Here’s How Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Items and Inventory Works
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout beta starts today on Playstation 4, giving players the opportunity to check out the upcoming battle royale mode for the first time. To help newcomers get acquainted with the mechanics of a battle royale title but with the Blackout items and equipment, Treyarch has released a Field Manual, containing all the needed information.
In the Field Manual you can find information on how many Blackout items you can carry, how consumables work and what areas are the best for you to drop according to your liking.
In this story, we’re talking about the items and equipment available in Blackout. As Treyarch revealed, by default, you can equip these items without any cost to your 5 Inventory slots:
- 2 Weapons
- 1 Health Item
- 1 Armor Item
- 1 Backpack
- Equipment Item
- About 200 of each Ammo type.
Everything else will be stored in your inventory, which still has its limitations , yet offers the ability of quick access through The Quick Inventory. Using it, you’ll be able to use Blackout items fast, change attachments and speed up the preperation process.
As for the types of Blackout items you can either equip or store in your inventory, the Field manual details them seperetaly:
Weapons
In Blackout, weapons are found in various locations across the map: pistols, submachine guns, assault rifles, shotguns, tactical and sniper rifles, as well as the rare rocket launcher are available. You can carry a max of two weapons at any time.
You may even find a rare weapon that comes with the best attachments for that weapon already equipped.
Attachments
How many and what type of Attachments are available depend on the weapon. Some attachments only work with certain weapons and not every weapon supports all attachments. For example, SMGs do not support long range scopes.
Ammo
Every weapon has an Ammo type associated with it. You can keep track on the Inventory Menu display. Ammo does not consume Inventory space, but there is a limit on how much Ammo of each type you can carry.
Armor
In Blackout, you can carry and equip one piece of Armor at a time. Three levels of Armor can be found in the world. Each offers increased protection, but is also harder to find.
Backpack
If you find a Backpack, you can expand how much you can carry from the default of five to a maximum of 10 items at a time.
Equipment
To round out your loadout, you can equip tactical and lethal grenades or common equipment like Trophy systems.
Specialist-based equipment and Items, while much harder to find in general, are also available in Blackout. Equipment such as Razor Wire, Mesh Mines, and Sensor Darts do not require a specific character to equip and use. Whether used in isolation or together, you can set up the ultimate trap for the opposition or give yourself excellent situational awareness.
Health
All players start the match with 150 health. There are three such Items in the beta that allow you to restore health after taking damage:
- First Aid – Restores small amounts of health very quickly. This is the most common and you can stack five of them in one Inventory slot.
- Med Kit – Restores a bit more health but does so a bit more slowly.
- Trauma Kit – Restores the most amount of Health and provides an extra +50 health beyond the max. You cannot stack Trauma Kits. Each requires a slot in your Inventory.
Perk Consumables
A way to enhance your perks and get effects to use in battle are the perk consumables, which is a mechanic we aren’t familiar with yet in the battle royale genre. The impact they will have in fights will become known as soon as the beta starts.
Special Items
Blackout features a few special Items that can be game changers if you are able to find one. One example is the Recon Car we’ve seen in the Blackout countdown video released yesterday.
We’ll have more information on Blackout items and the way matches progress the further in the Beta we go. Stay tuned for more.