Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is rolling out across the world (in New Zealand first, as is Call of Duty tradition), and fans are already getting stuck into the shooter’s annual camo grind. For one Call of Duty streamer the race is on for world firsts — with one in the bag already.
Call of Duty Twitch streamer Reidboyy, who IGN has reported on in the past for unlocking Modern Warfare 3’s most coveted camo after a near 76-hour grind, took just over an hour to obtain the gold camo for the XM4, and took to X/Twitter to declare the world first.
FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD TO HAVE GOLD CAMO IN #BlackOps6
GOLD XM4 ✅ pic.twitter.com/WWJVkvmLV4
— Reidboyy (@Reidboy24) October 24, 2024
Black Ops 6 has four Mastery Camos to be earned in each mode (Multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone). The camo in question is the Gold Multiplayer Mastery Camo. This Tier 1 Mastery Camo is unlocked by earning all nine Military Camos and two Special Camos in the corresponding mode, and then completing the applicable Camo Challenge. It’s incredibly impressive that Reidboyy was able to achieve this in just an hour.
Reidboyy has said his target is to unlock all of Black Ops 6’s camos by the end of this weekend. If he hasn’t managed it by midnight Sunday, October 27, he’ll consider his grind an “L.” A "W," then, would mean getting all Black Ops 6's coveted Dark Matter camos in Multiplayer.
For the record, here’s everything involved in getting Dark Matter camo in Black Ops 6, per Activision:
Access by earning Mastery Camo Tier 2 for the designated number of Weapons across multiple Weapon Classes in the corresponding mode, and then complete the applicable Camo Challenge. For example, a Multiplayer player must earn Dark Spine Camo on 33 Weapons (the number of launch Weapons in Black Ops 6) before they gain access to the Dark Matter Camo Challenge on those Weapons.
Just like Military Camos, Mastery Camos must be unlocked individually with each Weapon and once unlocked can only be used with that Weapon. For example, if you’ve unlocked Gold Camo for the AMES 85, it can be equipped to the AMES 85 anywhere you use it, but not to any other weapon until you’ve separately unlocked Gold with that weapon.
As mentioned, Black Ops 6 is rolling out now globally, although players across the world are using Call of Duty’s infamous New Zealand trick to access the game earlier than their timezone officially allows.
Image credit: Reidboyy/Twitter.
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