Black Ops 6: All Multiplayer Modes, Explained

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 brings back the exciting core Multiplayer modes that fans have loved for decades, but there are also a few modern additions and new entries to make for some exciting changes to the party modes and competitive scene of Black Ops 6 as a whole.

Within Black Ops 6 Multiplayer, everyone can pick and choose their game modes to ensure that they are on track for a great time with their best loadouts as they battle across a variety of maps. Whether it’s fighting in 1v1 scenarios, grabbing tags for Kill Confirmed, or surviving the undead with Infected, here’s every game mode and how they work.

12 Team Deathmatch

The Classic 6v6 Where the First to 100 Kills Wins

Eliminate enemy players to earn score for your team.

Team Deathmatch is the most classic multiplayer mode to ever hit the scene, so it’s no surprise to see it at the top of the food chain in Black Ops 6. Paired with the new omnimovement, Team Deathmatch is the perfect way to start for solo players, or those just looking for a fun and competitive time as they try out new guns and try to get the most kills and a positive k/d to brag to friends at the end of the match. The sole objective is to kill and not be killed, and the first team to 100 kills wins.

11 Kill Order

Defend HVTs and Destroy Enemy HVTs to Win Through Tactics

Eliminate the enemy HVT while keeping your HVT alive. HVT kills earn bonus score for your team.

Kill Order isn’t just about murdering opponents, and sometimes teamwork can be more efficient than a squad of grim reapers. Kill Order requires players to defend and protect their HVT while also trying to infiltrate and destroy the enemy’s version. Whoever destroys the HVT first, wins, so it’s a team of tactics over gun skill.

10 Domination

Hold Specific Zones Against Infinite Respawns Until the Best Team Wins

Capture, hold and defend objectives to earn score for your team.

In Domination, 2 teams of 6 must fight against each other to pin down specific zones, holding and defending them from opponents. For every second spent in the Domination zone, more score is added to the team, which benefits them all the way to victory.

9 Hardpoint

Hold Alternating Zones to Earn as Much Score as Possible

Capture and hold the Hardpoint zone to earn score for your team.

A fast-paced game mode that is unforgiving to those who don’t know the maps that they are on, Hardpoint requires players to understand how the spawns work in order to manipulate the movement of each Hardpoint so that they can get there before the enemy team and control it before the Hardpoint moves to a new location.

8 Search and Destroy

A Single-Spawn for Everyone as They Plant and Defuse Bombs

Teams alternate between detonating and defusing a bomb. No respawns.

Search and Destroy is an intense classic in which one team must defend a bomb site, and the others must destroy it. There’s a lot of teamwork required since there are no respawns on each round of alternating playstyles, and all it takes is one good soldier to carry a victory.

7 Control

Keep Hold of Specific Zones Through Defending or Attacking

Take turns attacking and defending the zones.

Control has specific points on the map that players must take hold of. Whether they are defending it or attacking it, those who garner the most points by keeping the enemy team away from their control point will win.

6 Headquarters

Capture an HQ to Disable Respawns and Obtain Score

Compete to capture Headquarters and then defend it. Respawns are disabled for the team that holds the HQ.

Fight to control a specific Headquarters location, and those who manage to capture it will have to contend with the fact that respawns will be disabled until the HQ is taken again. Holding the HQ grants score, so hold out and hold strong for as long as possible before the end is nigh.

5 Kill Confirmed

Capture Dog Tags After a Kill to Build Score and Claim Victory

Recover dog tags to score for your team and deny enemy scores.

Kill Confirmed is a more elite version of Team Deathmatch in which players have to ensure that they have actually confirmed their kill by running to their body and capturing the floating dog tags. Capturing the dog tags confirms the kill, provides more score, and provides the necessity that is needed to bring the victory home. Players can also reject enemy kills by picking up teammate tags.

4 Free-For-All

Battle Against an Equal Playing Field of Enemies to be the Very Best

Eliminate enemies to earn score. The first to reach the score limit will achieve victory.

Only one player can come in first place when it comes to Free-for-All, and it’s the perfect time to prove who’s the best of the best by taking a favorite loadout and heading into a fight with no teams, and where the only one who can prove who’s top dog is the person with the most skill and determination for victory.

3 Infected

Fight Undead Players or Join Their Forces

Eliminated survivors become infected. Infect everyone, or survive the game to win.

Infected can be a terrifying game mode in which players must survive for as long as possible, trying to beat out the growing hordes of infected players that will try and beat players to death with their overwhelming numbers and quickening speeds. Those who survive need to stick together or hide from the swarm of undead.

2 Nuketown 24/7

Nothing But the Map Nuketown Across Various Game Modes

Nuketown. All day. All night.

Nuketown 24/7 is a beloved game mode for how fast-paced it can be, and how each map is reliable in the fact it will always and only ever be Nuketown, the utter classic map from the days of old. Nuketown 24/7 may have the same map, but it alternates between the following game modes: Domination, Hardpoint, Kill Confirmed, Team Deathmatch

1 Gunfight

A Fight of Pure Skill and Resilience Where One Round Makes All the Difference

Eliminate all enemy players using pre-determined classes to win the round. No respawns.

Gunfight is truly for the macho out there who want to see if they can win against a random enemy without relying on a specific loadout. Each range changes up the formula of weapons, perks, and spawns, and Gunfight proves which teammate carries the most to bring about a victory.