Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives on November 14, but you can already go hands-on with the game during the BO7 beta. The game includes a new futuristic design, updates to last year’s omnimovement, and more. In this guide, we provide some of the best tips to help you score wins across all game modes in Black Ops 7 multiplayer.

Practice with the omnimovement

Treyarch makes a few changes to the omnimovement in Black Ops 7, so even if you played Black Ops 6, you still might want to practice the game’s movement.

The developer removed the tactical sprint (you now need a specific perk to use it), increased the base movement speed, and added the ability to perform a wall jump. Wall jumps can be chained together for up to three jumps, but you do lose some momentum with each jump.

The game will ask if you want to start in a training course when you boot up the game for the first time. If you decline this and want to go back to it, you’ll still have the option to do so. Just press your options button while on the main lobby screen, and you’ll be able to select the training course from this menu.

Black Ops 7 also has an intelligent movement setting you can turn on to assist you with the wall jumps. I think this can be a helpful setting for some players less savvy with movement and wanting assistance, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you like to jump-shoot/bunny hop, as it can create some unintended jumps. The game’s training course provides a good way for you to test this setting and see if it’s right for you.

Adjust your settings

Black Ops 7 comes with plenty of customization and accessibility settings. These include settings to help make the game’s movement easier, refine your aiming, and help with Tinnitus. Additionally, some of Black Ops 7’s default visual settings aren’t great for multiplayer. Turning off things like motion blur and depth of field will greatly help with the game’s visibility.

If you’re on console, we have a recommended settings guide for getting the most out of Black Ops 7 on PlayStation or Xbox consoles.

Build custom loadouts

Call of Duty weapons feel better to use with a good set of attachments equipped. Here, we list some recommended weapon builds to get you started in Black Ops 7 multiplayer. These include weapons and low-level attachments currently available in the beta.

Black Ops 7 adds the new weapon build code feature to the Gunsmith. Weapon build codes are unique to each weapon and a specific set of attachments. This lets you easily use weapon builds recommended by friends, your favorite content creators, and even make some build codes of your own to share. Weapon build codes are not available in the beta, but will launch with the full release of Black Ops 7 on November 14.

Check your reward feed often

Black Ops 7 adds a new “reward feed” feature. This is basically an updated list of all the items you’ve unlocked through progression across all modes.

You access this reward feed by hitting the options button and tabbing over to the icon of an unlocked padlock. This will give you details on what you unlocked and at what level you unlocked it.

Shoot the doors open

Instead of the manual doors featured in recent Call of Duty games, Black Ops 7 includes automated doors. These will open when a player gets close, and they close when players aren’t in or near the doorway.

You can be tactical with the doors by shooting them open. This works great if you don’t want to push the area, but you want to be able to throw a grenade in or fire some long-range shots at your opponents on the other side.

Listen and communicate

You’ll want to use a headset when possible to make the most of the game’s audio cues. This helps with increasing map awareness, which includes hearing enemy footsteps better and being able to pinpoint their positioning.

Multiplayer is a team-based game for most modes, so having a headset with a mic is also recommended for communicating. This can feel especially important when you’re playing objective-based modes. However, if you don’t want to talk to others online, Call of Duty does feature a decent ping system with the D-pad. This lets you ping enemies and important map locations to provide your team with some basic intel.

Party up

There’s safety in numbers. It’s good to have friends watching your back and doing callouts with you. Even longtime Call of Duty players can have trouble carrying randoms to victory, especially if no one is playing the objective or providing intel. Try to party up with at least one or two friends to give yourself better odds of winning.