Cove

Cove is a Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer map, part of the Vengeance downloadable map pack, released on July 2, 2013 (Xbox 360); August 1, 2013 (PS3/PC). It is set in Small isolated island, Indian Ocean. A small, roughly circular arena-style island where twisting boulder-lined paths funnel into a central killzone.

How Cove plays

On the ground, Cove is defined by crashed plane fuselage divides the central killzone, boulder-lined twisting paths and arena-style circular design. Those are the features to read first — they decide where fights open up, which angles are safe to hold, and how you rotate between objectives. The longer sightlines reward assault rifles and marksman rifles, with Ghost to move across the open ground without lighting up enemy UAVs.

Hazards & features to learn:

• Crashed plane fuselage divides the central killzone
• Boulder-lined twisting paths
• Arena-style circular design

Build a class for it with the Pick-10 system, and browse the full weapon list to match a gun to its ranges.

Release and the Vengeance pack

Cove arrived in the Vengeance downloadable map pack on July 2, 2013 (Xbox 360); August 1, 2013 (PS3/PC) — one of the four DLC packs Treyarch released for Black Ops II across 2013, each bundling four multiplayer maps and a co-op Zombies map for $14.99.

Maps that shipped alongside it: Detour, Rush, Uplink.

Map details