One of the most intriguing elements of the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, launching this week, was the announcement of a co-op endgame mode. This was teased earlier in the reveal, but Activision has only just revealed more about what this endgame content will entail and how it’ll keep players engaged in the game’s story mode for longer.

The co-op endgame content will unlock after players have completed the first 11 missions of the campaign. Presumably, this will place the co-op endgame timeline a little before the campaign wrap-up. Here, players will be exploring Avallon and exploring The Guild’s remaining Command Centres with exposure zones leaking a toxic element into the city that you’ll need to put a stop to.

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You’ll have plenty of help in this mode, with it being designed for 1-32 players, in squads of up to four players. Your group will fight through escalating difficulty zones across the massive map, levelling up as you go and unlocking new skills. The idea is that you’ll drop into the Avalon co-op endgame map, pick some objectives to complete with your squad, hopefully complete them all and eventually push to an exfull spot and make it out alive. If you’re killed in action, you’ll lose everything, so this isn’t a mode where you’ll want to go into it without a plan.

Each Operator has a Major and a Minor ability, which Activision says are integral to succeeding in endgame content. These can be mixed and matched, but different types of players are going to want to do other things, and, likely, your stealth-loving friend and you pairing up to run-and-gun isn’t going to go as well as you’d hope.

Major Abilities

  • Ballistic Shell: Deploy an energy shield that blocks incoming enemy fire.
  • Active Camo: Become nearly invisible for a short duration. Gunfire temporarily reveals your position.
  • Hand Cannon: Powerful high-damage handgun. Accurate at range.
  • Crash Cart: Instantly revive downed squadmates within range and provide temporary invulnerability. Can be used to self-revive when downed.
  • Vision Pulse: Send out a pulse which visually tags enemies through walls for your squad. Tagged enemies take increased damage.
  • War Machine: Powerful single shot grenade launcher. Large explosion radius.
  • Shadow Break: Create an energy warping field that teleports and damages enemies.
  • Drone Pod: Deployable device that launches aerial drones. Drones seek out enemies and explode.

Minor Abilities

  • Grappling Hook: Grapple to surfaces to escape danger and reach new heights.
  • Portal Grenade: A grenade that spawns hallucinations to target your enemies. They last a short duration.
  • Kinetic Jump: Jump to extreme heights. Hold the button to jump higher. Landing stuns nearby enemies.
  • Flicker: Tap to quickly teleport a short distance in your facing direction. Press and hold to pre-aim. Goes through enemies.
  • Supply Link: Instantly supplies you and your squad with ammo, armor, equipment, and a portion of the Major Ability charge.
  • Black Hat: Hack enemies, equipment, and vehicles. Hacked targets are disabled, destroyed, or converted to fight for you.

To push towards the upper ranks in the co-op endgame, you’ll need to work hard with your squad to complete objectives and then exfil to fight another day, in a higher-level area. As you succeed in missions and push further into the co-op endgame content, you’ll be aiming to reach at least a Combat Rating of 45, which will let you access the last area of the Avalon map.

Are you excited for the endgame co-op content that’s going to be a big part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7? Let me know in the comments section below.