50 Fun Facts About Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Which NBA star teased Black Ops 4 before its reveal by wearing a hat with its orange logo?

James Harden arrived for a game in March 2018 in a hat whose orange logo resembled earlier Black Ops emblems. Activision formally announced the game the very next day.

Voyage of Despair, a Black Ops 4 Zombies map, fills which real ocean liner with the undead?

The Titanic is where four adventurers board in April 1912 to steal an ancient artifact. Players start on deck just as the ship is striking the iceberg.

The Black Ops 4 Zombies map IX sends its four heroes back to Roman Egypt to fight as what?

Gladiators are what the crew become after breathing a strange vapor in a cavern at Delphi. A High Priest pits them against zombified slaves to entertain a crowd, and the map's name is said as nine.

Black Ops 4 came out in October instead of November, reportedly to avoid which rival 2018 release?

Red Dead Redemption 2 arrived on October 26, 2018, two weeks after Black Ops 4. Every Call of Duty since Call of Duty 2 had launched in November until then.

Which Game of Thrones actor plays the butler Godfrey in Black Ops 4's Dead of the Night?

Charles Dance, the show's Tywin Lannister, voices a butler enslaved by a cult to betray his employer. Kiefer Sutherland and Brian Blessed play two of the other party guests.

Blood of the Dead in Black Ops 4 revisits which notorious prison from Mob of the Dead?

Alcatraz comes back almost whole, with only the Golden Gate Bridge section cut. Brutus, the boss enemy of the original map, returns as its main villain.

Classified in Black Ops 4 remakes the Zombies map Five, set inside which US government building?

The Pentagon was first overrun in the original Five, where players fought as Kennedy, Nixon, McNamara and Fidel Castro. The remake swaps them for the first Zombies crew.

How does the Black Ops 4 logo write the number four, breaking the usual rule for Roman numerals?

IIII is how the title is stylized on the cover and logo, where standard Roman numerals would give IV. Earlier Black Ops logos had shown their numerals in orange too.

Which veteran, Alex Mason's best friend, trains the Specialists in Black Ops 4's solo missions?

Frank Woods serves as instructor inside a virtual simulation called Combat Immersion. Intel files hint that he is one of four people revived by a secret project.

Every Blackout match in Black Ops 4 opens with players leaping from helicopters in what?

Wingsuits first appeared in Black Ops II, where a strike team glides through a valley in them during one mission. In Blackout they come in collectible skins.

Which studio, the creator of the Black Ops sub-series, developed Call of Duty: Black Ops 4?

Treyarch built the game on a three-year cycle, only its second under that schedule. The studio first joined the series back in 2005 with a console spin-off of Call of Duty 2.

Which platform received new Black Ops 4 content seven days before all the others?

PlayStation 4 owners got every update, free or paid, a week ahead of everyone else. Earlier Call of Duty games had made the other platforms wait 30 days.

Which Marvel film actress plays Savannah Mason-Meyer, who hires the Specialists in Black Ops 4?

Evangeline Lilly, the Wasp of the Ant-Man films, plays a trillionaire who recruits ten elite soldiers for a secret project. Her character is the granddaughter of Alex Mason.

Which British actress plays phony psychic Christina Fowler in Black Ops 4's Dead of the Night?

Helena Bonham Carter joined a celebrity cast for the mansion-set map. The first three Black Ops games had each given one Zombies map to famous actors too.

Breaking with Steam, the PC version of Black Ops 4 was sold only through which online service?

Battle.net, Blizzard's platform, became the game's only home on PC. It was the first Call of Duty to skip Steam at release since Call of Duty 2 in 2005.

Which tiny fan-favorite map joined Black Ops 4 for free a month after release, now covered in snow?

Nuketown swapped its desert test town for a snowbound village hiding a missile silo. When a match ends, the silo doors open and the warhead lifts off.

Which Black Ops 4 Specialist restores and boosts his whole team's health at once with the TAK-5?

Crash is the squad's medic, and his TAK-5 works through walls at any range, giving every teammate 50 bonus health. He was one of four new Specialists in the launch roster.

Which Black Ops 4 Specialist swings in on a Grapple Gun and flattens enemies with Grav Slam?

Ruin traded the Gravity Spikes he carried in Black Ops III for the Grav Slam, which can be triggered in mid-air. His Grapple Gun also turns up as loot in Blackout.

Which Black Ops 4 Specialist, added in Operation Apocalypse Z, is a robot rather than a human?

Reaper, formally Experimental War Robot-115, lost the arm-mounted minigun it had in Black Ops III. Its Scythe became a detached twin-barrel turret instead.

The Black Ops 4 Specialist Nomad fights alongside Juneau, which kind of animal?

A dog named Juneau answers Nomad's K9-Unit call and takes enemies down with a single bite. She can follow her handler or patrol a spot he chooses.

In Black Ops 4, the Specialist Battery fires which kind of weapon, known as the War Machine?

A multi-shot grenade launcher is what the War Machine has been since Black Ops II, where any player could earn it as a scorestreak. Here it belongs to Battery alone in multiplayer.

Which Black Ops III movement ability did Black Ops 4 remove to keep combat on the ground?

Wallrunning went because the story sits between Black Ops II and III, before such advanced movement existed. Regenerating health was dropped at the same time.

Zombies killed in Black Ops 4's Blackout can drop a Cymbal Monkey or which classic wonder weapon?

The Ray Gun turns up at Zombies-themed spots such as the Asylum, the Lighthouse and the Boxing Gym. Computer-run undead guard the loot there.

Black Ops 4 was followed two years later by a Black Ops game carrying which subtitle?

Black Ops Cold War arrived in 2020 and restarted Zombies with a new saga named Dark Aether. The original storyline, begun in 2008, had ended in this game.

Which animated Black Ops 4 camouflage is the reward for earning Diamond on every weapon class?

Dark Matter swirls purple and blue smoke around the gun. It was a hidden reward in Black Ops III, but this game lists it openly beside the other camouflages.

Which classic Zombies perk, seen as a crutch, did Black Ops 4 drop along with Speed Cola?

Juggernog raises a player's health, which made it a must-buy on older maps. This game had players choose four perks before a match instead, as part of a class.

In Black Ops 4 Zombies, drinkable Elixirs took over from which Black Ops III power-ups?

GobbleGums gave way to Elixirs that are equipped four to a class and drunk at the press of a button. The Classic ones never run out.

At the end of Black Ops 4's Ancient Evil, the Oracle of Delphi is unmasked as which monster?

Medusa had been posing as the Oracle all along, and the heroes find Alistair and members of the Order turned to stone. She closes the story vowing to rule the world.

In Black Ops 4's Chaos maps, perks come from statues of Danu, Ra, Zeus and which Norse god?

Odin's statue is the special one: a player who already holds all four perks gets a bonus modifier on the perk bought from it. The other three gods come from Irish, Egyptian and Greek myth.

Which adventurer leads Black Ops 4's Chaos crew in search of her missing father, Alistair?

Scarlett Rhodes follows a letter her father left behind, telling her to seek out his three most trusted associates. A cult called the Order had kidnapped him.

Which Primis hero poisons both crews' drinks to end the Aether story in Black Ops 4's Tag der Toten?

Nikolai Belinski had read in the Kronorium that the cycle would repeat for as long as any of them lived. He then asks Samantha Maxis to kill him too.

Which wonder weapon from Black Ops II's Mob of the Dead returns in Black Ops 4's Blood of the Dead?

The Blundergat borrows from the blunderbuss and the Gatling gun. It can be upgraded here into the Acidgat or the brand-new Magmagat.

The wonder weapon of the Black Ops 4 Zombies map Voyage of Despair is named after which sea monster?

The Kraken is a hand-held cannon with three rotating barrels, and its explosive shots cannot hurt the player who fires them. That suits the map's tight corridors.

The IX wonder weapon Death of Orion in Black Ops 4 is built around which living creature?

A scorpion chained to a makeshift frame fires bolts of lightning from its claws. Upgrading the weapon renames it Serket's Kiss.

Tag der Toten, the Siberian lighthouse finale of Black Ops 4 Zombies, reimagines which earlier map?

Call of the Dead is honored in small ways: players lead the Victis crew this time, but director George Romero's glasses can still be found for a few points.

Which Black Ops 4 mode has teams take turns attacking two zones while sharing a pool of 30 lives?

Control debuted in this game and has returned in several later Call of Duty titles. Its zones are captured in segments, so progress on a zone is never lost.

Which Black Ops 4 Specialist carries the Annihilator revolver and the Tac-Deploy respawn beacon?

Seraph can plant the Tac-Deploy so that teammates redeploy near it, even once in Search and Destroy. Her Annihilator fires rounds that pierce walls and several targets.

Which Create-a-Class system, built on a fixed budget of slots, returned in Black Ops 4?

Pick 10 came back alongside a new Gear slot that holds one strong item, such as Body Armor or the Stim Shot. Wildcards still let a class bend the usual limits.

Which Black Ops 4 scorestreak, the costliest at 1,600 score, puts the player in a support plane?

The Gunship puts the player behind the weapons of a support plane. The next reward down, the Strike Team, costs 250 less and drops two armored soldiers from a helicopter.

The Black Ops 4 map Icebreaker is set around which long-lost vessel trapped in the Arctic?

An American nuclear submarine lies frozen there with uranium aboard, and a Russian unit has come to salvage it. The map later moved to Call of Duty: Mobile, complete with swimming.

Which prolific voice actor plays the scientist Edward Richtofen in Black Ops 4 Zombies?

Nolan North voices Richtofen, while Steve Blum plays Dempsey. Fred Tatasciore covers three roles in the mode, among them Doctor Maxis and the High Priest of Chaos.

Which Star Trek actor voices Rushmore, the facility AI in Black Ops 4's Alpha Omega?

John de Lancie, the trickster Q of Star Trek, plays an AI that makes the heroes prove their worth before handing over an Elemental Shard. Robert Picardo voices the Shadowman in the same story.

Which Black Ops 4 submachine gun can be carried one in each hand with the Dual Wield Operator Mod?

The Saug 9mm gains firepower from Dual Wield at a cost in range and accuracy. No other submachine gun in the game was offered the mod, which needs a special Wildcard.

Blackout's Asylum in Black Ops 4 recreates the setting of which World at War Zombies map?

Verrückt lends its asylum to the Blackout map, with a hedge maze and gazebo borrowed from Buried added beside it. Zombies still roam the grounds.

What was the title of the two-versus-two story mode scrapped from Black Ops 4 in early 2018?

Career would have continued the story of Black Ops III in a post-apocalyptic 2070s, with pairs of players siding with one of two factions. Blackout took its place.

Which Activision studio from Quebec City developed the Windows version of Black Ops 4?

Beenox handled the PC release with help from Blizzard, whose own platform hosted it. The studio's name began as a random word its founder scribbled in chemistry class.

Which publisher's prequel series introduced the Chaos heroes of Black Ops 4 Zombies?

Dark Horse Comics launched the prequel story in September 2018, a month before the game. Its story came from Jason Blundell and Craig Houston, Treyarch's co-studio head and lead writer.

Which team won the 2019 Call of Duty World League Championship, which was played on Black Ops 4?

eUnited took $800,000 of a $2 million prize pool at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. Chris Lehr, known as Simp, was named the tournament's most valuable player.

Which Black Ops 4 Zombies currency is spent to obtain Elixirs and Talismans?

Nebulium Plasma replaced the Liquid Divinium of Black Ops III. It builds up through play and daily contracts, and it can also be bought with COD Points.

In Black Ops 4 Zombies, what name is given to the original versions of the four Aether heroes?

Ultimis are the original crew from World at War, playable again in Classified and Alpha Omega. Their younger counterparts from another timeline go by Primis.