Electric Burst

Overview

In Black Ops 4 each player chooses four perks out of 18 before the game, in the Zombies Create-A-Class. The Aether maps sell them at four machines, Brew, Cola, Soda and Tonic; the Chaos maps at four statues of gods, Danu, Ra, Zeus and Odin, whose altars need no power. Electric Burst only appears in a game if a player has put it in their loadout.

In the First Room

Electric Burst is in a First Room only if an altar or a machine stands there and the player has assigned the perk to it. The books of the eight Black Ops 4 maps of the Hub place one in a single First Room.

On the seven other maps, the books give no altar and no machine in the First Room. Those of IX and Ancient Evil mention a perk among the rewards of the banner challenges and of the Tributes of the Oracle, without saying which one.

The records of these maps are on the ZFRR leaderboards.

Effect, game by game

Electric Burst only exists in Black Ops 4, in a single version with two levels.

The perk

3000 points. The in-game description reads: “Reloading causes an electric discharge that damages and stuns nearby enemies. The more empty the magazine, the stronger the damage.” Fandom describes it as a shockwave around the player on every reload.

The Modifier

4000 points according to Fandom. Reloading stores an electric charge on the melee weapon. The next melee attack makes the weapon shock enemies for a limited time, longer when the magazine was emptier.

Only one slot gives the Modifier: the Tonic machine on the Aether maps, the Odin statue on the Chaos maps. The perk bought there gains this extra effect once the player owns all four perks, which also speeds up reloading. In the three other slots, Electric Burst keeps its base effect alone.