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The Speed Cola icon, a hand holding a magazine on a green shield, Speed Cola, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Zombies

Speed Cola

Speed Cola, the green Perk-a-Cola that halves reload time, from World at War to Black Ops 7: cost, effect, Cold War tiers, Augments and maps.

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Speed Cola is the Perk-a-Cola that halves reload time, the Zombies counterpart of the multiplayer perk Sleight of Hand. It is one of the four machines of Verrückt in Call of Duty: World at War, green and white, and at 3,000 points the most expensive of the four.

Overview

First appearanceVerrückt, World at War, March 19, 2009
Cost3,000 points from World at War to Black Ops III2,500 to 7,000 points in Black Ops Cold War2,500 to 7,500 Essence in Black Ops 62,500 to 9,000 Essence in Black Ops 7
EffectReload time cut by 50%; reload speed raised by 15% in Black Ops Cold War
FamilyPerk-a-Cola
MachineLarge, green and white, with six bottle compartments on the front
IconA hand holding a magazine, on green
JingleSalsa

In the First Room

Speed Cola is almost never part of a First Room game. Only one map book of the Hub puts a machine within reach doors closed, and it is in Area 51 rather than in the room where the rounds are played.

Moon, Black Ops III

In Area 51, the spawn, where the power is always on, a perk machine is either Juggernog (2500 points) or Speed Cola (3000 points), in turn each time the players come back. The book counts the time spent in Area 51 as part of the game.

Two more books leave the door open without naming it: on Nuketown, in co-op, any of the five machines can land in the street, and in the past era of Paradox Junction the spot behind the School Bus holds a random machine. Elsewhere the books place Speed Cola behind a door: in the hallway of Five, in the bank of Town, in the farmhouse of Farm, in Shem’s Henge on Shattered Veil. Every First Room board, map by map, is on the leaderboards.

Effect, game by game

GameCostEffect
The Speed Cola machine of Verrückt, green and white, Speed Cola, Call of Duty World at War ZombiesWorld at War3,000 pointsReloading takes half the time. Barriers also look faster to rebuild, but only the animation changes.
Black Ops3,000 pointsUnchanged. On Moon it also speeds up the Hacker.
The green Speed Cola Soda bottle, Speed Cola, Call of Duty Black Ops II ZombiesBlack Ops II3,000 pointsUnchanged. Its effect stacks with the Fast Mag attachment of a Pack-a-Punched weapon.
The Speed Cola machine of Shadows of Evil against a brick wall, Speed Cola, Call of Duty Black Ops III ZombiesBlack Ops III3,000 pointsUnchanged. Der Wunderfizz sells it too on the maps that have one.
The Speed Cola icon, a hand holding a magazine on a green shield, Speed Cola, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War ZombiesBlack Ops Cold War2,500 to 7,000 pointsThe base perk only raises reload speed by 15%. Five upgrade tiers bring the rest.
Black Ops 62,500 to 7,500 EssenceSix Augments in place of the tiers: one Major and one Minor at a time.
Black Ops 72,500 to 9,000 EssenceEight Augments, and a second Minor slot once all of them are unlocked.

Black Ops 4 does not sell Speed Cola. Owning all four perks of the loadout gives faster reloads there, which stands in for it.

Upgrades

The redesigned Speed Cola machine of Die Maschine, with its 1970s logo, Speed Cola, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Zombies

Black Ops Cold War, five tiers

Bought with Aetherium Crystals. I: weapons swap faster. II: Field Upgrades recharge 20% faster. III: the reload bonus rises to 30%. IV: barricades are repaired faster and the Mystery Box settles much faster. V: fire and reload while sprinting at full speed.

The Speed Cola machine of Paradox Junction, lit against an orange sky, Speed Cola, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Zombies

Black Ops 7

The same six, plus the Major Augment Ammo Surge, a burst of speed when a reload starts, greater the emptier the magazine, and the Minor Augment Prestidigitation, a chance that a reload uses no stock ammo.

Black Ops 6, Major Augments

Supercharged, Field Upgrades recharge a bit faster; Classic Formula, an even faster reload; Phantom Reload, magazines slowly refill over time.

Black Ops 6, Minor Augments

Speedy Roulette, the Mystery Box settles much faster; Quick Swap, weapons swap faster; Fast Pitcher, equipment is deployed faster.

Where to find it

Black Ops

Kino der Toten, Five, Ascension, Call of the Dead, Shangri-La, Moon, and the World at War maps remade for Black Ops, Verrückt, Shi No Numa and Der Riese.

Black Ops III

Shadows of Evil, The Giant, Der Eisendrache, Zetsubou No Shima, Gorod Krovi, Revelations, and the Zombies Chronicles remasters, Verrückt, Shi No Numa, Kino der Toten, Ascension, Shangri-La, Moon, Origins, where the machines keep their original places. On Nacht der Untoten it only comes from Der Wunderfizz.

Black Ops Cold War

Die Maschine, Firebase Z, Mauer der Toten, Forsaken, and Outbreak, the open-world mode of Cold War.

Quickies

The candy perk of Infinite Warfare that the wiki gives as its counterpart.

Demonic Frenzy

The Demonic Fountain of Vanguard with a similar effect.

Double Tap Root Beer

The wiki advises pairing the two, since a faster rate of fire empties magazines sooner.

Juggernog and Quick Revive

The two other machines introduced with Verrückt.

Trivia

Sleight of Hand Soda

The name printed on the bottles until Black Ops II, where the label becomes “Speed Cola Soda”.

The jingle

A salsa, on the stock track “Salsa Feeling B”. Shadows of Evil has its own version, which ends on “Arriba!”.

The Cold War machine

Redrawn with flowers, a 1970s logo and cans floating in what looks like lava lamps. The game files of Cold War call the perk Speed Loader.

Nixon

On Five, Richard Nixon answers a sip of Speed Cola with “I’m not a crook!”.

Elsewhere

Speed Cola is also sold in Call of Duty Online, Call of Duty: Mobile and Modern Warfare III, where it costs 2,000 points and also speeds up armor plating.