Like all Call of Duty games, all of the great weapons, perks, attachments and wildcards are unlocked through leveling your account rank. This guide will teach you how to level up fast in Black Ops: Cold War and unlock all of the weapons, perks, attachments and wildcards.
Unlocking Create-A-Class
The first thing you should look aim for is unlocking “Create-A-Class” so you can customize your own loadout. Although you will start with just a plain weapon, it is best to hit two birds in one stone and level up your desired weapon while leveling up your account rank as well.
To unlock class creation, which is basically setting up your own loadout, you will need to reach level 4. You can reach this level in around 2 or 3 games depending on your score and will let you setup a loadout with the starting weapons available.
Choosing Your Starting Weapon
In my opinion, submachine guns and assault rifles are the best way to level up. It poses a much faster pace and it will eventually lead to more encounters with enemies. As long as you are killing at an above average rate, you will pile up a ton of score points to increase your account rank.
Try and choose between the XM4 and the MP5 at the start and if you prefer trying out other guns after unlocking them, I would suggest switching as early as you can and focus on that weapon. Obviously, players with the most attachments unlocked will have a significant advantage over others without them.
The best strategy would be focusing on weapon right at the start like the XM4 and MP5 and play it until you unlock every attachment for that weapon. After doing that, you will most likely reach around account level 30 and you will unlock the Lawbreaker wildcard and maybe even the Gunfighter wildcard as well.
You can then choose to pick another weapon so you can progress both a weapon of your choice and your account level again. If you do not have a weapon you want to level yet, you can choose to stay with your maxed out XM4 and MP5 until you unlock it.
Best Game Mode to Play
The best game mode for leveling up is Combined Arms: Domination. The number of players in the game and the number of control points to capture are so many that there are multiple ways to boost your score. As long as you play the objectives while also killing all the players you see, this will be the best method in leveling up.
Killing enemies will give around a +50 score and getting a kill while near an objective will give you +75 instead. Defending and capturing points will also give a significant amount of score depending on how long you have been securing the point. Taking over neutral points at the start will get you an easy +50 score.
Trying defending highly contested objectives and try to gain a killstreak. Try not to camp in a single area while holding an objective because they will most likely throw grenades and equipment.
The only problem with playing Combined Arms: Domination is that when you are playing on a large map like the Crossroads, it will be significantly slower to finish the game and become a slower process in leveling. You can choose to leave the game and join another one if you really want to “speedrun” your leveling.
Other game modes like Team Deathmatch, Hardpoint and Kill Confirmed will all be great for leveling too. If you want to play those game modes specifically, you still can since it gives enough scores for the experience too. I just find Combined Arms: Domination a bit faster based on playing their Alpha and Beta.
Tips and Tricks for Leveling
- Medals and challenges give a great boost to leveling and it is often overlooked as a source of points
- Killing on objectives will give more score than just killing players normally
- It is better to go on killing sprees than just trading 1 for 1 because it gives more points and you can earn more killstreaks. Try to be more aware of where the enemies are before entering any area
- It is best to wait until you are safe before using any killstreaks. That split second of calling out a Spy Plane can lead to your death and ruin your current killstreak
- Avoid using vehicles because good players will know how to deal with them quickly. You will also be signaling everyone in the map to your location but sometimes it can be a good thing if you do manage to kill them
- Destroying enemy equipment and killstreaks gives you points and is often overlooked. This is a great way to earn easy points because you will start with the Engineer perk anyway
- You can slow down your pace if it means that you can try and go for an Attack Helicopter killstreak. Earning that will make the game end faster and secure more points by winning and killing more from the killstreak. It is not player-controller so you can still start killing more players which is why I would recommend the Attack Helicopter over the Chopper Gunner
- Spy Planes and Counter Spy Planes are a great source of gaining points passively in a match
Conclusion
At the end of the day, leveling up really fast is heavily dependent on how good you are. You might find it slow if you are not fragging as much as you can but hopefully, this guide showed you other ways you can try to boost your level more by playing the objectives and playing smarter.
