In the CoD: Black Ops Cold War campaign, there are three different endings players can reach, and our guide will make sure you can see all three of them.
Call of Duty campaigns may not resonate as much as in the early days of the series, as Multiplayer slowly took over to become the dominant feature. Nevertheless, since the negative reception of Black Ops 4’s total omission from a campaign, every subsequent game has tried to include one.
This is the first campaign to be offered on next-generation consoles, offering gamers highly customizable FPS settings, and top-end help settings on PS5, Xbox Series X | S and PC.
Black Ops Cold War does well to continue the history of deep, intriguing stories that slowly unravel into something strange and wonderful. This time you are in the shoes of ‘Bell’, a CIA operator, and unnecessarily, you are embarking on a surprising journey during the Cold War era.
Your actions can ultimately yield you one of three different fates. We’ll outline each one below and tell you how you can see it with your own eyes in Treyarch’s new campaign.
Spoiler Alert: The following contains details about the endings of the Black Ops Cold War campaign.
Black Ops Cold War – Good end
To properly configure the endings, you must cause an outcome of a certain dialogue stimulus during an “Identity Crisis” mission. After discovering that you have been brainwashed by the CIA, Adler will ask you where Perseus is.
From here you can choose to lie to Adler or tell the truth about Perseus’ location. This choice will determine if you get the “good” or “bad” end.
For the good end, you want to continue with the “TRUTH” option and reveal the correct location.
By deciding to tell Adler the truth, you will activate the mission “The Final Countdown”, where you will stop Perseus’ attempt to activate all the Greenlight nukes across Europe. After succeeding, Adler will talk to you on a cliff along the beach shore. At the end of this conversation, Adler will tell you that things were ‘never personal’, then you will both pull your arms towards each other.
Two shots are fired and then the credits are rolled. It’s unclear whether both characters die or just Bell.
Black Ops Cold War – Bad End # 1
To finish the campaign with the first of two bad ends, you need to follow the first steps of the good end. Only this time, when the big question is asked by Adler, you will choose the “LIE” response and thus set the group to lure in an ambush in Duga.
In choosing this option, Bell betrays the CIA and essentially sentences the team to be executed.
Once you get there, signal the attack and a rocket will be launched at the group. You will be helped up by an unknown comrade and from here you must kill Adler, Woods, Mason and whatever character you rescue earlier.
Eventually you personally send the order to explode the Greenlight nukes, and the man who assisted you earlier reveals Perseus is in fact a group of people instead of a single man, and you were part of it all along. the group.
Black Ops Cold War – Bad End # 2
In all honesty, there is not much difference with this variation of the bad ending, but it ends up with Bell’s slightly grimmer fate.
Once you arrive in Duga for the ambush, you can simply choose not to inform Perseus about your arrival, which results in Adler and the team learning of Bell’s deception and killing him.
But it still ends with Perseus exploding the nukes and striking a significant blow in human history.
So there you have it, three different endings and everything that is very accessible in the grand scheme. The question is, which one do you choose to see first?
Image Credits: Treyarch