In this Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Challenges & Echelons Guide, we will show you what are challenges and merit points n the game, as well as ranking up with Echelons. In Blackout mode, you are awarded in a match with merits that help you level up.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has just come out and with an all new Blackout mode which is Call of Duty’s take on Battle Royale Mode in the game. Just like any Battle Royale game, players are dropped into a big map from an aerial vehicle where they have to gather resources and find to the last man standing.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Merits and Echelons
As mentioned before, in Blackout mode, earning merits helps you level up. These merits can be earned by completing a set of challenges that are available in Blackout mode. You can think of merits as being XP or experience points.
The more you earn merit the higher your Echelons rank up. Echelons are like tanks that start from 1 to the maximum level of 80 in Blackout. As you move up the levels in Echelons, your title changes. Below we have listed all the titles as you progress up the Echelons:
- Ranger: Echelon 1-19
- Frogman: Echelon 20-39
- Airborne: Echelon 40-60
- Seal: Echelon 61-79
- Battle Hardened: Echelon 80
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Challenges and Tiers
There 4 different types of challenges in Blackout mode. Firstly the Career Challenges contain the Professional Challenges and the Survivalist Challenges.
The other set of challenges are contained in Operations Challenges that include Heroics and Vehicular. Below we have listed all the challenges that come in these:
Career: Professional Challenges
- My First Time: Get your first victory
- Winner Winner: Win 10 times
- I’ll Do It Myself: Win any Duos or Quads Game as the last player alive on your team 5 times
- Solo Victory: Get 5 wins in this mode
- Duos Victory: Get 5 wins in this mode
- Quads Victory: Get 5 wins in this mode
- Solo Conquest: Place top 5 in this mode 10 times
- Duos Conquest: Place top 5 in this mode 10 times
- Quads Conquest: Place top 5 in this mode 10 times
- My Participation Award: Place Top 25 10 times
- Unthinking Act of Murder: Eliminate 10 Enemies
- Career Scavenger: Scavenge 1500 items
- Professional Mastery: Complete All Professional Challenges 100%
Career: Survivalist Challenges
- Team Player: Revive a squad mate 25 times
- Heal Up: Use any health item on yourself 100 times
- Armored Up: Acquire and equip armor 50 times
- Backpacker: Collect 50 Backpacks
- Got The Drop: Kill 25 enemies without taking damage from them
- Amphibious Assault: Eliminate an enemy while under water 5 times
- Getaway Vehicle: Escape 10 times from a fight using a vehicle
- Perks? Really?: Finish a game in the top 10 with a perk active 25 times
- Equip It and Mint It: Eliminate enemies 25 times using equipment
- True Sniper: Kill an enemy at long range with a sniper rifle 5 times
- Roster Update: Complete 5 Unlock Missions
- One Step Ahead: Finish 25 games in the top 10 without taking damage from the circle
- Survivalist Mastery: Complete all Survivalist Challenges 100%
Operations: Heroics
- Destroyer of Vehicles: Destroy 10 occupied vehicles
- Revenge is a Dish: Eliminate the enemy that put you in the Last Stand 10 times
- Best Served Cold: Eliminate the enemy that killed your squad mate and place Top 5 in 5 different games
- This Is Just Cruel: Win the game without being downed 5 times
- Pack Hunter: Eliminate 2 or more enemies from the same squad 5 times
- Nope: Eliminate the enemy that damaged you 10 times
- Path to Peace: Win a game with no kills
- Keen Focus: Eliminate 5 enemies while blinded or concussed
- Frantic Defense: Take damage while unarmed and kill the attacker 5 times
- Get Straight To It: Eliminate 2 or more enemies within 30 seconds of deploying 5 times
- Clutch: Kill an entire enemy Squad single-handedly in a Quads match
- Masochist: Place in the Top 5 using only the first inventory item picked up
- Heroics Mastery: Complete all Heroics Challenges 100%
Operations: Vehicular
- Destruction Derby: Destroy and occupied vehicle with a vehicle 1 time
- Just In Time: Exit a vehicle that is about to be destroyed by a locked on rocket 5 times
- Silent Gliding: Travel 10 miles in a wingsuit
- Road Trippin’: Travel 10 miles in a land vehicle
- Water Rat: Travel 10 miles in a sea vehicle
- I Believe I Can Fly: Travel 50 miles in an air vehicle
- Saw It In The Movies: Kill 10 enemies as a passenger of any vehicle
- Top Tour: Drive or Pilot all vehicle types in a game of Blackout 5 times
- Road Rage: Run over an enemy with a land vehicle to kill them 5 times
- Hijacker: Kill 1 or more enemies that are passengers in a land vehicle 5 times
- Pirate: Kill 1 or more enemies that are passengers in a sea vehicle 5 times
- Scoundrel: Kill 1 or more enemies that are passengers in an air vehicle 5 times
- Vehicular Mastery: Complete all Vehicular Challenges 100%
Challenges come in Tiers in Blackout. A majority of the challenges come in three tiers, with each of the tier giving you extra merits once you complete them.
An example would be winning a match once gives you 50 merits in the “Winner Winner Challenge”, but if you win 10 matches, you are rewarded with 100 merits and also complete Tier 1 of that challenge.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Dark Ops Challenges
Dark Ops challenges are hidden challenges that are only revealed once you have completed them in the game. So far, only a few Dark Ops challenges have been revealed by players in Blackout Mode. The Dark Ops challenges so far are:
- Fist Fighter: Kill an enemy using only your fists
- Open the Blast Doors: Open the Blast Doors at Fraking Tower
- Zombie Jams: Activate the Jukebox at the Diner
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