Our Black Ops 4 Blackout Strategy Guide will help you learn all about Blackout weapons, perks, vehicles, tips and tricks to win, where to land, and more.
Call of Duty is finally aboard the Battle Royale hype train and that means that there are multiple new mechanics for all of the players to learn. Our Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Strategy Guide will ensure that you are aware of all of the basics of the mode and have a baseline to build upon.
This guide will be your one-stop solution for everything that is related to the Blackout Mode in BLOPS4.
Everything from the gear to how the game works will be explained in detail so that you are fully aware of everything that needs to be done in order to satisfy the win conditions.
We will start out by giving you various different tips and tricks on how to land at the start of the game followed by a detailed explanation of the gear and all of the weapons that are a part of the game mode.
After that, we will delve into the more advanced stuff and give you tips on how to get better at all of the minute stuff that ends up having a massive impact on your game.
Landing faster is essential as it allows you to have much better gear before your enemies are able to find it. Of course, you should always be vigilant of all of the players around you to gauge whether or not you will be able to land before them or not.
This will allow you to adjust how aggressively you want to play at the start and get better positions for engagements.
This is very important, and something that players of all battle royale games should understand.
The best way to dive down is to go straight down until you have a speed of 60 m/s before changing your direction and heading to where you want to end up.
A speed of 60 m/s will allow you to go wherever you want since you will already have enough momentum built up to move faster. It will also make you quicker than everyone else around you (or equally as fast).
This is something that most players already know but a few may not. If you are aiming for low ground, then you will move faster than everyone else around you due to the way that physics works.
This is especially important for game modes such as Solos in which a lot of players drop into the same area and getting down quickly is more important than ever.
BLOPS4 Blackout works very similar to other Battle Royale games. For that reason, you can ensure the highest chances of success if you land at a place that does not immediately push you into battle.
Another important thing to remember is that you should land at a spot where you can gear yourself very quickly.
Of course, enemies at a higher frequency will visit this leads to a balancing act as any place that has good equipment for you to find.
It is best to experiment to see which locations have decent loot and yet, not as much competition so that you can move towards the mid game at your own pace.
There is no one location that is better than all others since the meta is constantly shifting. One rule of thumb that you can follow is to go as far away from the path of the helicopter as possible.
This will ensure that you do not run into conflict in the early stages where it is much less down to skill and more down to luck.
If you are a part of the team, then you have players around you who can protect you and offer support. For that reason, it might be viable for you to drop into places with good loot and equip yourself as well as possible at the beginning of the game.
It is also important to remember that all of you should land close to one another so that you are able to help one another out when the fights occur.
Let us go ahead and look at all of the gear that is available to you in the game. We will be briefly explaining the purpose of each piece of equipment as well so that you have a good idea of how useful it will be on the battlefield.
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Weaponry
Now that you are aware of the weapons that are available for use, let us go ahead and look at some of the best load outs that you can use. We will be looking at a total of 2 different load outs.
One of them focuses on a more aggressive approach in which you will be moving around a lot and killing enemies, while the other one encourages you to stay on the fringes and stealthily eliminate your competition.
Aggressive Loadout
This loadout has you using the Vapr-XKG Assault Rifle. The rifle allows you to be effective in combat at all ranges and thus can be used both offensively and defensively.
The second weapon is the MX 9 Submachine Gun that essentially is a weapon that you will use when rushing enemies and getting up close with them. Remember to attach a fast magazine to your rifle to decrease the reload times in fights.
For your perks, it is best to have ‘Reinforced’ along with ‘Consumer’. This will ensure that you take less damage as well as are less susceptible to concussion effects.
At the same time, you will be able to use recovery items much faster which will ensure that you have a higher sustain and are able to effectively recover from engagements, ready to pursue another one.
Stealthy Loadout
This loadout relies on long-range engagements and has you playing a much more thoughtful game. You will need to rely on your positioning more than pure aim to take out enemies.
For your weapons, use the Koshka Sniper Rifle along with the Ray Gun for reasons that should be obvious to you. It is best to have a suppressor attached to your Sniper Rifle so that it is difficult for enemies to gauge where you are shooting.
For your perks, go with Dead Silence along with Iron Lungs. Dead Silence ensures that you can move around while making a minimal sound.
Although most of your fights will probably at a longer range than is required for this perk to be effective, you will eventually have to engage in combat at shorter ranges, where this will ensure that you are not easily detectable.
The second perk is Iron Lungs which allows you to hold your breath for a longer duration, quite self-explanatory.
This weapon is something that has been a part of the game for quite some time. It has been used quite extensively in various different zombies mode in the Call of Duty franchise.
However, many people will not be aware of the usefulness of this weapon, and that is what we will address here along with how to get it quickly.
The Ray Gun is very powerful. It can take out fully armored enemies within 2 or 3 shots depending on where the enemies are hit.
Since the gun is classified as a pistol, switching to it is very fast and thus it can be a great backup weapon for snipers, as shown in our example loadout.
The high damage of the weapon ensures that you do not need to aim for the head and can easily get chest shots.
There are also certain limitations to this weapon. One of the main ones is the fact that the fire rate is quite slow, so if you do manage to miss, then you will run into many problems.
