BLACK OPS 6 SEASON 2 GAMEPLAY, DOWNLOAD AND CONTENT

Black Ops 6 Season 2 is set to begin on January 28th, at 9am PT, 11am CT, 12pm EST. Season 2 for Warzone and Black Ops 6 will be a much anticipated content drop, with improvements for the Ricochet anticheat and potentially the return of Verdansk. Season 2 of Black Ops 6 will feature new multiplayer maps and likely DLC 2 for Zombies. Here’s everything you need to know about the second season of DLC for Black Ops 6, beginning later this month.

START TIMES & PRELOAD

Unlike previous seasons of Call of Duty, Black Ops 6 appears to be receiving new content on Tuesday, January 28th instead of the usual Wednesday drop. The first season of DLC arrived on a Thursday, which was also unlike the seasonal release schedule of recent Call of Duty titles.

Fans can expect the new season to be playable at 9am PT, 11am CT and 12pm EST. Update 1.66 was recently found in the database but doesn’t appear to contain Season 2 content. Stay tuned for further updates on the preload, as it’ll likely be around 20GB in size and may become available a few days before the 28th.

MP CONTENT

Black Ops 6 Multiplayer is receiving five maps in total throughout Season 2, with three maps coming at launch:

• Bounty (Core)
• Dealership (Core)
• Lifeline (Strike)

Along with the three maps, here’s the gamemodes that will be coming to Season 2 at launch:

• Overdrive (New)
  • TDM where each team needs to earn stars to win
    • 1 Star – Basic Eliminations
    • 2 Stars – Core Medal Eliminations (Headshots & Melee Attacks)
    • 3 Stars – Distinguished Medal Eliminations (Impressive Takedowns).
  • Earning Stars not only allows you to win the match, but earning stars yourself will give your operator Overdrive abilities which will last until your on-screen timer runs out or if you’re eliminated:
    • 1 Star – Awakened Senses – See enemies through walls and replenish your health after an elimination
    • 3 Stars – Physical  Enhancements – Increased movement and reloading speed
    • 6 Stars – Augmented Handling – Improved hip-fire accuracy and sprint-to-fire speeds.
• Gun Game (Returning)
  • FFA Party mode where you will cycle between guns with each elimination. The first player to cycle through all guns wins. Melee kills will setback the eliminated player to the previous weapon.

QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES

Quality of Life, or QOL, changes certain aspects of the game to benefit specfic systems and the players. Those listed below are for all modes in Black Ops 6 (excluding Warzone):

• Challenge Tracking – You can now track unlock challenges like you could in MWIII. Just hover over which challenge you’d like to track (camos, calling cards, etc) and it will be prioritized within matches for you to keep track of it’s progress! You can track up to 10 Calling Card & 10 Camo Challenges per mode.
• Unique HUD Presets – You can now select different HUD Presets for each mode in Black Ops 6. You will have the freedom to select the Classic HUD in Zombies without it affecting your Multiplayer HUD now!

THe QOL Changes listed below will be for Zombies Specifically:

• Co-Op Pause In matches where everyone is in the same party, the party leader can now pause the game for everyone. Useful if you need to take a break or grab a snack.
• AFK Kick Loadout Recovery – If a player gets kicked for being AFK, their loadout, Essence, and Salvage will be restored whenever they join back!

ZOMBIES CONTENT

Black Ops 6 Zombies is receiving a new Round Based Zombies map that features a fan-favorite Wonder Weapon, new enemy, new Main Quest, and new Gobblegums:

• The Tomb – Set within a cursed ancient catacomb digsite, the team are in search for the Sentinel Artifact in a hope to stop Richtofen and free Maxis from the Dark Aether.

• Main Quest – The Tomb Main Quest will be unlocked Janurary 28th at 9am PT. Expect new rewards including early completion rewards for completing the Main Quest before the Directed Mode releases later on in the Season!

• New Enemy – The Mimic returns in the form of the Shock Mimic! They can shock you, turn invisible, and scramble your minimap!

• Returning Wonder Weapon – The Staff of Ice from Origins makes its return! Freeze enemies and heal teammates from a distance. Complete The Tomb Main Quest and receive the “X91 Ice-Pike” skin for the Staff of Ice!

• Returning Perk – Death Perception returns to Zombies. This perk gives players the ability to see enemies through obsticles.
  • Death Perception comes with six augments:
    • Major Augments
      • Treasure Hunter – Spot items others can miss from loot containers as well as Special and Elite Enemy kills
      • Death Stare – Your Elemental Weakness damage has a chance to kill an enemy that is low on health
      • Critical Eye – Small chance that a body shot becomes a critical shot
    • Minor Augments:
      • Bird’s Eye View – The minimap’s scan rate is increased
      • Extra Change – Find extra Essence under more locations
      • Further Insight – Increase perception radius.
  • It will be avalible as it’s own perk machine on The Tomb and avalible in the Der Wunderfizz Machine on ALL maps

• New Gobblegums – There will be three new Gobblegums to earn:
  • Dead Drop (Epic) – Drop rates of Salvage and Equipment are greatly increased. Lasts five minutes.
  • Modified Chaos (Legendary) – Greatly reduce all Ammo Mod cooldowns. Lasts two minutes.
  • Quacknarok (Whimsical) – Zombies move around in rubber ducky inner tubes. Lasts three minutes.
• New Support – The War Machine Scorestreak will be avalible to loot and craft (2500 Salvage).

WARZONE CONTENT

There isn’t much, but it’s good to note for those that play. For Season 2, the developers decided to shift content originally planned for Season 2 of Warzone to be released later on, and made their focus be catered towards the gameplay tuning, more QOL improvements, and fixing on-going bugs.

• Weapon reload and swap speeds, jump mechanics, parachute transitions, and audio clarity have been fine-tuned.
• Ranked Play is getting refined too with the amount of SR required being adjusted along with deployment fees.

Ranked Play will go live in the Launch Window.

GENERAL CONTENT

This section is dedicated to what’s being added that benefits Black Ops 6 and Warzone respectively.

• New Weapons
  • PPSh-41 (SMG)
    • Battle Pass Page 6 Free Reward
  • Cypher 091 (Assault Rifle)
    • Battle Pass Page 8 Free Reward
  • Feng 82 (LMG)
    • Battle Pass Page 3 Free Reward
  • TR2 (Marksman Rifle)
    • Shadow Hunt Event Reward

• New Attachments
  • Crossbow Attachment (AR, SWAT 5.56, & AEK-973 Underbarrel Attachment)
    • Battle Pass Page 7 Free Reward
  • Full Auto Mod (AEK-973 Fire Mod Attachment)
    • The Terminator Event Reward
  • Binary Trigger (Tanto .22 Fire Mod Attachment)
    • Shadow Hunt Event Reward
  • Belt-Fed (Three Attachments for LMGs)
    • Mid-Season Content

• New Events
  • The Terminator – Dates: February 6th – 20th. There will be a total of 13 rewards including, but not limited to, a Full Auto Mod for te AEK-973 Marksman Rifle and a new SMG Blueprint.
  • Shadow Hunt – Dates: February 13th – 20th. There will be 7 rewards such as the Binary Trigger Fire Mod for the Tanto .22 SMG and the new TR2 Marksman Rifle.
  • St. Patrick’s Day: Clover Craze – This event was Redacted, so the only thing we know is that it will be sometime in March and that you’ll need to collect four-leaf clovers by eliminating enemies and opening loot caches.
    • Similar to the Archie Event during Christmas.

Of course, there will be a new Battle Pass for Season 2 and it will feature a BlackCell offering. If that’s something you want more info on, check out our article on the Season 2 Battle Pass. There will also be store offerings for new Bundles. Check out Stockpile, or our dedicated Season 2 Bundle Article for more details!

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