All Black Ops 6 Multiplayer game modes

Black Ops 6 offers a wide range of unique Multiplayer game modes, and that list continues to grow as more updates are added, making it harder to keep track of what’s available.

Multiplayer in Black Ops 6 has gotten a significant overhaul, offering plenty of different game modes for players to dive into. These range from beloved classic modes to entirely new experiences, all with unique objectives, lobby sizes, and more.

The available modes in BO6 frequently rotate, so it’s surprisingly easy to miss out on something important, such as Nuketown 24/7 or even a Double XP Weekend if you don’t pay attention. To help you out, we’ve broken down all of the game modes available in Black Ops 6, as well as a breakdown of what each of them has to offer.

All Black Ops 6 game modes

Black Ops 6 has 10 core game modes that all feature on its Quick Play filter, as well as additional featured modes that rotate throughout the season and hardcore variants of these that offer a more challenging alternative.

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Standard game modes

These are the 10 standard game modes that are currently available in Black Ops 6:

• Team Deathmatch (6v6): Eliminate enemy players to earn scores for your team. Face Off Alternate Mode also supports Team Deathmatch.
• Kill Order (6v6): Eliminate the enemy HVT while keeping your HVT alive. HVT kills earn bonus score for your team. Face Off Alternate Mode also supports Kill Order.
• Domination (6v6): Capture, hold, and defend objectives to earn score for your team. Note that Domination Flags now include a small zone around the flag itself where scoring occurs. Face Off Alternate Mode also supports Domination.
• Hardpoint (6v6): Capture and hold the Hardpoint zone to earn score for your team. Note that consecutive Hardpoints are numbered, allowing you to more easily keep track of how many Hardpoints each map contains and where they are.
• Search & Destroy (6v6): Teams alternate between detonating and defusing a bomb. No respawns. Kill Cam showcases the final kill of the game rather than the Best Play.
• Control (6v6): Take turns attacking and defending two capture zones. The attacking team has a limited amount of lives and has to capture the zones before time runs out.
• Headquarters (6v6): Compete to capture Headquarters and then defend it. Respawns are disabled for the team that holds the HQ.
• Kill Confirmed (6v6): Recover dog tags to score for your team and deny enemy scores. Face Off Alternate Mode also supports Kill Confirmed.
• Free-For-All (8): Eliminate enemies to earn score in an everyone for themselves environment. The first to reach the score limit will achieve victory.
• Face Off Moshpit (6v6): Moshpit of 6v6 repsawn modes on Strike maps with Scorestreaks disabled.

Hardcore game modes

Hardcore Mode enables friendly fire, limits HUD elements, and drastically lowers your health, resulting in a much faster time to kill. This challenging gameplay modifier is accessible in the following playlists:

• HC Team Deathmatch (6v6): Team Deathmatch with limited HUD, low health, friendly fire enabled, and much more.
• HC Kill Order (6v6): Kill Order with limited HUD, low health, friendly fire enabled, and much more.
• HC Domination: Domination with limited HUD, low health, friendly fire enabled, and much more.
• HC Hardpoint (6v6): Hardpoint with limited HUD, low health, friendly fire enabled, and much more..
• HC Search and Destroy (6v6): S&D with limited HUD, low health, friendly fire enabled, and much more.
• HC Kill Confirmed (6v6): Kill Confirmed with limited HUD, low health, friendly fire enabled, and much more.
• HC Free-For-All (8): Free-For-All with limited HUD, low health, friendly fire enabled, and much more.
• Hardcore Face Off Moshpit (6v6): Hardcore rules. Moshpit of 6v6 respawn modes on Strike maps. Scorestreaks disabled.
• Hardcore Nuketown 24/7 (6v6): Hardcore rules. Nuketown. All day. All night.
• 10v10 HC Moshpit: Hardcore moshpit of respawn modes with teams of 10 players.

Featured game modes

Playlist updates introduce featured modes that offer something a little different from their regular counterparts. These aim to keep things interesting by either bringing back classics from past Call of Duty games or adding entirely new, limited-time experiences.

Here are all of the currently featured game modes in Black Ops 6:

• Nuketown 24/7: Nuketown. All day. All night. Featuring TDM, Kill Confirmed, Domination, and Hardpoint.
• Stakeout 24/7: Stakeout. All day. All night.
• 10v10 Moshpit: Moshpit of respawn modes with teams of 10 players.
• Infected: Eliminated Survivors become Infected. Infect everyone, or survive the game to win.
• Gunfight: Eliminate all enemy players using pre-determined classes to win the round. No respawns.

That’s everything you need to know about the Black Ops 6 Multiplayer modes that are currently available. We’ll be sure to update this article to reflect future playlist updates when they arrive.

In the mean time, check out the best assault rifles and best SMGs that you should be using to dominate these playlists. Equally, making sure you have the best controller settings and best PC Settings is a must to get the most out of your experience.