Activision has announced what’s coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 in its upcoming Season 1 update, and there are multiple new melee weapons on the way, including a power drill.
The two-hit-kill melee weapon is effective at very short range and has a fast attack speed, Activision said. The melee weapon has multiple attack vectors, including sweeps, jabs, uppercuts, and a heavy attack when pressed straight on. “This weapon is ideal for putting a hole in the competition when the going gets tough,” Activision said.
The power drill can be unlocked via en event reward sometime during Season 1, but Activision didn’t reveal exactly how it can be unlocked. In any event, the drill itself has 30 levels and mastery badges available, and it can be customized with unique skins. Death by power drill sounds particularly gruesome, but no footage of the drill in action has been released thus far.
Another new melee weapon in Black Ops 6 Season 1 is the cleaver. The one-hit-kill melee weapon is effective at short or medium range, Activision said, and it has a medium attack speed. The cleaver can take down multiple enemies at once, and it has a particularly devastating heavy attack. It can be swung side to side or head-on. Whether or not the cleaver can be thrown is unknown but that seems unlikely.
The cleaver has 30 levels and mastery badges, and can be customized with skins. Like the power drill, the cleaver can be unlocked as an event reward.
In addition to these new melee weapons, Season 1 adds Peter Stormare’s The Replacer as a playable operator, as well as new maps, modes, and weapons, along with a new Warzone map, Area 99. You can read Activision’s extensive blog post to get up to date with everything coming in Season 01.