Black Ops 6 launched with two Zombies maps with very different vibes in liberty falls and Terminus. Since then, new maps have arrived at a rapid pace to continue the Dark Aether storyline.

This takes the total to five, but we’re not quite done just yet. There’s still a sixth and final map coming to Black Ops 6, so here’s everything we know about Reckoning so far.

Reckoning Zombies map release date

The next Black Ops 6 Zombies map, called Reckoning, arrives with the Season 5 update  on August 7, 2025, at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM BST.

Setting & story

The final chapter of the BO6 Zombies story takes place at Janus Towers. These tall structures are located somewhere in West Virginia, not too far from Liberty Falls and the house in Shattered Veil.

In the last cutscene, Edward Richtofen was seen leading Weaver, Maya, Carver, and Grey towards the buildings, where S.A.M. has taken the Sentinel Artifact.

Reckoning brings the new Gorgoflex Wonder Weapon, a “new and grotesquely potent” pistol-like weapon.

The weapon seems to be alive with a “central heart-like organ,” with “fungal, floral, and insectile traits to deliver precise impact damage and gravity-defying disruption in close quarters.

Here’s how the Aether-based energy variant works:

• On impact, this inflicts a dense area of direct damage with a tight area of effect. The damage of the impact varies depending on whether the user charges the attack before release.
• Shortly after impact, energy from a fully charged blast dissipates outward, inflicting damage in a wide area.
• The dissipation seems to cause a focused temporary gravitational anomaly, catching and incapacitating enemies to float at just above head height.