Zombies Best Starting Weapon Loadout

This is the best starting weapon loadout for Zombies Mode in Call of Duty Black Ops 6 (BO6). Learn about the best weapon, equipment, Field Upgrade, and GobbleGum for your loadout in Zombies Mode here!

Best Starting Weapon Loadout

ASG-89 Loadout

Best Starting Weapon
How to Unlock	Unlocks at account level 31.
Zombies Mode ASG-89 Attachments
Muzzle	Suppressor
Barrel	Short Barrel
Underbarrel	Ranger Foregrip
Magazine	Extended Mag II
Rear Grip	CQB Grip
Stock	Light Stock
Rear Grip	Tactical Laser
Fire Mod	Rapid Fire

The ASG-89 shotgun is the best starting weapon for Zombies Mode since it is able to quickly deliver lots of damage quickly in a wide spread, making it great for clearing hordes of zombies, especially at the highest rarity and Pack-a-Punch level.

Get the Suppressor to ensure you can get as much Salvage as you can from zombies. Take Extended Mag II for sustained shotgun fire against hordes and bosses and Rapid Fire for an ever better fire rate. Add a Tactical Laser for Tactical Stance, a wider view that still gives some benefit of ADS accuracy.

You'll want to have all of the mobility you can get, so equip the CQB Grip, Light Stock, Ergonomic Grip, and the Short Barrel for overall speed improvements. Lastly, add the Ranger Foregrip for a last speed improvement to sprinting and add recoil control.

Best Zombie Guns and Weapons

Starting Equipment Loadout

For equipment, the Knife, though slower than your fists, is kept as your default melee option for any early game ammo saving. For the Field Upgrades, the Healing Aura gives the best team support since it revives team members.

You may opt for the Frenzied Guard in a premade team composition for crowd control if one or more teammate can use the Healing Aura.

List of Zombies Equipment and Gear

Starting GobbleGum Loadout

GobbleGum	Progress Level	Effect
Who's Keeping Score	11	Spawns a Double Points Power-Up
Exit Strategy	23	Activate exfil vote immediately and reduce zombie spawns during exfil
Profit Sharing	29	A portion of the essence you earn is also received by nearby players and vice versa for 2 minutes
Free Fire	36	Firing weapons consumes no ammo for the next 60 seconds
Nowhere But There!	42	Instantly teleport to a downed player and instantly revives nearby players

The above are recommended to bring at the start of a mission if you plan to go for long rounds or Easter Eggs.

For starting GobbleGums, we opted to go with at most Epic rarity GobbleGums since they are much more accessible than Legendary ones while having more useful effects than Rare ones.

How to Get More GobbleGums

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