Reckoning: Main Quest

The last mission

The main quest of Reckoning closes the Dark Aether story of Black Ops 6. The crew has to carry the Sentinel Artifact to the top of Tower 3 and unleash it, and then choose: help Richtofen, who wants his family back, or S.A.M., who wants a body. It needs the Pack-a-Punch and the Gorgofex, upgraded or not. Several steps can be worked on at once, but they register in this order.

Turning on the power and the Pack-a-Punch

Building the Gorgofex

The steps

The DNA vial: once the Pack-a-Punch is on, kill the Geneticist Zombie of the Mutant Research Lab. Its keycard opens the fridge of the Test Area and the vial inside.
The Teleportation Lab: take the syringe of the Genome Sequencer, knock the floating zombie of Sublevel 10 down by jumping into the accelerator beam, and draw its blood. Put the syringe back: Doctor S. Fowler, turned into a Mangler, breaks out of his tank among Toxic Zombies and an Elder Disciple. His Mutant Injection, used before the scanner of the Dark Entity Containment, reveals the teleporter of the Teleportation Lab.
The reboot: find four of six S.A.M. Files, each with a picture of one of Samantha’s belongings. Ordered by date, their numbers make the four-digit code of the computer in the Teleportation Lab.
The Bio-Aetheric Portal: overcharge the beam of Sublevel 10 with the red button, kill five Quantum Vermin with the Gorgofex, and take the energy orb. Then, without firing, shoot the portal of the Teleportation Lab with a charged shot. It opens on Tower 3, but going through it now is death.
The Fungal Head: a charged shot at the zombie behind a window of the Quantum Computing Core drops the head of Mortimer Hawkins. Wash it under a sprinkler, in a yellow mop bucket kicked into place, then feed it zombie souls until its eyes turn purple, and carry it into the portal while a shadow hunts the player.
Franken-Klaus: shoot both arms off Kommando Klaus during their special rounds, find two legs in the Android Assembly, and fix the four limbs on the hanging robot there. An Uber Klaus has to wake it with its electricity. Escort it to a S.A.M. Trial machine, then bring it the purple brain of the Quantum Computing Core, freed with Melee Macchiato and carried against the clock. The Janus containers open.
The four items: each Janus container holds a Vacuum-Seal Device, a version of the LT53 Kazimir. Throw one at an item floating in purple mist, four times, set the devices before the portal, and survive the lockdown while you turn six red levers green. The portal now leads to Tower 3, and there is no way back.
Tower 3: attune the Sentinel Artifact in the Lift and choose a side. The Lift stops at the first vault, where three LTG devices are filled with souls, and at the second, where every Aether crystal must be destroyed. Then it climbs to the roof.

The final battle

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Against S.A.M.

For those who help Richtofen. S.A.M. flies around the roof of Tower 3 and fires energy blasts, rings of energy mines and a long laser. After the laser she stops and opens four vents; once they are shot, her eye can be hit. Twice she leaves to start a S.A.M. Trial, and in her last phase she throws the players into the sky, where they glide back down. Defeated, she leaves Richtofen to remake his wife Mary and his son Samuel.

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Against Richtofen

For those who help S.A.M. Richtofen fights first in an Uber Klaus suit, then with a jetpack, the Wunderwaffe DG-2 and grenades, behind a shield that has to break before he takes critical damage, and he calls his own Kommando Klaus. When he falls, S.A.M. moves into a new body of Samantha Maxis.

Either way the Artifact then sends the four members of the crew through separate portals, and they land in the plaza of Janus Towers, where four other figures wait for them: the Dark Aether versions of Richtofen, Dempsey, Nikolai and Takeo. From round 100 the fight has a harder version: red fog, stronger bosses, and Amalgams or Maintenance Klaus. A team that keeps playing is sent back to the Reception with perks, Legendary weapons, Salvage and a wonder weapon around it.

Rewards

Reckoning - Standard Quest Complete calling card, Reckoning, Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Zombies

Reckoning Complete calling card, Directed Mode, Reckoning, Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Zombies

	Reward	How
	Reckoning – Standard Quest Complete	Calling card: complete the main quest in the standard mode.
	Reckoning – Early Completion	Calling card: complete it before Directed Mode came out, on September 4, 2025.
	Reckoning Complete	Calling card: complete it in Directed Mode.
	Blood, Sweat, An’ Gears	A skin for Grey, for the standard mode.
	Keepsake	A weapon charm, and 5,000 XP, in either mode.