Best Multiplayer Modes In COD: Black Ops 6

Key Takeaways

• Kill Confirmed: Grab tags quickly to maximize confirmed kills, but beware of getting shot in the back.
• Search and Destroy: Play with friends for effective communication to make it one of the best modes.
• Free-For-All: Good for grinding, but being shot by multiple people and no team play can make it less fun.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is home to a wide variety of game modes to play against other people in multiplayer. Classic modes like Domination and Free-For-All return in Black Ops 6, along with a new mode, Kill Order. These modes have grown and adapted alongside the series, with some renditions working a bit differently than the last.

Each of the multiplayer modes has a set of objectives that enable teams to score points and eventually win the game. Some modes are better than the others for one or multiple reasons, while others are just downright not fun to play.

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Kill Confirmed

In Kill Confirmed, your objective is to pick up dog tags from fallen enemies to add to your score. You’ll also have to prevent enemies from gathering the dog tags of your dead teammates. Coordination is important since it’s easy to fall behind in score. Unfortunately playing with random people often results in absolutely zero combined effort.

To maximize the confirmed kills, grab tags quickly. Enemies tend to swarm locations where their teammates have fallen to deny kills.

Most of the time in Kill Confirmed, you’re getting shot in the back before you’re able to confirm your kills which can cost the game if you’re not careful. Picking up the tags after every kill becomes a chore very quickly, and it just loses the fun aspect nearly instantly. Teamwork is key, especially if the other team is working in groups, which is likely since they’ll be looking to deny kills.

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Search And Destroy

Search and Destroy is perhaps one of the most intense modes in the game. Your objective is to plant a bomb at one of two sites and prevent the other team from defusing it. While it sounds fun, the issue arises when playing with random people. The players in this mode can be extremely toxic, which often ruins the fun of the game. You’ll have to play carefully since you only get one life per round, upping the intensity.

It’s definitely a mode you want to play with friends so you can effectively communicate and give callouts. When in a squad, Search and Destroy has the potential to be one of the best modes available. It’s great for building a strong foundation for communication in other modes. If you want to test how good of a team you can be, Search and Destroy is the mode for your group.

Use game chat and pings to indicate enemy positions as well as how many there are. Effective callouts are imperative in this mode.

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Free-For-All

Free-For-All is good if you want to rack up a nice K/D ratio or grind headshots for a camo. The mode is simple: kill enemies to gain points and reach the score limit.

Always keep your head on a swivel to avoid being shot in the back. Make note of areas that players tend to flock to and keep an eye on them.

The primary complaint about FFA is that you will nearly always be shot by several people at once since there are no teams. It also gets boring after a few matches. Since you can’t play with friends, you’ll be stuck with random people. While the mode is great for grinding camos, it simply isn’t as fun as some of the other modes.

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Headquarters

Headquarters is one of the modes you’ll want friends for, since relying on random teammates is often a recipe for disaster. When playing Headquarters, both teams fight over control of the HQ. The team that captures it then has respawns disabled while defending the zone. Headquarters is a lot of fun, but suffers from a lot of campers from the team holding the zone.

The lack of respawns is to blame. However, with proper communication, the campers are no issue at all. This mode is all about effective communication and keeping control of key points to hold an advantage.

Use the ping system to call them out for your team. Explosives are great for flushing them out of the corners and rooms campers hole up in.

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Gunfight

Gunfight is a lot of fun when you’re in the mood for it. When spawning, you and the other three players are given the same random class to duke it out in round-based fights. There are no respawns, so when you die, it’s all up to your teammate to clutch up.

Gunfight puts everyone on equal footing, so you’ll need to get accustomed to the maps and take note of key locations, but it makes for really intense and engaging games. The randomized classes give everyone a fair chance to come out on top. It all boils down to who’s the better shot and who’s better at positioning.

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Team Deathmatch

Team Deathmatch is the simplest of all the game modes in Black Ops 6. Kill enemies to increase your team’s points until one team reaches the score limit. It’s a lot of fun if you’re not in the mood for one of the more strategic modes.

You’ll need to familiarize yourself with spawn locations and make sure you’re aware of when they swap to avoid getting shot in the back, but since it’s all about kills, you’ll have no trouble grinding for camos. It’s easily the most popular mode in the game and a must-have in Call of Duty.

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Control

Control is similar to Search and Destroy in the sense that you’ll be taking turns attacking and defending two points. The mode is incredibly fun since the defending team often splits up to cover both capture points while the attackers throw wave after wave of enemies at them.

It’s like Breakthrough in Battlefield, just on a small scale. Defense is often the most fun, since you’ll set up a perimeter and run back and forth between the objectives to reinforce either side.

More people in the objective doesn’t mean more score in Control.

On defense, make use of field upgrades to keep your team in the fight and watch the area around the objective as well as the zone. Attackers should make good use of grenades and stick together to maximize effectiveness.

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Hardpoint

In Hardpoint, you’re tasked with capturing and defending a single point on the map for one minute. After one minute passes, the Hardpoint moves to a different set area, and the process repeats. While capturing and playing defense, the other team will capture the point. Each zone awards one point per second regardless of how many people are in it.

To succeed, you have to learn the areas and order that Hardpoints appear and watch the timer to know when it’s time to move. The enemies will be scrambling to get inside while you rack up points from being there ahead of time. Hardpoint remains one of the most fun and hectic modes, since the entirety of both teams will be fighting for dominion constantly. The best parts are easily when the point is contested, and it becomes frantic close quarters fighting.

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Kill Order

How fun does it sound to have the whole enemy team chase you down while your team protects you? If it sounds like a good time, Kill Order will likely become a new favorite. Rather than receiving one point for a typical kill, the team receives five points toward the score limit each time the HVT is killed. It’s a game of cat and mouse, essentially.

Periodically, the ping of the enemy HVT is updated to give you an idea of where they are to keep the game fast-paced. Communication is imperative, and gameplay is hectic. It remains one of the most exciting modes in Black Ops 6.

Keep an eye on your radar as the HVT, you get constant updates of enemy positions. Watch enemy spawns to know when they’ll be flipped and keep your armor intact.

If you aren’t HVT, be sure to watch their back and stick with them if nobody else is.

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Domination

Domination is one of the most iconic modes in COD. Since the beginning, it’s always been a staple of competitive multiplayer. With a heavy reliance on communication, Domination has teams fighting for dominion over three different flag points across the map. The more flags held, the more points you score.

While scoring, the enemy team will be fighting to gain control over one or more flags to score as well. It causes a ton of exciting moments and keeps the stakes high. A lot of the games are tight when losing a flag, but a well-coordinated team can turn the tide of the game and bring the team back from the brink of loss.

Be sure to play defensively when the need arises. Many games are lost from lack of defense around a flag, so be sure you watch the capture points and play the objective.