BO7 Camo Costume Party: All 9 Haunting Event Camos and Every Challenge

The Camo Costume Party is the camo event that arrived with The Haunting, Black Ops 7's Season 6, and it is the last big camo grind before Modern Warfare 4 lands on October 23. Nine camos, four of them animated, spread across all four modes, plus the Arcblade melee weapon on the side. Here is every camo, every challenge, and how much time is left.

What is the Camo Costume Party event?

It is a limited-time camo event that runs across Multiplayer, Zombies, Endgame and Warzone at the same time. Each of those modes has nine weapon class challenges, one per weapon class, and the camos come from working through them. Activision's own advice in the Season 06 notes is to make sure you complete challenges from all four modes, because each mode has its own camos.

Season 06 went live on September 17 at 9 AM PT, and the event started with it.

All nine Camo Costume Party camos

Camo	Type	Mode	How you get it
Undergrowth	Base	Endgame	Endgame weapon class challenges
Gravebloom	Animated	Endgame	All nine Endgame weapon class challenges
Gray Matter	Base	Multiplayer	Multiplayer weapon class challenges
Grubs	Animated	Multiplayer	All nine Multiplayer weapon class challenges
Zombie Mai Tai	Base	Zombies	Zombies weapon class challenges
Malignant	Animated	Zombies	All nine Zombies weapon class challenges
Patchwork	Base	Warzone	Warzone weapon class challenges
Death Row	Animated	Warzone	All nine Warzone weapon class challenges
Oozed	Base	All four modes	Not published. Expect it for finishing the whole event, see below

That is the official list from Activision's Season 06 camo checklist, nine camos with four animated ones.

Our pick of the set: Malignant. The animated Zombies camo is the best looking one on offer here, and it is the one worth building your event around if you only have time for a single mode. Zombies also happens to be the mode with the longest challenges, which is exactly why most players never finish it.

How the unlocks actually work

Every mode uses the same nine weapon classes: Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, LMGs, Marksman Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Pistols, Launchers and Specials, and Melee. That makes 36 challenges in total across the four modes.

• Each mode has one base camo and one animated camo. Clear all nine weapon classes in a mode and you get that mode's animated camo: Gravebloom in Co-Op and Endgame, Grubs in Multiplayer, Malignant in Zombies, Death Row in Warzone. The event screen spells it out per mode, for example "Complete all 9 Zombies Camo Challenges to unlock", and each of those four camos also pays 10,000 XP.
• The animated camos are Universal. The event screen labels them "Universal camo: equip to any weapon", so once a mastery camo is yours it goes on any gun you carry, not just the class you earned it with.
• The four tabs in game are Co-Op & Endgame, Multiplayer, Zombies and Warzone. Each tab holds the same nine weapon classes and its own camo pair.
• The base camo comes from the class challenges themselves. Activision has not published the exact wording for MW-style per-class unlocks, but the identical Black Ops 7 event in February, Escalation Directive, handed you the mode's camo for a weapon class as soon as you finished that class's challenge. Expect the same here.
• There is a secret camo again, and nobody has seen it yet. Activision lists a ninth camo, Oozed, among the rewards but has not said how it unlocks or shown what it looks like. Both previous events in this format ended the same way: Escalation Directive in February hid Incandescence behind all 36 challenges, and Illicit Cargo in June hid Cherry Fizz behind them, worth 25,000 XP on top. So expect Oozed to be the full clear reward. We add a picture of it here as soon as the first player unlocks it.
• Progress looks mode by mode. In Escalation Directive, finishing a weapon class in one mode did not tick it off in another. Nothing says this event changed that, so plan on doing each mode separately.

The Arcblade melee weapon

The Arcblade is the other reward, and it is cheaper than a full camo set. The event screen puts it plainly: complete any nine event camo challenges and it is yours. That can be nine classes in one mode or nine picked across all four, whatever is quickest for you.

It is an event weapon, 30 levels, no attachments, and it has mastery badges like any other weapon. GameRant reported that the Arcblade becomes an Armory Unlock after the event, so the blade is the one reward here that is not gone for good on the deadline. The camos are.

What the four animated camos look like

Straight from the event screen, so you can see how each one moves before you sink nine challenges into it.

Malignant, the Zombies camo

Green and purple, marbled and lit from inside, like something alive under the metal. Our pick of the four.

Grubs, the Multiplayer camo

Pale worms crawling over the whole gun. It is the one people will either love or put straight back in the locker.

Gravebloom, the Co-Op and Endgame camo

Dark green growth with magenta skull faces breaking through it and lightning running along the edges.

Death Row, the Warzone camo

Rusted steel and cell bars, the coldest looking one in the set, and the fastest to earn because the Warzone challenges are the shortest.

Every Camo Costume Party challenge

Activision has not published the challenge list. The wording below is the list GameRant published on September 17, which is the only source that carries it, so check your own event tab in game before you commit to a long one.

Multiplayer challenges (Gray Matter, Grubs)

Weapon class	Challenge
Assault Rifles	Get 100 eliminations with Assault Rifles in TEDD Trials
SMGs	Get 50 hipfire kills with SMGs
Shotguns	Get 3 kills without dying 10 times with Shotguns
LMGs	Get 5 kills without dying 3 times with LMGs
Marksman Rifles	Get 2 kills without taking damage with a Marksman Rifle 3 times
Sniper Rifles	Get 3 headshots with Sniper Rifles in a single match 5 times
Pistols	Get 30 eliminations with a Pistol equipped with a Suppressor
Launchers and Specials	Get 15 eliminations in Hordepoint with Launchers or Special Weapons
Melee	Get 5 Objective Kills with Melee Weapons

Zombies challenges (Zombie Mai Tai, Malignant)

Weapon class	Challenge
Assault Rifles	Get 500 eliminations with Assault Rifles while Jugger-Nog and Speed Cola are active
SMGs	Get 500 eliminations with an SMG in Rogue Run
Shotguns	Get 75 eliminations with Shotguns during a single TEDD Trial
LMGs	Get 30 kills with an LMG without reloading 10 times
Marksman Rifles	Get 500 kills with a Marksman Rifle from the Mystery Box
Sniper Rifles	Eliminate 4 Elite Zombies with a Sniper Rifle
Pistols	Get 300 eliminations with a Pistol in Cursed
Launchers and Specials	Get 100 eliminations with a Legendary Rarity Launcher or Special Weapon
Melee	Get 250 kills with a Pack-a-Punch Level III Melee Weapon

Endgame challenges (Undergrowth, Gravebloom)

Weapon class	Challenge
Assault Rifles	Eliminate 75 Guild Tech enemies with Assault Rifles
SMGs	Get 500 eliminations with an SMG released during Season 1 or later
Shotguns	Get 10 kills with a Shotgun without taking damage 15 times
LMGs	Get 300 eliminations with LMGs with a Combat Rating of 40 or higher
Marksman Rifles	Use Marksman Rifles to eliminate 25 Special or Elite Enemies
Sniper Rifles	Get 100 Critical Kills on Fear Enemies with Sniper Rifles
Pistols	Kill an enemy with a Pistol shortly after wingsuiting 15 times
Launchers and Specials	Get a kill with a Launcher or Special Weapon while airborne 50 times
Melee	Get 75 Critical Kills with Melee Weapons

Warzone challenges (Patchwork, Death Row)

Weapon class	Challenge
Assault Rifles	Get 25 eliminations with Ground Loot Assault Rifles
SMGs	Get a kill with an SMG before the third circle 25 times
Shotguns	Get 10 kills with a Shotgun while in the Top 10
LMGs	Get 2 kills with an LMG without reloading 5 times
Marksman Rifles	Kill 15 enemies with a Marksman Rifle without an Optic
Sniper Rifles	Get 5 headshots with Sniper Rifles
Pistols	Kill a Bounty Target with a Pistol
Launchers and Specials	Get 5 kills while moving with Launchers or Special Weapons
Melee	Get a kill with a Melee Weapon shortly after switching weapons 3 times

How much time is left?

The event started on September 17 at 9 AM PT with Season 06. Activision has not published an end date on the blog or in either set of patch notes, but the countdown on the in-game event screen read 20 days and 20 hours late on September 17, which lands on October 8. GameRant reported the same, a 21 day run ending Thursday, October 8 at 10 AM PT. Plan around that date and do not leave the long Zombies challenges for the final weekend.

When it ends, the camos go with it. They are event exclusive cosmetics, so there is no catching up later. The Arcblade is the exception, GameRant reported it moves to the Armory once the event closes.

Do these camos carry into Modern Warfare 4?

No, and nothing suggests otherwise. Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23, two weeks after the reported event end, and it brings its own camo progression with its own mastery camos. Treat the Costume Party set as Black Ops 7 and Warzone cosmetics.

Where to start if you want all nine

• Warzone has the shortest list on paper. Five sniper headshots, one bounty target with a pistol, three melee kills after a weapon switch. If you play Warzone anyway, Patchwork and Death Row are the fastest pair in the event.
• Zombies is where the big numbers go quickly, and it holds the best prize. The 500 eliminations, the 300 pistol kills and the 250 melee kills read brutal in Multiplayer terms, but targets never stop coming in Zombies, so these fall in a few long rounds rather than dozens of matches. Malignant is the camo at the end of it, and in our view the best one in the event.
• Multiplayer punishes the streak challenges. Kills without dying and kills without taking damage are the ones that stall, so bring a loadout you actually trust and play objective modes where you can hold a corner.
• Endgame needs specific targets. Guild Tech enemies, Fear enemies, Special and Elite kills, so read each challenge before you queue instead of hoping they tick along.
• Only want the Arcblade? Nine classes, any mix. Cherry-pick the nine shortest challenges across all four modes instead of clearing one mode.

Not grinding all four modes yourself?

Event camos are the one grind with a hard deadline, and that is exactly where people run out of time. Our BO7 Camo Costume Party unlock clears all four modes by hand before the deadline, or take a single mode: Warzone, Multiplayer, Zombies or Co-Op and Endgame. Every challenge is played in real lobbies by a verified pro, no unlock tools. Prefer to grind it yourself? Warzone bot lobbies make the Warzone challenges quicker.