Dark Ops returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, offering players secret challenges across campaign, multiplayer, and zombies. These challenges reward large amounts of XP and unique calling cards, but you cannot see their descriptions or criteria until you unlock them. Luckily, we're here for you with this handy guide. Here are all the Dark Ops in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War for Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.
All Dark Ops Campaigns
There are 6 Dark Ops challenges for the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War campaign, and each one is listed below.
| Dark Ops Challenge | Description of the challenge |
|---|---|
| retro gamer | Unlock all arcade machines. |
| What do the numbers mean? | Decrypt the diskette in Operation Chaos. |
| of challenge | Try jumping off the bridge to your death in Break on Through. |
| Anti Hero | Eliminate all marked enemies with takedown attacks in Ashes to Ashes. |
| Cover your tracks | Store 5 bodies as Belikov during Desperate Measures. |
| clumsy cat | Correctly answer the two questions in the elevator during the desperate measures. |
All Multiplayer Dark Ops
There are 13 Dark Ops challenges for multiplayer, and each one is listed below. Two of them still remain unknown, but we will update this article once they are discovered.
| Dark Ops Challenge | Description of the challenge |
|---|---|
| relentless killer | Earn 10 relentless medals (20 kills without dying). |
| brutal killer | Earn a Brutal Medal (25 Killstreak). |
| Frenzied Killer | Earn a Frenzy Kill medal (5 Rapid kills). |
| Serial killer | Get a kill chain (kill more than 7 players quickly). |
| From the depths | Get 25 Kills against enemies that are on land or on the surface of a ship when you shoot them underwater with a primary or secondary weapon. |
| unknown | This challenge remains to be discovered. |
| Underwater operations | Underwater, plant C4 on an enemy occupied Gunboat or Wakerunner and detonate to destroy the vehicle and kill the occupants 5 times. |
| Nuked Out | Earn a nuclear medal in Free-For-All without using Scorestreak rewards. |
| back to you | Throw a frag grenade and kill the enemy who threw the grenade at you. |
| very nuclear | Earn a nuclear medal with 25 different weapons with all kills coming from that weapon. |
| nuclear killer | Earn a nuclear medal. |
| Mega Kill | Earn a Mega Kill medal (6 quick kills). |
| unknown | This challenge remains to be discovered. |
All Dark Ops Zombies
There are 13 Dark Ops challenges for zombies, and each one is listed below.
| Dark Ops Challenge | Description of the challenge |
|---|---|
| Social distancing | Reach Round 20 without being hit. |
| Pretty good | Reach round 20 with only your starting loadout and no upgrades. |
| Harbinger of Doom | Kill 50 enemies with a single support. |
| Invincible | Reach Round 30 without going down |
| box addict | Purchase all weapons in the Mystery Box in a single game. |
| Armed to the teeth | Have 2 weapons fully loaded with ammo mods equipped and all 6 perks active. |
| The anvil | Exfil a game using only melee attacks. |
| Checkmate | Play every Trial of Die Maschine in a single match. |
| evil unleashed | Complete the Die Maschine main quest. |
| another round | Reach round 100. |
| Immaculate skin | In Dead Ops Arcade, beat Mamaback in the last round without ever dying. |
| Reaper of the undead | Kill 1 enemies. |
| king of silverbacks | In Dead Ops Arcade, earn a cumulative score of 999. |
Call of Duty: Cold War Black Ops is now available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S.
– This article was last updated on: November 15, 2022
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