Safehouse Upgrades To Buy First In The Black Ops 6 Campaign

Summary

Upgrade vital stats like health, armor, and accuracy to enhance combat performance and survivability.
Prioritize finding safes for money to purchase upgrades like Heavy Duty, Steady Stance, and Armor Shredder.
Use Quick Fix and Survivor upgrades for faster health regeneration and multitasking during firefights.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's single-player campaign is anchored around the Rook, a safehouse in Bulgaria the player visits between most missions. With money earned during missions or found in the safehouse itself, players can buy upgrades to improve their combat performance. These range from stat-based upgrades to abilities.

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It is worth finding all the safes and getting as much money as possible to buy as many of these upgrades during a playthrough. The list below should help anyone who is thinking of what to prioritize. Fortunately, gamers who rack up a lot of cash will have more than enough to buy than the listed upgrades by the end of the campaign.

Before buying the upgrades themselves, players need to buy three separate gear stations, each of which costs $500.

1 Vitality Surge

Get More Health

Vitality Surge operator perk in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Rank 1	Increase total health by 15%	Cost	$200
Rank 2	Increase total health by 25%	Cost	$250

Players have more health than they do in multiplayer, but enemies still have the ability to take out the hero quickly. With this in mind, players should bulk up their health as soon as possible. The checkpoint system in Black Ops 6 is forgiving, but it is still frustrating to die during a firefight and repeat it several times.

Vitality Surge might be a simple health boost, but a simple health boost is always welcome if it helps keep players in the fight a little longer.

2 Heavy Duty

More Armor To Take More Damage

Heavy Duty operator perk in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Rank 1	Two armor slots, can hold four plates in reserve	Cost	$200
Rank 2	Three armor slots, can hold six plates in reserve	Cost	$250

Some Call of Duty titles give players armor slots to put in and have a little more health than usual. It's an idea taken from Warzone and its inclusion in the campaigns feels nice. At the start of Black Ops 6 players only have one armor slot and can only have three armor plates in reserve.

With the Heavy Duty upgrade, the slots increase to two and then eventually three, while the plates in reserve go to four and then six. More armor is just as good as having more health, so this paired with Vitality Surge will make the player a walking tank.

3 Steady Stance

Less Recoil Means Better Accuracy

Rank 1	Recoil reduced by 20%	Cost	$200
Rank 2	Recoil reduced by 40%	Cost	$250

In multiplayer, players are generally advised to put attachments on their weapons to decrease recoil and have a steadier shot. The same applies to single-player. Though enemies are not as accurate as human players, having less recoil is still preferred during heavy firefights when enemies surround the player.

Less recoil with automatic weapons also ensures the entire burst of ammunition hits the intended target. When elite enemies start showing up in the campaign, Steady Stance becomes even more useful since players need to unload a whole clip into them at once.

4 Armor Shredder

Armor Cannot Stop These Bullets

Armor Shredder operator perk in Call of Duty Black Ops 6

Rank 1	Armored enemies take 15% more damage	Cost	$200
Rank 2	Armored enemies take 25% more damage	Cost	$250

This one can wait for a little bit, but players will want it before too long. Elite enemies show up by the second half of the Most Wanted mission in Washington D.C. And they can be a real pain if one is not ready for them. With Armor Shredder, attacks do more damage against them.

They still will not go down as fast as regular enemies but they will not pose as much of a threat as before. Doing 25% more damage to these enemies makes a huge difference in the time-to-kill.

5 Tempered

Use Fewer Plates

Tempered operator perk in Call of Duty Black Ops 6

Refill three armor slots with two plates
Cost: $400

Resource management is more important in this title than in previous Call of Duty games. At one moment players might feel like they have an abundance of armor only to be desperately needing more after a rough encounter. This is where Tempered comes in.

It increases the amount of armor each plate gives the player, requiring just two to max out instead of three. It might not be realistic in the slightest, but who needs realism when it comes to upgrades that help win the fight?

6 Unrelenting Gunner

Heavy Weapons Stop Weighing The Player Down

Unrelenting Gunner operator perk in Call of Duty Black Ops 6

Move 25% faster with heavy weapons
Cost: $250

Heavy weapons always seem cool but not being able to put them away in the inventory and the slow movement make them less desirable. Unrelenting Gunner at least solves the second problem. With it, players move 25% faster with the heavy weapons often dropped by elite enemies.

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Slow movement can cost players a game over, so being more mobile with the heavy weapon is a huge plus. With the increased armor and health from the other safehouse upgrades, players can feel like elite enemies themselves while taking out a group of adversaries.

7 Quick Fix

Multitask Shooting And Refilling Armor

Quick Fix operator perk in Call of Duty Black Ops 6

Rank 1	Insert armor plates with one hand	Cost	$400
Rank 2	Health regenerates when inserting armor and killing elite enemies	Cost	$450

In a fast-paced firefight, anything that prevents the player from shooting is a setback. Sometimes players do not have the time or space to go into cover and refill their armor if their health is low and they need a moment of respite. If they stop firing to put in another plate, it would leave them vulnerable and likely lead to a game over.

With Quick Fix, players can now load up new armor plates with one hand while continuing to fire with the other, making sure the stream of bullets never stops. Just as helpful as this ability is the fact that putting in the armor starts regenerating health right away.

8 Survivor

Get Back Into The Fight Faster

Survivor operator perk in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Regenerate Health Faster
Cost: $400

Players caught out in the open are going to lose health fast. When this happens, one wants to find a hiding spot and regenerate their health. While not the first FPS game to have this system in place of more traditional health pickups, regenerating health quickly became the norm in the genre after 2007's Modern Warfare and the series still uses this practice.

Survivor gives players a little boost to the amount of time it takes to regenerate health. It helps players get back into the fight quicker and prevents enemies from cornering them as a result of hiding for too long.

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