Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 06 Patch Notes: The Haunting

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone roll out Season 06, subtitled The Haunting, on September 17 at 9AM PT across PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Treyarch's official patch notes, published September 16, lay out two new Multiplayer maps, a new Zombies Survival map, a rethemed Warzone Resurgence map, four new weapons and a Doom Slayer crossover, all wrapped in the series' recurring Halloween event.

01Season 06 Launches September 17

The update lands automatically in-client at 9AM PT on September 17 for Black Ops 7, Warzone and BlackCell owners alike, with no separate pre-load. Treyarch frames it as a supernatural refresh of the existing map pool rather than a new chapter of the campaign: Endgame's Avalon shifts to a night setting with a new Forbidden Summoning world event, while Multiplayer and Zombies both get dedicated new content on top of the seasonal camo grind.

02New Multiplayer Maps and Modes

Two 6v6 maps arrive at launch. Quantum is a brand-new, medium-sized map set in a Guild quantum-computing facility buried in Arctic ice, built around a central Tower with openings on all four sides for aerial streaks. Bloodstead is a retheme of the Mason family Homestead map, now soaked in blood and stalked by zombies around its perimeter. Alongside them, T.E.D.D. Trials is a new limited-time mode that pulls three Zombies maps — Roadkill, Inferno and Lost — into 6v6 Multiplayer for the first time in Black Ops 7, arming both teams with Ray Guns against a shared horde. Hordepoint, a zombie-infested twist on Hardpoint, and Freeze Tag round out the mode additions.

03Zombies: Tenshu Survival Map and Rex Infernus Directed Mode

Zombies gets its own new map in Tenshu, a Survival map built around a confined section of Kowakujō's central keep, where a squad fights shambling samurai, Hellhounds and Oni while chasing round milestones for XP and cosmetic rewards. Rex Infernus, the Round-Based map Treyarch has called the last one built for Black Ops 7, adds a Directed Mode with on-screen quest steps and a round cap of 15, guiding players through the fight against the Warden and the new Warden's Blight Wonder Weapon. A separate Starting Room challenge confines players to the map's opening house for a pure survival run. Rogue Run also expands: the Paradox Junction and Kowakujō playlists gain Casual and Hardcore variants, plus pedestal upgrades including a Pack-a-Punch Tier IV and self-regenerating Golden Armor. Anyone who has already finished every Round-Based map's Main Quest gets a Super Easter Egg reward at launch: the Warden as a playable, unlockable Operator.

04Call of Duty: Warzone's Haunted Hollow Returns

On the Warzone side, the Resurgence map gets its now-annual Halloween retheme as Haunted Hollow, where a Ghost Train and cosmic horrors move through the small-town map alongside a Giant Infected variant of Infected. New Winstreak camo challenges track consecutive Battle Royale, Resurgence and Black Ops Royale wins, and Resurgence Ranked Play opens for the season with its own tier-based camo and calling-card rewards, mirroring the equivalent Multiplayer Ranked ladder.

05New Weapons: VMP, TR51 Para, Arcblade and Roc 20mm

Two Battle Pass weapons headline the season: the VMP, a fast-handling SMG returning from Black Ops 4, and the TR51 Para, a semi-auto assault rifle Treyarch describes as high-damage with easy long-range control. Two more weapons arrive as event rewards rather than Battle Pass unlocks — the Arcblade, a bladed-tonfa melee weapon, and the Roc 20mm, a semi-auto special weapon firing a 20mm round for heavy single-shot damage. All four ship with their own Prestige camo tracks, on top of the 45-plus camos available across Season 06's Weekly Challenges and events.

06Battle Pass, DOOM Event Pass and BlackCell

The paid Battle Pass is fronted by new Guild operator Blackjack and includes over 100 unlockable items alongside the VMP and TR51 Para. BlackCell buyers get the Revenant operator and an "Aeternum" Mastercraft AN-94 blueprint, plus a permanent XP bonus for anyone who also bought Season 05's BlackCell. Running alongside it is the free-to-earn Camo Costume Party event and a limited-time DOOM Event Pass, which crosses id Software's franchise into Black Ops 7 with a playable Doom Slayer operator, a Doom Guy skin, and weapon blueprints themed after the Crucible Blade and the DOOM shotgun.

07A Sign of What's Next

Treyarch used the Season 06 patch notes to confirm this is the final Ranked Play season for Black Ops 7, running as a compressed three-week sprint rather than a full season, with the next Ranked cycle picking up in Modern Warfare 4. Combined with Rex Infernus being billed as Black Ops 7's last Round-Based Zombies map, Season 06 reads as a wind-down season for the current game even as it ships a full slate of new content — worth knowing if you're deciding how much time to sink into this season's Battle Pass and camo grinds versus waiting on what comes next.