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Aftertaste keeps a downed player’s perks through a revive. It is a GobbleGum of Black Ops III and Black Ops 7 and an Elixir of Black Ops 4. The promise stays the same from game to game; the rarity and the way it is spent change.

Overview

First appearanceBlack Ops III, released November 6, 2015

GamesBlack Ops IIIBlack Ops 4Black Ops 7

Type / RarityBlack Ops IIIMega GobbleGumBlack Ops 4Classic ElixirBlack Ops 7Rare GobbleGum

ActivationBlack Ops IIIactivates immediatelyBlack Ops 4instant activationBlack Ops 7activates on revive

Duration or usesBlack Ops III3 roundsBlack Ops 45 minutes or 1 downBlack Ops 71 activation

EffectKeep all perks after being revived

Effect, game by game

GobbleGum ball with a blue, multicoloured-spotted shell and a white figure lying down drinking from a bottle, Aftertaste, Call of Duty Black Ops III Zombies

Dark blue glittering GobbleGum ball with the white figure lying down and drinking from a bottle, Aftertaste, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Zombies

Game	Rarity	Activation	Effect
Black Ops III	Mega	Activates immediately; lasts 3 rounds	Keep all perks after being revived. In solo, Quick Revive itself is not kept.
Black Ops 4	Classic	Instant activation; lasts 5 minutes or 1 down	Keep all perks when being revived.
Black Ops 7	Rare	1 activation; activates on revive	Keep all perks after being revived.

Black Ops 7 shares its GobbleGum stock with Black Ops 6, but Aftertaste is one of the gums the wiki marks as Black Ops 7 only: it is not in Black Ops 6, and Black Ops 7 exclusive gums do not transfer back to it. As a Rare gum, it can also be crushed for 500 Essence instead of being used.

In ZFRR rules

Black Ops 4, Purist (Alpha Omega, Ancient Evil, Blood of the Dead, Classified, IX and Voyage of Despair), Required Elixir loadout: “Classics: Aftertaste, Point Drops, Anti Entrapment, Newtonian Negation, Quacknarok, Arsenal Accelerator” The same Purist rules also say: “Elixirs and talismans are not allowed to be used.”

Every run, in every category, is on the ZFRR leaderboards.

How to get it

Black Ops 4: a Classic Elixir, earned by levelling up and never used up.
Black Ops 7: unlocked at Level 6 (Lance Corporal III).

Near Death Experience: the Ultra-Rare Mega of Black Ops III whose revived players also keep all their perks.
Phoenix Up: revives every teammate at once, and they keep their perks.
Perk Insured: the Infinite Warfare card that keeps perks when revived before bleeding out.
Quick Revive: the perk Aftertaste does not save in a solo game of Black Ops III.

Trivia

The Black Ops 4 challenge “Perk Saver” asks to preserve 40 perks with Aftertaste.
Dead Ops Arcade 4, in Black Ops 7, has a gum of the same name with another effect: it keeps shields and chickens on death.

Overview

Effect, game by game

In ZFRR rules

How to get it

Related GobbleGums

Trivia

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