Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is about to go full zombie, with its new Operation Apocalypse Z update launching tomorrow, 9th July.
There’ve been hints of the undead’s imminent arrival in-game already, of course, with players attempting to make sense of the environmental changes recently found in Black Ops 4’s battle royale Blackout mode. Now though, Treyarch has fully revealed all the fresh hell coming to Blackout, Multiplayer, and Zombies modes as its latest season unfolds.
Zombies mode, for instance, gets a brand-new campaign in the form of Alpha Omega, which sees Primas and Ultimas versions of characters from previous missions joining forces to battle the undead in a newly reimagined version of Call of Duty’s iconic Nuketown map.
This new iteration is said to be 400 percent larger than original version of Nuketown, with the familiar 1950s suburban neighbourhood now granting access to the labyrinthine Broken Arrow facility below ground, where prototype weapons have been developed.
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Treyarch is promising new enemy variants as players explore the facility, as well as new weapons, including the Ray Gun Mk 2. There’s also a new perk known as the Blood Wolf Bite, which summons a wolf called Luna to fight alongside players when activated.
Multiplayer mode, meanwhile, get three new (mostly) zombie-themed maps; Der Schatten is a “larger” map set in a snow-covered Alpine town that sits in the shadow of the castle seen in Zombies mode map Der Eisendrache.
Then there’s Remnant, which unfolds within the Museum of Unnatural History, surrounded by atmospheric Louisiana swampland. Throughout the museum, combatants can find exhibits inspired by a variety of Zombies mode episodes, including a chunk of the moon, the bus and diner from TranZit, a recreation of the Titanic, and a portion of the Asylum.
Multiplayer mode’s final new map is Havana, which is inspired by the streets of Cuba. Although notably less spooky than Operation Apocalypse Z’s other new maps, there’s a nod to the undead theming via a cinema holding a zombie festival.