15 HARDEST BO6 Zombie Challenges That’ll Break You

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the 15 toughest Dark Ops challenges in Black Ops 6 Zombies and give you detailed tips to beat them.

Completing these challenges will test your skills and reward you with the prestigious Dark Ops Mastery.

Let’s look at each challenge and the best ways to tackle them.

1. Another Round

Challenge: Get to round 100 in Black Ops 6 Zombies.

Tips:

  • Pick the Liberty Falls map for faster progress.
  • Keep the spawn door to the bowling alley closed for quick spawns.
  • Use the jet gun and score streaks dropped by manglers.
  • Camp on the Alamo rooftop and use Ether Shroud and melee manglers to manage rounds well.
  • Use score streaks like chopper gun and mutant injection for extra help.
  • Key Upgrades: Free Fall for stamina, Dying Wish for Quick Revive, Reactive Armor and Hardened Plates for Juggernog, Espresso and Hidden Impact for melee, Supercharged for Speed Cola, and Void Chief and Extra Upgrade for Ether Shroud.

2. Terminal

Challenge: Finish the Terminus Easter egg after round 50.

Tips:

  • Play up to round 100 for an extra challenge.
  • Use a mix of the beam smasher, GS 45s akimbo, and mutant injections.
  • Follow a smart plan for the boss fight to ensure success.

3. Armed to the Teeth

Challenge: Have three Pack-a-Punch level 3 legendary weapons with ammo mods and eight perks active.

Tips:

  • Upgrade your starting weapon and melee weapon to triple Pack-a-Punch and gold rarity.
  • Make sure you have a Ray Gun even though it can’t have an ammo mod.

4. Fatal

Challenge: Kill two Amalgams with one shot.

Tips:

  • Use a beam smasher to weaken an amalgam to 1% health.
  • Reload the game to spawn two weak amalgams.
  • Line them up and shoot with a triple Pack-a-Punched sniper rifle during insta-kill power-up.

5. Harbinger of Doom

Challenge: Kill 100 enemies with one score streak.

Tips:

  • Use mutant injection score streak after round 40.
  • Make sure you have a big group of zombies before using the score streak.

6. Invincible

Challenge: Reach round 30 without going down.

Tips:

  • Use the Dying Wish upgrade for Quick Revive.
  • Play carefully and get the necessary perks without taking too many risks.

7. Kunoichi

Challenge: Kill three zombies, two special zombies, and an elite zombie during one use of Ether Shroud.

Tips:

  • Upgrade melee weapon to triple Pack-a-Punch and at least purple rarity.
  • Use Ether Shroud with Void Chief Orgman and extension minor upgrades.

8. Liberated

Challenge: Finish the main Liberty Falls Easter egg in 30 minutes or less.

Tips:

  • Turn on Rampage Inducer, get 20,000 points, and turn off Rampage Inducer.
  • Open path to the church and Pack-a-Punch pistols.
  • Quickly do Easter egg steps and go to the boss fight.

9. Strike

Challenge: Score 300 in the bowling minigame on Liberty Falls.

Tips:

  • Shoot the five bowling shoes around the map to unlock the minigame.
  • Charge the ball and line up zombies to get big multipliers.

10. Well That Was a Waste

Challenge: Go down within 10 seconds of using a Perkaholic.

Tips:

  • Use the Perkaholic and immediately get down within 10 seconds.

11. Yo Ho Ho

Challenge: Earn 20,000 Essence without getting hit while using the Cursed Relic.

Tips:

  • Finish the pirate side easter egg to get the Cursed Talisman.
  • Use the ASG shotgun to shoot the basketball easter egg for points (changed after patch).

12. Sticks and Stones

Challenge: Reach round 25 using only melee weapons, melee macchiato, and combat axes.

Tips:

  • Only use melee, don’t pick up drops, use vampirism major, and other helpful upgrades.
  • Stay on rooftops to avoid exploding cars.

13. Social Distancing

Challenge: Reach round 20 without taking any damage from zombies.

Tips:

  • Join a friend’s game on round 19 and start round 20 to instantly get the challenge.

14. Dark Journey

Challenge: Earn nebula camo on 33 weapons in zombies.

Tips:

  • Complete the camo grind for all 33 launch weapons from Mystic Gold, Opal, and Afterlife, to Nebula.

15. Good Enough

Challenge: Reach round 20 using only your starting loadout with no upgrades equipped, no perks, no ammo mods, and no field upgrades.

Tips:

  • Unequip all upgrades before starting the game.
  • Upgrade weapon rarity and Pack-a-Punch three times, and avoid score streaks and perks.

Using these tips, you should be well on your way to finishing the Dark Ops challenges in Black Ops 6 Zombies.