The significant mid-season update introduces new maps, game modes, challenges, and Loadout items across Multiplayer, Zombies, Endgame, and Call of Duty: Warzone. This update also features a collaboration with Fallout, bringing themed limited-time modes (LTMs), the Deathclaw Hunt World Event in Endgame, and the Quantum Exchange Event with Wasteland-inspired rewards. Season 01 Reloaded is scheduled to launch on January 8.
Season 01 Reloaded: Incoming Intel
Rule the Wasteland
Season 01 Reloaded begins the new year with an extensive content rollout. This mid-season update delivers new maps, modes, and features across all game types, highlighted by a special Fallout collaboration. Players can expect limited-time content inspired by the Wasteland, such as the Deathclaw Hunt Endgame World Event, The Ghouls and S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Mayhem in Multiplayer, Project RADS in Zombies, and Power Armor Royale in Call of Duty: Warzone. The Quantum Exchange Event and other events offer themed rewards, and the Vault Town map variant and Tracer Pack: Fallout Bundle will also be available, alongside other Season 01 Reloaded additions.
The mid-season update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone is set to launch on Thursday, January 8 at 9 AM PT across all platforms.
Black Ops 7: Season 01 Endgame Content
New World Events include the Wraith Wing, where players must take down an advanced Guild VTOL with cloning abilities. Additionally, the limited-time Deathclaw Hunt World Event challenges players to venture into irradiated areas of Avalon to find a unique trophy, while also encountering Feral Ghouls and an apex predator.
A new Phantom Skill Track allows players to ambush enemies for increased damage, evade traps, and move silently. This track combines powerful attacks with evasive tactics to enhance battlefield control.
New World Events
New World Event: Wraith Wing
Recommended CR: 45+
The new Wraith Wing World Event, recommended for CR 45+, involves confronting an advanced Guild VTOL with cloning abilities. Players should equip launchers and LMGs for this aerial combat challenge. Collaborating with other JSOC Operators to disable the aircraft will yield rewards.
New Limited Time World Event: Deathclaw Hunt
Recommended CR: 45+
The limited-time Deathclaw Hunt World Event, also recommended for CR 45+, transforms a part of Avalon into a Fallout-themed wasteland following a bomb blast. Players can enter this blast zone to face toxic air, fierce Deathclaws, and swarms of Feral Ghouls.
New Skill Track
A new Skill Track introduced in the mid-season update enhances Operators with a combination of high-damage attacks and evasive maneuvers, creating a potent stealth profile.
Skill Track: Phantom
This track focuses on stealth and critical strikes, allowing players to:
- Ambush: Deal increased damage from behind. Critical shots against full-health enemies inflict double damage.
- Fast Melee: Execute melee attacks more quickly.
- Trap Avoidance: Increase the time it takes for traps and mines to detect the player, becoming undetectable when fully upgraded.
- Silent Movement: Reduce movement noise and enemy detection range, also speeding up interaction with devices.
- Elusive Target: Decrease enemy accuracy when targeting the player.
- Decoy: Deploy an Echo Unit to distract enemies upon taking significant damage.
Black Ops 7: Season 01 Multiplayer Content
Four new maps are available: Yakei, a new map set on Japanese rooftops; Meltdown, a remastered map from Black Ops 2; and Fringe, returning from Black Ops 6. The Fallout collaboration introduces Vault Town, a map variant showcasing a future neighborhood designed by Vault-Tec.
New modes include Takeover, a game mode combining Hardpoint and Domination where players fight for shifting territories. Two Fallout-themed LTMs, S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Mayhem and The Ghouls, are also introduced.
Thirteen additional Loadout items, including Equipment, Field Upgrades, and Scorestreaks, are returning to Black Ops 7 Multiplayer from Black Ops 6 as part of the mid-season update.
Multiplayer Maps
Yakei
Brand-New, 6v6/2v2, Small-Sized
This new small-sized map transports Operators to the rooftops of a neon-lit Japanese city. Players can navigate maintenance passages, ducts, vents, and electrical equipment, utilizing Wall Jumps to pursue enemies. Yakei’s intricate, vertically-oriented three-lane design provides numerous tactical possibilities for dominating matches.
Meltdown
Remaster, 6v6, Medium-Sized
Meltdown, a classic map from Black Ops 2, returns to Black Ops 7 Multiplayer with updated visuals and dynamic lighting. Players can engage in intense battles around the central ramps, within the cooling tower, near the turbine, and from the admin and control rooms, accommodating various playstyles.
Fringe
Returning, 6v6, Medium-Sized
Fringe, based on its Black Ops 6 Season 04 iteration, brings players back to the Rolling Hills distillery, now with new Wall Jump options. Combat can occur along the main road, in the bar for close quarters, or by watching for snipers in the upper barn and house. The loading zone, a known chokepoint, offers both long-range and close-up engagements.
Vault Town
Map Variant, 6v6, Small-Sized
This Nuketown variant introduces a Fallout-inspired retro-apocalyptic suburban setting. Vault Town, sponsored by Vault-Tec, features air purifiers for a safe suburban experience. Players can flank enemies near the Nuka-Cola bus, explore the Blue and Orange House, and observe power armor in the Blue Garage. Fallout fans may wish to explore this map variant in a Private Match to discover its Easter eggs.
Multiplayer Modes
Players can engage in the new Takeover game mode, which features shifting objectives, and experience the Fallout-themed S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Mayhem and The Ghouls limited-time modes in Multiplayer.
Takeover
New Mode
This new objective mode blends Hardpoint and Domination, challenging teams to capture three neutral zones. Capturing a zone disables it, and once all three are taken, new zones rotate in after a brief cooldown. Teams must adapt to these shifting objectives to achieve the highest score and secure victory.
S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Mayhem
Fallout LTM
This 6v6 moshpit mode, featuring Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Hardpoint, immerses players in an irradiated Wasteland environment. Maps are covered in toxic particles, and players must monitor their radiation levels using a Geiger counter on the HUD. S.P.E.C.I.A.L. buffs provide power-ups dropped by eliminated Operators, including:
- Pumpkin Pie: Increases health.
- Nuka-Cola Cranberry: Provides a score multiplier.
- Jet: Boosts overall speed.
- Psycho: Improves hip fire accuracy and headshot damage.
- RadAway: Reduces current radiation levels. Eliminating enemies and engaging with objectives also lowers radiation.
- Luck Bobblehead: Increases the chance of finding superior power-ups and RadAway from fallen enemies. Players with Fallout-themed Operator Skins (including free Event Pass rewards) automatically start with this buff.
The Ghouls
Fallout LTM
This 24-player Infected-style mode pits Vault Dwellers against a feral Ghoul outbreak in an irradiated Wasteland. Vault Dwellers must scavenge for Perks and RadAway to survive, while eliminated players return as Ghouls. The goal is to infect all players or survive until the timer runs out.
- Vault Dwellers: Start with a full Loadout and three Scorestreaks (LDBR, H.A.R.P., War Machine). Radiation levels increase over time, but can be reduced by collecting RadAway from eliminated Ghouls, along with other power-ups like Max Ammo, Full Power, and Insta-Kill. Chaining Ghoul eliminations grants progressive enhancements, such as increased movement speed, improved accuracy, faster ADS, and double points. Players with Fallout-themed Operator Skins (including free Event Pass rewards) begin with an active buff.
- Glowing Ghouls: The first Ghoul is a randomly selected Vault Dweller, appearing as a toxic, green-glowing variant with increased health and instant-kill capability until other Ghouls emerge. Upon death, Glowing Ghouls explode, increasing radiation levels for nearby Vault Dwellers. There is a random chance for Ghouls to spawn as Glowing Ghouls.
- Standard Ghouls: These Ghouls attack with melee and possess Ninja and Tracker Perks with the Recon Combat Specialty. Accumulating enough Vault Dweller eliminations allows Ghouls to activate the Deathclaw Scorestreak, making them a greater threat.
Arsenal Expanded: Returning Black Ops 6 Loadout Content
Black Ops 7 receives a significant expansion of Loadout options, with various Equipment, Field Upgrades, and Scorestreaks returning. While Overclocks are not included, these items maintain their battlefield effectiveness:
- Tactical: Shock Charge: A deployable electrical trap that adheres to surfaces, emitting a pulse to stun and damage enemies.
- Lethal: Impact Grenade: A precision grenade that detonates instantly on impact for rapid eliminations.
- Lethal: Thermo Grenade: Deploys a volatile fuel-air mix that ignites after a short delay, creating a powerful blast.
- Field Upgrade: Morphine Injector: Provides temporary protection against fatal damage, initiating a Last Stand state. Players can be revived by teammates or self-revive by securing an elimination.
- Field Upgrade: Tactical Insertion: Designates a chosen location as the next respawn point, useful for maintaining pressure or quickly rejoining combat.
- Scorestreak: Archangel Launcher: A shoulder-fired launcher deploying two remote-piloted rockets per magazine for precise long-range strikes.
- Scorestreak: Combat Bow: A lightweight bow firing explosive arrows that detonate on impact, creating fiery denial zones.
- Scorestreak: Death Machine: A heavy minigun with an extreme fire rate, ample ammo, and devastating penetration.
- Scorestreak: Dreadnought: A heavily armed gunship equipped with multiple cannons, rocket pods, and a Daisy Cutter payload for extensive area destruction.
- Scorestreak: Grim Reaper: A semi-automatic rocket launcher firing up to four rockets per clip with rapid reload for sustained fire.
- Scorestreak: SAM Turret: Deploys an automated missile system that targets and destroys enemy aerial Scorestreaks.
- Scorestreak: Strategic Bomber: A stealth aircraft that performs a large-scale carpet bombing run over a specified target zone.
- Scorestreak: War Machine: A burst-fire grenade launcher that fires impact-detonated rounds from an oversized magazine, delivering high-volume explosive power.
Zombies: Season 01 Reloaded Content
Astra Malorum – Directed Mode: This mode provides additional guidance for the Main Quest in Astra Malorum, where the crew journeys to a mysterious observatory in Saturn’s rings, believed to be the residence of the second Shadowsmith.
Survival Map: Zarya Cosmodrome, a new Survival map based on a location from Ashes of the Damned, challenges players to survive as many rounds as possible or exfil to escape.
New Fallout LTM: Project RADS introduces an irradiated horde of Feral Ghouls and Deathclaws. Players must manage their radiation levels while fighting these enemies, with rewards available for reaching high rounds on both maps.
Astra Malorum: Directed Mode
After the events of Ashes of the Damned, the crew’s journey continues to a mysterious observatory in Saturn’s rings, searching for a second Shadowsmith, an ancient Dark Aether entity. This cosmic void presents new dangers.
The mid-season update introduces Directed Mode to Astra Malorum, providing additional guidance for the Main Quest and a maximum round cap of 15. Players will face the new O.S.C.A.R. enemy, a sentinel robot. The new LGM-1 Wonder Weapon fires saucer squadrons that target and attack enemies. Players can also activate traps like the Stellar Dissector, which fires lasers, or the Apogee Annihilator, which launches rockets.
Completing Astra Malorum in Directed Mode rewards players with the “Cosmic Repair” Operator Skin for Grey and 5,000 XP.
An official Astra Malorum Tac Map is available for further guidance, detailing points of interest, Pack-a-Punch locations, Wall Buys, Ammo, Perks, and Traps.
Survival Map: Zarya Cosmodrome
Zarya Cosmodrome
This Survival map, set in a Soviet launch site from Ashes of the Damned, challenges players to survive against dark forces. Players must fight to exfil or endure as many rounds as possible to earn rewards:
- “Cymballistic” Animated Emblem and 1,000 XP (for reaching Round 10)
- “Zursa Minor” Charm and 2,500 XP (for reaching Round 25)
- “Wonderbar!” Ultra GobbleGum and 5,000 XP (for reaching Round 50)
New LTM: Project RADS
Project RADS
This Fallout-themed LTM introduces Feral Ghouls and Deathclaws to Ashes of the Damned and Astra Malorum, with radiation levels increasing each round. Healing and Essence acquisition are replaced by enemy drops, which provide health, manage radiation, and offer resources. Loot drops include:
- Food Items: Replenish health, but some are irradiated and will increase radiation levels.
- Bottle Caps: Collected from eliminated enemies to purchase map items, replacing Essence.
- RadX: Reduces current radiation levels.
- RadAway: Removes all radiation for all players.
Players must manage their radiation levels, tracked by a Geiger counter, to avoid negative effects such as reduced movement speed, decreased weapon damage, frozen Field Upgrade charges, health drain, and eventually loss of Perks.
Rumors of an Irradiated Deathclaw persist. Players can earn rewards and XP by reaching higher rounds on both maps.
Call of Duty: Warzone: Season 01 Reloaded Content
High Octane LTM: This fast-paced LTM allows players to deploy with custom Loadouts, featuring accelerated circle timings, enhanced loot, significant cash payouts, and mobile Buy Stations. The objective is to be the last squad standing.
Power Armor Royale LTM: In this mode, Trios battle in an irradiated Verdansk. Players must charge their Fusion Core to acquire Power Armor, which significantly boosts combat strength.
Win Streaks: A new rewards feature that grants Weapon Camos for achieving consecutive wins in Call of Duty: Warzone.
New LTMs
High Octane
Quads, 150 Players, Verdansk
This mid-season mode offers continuous action. Players deploy with their custom Loadouts, ready for immediate engagement. Verdansk features enhanced loot, including Gas Masks, Grappling Hooks, and Legendary Weapons, along with increased cash payouts. Buy Stations are accessible anywhere, and funds are needed for automatic self-buyback. Accelerated circle timings ensure a faster match pace, encouraging aggressive play.
Power Armor Royale
Trios, 66 Players, Players and Enemy Combatants, Verdansk
This mode features Trios battling in an irradiated Verdansk. Power Armor drops from the sky, offering a significant combat advantage to those who can acquire it.
Ready Your Fusion Core, Get Power Armor
Each Operator starts with a Fusion Core that needs charging to activate Power Armor. Fusion Core canisters can be found by completing Contracts, eliminating enemies, opening Supply Boxes, and damaging enemy Power Armor users. Once charged, players can access Power Armor drops, gaining a substantial health boost, jetpack thrusters, upgraded weapons, and the option to eject and detonate the suit.
Radiation Zones
Verdansk features dynamic radiation zones. Operators without Power Armor will take gradual damage in these areas. RadAway can be used to reduce radiation levels and return to combat.
New Rewards Feature: Win Streaks
Win Streaks
Season 01 Reloaded introduces Win Streaks, a new reward system. Players achieving consecutive wins in Call of Duty: Warzone will earn exclusive Weapon Camos.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7: General Content (CM, MP, ZM, WZ)
Weapons Detail: The Hawker HX Sniper Rifle and Sturmwolf 45 SMG are introduced, alongside new weapon attachments obtainable through Weekly Challenges.
New Events: Three seasonal events offer Fallout-themed rewards: the Fallout Event Pass, Quantum Exchange Event, and the Baron of the Wasteland Global Leaderboard Event.
New Store Offerings: The Store will feature new Ultra, Reactive, and Mastercraft Skins in various Bundles, including the Tracer Pack: Fallout Bundle.
Weapons Detail
The new Hawker HX Sniper Rifle is designed for one-shot eliminations, while the Sturmwolf 45 SMG excels in close-quarters combat.
Primary Weapon: Hawker HX
Sniper Rifle, Event Reward
- Levels: 38
- MAGS: 4
- MAG SIZE: 7
- Mastery Badges: Yes
- Attachments: Optic, Muzzle, Barrel, Underbarrel, Magazine, Rear Grip, Stock, Laser, Fire Mods
- Customize Options: Skins, Camos and Reticle Unlocks (CM, MP, ZM, WZ), Accessories (1), Decals (1), Stickers (3).
This bolt-action Sniper Rifle offers fast handling and mobility, making it highly effective for skilled Operators. It delivers significant one-shot damage against unarmored targets, though it has higher recoil and flinch, and a longer rechamber time compared to the VS Recon bolt-action rifle.
Prestige Attachment: MFS 25″ Votive Barrel
This barrel attachment significantly enhances tactical stance spread and standard hip fire spread. It also improves handling, mobility, sprint-to-fire speed, and sprint spread, offering increased lethality in specific combat situations.
Weapon Prestige Camos for Hawker HX:
- Prestige 1: “Smoulder”
- Prestige 2: “Thorns”
- Prestige Max: “Medley”
Primary Weapon: Sturmwolf 45
SMG, Event Reward
- Levels: 38
- MAGS: 4
- MAG SIZE: 32
- Mastery Badges: Yes
- Attachments: Optic, Muzzle, Barrel, Underbarrel, Magazine, Rear Grip, Stock, Laser, Fire Mods
- Customize Options: Skins, Camos and Reticle Unlocks (CM, MP, ZM, WZ), Accessories (1), Decals (1), Stickers (3).
The Sturmwolf 45 is a full-auto submachine gun known for its very low recoil and good headshot damage, making it a reliable choice despite its shorter range. It maintains accuracy both from the hip and when aiming down sights.
Prestige Attachment: MFS Tigris .40 Cal Mag
This magazine converts the Sturmwolf 45 to .40 Cal, increasing damage and damage range for improved stopping power. However, it sacrifices recoil control, reduces ammo capacity, and slows both fire rate and bullet velocity, while also improving handling.
Weapon Prestige Camos for Sturmwolf 45:
- Prestige 1: “Elevate”
- Prestige 2: “Olive”
- Prestige Max: “Vines”
New: Weapon Attachments
Coda 9 Adaptive Discharge Mod
Coda 9 Pistol, Weekly Challenge Reward
Attachment > Stock > Hybrid Dual Stock
This attachment offers a faster fire rate and improved hip-fire spread, while providing a slower fire rate with increased damage and range when aiming down sights. It enhances recoil control but negatively impacts handling and mobility.
M8A1 Autostrike-X8 Conversion
M8A1 Marksman Rifle, Weekly Challenge Reward
Attachment > Barrel > Conversion Kit
This conversion transforms the M8A1 into a fully automatic weapon with a fast fire rate and manageable recoil. It boosts headshot damage and handling but reduces ranged firepower, aiming movement speed, and spread.
MPC-25 ContraBloom Laser
MPC-25 SMG, Weekly Challenge Reward
Attachment > Laser > No-Spread Laser
This laser attachment eliminates nearly all hip spread and resists firing bloom. It enhances non-ADS mobility but incurs a significant damage range penalty. It also provides Crossbar ADS with increased aiming idle sway and blocks Underbarrel Attachments and Optics.
Season 01 Reloaded Events
Players can earn XP and unlock rewards, including the new Season 01 Reloaded Hawker HX Sniper Rifle and Sturmwolf 45 SMG, along with Fallout-themed content and other items.
Event: Fallout Event Pass (CM, MP, ZM, WZ)
Rewards Include: Sturmwolf 45 SMG
The Fallout Event Pass offers a cache of rewards. The Free Track allows players to unlock the new Sturmwolf 45 SMG, “Dweller” and “Wanderer” Operator Skins, “Vault-Tec” Weapon Camo, “Vault Boy” Weapon Charm, and “Enjoy Your Stay” Loading Screen. The Premium Track, available for purchase, includes additional rewards such as “The Ghoul” and “Maximus” Operators, the “Torch Blade” Melee Weapon Blueprint, “Brotherhood’s Armament” Assault Rifle Weapon Blueprint, “Wasteland Buck” Shotgun Weapon Blueprint, and the “Minigun Teardown” Finishing Move.
Event: Quantum Exchange (CM, MP, ZM, WZ)
Rewards Include: Hawker HX Sniper Rifle
In the Quantum Exchange Event, players collect bottle caps across all modes to unlock the new Hawker HX Sniper Rifle. Other rewards include the “Nuka Assault” SMG Weapon Blueprint, “S.P.E.C.I.A.L.” Calling Card, “Nuka Lunch” Charm, “Capped’ Weapon Reticle, “Above All” Loading Screen, and the “Always One More” Finishing Move.
Global Leaderboard Event: Baron of the Wasteland (CM, MP, ZM, WZ)
Rewards Include: Weapon Camos, Calling Cards
This Wasteland-themed Leaderboard event offers tiered Calling Card rewards for top-ranking players. Additional rewards include the “Mine!” Loading Screen, “Quantum Caps” and “Sunset Sarsaparilla” Weapon Camos, “Cappy” Weapon Charm, and the “Waste Raider” Assault Rifle Weapon Blueprint.
New Store Offerings
Season 01 Reloaded introduces new Ultra, Reactive, and Mastercraft Skins through various Bundles in the Store, notably a special Fallout-themed Bundle inspired by the TV series.
Tracer Pack: Fallout Bundle
This bundle allows players to embody Lucy, a Vault 33 resident navigating the post-apocalyptic Wasteland in search of her father’s past. The Tracer Pack: Fallout Bundle includes:
- “Lucy” Operator with “Vault Lucy” and “Lucy” Operator Skins (JSOC)
- “Wasteland Special” X9 Maverick Assault Rifle Blueprint (Tracers, Death FX)
- “Vault-Tec Vengeance” M8A1 Marksman Rifle Blueprint (Tracers, Death FX)
- “Microfusion” Carbon 57 SMG Weapon Blueprint (Tracers, Death FX)
- “V.A.T.S.” HUD Theme
- “That Was Handy” Companion Finishing Move
- “Not-So-Pippy” Gun Screen
- “Fresh(ish) Air” Animated Calling Card
- “Vault 33” Animated Emblem
Tracer Pack: X-Ray Tango Reactive Bundle
This bundle features a new Operator Skin for Jurado, allowing players to deploy in a tatted-up appearance. The X-Ray Tango Reactive Bundle includes:
- “Cold Blood” Operator Skin for Jurado (The Guild)
- “Ultraviolet” Sturmwolf 45 SMG Blueprint (Reactive, Tracers, Death FX)
- “X” X9 Maverick Assault Rifle Blueprint (Tracers, Death FX)
- “Gamma Zap” Finishing Move
- “Brain Cage” Weapon Charm
- “X-Ray Renegade” Animated Emblem
- “Skeletal Vibe” Loading Screen
- “Sicko” Weapon Sticker
- “Downvote” Spray
Tracer Pack: Swarmed Reactive Bundle
This new bundle includes:
- “Royal Scion” Operator Skin for 50/50 (JSOC)
- “Swarmer” RK-9 SMG Blueprint (Reactive, Tracers, Death FX)
- “Barbshot” Warden 308 Marksman Rifle Blueprint (Tracers, Death FX)
- “Stinging Feeling” Finishing Move
- “Hive Juice” Weapon Charm
- “Stingers First” Animated Calling Card
- “Drone Life” Large Decal
- “Honey Overload” Weapon Sticker
- 1-Hour Double XP Token
Additional bundles, such as the Tracer Pack: Legend Reborn Bundle and Tracer Pack: Street Il(egal) Mastercraft Bundle, will be available in the Store throughout the mid-season.
The Biggest Black Ops Ever: Upgrade Today!
Players can purchase Black Ops 7 to access the full Season 01 Reloaded Call of Duty experience, encompassing Endgame, Multiplayer, and Zombies, alongside the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone.
