Dark Ops challenges in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War hide behind ‘Classified’ screens until completed, making them tricky to solve on purpose. If you’re up for the challenge, Raven Software and Treyarch have included a bonus suite of challenges across Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies modes. Completing these challenges rewards you with three Dark Ops Master animated calling cards.
Campaign Dark Ops Challenges
These challenges can be unlocked at any difficulty setting. You can replay a level to complete a challenge by booting up the mission from the evidence board.
| Dark Ops Challenge | How to Complete |
|---|---|
| Retro Gamer | Unlock all Arcade Machines |
| What Do the Numbers Mean? | Decrypt the Black Ops Cold War Floppy Disk |
| Defiant | Defy your orders and try to jump off the bridge in Break on Through |
| Anti-Hero | Use takedown attacks to neutralize all marked targets in Ashes to Ashes |
| Cover Your Tracks | Conceal 5 bodies whilst playing as Belikov in Desperate Measures |
| Awkward Chat | Provide the correct answer to both of Imran Zakhaev’s questions in the elevator sequence in Desperate Measures |
Multiplayer Dark Ops Challenges
These challenges require high skill in PvP mode. Completing each challenge earns you a calling card and either a 5,000 or 10,000 XP boost.
| Dark Ops Challenge | How to Complete |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Chain Killer | Get a Kill Chain (Kill over 7 players rapidly) |
| From the Depths | Get 25 Kills with primary or secondary weapon whilst underwater, while the enemy is on land or a ship’s surface |
| Hard Wipe | Eliminate an entire squad of 4 players in a Fireteam mode |
| UnderWater Ops | While underwater, plant C4 on an enemy-occupied Gunboat or Wakerunner, killing a crewmember (5 times) |
| Nuked Out | Earn a Nuclear medal in Free-For-All without using Scorestreak rewards |
| Back At You | Return a Frag Grenade to the sender and kill the enemy that threw it |
| Very Nuclear | Earn a Nuclear medal with 25 different weapons, all kills coming from that weapon |
| Nuclear Killer | Earn a Nuclear Medal |
| Mega Kill | Earn a Mega Kill medal (6 Rapid kills) |
| Dark Ops Master | Complete all Dark Ops challenges |
Zombies Dark Ops Challenges
Completing these challenges will take a while and requires a mix of skill and endurance. Completing each challenge rewards you with a calling card and either 1,000, 5,000, or 10,000 XP.
| Dark Ops Challenge | How to Complete |
|---|---|
| Social Distancing | Reach Round 20 without getting hit |
| Good Enough | Reach Round 20 using only your starting loadout (no grenades) |
| Harbinger of Doom | Kill 50 enemies with a single support |
| Invincible | Reach Round 30 without going down |
| Box Addict | Buy every weapon from the mystery box in a single game |
| Armed to the Teeth | Have 2 Fully Upgraded weapons with Ammo Mods, plus all 6 perks, in one game |
| The Anvil | Exfil a game using only melee |
| Checkmate | Play every trial in Die Maschine in a single game |
| Evil Unleashed | Complete the Easter Egg |
| Another Round? | Reach Round 100 |
| Pristine Pelt | In Dead Ops Arcade, defeat Mamaback in the final round without dying |
| Reaper of the Undead | Kill 1,000,000 enemies |
| King of Silverbacks | In Dead Ops Arcade, earn a cumulative high score of 999,999,999 |
