Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta dates set, including pre-order early access

No more dibs for PlayStation owners

Marco Wutz | Jul 16, 2024

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Activision has announced the details for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s open beta test: Starting on September 6, 2024, the trial run will last until September 9, 2024, and will be available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

Those who pre-order the game will be able to enjoy early access to the open beta and can start playing from August 30, 2024, to September 4, 2024. Once again, this offer is open to buyers of the game on all platforms – there are no more privileges for PlayStation owners.

Both phases of the multiplayer beta will be open to Game Pass subscribers – so that’s probably one of the arguments Microsoft wants to justify its recent Xbox Game Pass price hike with.

“The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta gives fans hands-on with the incredible new Omnimovement system and other gameplay innovations across a variety of brand-new Core maps, lets them build their own loadouts, access a variety of weapons, equipment and Perks, and drop in across a number of Modes,” the beta’s official description stated.

CoD: Black Ops 6 – early access beta start time

The early access to this year’s multiplayer beta runs from August 30, 2024, to September 4, 2024, starting and ending at 10am PT. Check below for what that means for your timezone:

August 30, 10am PT
August 30, 12pm CT
August 30, 1pm ET
August 30, 6pm BST
August 30, 7pm CEST
August 30, 10:30pm IST
August 31, 1am CST
August 31, 2am KST/JST
August 31, 3am AEST
August 31, 5am NZST

CoD: Black Ops 6 – open beta start time

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta phase that’s open to everyone will run from September 6 to 9, 2024, once again beginning as well as ending at 10am PT. Find your timezone in the list below:

September 6, 10am PT
September 6, 12pm CT
September 6, 1pm ET
September 6, 6pm BST
September 6, 7pm CEST
September 6, 10:30pm IST
September 7, 1am CST
September 7, 2am KST/JST
September 7, 3am AEST
September 7, 5am NZST

Black Ops 6 is being developed by Treyarch and Raven Software and will be a Day 1 Xbox Game Pass title.

Published Jul 16, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg