Augments are the main source of progression inCall of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombiesalongside weapon leveling, and they’re game-changers. From Weapons Mods,Field Upgrades, and Perks, Augments not only give straight-up benefits during gameplay but open up a wide variety of different playstyles within the game’s existing abilities.
For those struggling withCall of Duty: Black Ops 6’s zombies mode, note that these abilities are nothing to sneeze at, and will noticeably ease the difficulty in the later rounds. This list will contain some of the most powerful of the augments, what they do, as well as their best applications.
Major
Reactive Armor
When an armor plate breaks, nearby normal enemies are stunned for a short time.
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Armor plates have more damage mitigation.
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Armor sees a return inCall of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombiesand the Major Augment Reactive Armor boosts its efficiency. With this Augment equipped, whenever an armor plate is broken, nearby zombies are stunned as if hit with a Concussion Grenade.
This is super useful against the Super Sprinters that spawn in later rounds, making it so that the ones that catch up to you and break your armor don’t get the chance to combo you, and are temporarily taken out of the fight. This works on earlier rounds as well, stunning zombies making it harder to get trapped, and providing more time to react after taking damage.
Citrus Focus
If a weapon has an ammo mod applied, Elemental Pop will only activate that one.
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Slightly increase enemy elemental weakness damage
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Elemental Pop plays off the game’sAmmo Mods: elemental mods that assign a specific damage type to your weapon and give them a bonus interaction against the enemies faced. Each of these Ammo mods is useful in its own way, and the different special enemies are weak to differing elements. Default, the perk will proc a random mod, but with the Major Augment “Citrus Focus” it will only proc the Weapon Mod slotted to the gun.
This allows players to better focus on specific damage types, increasing the chance that they procure certain elements. This makes it perfect for getting weapons dedicated to getting rid of Manglers,Amalgamations, and Abominations, as you can focus on the elements they are weak to, allowing for significantly more damage against these enemies.
Sliding into enemies makes them explode
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Slide further and faster
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PHD Flopper’s primary use is preventing players from damaging themselves with their own explosives, while also broadening the movement achievable by the player. This is achieved through the minor perk Tribologist, which grants increased slide speed and distance. Because the sliding in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 generates its own momentum, this can be used as a micro-boost; allowing your character to ‘dash’ in a given direction with sliding. This is incredibly helpful when trying to dodge grab attacks by Mimics and Abominations as well as getting out of generally sticky situations.
PHD Slider further boosts the efficiency of this, by allowing players to kill enemies that may be in their way while sliding, reducing the risk of being caught in tight spaces.
Further increased critical damage
Increases damage done to armor pieces
Dead Break is a Minor Augment, but that doesn’t make it any less useful. This is because at higher rounds armored enemies become much more common,as well as Manglers, which are innately armored. Manglers in particular are incredibly dangerous, especially on higher rounds, and can spawn very frequently up to a maximum of six on the map at one time.
Dead Break helps keep these Manglers and armored zombies manageable for longer, while also synergizing well with other methods of getting rid of armor like explosive damage, as it doesn’t require any more or less skill to capitalize on. It’s free damage and stacks with Ammo Mods as well as the Major Augment Dead Head, which further increases headshot damage, allowing it to better punish enemies once their armor is stripped.
Increases movement speed while aiming
Minor
Hotfoot
Gain a speed boost whenever you get a kill with your equipment
Hot Foot is a Minor Augment that makes it so that when you get a kill with your Lethal or Tactical, you gain significantly increased movement speed. This speed boost is significantly faster than any enemy in the game and allows you to gain distance and create breathing room.
This is useful for full-map training and allows players to reset enemies if needed by overriding their distance threshold. An easy way to take constant advantage of this is to use Combat Axes, as they can be used over and over again, and can be you may hold more of them than most lethals. Using each at precise locations on your train route can make it so there is always a Combat Axe just a few steps away.
Dying Wish
On lethal damage, lose Quick Revive but gain 2 seconds of immunity. Can proc 3 times a game total.
After reviving self or ally, gain greatly increased movement speed.
Dying Wish on Quick Revive is generally the safest Major Augment to choose. This is because unlike the other augments, which operate after the player is down and has lost nearly all of their perks, Dying Wish allows players to cheat death while keeping their perks.
This saves money, only needing to re-buy Quick Revive instead of all the other perks, as well as shortens the time it takes for a player to get back up to speed, Swift Recovery is useful so players can get out of trouble once they’re up and about.
Increases drop chance for your current equipment from enemies.
This perk revolves around material gain and ammo conservation, as well as some other bells and whistles. Their best Minor Augment option for this is Picky Eater, which allows players to focus on the random equipment drops by increasing the odds for items they currently have equipped. This makes it easy to spam potent equipment by giving players a steady stream of utility to use.
The Major Augment slot has two major contenders: Smell of Death, which randomly spawns gas clouds on kills that instantly conceal you when stepped in, and Parting Gift, which makes ammo pickups give more Wonder Weapon Ammo. Parting Gift is the go-to for those using Wonder Weapons, but Smell of Death essentially spawns life-saving bubbles every once in a while and is a must-equip for those grinding camos on standard firearms.
Increase the loot pool of items dropped by enemies
Increase the rate of mini-map ping
A returning perk for the franchise is Death Perception. It’s a fun perk that allows players to gamble early for better loot later on. Its standout Augments are Bird’s Eye View in the Minor slot, which increases the rate at which your radar pings, and Treasure Hunter, which broadens the loot pool for items dropped by enemies.
This augment is great for resource management, as it allows players to find perks, weapon upgrades, and pack-a-punch crystals just for killing enemies. This can allow players to save thousands in scrap and cash as they progress, allowing players to bulk up relatively early into their runs.
Restore health on melee hits
Faster backward movement after kill
Melee Macchiato is a required perk for players using melee weapons. This perk changes your typical melee into a punch, but because this punch’s damage doesn’t scale as the rounds progress it becomes obsolete very quickly. The real benefit of Melee Macchiato is that it doubles the melee damage of your melee weapons; a required damage boost for surviving later rounds. The Minor Augment Stick ‘N Move allows players to backpedal faster when scoring a melee kill.
This makes training less risky as players can pluck away at the front of the line while not having to worry about being overrun during their melee animations. For the Major Augment slot, Vampiric Extraction is the choice for surviving high rounds as trading melee blows becomes increasingly more risky as enemies do more and more damage.
Increase charge rate for field equipment
Deploy equipment faster
Speed Cola is probably one of the most important perks in the game, allowing players to reload and replace armor plates faster than standard. The Augments for Speed Cola are pretty versatile, both Minor and Major; it’s hard to go wrong. The most powerful Major Augment is arguably Supercharged, as it allows players to use their Field Upgrade more and those are very potent.
Classic Formula is fine as well, making reloading less risky by speeding up the animation. Fast Pitcher is the most versatile of the Minor Augments, allowing players to deploy equipment faster, but Speedy Roulette also makes using the Mystery Box easier by making it settle faster.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
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Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.
