The new replayable Endgame mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is now permanently available. This mode supports 32 players in four-player squads, engaging in high-intensity PvE combat in Avalon.
Players can unlock this mode by completing the first 11 missions of the cooperative campaign. As players delve deeper into the high-difficulty radiation zone, their Combat Rating will increase. Combined with exclusive Abilities and Skill Tracks, this is the core key to improving extraction success rates and securing progress and rewards.
Major Abilities and Minor Abilities
During the pre-match gear setup phase, players can bind one Major Ability and one Minor Ability. These two skill sets can cover most combat needs.
Major Abilities are the core combat forces in battle, including Ballistic Shell, Active Camo, Hand Cannon, Crash Cart, Vision Pulse, War Machine, Shadow Break, Drone Pod, and Sentinel Protocol.
Ballistic Shell deploys an energy shield to block enemy attacks; Active Camozi can become invisible for a short time; Hand Cannon is a long-range, high-damage hand cannon; Crash Cart can instantly revive downed teammates within range and can also be used for self-revival; Vision Pulse can mark enemies through walls and increase damage; War Machine is a large-area grenade launcher; Shadow Break can create energy distortion teleportation; Drone Pod can launch and self-destruct swarms of drones; and Sentinel Protocol summons robots to fight alongside them.
Minor Abilities focus on mobility and tactical support, including Grappling Hook, Portal Grenade, Kinetic Jump, Flicker, Supply Link, Black Hat, Blood Burner, and Aether Blade.
Grappling Hook for mobility, Portal Grenade for illusionary decoys, Kinetic Jump for aerial crowd control, Flicker for short-range teleportation, Supply Link for team-wide resource replenishment, Black Hat for vehicle intrusion, Blood Burner for combat motorcycles, and the season-limited unlocked Aether Blade for homing knives.
How to achieve a maxed-out Combat Rating?
As your Combat Rating reaches its level 60 cap, you can choose talents from nine Skill Tracks to enhance your damage output, survivability, mobility, and tactics across all dimensions. Each track contains six progressively stronger effects.
Skill Tracks
- Gunner
- Surgeon
- Daredevil
- Tactician
- Berserker
- Bulldozer
- Phantom
- Eagle Eye
- Warband
Gunner focuses on gunfights, enhancing reload speed, armor, and weapon switching speed, achieving automatic magazine reloading and electric shock stun.
- Skills: Reload Speed, Fast Replate, Fast Weapon Swap, Ammo Auto-Refill, Aiming Expert, Shocking Reload.
Surgeons focus on survival and endurance, optimizing out-of-combat recovery, downed sustain, and rescue efficiency, achieving self-destruction and self-rescue.
- Skills: Healthy Recovery, Last Stand Fighter, Agile Handling, Heal Faster, Fast Revive, Off the Floor.
Dive Bomber enhances mobility, upgrades Wingsuit controls, allows gliding dashes, and unlocks dive shockwave and gliding explosion effects.
- Skills: Wingsuit Glider, Thick Skin, Super Slider, Reload and Run, Slide Explosions.
Tactician specializes in tactical equipment, increasing item storage and recharge speed, achieving ammo refund on kills, and equipment dropped by enemies.
- Skills: Equipment Hound, Quick Deploy, Hit and Run, Recharger, Quick Rounds Back, Piñata.
Berserker gains increased rate of fire, armor regeneration on kill, immunity to fall damage, and unlocks a landing explosion.
- Skills: Fast Weapon Fire, Kills Regen Armor, Crit Chain Speed Boost, Endurance Sprinter, Fall Damage Reduction, Fall Explosions.
Bulldozer focuses on frontal damage absorption, automatically regenerating armor, increased damage at low health, immunity to friendly explosions, and slide knockdowns.
- Skills: Armor Regen, Point Blank, Adrenaline Rush, Revival Protection, Explosive Resistance, Tackle.
Phantom is suited for stealth play, offering increased backstab damage, silent movement, trap immunity, and automatic decoy deployment after being critically wounded.
- Skills: Ambush, Fast Melee, Trap Avoidance, Silent Movement, Elusive Target, Decoy.
Eagle Eye enhances precision output, increases critical hit damage and aiming speed, and triggers stun upon armor penetration and increases remaining ammo damage.
- Skills: Increased Crit Damage, Big Hit, Last Shots Plus, Rampage, Aim Faster, Armor Breaker.
Warband focuses on summoning allies, converting kills into friendly units, automatically deploying drones, and enabling summoned units to heal and automatically equip armor.
- Skills: Plague, Wirehand, Smuggler, Bloodrunner, Healthhounds, Steelhand.
Exotic Skills and Nightmare Skills
In addition to the basic progression path, there are two categories of high-tier rare skills that provide significant boosts to the battle.
Exotic Skills can be obtained through world events and are unlocked by randomly dropping Exotic Skill Cases. Each Exotic Skill Case randomly rewards one skill. Players can only equip and upgrade one Exotic Skill at a time. After obtaining a new Exotic Skill Case, players can choose to upgrade the current skill or replace it.
- Skills: Mega Punch, First Upgrade, Final Upgrade, Conjuration, Echo Shell, Celebration, Frost Cloud, Resurrection, Shattered Shield, Graviton Reaction, etc.
Nightmare Skills are unlocked by challenging Glitch Fracture and defeating Glitch Boss.
- Skills: Nova Strike, Hellwing, Chaos Rounds, Frost Vortex, etc.
Both types of skills have First Upgrade and Final Upgrade versions, allowing players to significantly increase their damage output in combat. Players can also practice shooting, movement, and map awareness in CoD: Black Ops 7 Bot Lobbies.
This concludes the comprehensive guide to the skill system and progression paths in BO7 Season 3 Endgame, helping players choose their future playstyle.
