I know it’s easy to look at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 as “another year, another Call of Duty game,” but they took major steps this year. Yes, they did cut a single player campaign out, but whꦚat they added makes up for it. As much as I’ve enjoyed the campaigns over the years, the money has been with the multiplayer. That’s why they sell a season pass, and it's the main reason people dump hundreds of hours into these games every year.

This year they added Blackout, which is their answer to Battle Royale. It’s blowingꩵ up Twitch at the moment! I’ve never been a big zombies person, but I know people love that mode. This year they have three different zombie campaigns right off the bat and one more if you have the season pass.

So with the changes they’ve made this year, that means that there is a slew of awesome things you can do in the game. I don’t want this to be so much a guide to things, but more of an arrow pointed in the direction of cool things you can do. Cause there are 10 specialists in multiplayer with different abilities, and Blackout can be a bit intimidating at first. Zombies can be very confusing if you haven’t played that mode before, and there are a lot of weapons to unlock! I want to go over some of the coolest things I’ve seen in Black Ops 4 since I started playing it... so let’s get it!

25 Use Special💮ists' Abilities

There are 10 specialists you play as in multiplayer, and they all have different abilities. I know it seems obvious, but it’s different for a CoD game to have ch𒁏aracter abilities so ♓it can take a minute to get used to.

They make the game feel a bit like Destiny.

The cool thing about them, though, is some can lit༒erally take out an entire team in a single us🅠e. If the whole team is on a capture point, then Battery’s War Machine or Ruin’s Grav Slam can take them all out and it’s awesome to do!

24 ও The Right Way To Heal 💛

A new addition to Black Ops 4 is that there is a healing mechanic in the game. That means there is no health re-gen. So since that’s a thing, you have a make sure and heal in between gunfights. It really becomes a thing in Blackout, but 🍌every other BR game has healing as well, so it’s not as big there as it is in multiplayer. It is a cool feeling when you take out someone, go behind cover and heal up, then take out someone else! It feels good and🥀 different enough to keep the game fresh.

23 Nomad’s Dog Can Guard Points 🎀

Nomad has a dog as his special, and it can be used more than just as a roaming fighter for you. If you want the dog to follow you around or guide you in the direction of 🔯enemies then you don’t need to do anything. It can guard a control po𓆏int, though, and it’s a nice surprise for the enemy!

Press LB and RB or L1 and R1 to have the dog guard an area.

The armor the dog has is very good, so people won’t be able to take it🐽 down easy.

22 𓆏 🎃 Play The Zombies Tutorial

I know ﷽that playing a tutorial can seem like a waste, but they made the tutorial for zombies this year pretty ridiculous. It starts by putting a zombie in front of you and saying to shoot it, then tells you good job. They added a really funny tone to it this year, and it’s worth playing through, in my opinion. You do get an achievement/trophy out of it as well. If you’re like me and haven’t 𝄹done much with this mode over the years, then you’ll actually learn things and not just laugh at the stupid humor.

21 Take Advan💖tage Of Perk Greeds

A part of the pꦚick - 10 system in multiplayer is the perk greed cards. They ha▨ve been in past games, but I don’t think everyone takes advantage of them and I’m not sure why.

Having a fully loaded weapon can be more useful than a secondary weapon.

If you play like me, then you don’t use your secondary weapon much, so why even have one! Its cooler to me to have a decked out primary that you can do work with! I get that ammo can be a problem, but there are perks 💜for that as well.

20 Play Rush Mode 🌱

A new mode was added to zombies this year and it’s called Rush! Zombies in the Call of Duty games can be very complicated, and I think tha🌜t’s why they added this mode, so people could just play and not deal with all that. It’s the same maps and weapon layouts, but all the puzzle solving is taken out and you just take out waves of zombies! It sounds simple because it is, but it’s real🔯ly fun and a welcome addition when you just want to chill and not play a 2-hour long thing!

19 Play Who You Want In Blackout ♕

The customization in Blackout could honestly be better, but it’s pretty solid for the game just coming out. A cool thing the🅰y have is 𓆉that you can choose to make a custom character, play as one of the current multiplayer characters, play a current zombies character, or play as some classic characters.

There are things in the game you can do to unlock all these characters, and🌳 it’s pretty cool that they included as many as they did. I imagine the custom characters will have more stuff to buy at some point, but as of now, 🔜running around as Mason from the first two games will have to do!

18 Take Out UAVs/Counter UAVs ♈

You know how I suggested to not bring a secondary weapon earlier? Well, if you want to take down UAVs, then you may want to. UAV🥂 and counter UAVs can be the most annoying things in the game and taking them down is always satisfying!

Launchers take them down the easiest.

You can shoot them with regular guns, but it takes a while and you give your ๊position away! One shot with a launcher takes them down, and it’s amazing how🌳 many people don’t have a loadout with one.

17 ✃ Ajax’s Shield Is Op 🐭

If you come across a guy walking around with a shield in multiplayer, don’t worry, that’s just Ajax and his OP shield! His special weapon is a shield, and man that thing can tak⛎e some dꦇamage! If you play as him, though, it’s so fun to run around a map with it. He can free aim with a pistol or he can hold the shield closer and shoot through a hole in the front. Shooting through the hole in front is so overpowered, but man it’s fun!

16 Hiding Until ℱThe End Of A Game In Blackout

Alright, look. I get that hiding until the end of a Blackout match might not b♐e for everyone, but it was p🌸retty fun when I did it. It’s set up like all the other BR games so as long as you’re in the circle, then you can chill in a house till the end if you want.

Or you can chill in a bathroom, your choice.

I’ll fully admit that I came in second the game I did this, cause when the guy found me 𓄧he destroyed me. It was a fun 𝓰experiment, though!