Key Takeaways
- ‘The Hit List’ event in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 offers rewards for completing a community challenge.
- Unlocking the Sirin 9mm weapon requires the community to reach 50 billion eliminations.
- Players’ current pace suggests they may fall short, but a Cash Bandit bundle with the weapon’s blueprint is available.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s ‘The Hit List’ event is now live. It offers players the opportunity to unlock new weapons, perks, and cosmetics by completing a community challenge — get as many eliminations as possible.
The event’s ultimate reward, the Sirin 9mm, is a special class weapon players can unlock if the community reaches 50 billion eliminations, a tall order for less than two weeks’ work.
This means that, theoretically, if players don’t team up to hit the 50 billion elimination total, the weapon will remain locked forever. But Activision being Activision, the company is still selling a bundle that offers a blueprint for the weapon that might never be unlocked.
The Cash Bandit, Debt Collector Sirin 9mm Blueprint
In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s ‘The Hit List’ event, players will earn eliminations in the following ways:
- Multiplayer: Earn one elimination per kill.
- Zombies: Earn one elimination per five kills.
- Warzone: Earn five eliminations per kill.
At the time of writing, after roughly six days of the event, players have earned around 20 billion eliminations. That works out at about 3.3 billion eliminations a day. This means that at the current run rate, the event is likely to end with players missing out on the Sirin 9mm with somewhere between 46 and 48 billion eliminations. That’s provided Activision is tracking it properly.
This means that at the current run rate, the event is likely to end with players missing out on the Sirin 9mm.
However, while things aren’t looking good, the clever folks at the studio have found a way to extract some money from players, allowing them to guarantee they unlock the weapon, at least for themselves, by including a blueprint for it in a newly released bundle.
The irony doesn’t seem to be lost on Activision, as the Sirin 9mm’s new blueprint is called the ‘Debt Collector’ and is available as part of the Cash Bandit bundle, which includes a raccoon operator skin and some other rewards for 2,800 COD Points. The Debt Collector is a reactive blueprint, with ‘Make It Rain’ tracers and an annoying death animation that sees players burst into wads of cash.
It remains unclear whether Treyarch will truly stop Call of Duty players from unlocking a weapon or whether it will fudge the numbers to ensure that every player gets it no matter what. But whatever happens, this latest move has certainly been met with some cynicism.
Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.
The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.
In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.
Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.