recommended CR: 45 or higher

The challenges in Endgame will only intensify as the season progresses.

In the Mid-Season, keep your eyes to the sky in search of a VTOL manifested by fear, in the** Wraith Wing **World Event. This advanced Guild aircraft appears to have cloning capabilities with very lethal consequences as this squadron seems hellbent on eliminating as many JSOC Operators as it can. Disable it, fire at the exposed aircraft, and down that bird.

In addition, expect a fourth World Event to truly test your skills.

Speaking of which:

New Exotic Skills and Phantom Skill Track

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Unlock eight new Exotic Skills that change up gameplay in a variety of strategically viable ways and at the Mid-Season, unlock the new Phantom Skill Track.

New: Exotic Skills (Launch)

Exotic Skills are powerful additions acquired by completing World Events via a special Exotic Skill Case, which randomly awards you one of the following Exotic Skills. You can equip and upgrade one Exotic Skill. If you earn a subsequent Exotic Skill Case, you have one of two options:

· Upgrade the currently equipped Exotic Skill.

· Replace the currently equipped Exotic Skill.

With each World Event completion, you can equip and upgrade one Exotic Skill from the following:

**Mega Punch: **Replaces your weapon butt with a deadly punch that knocks back enemies and deals more damage.

· First Upgrade: Hits more enemies.

· Final Upgrade: Chance to trigger a Photon Round that damages enemies and drops a healing capsule.

**Conjuration: **Kill enough enemies to summon Toxin Butterflies that harass and damage enemies.

· **First Upgrade: **Further increase in damage dealt by Toxin Butterflies.

· **Final Upgrade: **Greater increase in damage dealt by Toxin Butterflies.

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**Echo Shell: **Significantly reduces damage taken from behind.

· First Upgrade: Further reduction of damage taken from behind.

· Final Upgrade: Greater reduction of damage taken from behind.

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**Celebration: **Enemies damaged or affected by Equipment have a chance to trigger Mortar Rounds that target enemies.

· **First Upgrade: **Further increase in chances to trigger Mortar Rounds.

· **Final Upgrade: **Greater increase of chances to trigger Mortar Rounds.

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**Frost Cloud: **Enemies damaged or affected by Equipment have a chance to trigger a Frost Cloud that slows enemies.

· **First Upgrade: **Also damages enemies.

· **Final Upgrade: **Affected enemies will transfer frost to nearby enemies.

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**Resurrection: **On fatal damage, become temporarily invulnerable instead of dying. Available once per match.

· First Upgrade: Gain full health after surviving.

· Final Upgrade: Instead of surviving fatal damage, receive a Permanent Self Revive that recharges when not downed.

**Shattered Shield: **Stun and damage nearby enemies when Armor Plates break.

· First Upgrade: Final break gives you temporary invulnerability.

· Final Upgrade: Final break triggers a Photon Round that deals damage and drops a healing capsule.

**Graviton Reaction: **Taking melee hits can spawn a Black Hole that damages and displaces enemies.

· First Upgrade: Also triggered by ranged attacks.

· Final Upgrade: Also triggers on enemies in an area around the affected enemy.

Skill Track: Phantom (Mid-Season)

Strike unseen and vanish fast, slip past danger, land critical blows from the shadows.

**Ambush: **Critical hits from behind on unaware enemies deal more damage.

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**Fast Melee: **Faster Melee speed.

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**Trap Avoidance: **Traps and Mines take longer to detect you. Undetectable when fully upgraded.

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**Silent Movement: **Quiets movement and reduces enemy detection distance.

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**Elusive Target: **Reduces accuracy of enemies shooting at you.

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**Decoy: **Taking significant damage deploys an Echo Unit that distracts enemies.

CODMAS Comes to Endgame (In-Season)

With CODMAS comes extra festivities in the Endgame! Hunt down frozen projectiles and keep an eye out for holiday-themed Supply Box gifts.

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Endgame Progression and Rewards Continue

The Black Ops 7 Co-op Campaign offers a host of unique rewards to unlock, as well as Global XP and a dedicated Weapon Camo track. Here’s what you can earn throughout the Campaign:

· “Irides One” M15 MOD 0 Blueprint

· “Phantom” Shadow SK Blueprint

· “Razorfire Vertex” Ryden 45K Blueprint

· “Grounded” Mason Operator Skin

· 55,000 XP + more rewards

Challenges Accepted: Endgame Integration

Remember that your Level, Prestige, and Weapon Levels all progress across Endgame, Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone™.

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Additionally, Endgame is fully integrated into both Daily and Weekly Challenges, the latter of which allows you to unlock more Loadout Items including weapons and Attachments, as well as Camos. And don’t forget the major Weapon Camo progression for all 30 launch weapons as well as the seven Season 01 weapons; to unlock the Military, Special, and Mastery Camos specific to the Campaign and Endgame, including the fabled Molten Gold, Moonstone, Chroma Flux, and Genesis Camos!

Black Ops 7: Season 01 Multiplayer Content

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MULTIPLAYER CONTENT SUMMARY

6+ Maps: At launch, deploy to brand-new maps Fate, Utopia, and Odysseus plus a remaster of Standoff, followed by the Sleighjacked map variant arriving just before** **CODMAS. In the Mid-Season, deploy to the new Yakei map in Japan and go nuclear on foes in the remastered Meltdown. Fringe joins the map lineup in-season, too, in its newest incarnation as a distillery returning from Black Ops 6.

6+ Modes: Play fan-favorite Party Modes including Prop Hunt, Sticks & Stones, Sharpshooter, One in the Chamber, and Gun Game. Celebrate CODMAS with Holiday-themed LTMs and fight for territory in the new Takeover mode arriving in the Mid-Season.

Additional Content: Pilot the new Deadeye Drone Scorestreak, an aerial drone equipped with a sniper rifle and two new Overclock abilities to further customize its payload. Plus, get a baker’s dozen of returning Loadout items incoming from Black Ops 6 at Mid-Season.

Multiplayer Maps

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Utopia (Launch)

Brand-New, 6v6, Medium-Sized

Huge towers line the horizon of this futuristic city, a refuge for the rich courtesy of The Guild. The striking environment offers plenty of opportunities to get creative with Wall Jumping and parkour-style movements over a loose three lane design balanced between interior and exterior spaces.

Once a cutting-edge Guild research facility built for The Guild’s isolation and innovation, this site now serves as the nerve center of Project Synapse under Alden Dorne’s command. Towering structures pierce the skyline, remnants of a forgotten future now repurposed for ruthless ambition. The layout blends sleek interiors with exposed exteriors across a loose three-lane design, offering dynamic opportunities for wWall runsJumps, parkour maneuvers, and creative combat flow.

See the residence of the future in the Display Home and take a load off by the Restaurant and Garden Statue. In the center, the Showroom displays a cross section of the city, while the outer lanes border the edges of the map which drop far down below. Watch your step or risk falling away from this lap of luxury.

Fate (Launch)

Brand-New, 6v6, Small-Sized

Revisit a twisted version of Raul Menendez’s Nicaraguan compound where giant machetes slice up the sky and chunks of the environment hang suspended in the air as if time were frozen.

David is dragged back into the nightmare he’s tried to forget—: a fractured memory where fear and regret over Raul Menendez take physical form. Step into a warped vision of Menendez’s Nicaraguan compound, now twisted beyond recognition: colossal machetes carve through the sky, and shattered pieces of reality hang suspended as if time itself has splintered.

This dreamlike map features a clearly defined three-lane layout built on a floating landmass in the sky. Fight in the central Courtyard and through the Church or take to the outer lanes where the land drops down nothingness and portals provide instant access to different areas of the map; come out the other side ready to fight.

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Odysseus (Launch)

Brand-New, 6v6/2v2, Small-Sized

Engage in close-quarters combat and non-stop action as you explore the Deck overlooking a runway with aircraft frozen in mid-explosion, a red mist floating in the skies above.

The team steps into a distorted hallucination aboard the scarred deck of the USS Obamaa familiar carrier, a place etched deep into David’s past. Close-quarters combat dominates as you fight across the deck overlooking a runway frozen in chaos: aircraft locked mid-explosion, debris suspended in time, and a crimson mist bleeding across the sky.

Bring the fight up close in the Barracks and jump up into the ceiling Vent to crawl over and drop down into the Brig. On the Bridge, the hallucination intensifies as the front window blasts outward, glass shards held suspended in the air.

Standoff (Launch)

Remaster, 6v6, Medium-Sized

Remastered for Black Ops 7, Standoff returns with greater visual fidelity than ever before. Revisit your favorite spots on this classic mid-sized map from Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 that played a huge role in casual and competitive play.

Flames erupt from the central tower over the Main Road where a tank and statue mark the intersection in view of the Store, Hostel, House, and Warehouse, each with a second-story viewpoint over the street. Move in close behind the stone walls by the tower to keep out of view or swing around to toward the Gas Station and Graveyard Alley to skirt the outer edge.

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Sleighjacked (In-Season)

Variant, 6v6, Small-Sized

Hijacked gets more than just a holiday makeover in this wild festive map variant. The luxury boat has taken to the skies at night, hooked up to a herd of reindeer flying over the city.

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Dubbed “Smooth Sleighing” for the holidays, this rethemed classic is lit up with garlands, lights, wreaths, and other decorations all celebrating the season of giving.

Yakei (Mid-Season)

Brand-New, 6v6/2v2, Small-Sized

The sky’s the limit. Chase enemies over the rooftops of a cluster of buildings in this Japanese cityscape, the night sky casting an eerie glow over the Ducts, Vents, and other industrial components.

High above the neon-soaked streets, the rooftops of a dense Japanese city become the stage for betrayal. Tech and lightLights pulse through the skyline as Alden Dorne closes in on David Mason. Navigate a labyrinth of ducts, vents, and industrial structures under an eerie night glow, where vertical combat and relentless pursuit turn every ledge into a fight for survival.

Use your Wall Jump to leap over gaps with sheer drops below and flank enemies through the Maintenance passage and around Electric equipment. Yakei fits plentiful tactical opportunities across its three-lane layout; make the most of them and rule the rooftops for the win.

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