Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded Release Date Revealed

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If you enjoy smaller, quicker Black Ops 6 multiplayer experiences, the Season 4 Reloaded update has you covered with a pulse-pounding new Gunfight map.
The next big midseason update adds multiplayer maps, zombies events and gameplay features for Warzone's battle royale mode. Whether you're looking to earn time-limited rewards, try out your Season 4 weapons in some new places or you just want to enjoy zany map reskins, Season 4 Reloaded has something for everyone.
Here's everything you need to know about the arrival of Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded, including the release date and time, and what new content you can expect to see once the update arrives for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
In Season 4 Reloaded, Black Ops 6 players are getting deadly in Avalon.
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When does Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded come out?
The new Black Ops 6 midseason update will launch on July 2, including a substantial content package for multiplayer and zombies mode players. Here's when the Season 4 Reloaded patch will come out in your time zone:
Eastern Time: July 2, 2025 at 12 p.m.
Central Time July 2, 2025 at 11 a.m.
Mountain Time: July 2, 2025 at 10 a.m.
Pacific Time: July 2, 2025 at 9 a.m.
One of the new multiplayer maps will look very familiar to Black Ops 3 players.
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Two new multiplayer maps coming to Black Ops 6
One of developer Treyarch's best three-lane multiplayer maps from Black Ops 3 is making a return in Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded.
Fringe is a war-torn version of a small town, where heated sniper battles take place down an open street and flankers scuttle through crowded buildings that fill up the sides of the map.
The new version of the map takes place on the grand opening of a rustic-looking distillery -- too bad you won't have time to grab a drink with all the gunfire breaking out around you. Fringe is a medium-sized map for 6v6 core playlists.
Eclipse is a much smaller map, but it has a really groovy vibe. This Avalon nightclub is streaked through with purple strobing lights, which could be disorienting in the middle of battle. Your battles here will be up close and personal: Eclipse is a small-sized map designed for 2v2 playlists, but some 6v6 playlists will also add this map to the lineup.
The Fortnite-ification of Call of Duty continues as Beavis and Butt-Head join the roster of operators.
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CODtoons: Cel-shaded map variants arrive alongside Beavis and Butt-Head event
Fan-favorite multiplayer maps are getting a cartoon glow up (or glow down?) during the CODtoons event. Cel-shaded versions of Nuketown, Babylon, Skyline, Stakeout and Grind will be added to the game in a special moshpit playlist -- which means it's fairly safe to assume you'll be playing on cel-shaded Nuketown and Stakeout for a majority of the event.
The Beavis and Butt-Head event includes a free and premium reward track, wherein players can earn the Olympia shotgun from the original Black Ops, a Pickaxe melee weapon, an SVD full auto mod and a CQB auto conversion kit for the TR2 marksman rifle.
If you pay for the premium track, you'll have a chance to earn cel-shaded Beavis and Butt-Head operator skins in their most famous cartoon attire. If you want to deck them out in tactical gear for the true Call of Duty experience, you'll have to shell out even more money for the Tracer Pack: Beavis and Butt-Head.
Hope and pray that you pick a map that has a mystery box location in the starting room.
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Zombies starting room challenge is a new limited-time mode
Treyarch has acknowledged the long-standing challenge in the zombies community with an official game mode. Don't worry about neglecting to buy the door -- you physically can't leave the starting area in this limited-time offering.
This limited-time mode is available on all of the current Black Ops 6 zombies maps, including Liberty Falls, Terminus, Citadelle des Morts, The Tomb and Shattered Veil. The space you have to work with, wall buy weapons and mystery box, perk machine and GobbleGum machine availability varies by map.
Each map will have a special high-round challenge associated with it. If you're able to reach that round without getting downed by the zombie horde, you'll earn 15,000 account XP points, a high-value GobbleGum and a GobbleGum pack.
Warzone players aren't getting left out of the fun with the Season 4 Reloaded update.
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Everything else coming in Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded
We've covered the biggest parts of Season 4 Reloaded -- but that's not all that this update will change in Black Ops 6. Here are the other changes you'll see with the launch of the midseason patch.
Multiplayer
The Party Ops limited-time mode is a new free-for-all playlist where players compete in different minigames. These include controlling moving zones (which force you to dance), a version of red light, green light and more. The three top performing players will each count as victors.
Zombies
The Abomination Challenge limited-time mode brings players back to a fully cel-shaded version of Liberty Falls. Here, opening the church door unleashes Mo, a special boss Abomination zombie that's always in its enraged form. Mo is a real threat -- this guy will gain immunity to weapons frequently fired at him, refuse to eat your tossed grenades and he can knock perk bottles out of you with his charge attack. If you can brave this challenge and defeat the boss, you'll unlock a special calling card.
New leaderboard events will let you test your undead-slaying prowess against other Black Ops 6 players and earn special rewards for doing so. Everyone gets something, but the top players will unlock exclusive items for stacking up zombie eliminations.
The Grief mode is getting tweaked. Now, you can inflict more punishing effects on enemy players. Revive-based GobbleGums are outright banned, and zombies spawn faster after a zone is captured on the map. Completing Grief matches also guarantees you'll earn a Whimsical-tier GobbleGum, which is a fun little quality-of-life update.
Warzone
A cel-shaded variant of Rebirth Island will be available to play alongside the multiplayer maps during the CODtoons event.
Resurgence Casual and Havoc Amped are new game modes you'll be able to queue for. Havoc Amped lets you drop in with their full loadout in quick 15-minute long matches that ramp up as you unlock special powers when the circle closes.
Players will now be able to call in a care package outside of the Clash game mode to earn new gameplay items , the Hand Cannon and Door Barricade.
The Loot Master perk is the next way you can augment your Warzone loadout. It's a simple perk, letting you spawn more loot from supply caches.
The Search and Destroy contract is a new way to get discounts at buy stations -- if you can hold off against enemy squads for long enough to set off a bomb.
Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded will be released for free on July 2 for PlayStation, Xbox and PC. If you want to keep an eye on when we'll get a double XP weekend in Season 4 Reloaded, keep up with our coverage here.