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I hope you like Black Ops 7, because it's upping the grind (again) so you'll be playing it forever

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Black Ops 7 weapon prestige attachments and weekly challenges: A group of soldiers sneaking through a dark corridor with weapons at the ready.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is interesting, to say the least. It's a sequel to both Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 6, while also making the former mostly non-canon, and we weren't even expecting another direct sequel in the same vein as 2023's Modern Warfare 3 to begin with. Nevertheless, it's doing the usual business of the annual CoD release: a new campaign, refreshed multiplayer and zombies modes, and a few other bits and bobs. And I hope you like how it's shaping up already, because you'll be playing it forever (at least until the next game releases). Oh, and potentially meta items are locked behind a lengthy and repetitive new grind, because of course they are.

While the full multiplayer reveal is being held back until Call of Duty Next on September 30, Treyarch has already been spilling the beans on what to expect from Black Ops 7. We're getting 16 6v6 maps and two 20v20 maps at launch, 30 weapons (16 of which have "never [been] seen before in the franchise"), a new PvE mode, and—oh, what's that?—weekly challenges and weapon prestige.

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Treyarch has revealed that it'll be "delivering Weekly Challenges starting in Season 1, with more ways to earn Weapon Camos and gameplay content than ever in a Black Ops game." As for what "gameplay content" refers to, that's actually attachments, weapons, and scorestreaks. Yes, time-gated equipment unlocks.

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Given these challenges will be on top of the usual battle pass gubbins, it's another layer of grind. If you play every single day, then that's probably music to your ears, but to most people, I imagine they just let out a deflated sigh. We can only hope that these won't be time-limited, so you don't have to complete each week's challenge before it disappears, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case—it's at the very least seasonal.

More worryingly, in an effort to create the "deepest Weapon Prestige system ever", you'll be able to level up and prestige individual weapons, just like you can do for your account level. This is something we've seen in the past, namely Black Ops 4 and Modern Warfare 3's prestige mastery camos, but there's even more to chip away at this time around, of course.

Black Ops 7 introduces an unlockable prestige attachment for each weapon, multiple mastery camos, and weapon prestige master. Obviously, this comes alongside the already massive mountain that is the level 1000 prestige master account grind that you'll be used to from previous games.

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