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Call of Duty Black OPS 2 — Guide to all endings

As you already know Call of Duty Black OPS 2 provides several endings for single player story. The ending that we will see at the end of the game depends on the turn that the facts will take during the entire campaign since the various missions contain narrative crossroads that will eventually lead us towards the best or worst ending. Although the nuances are numerous, ultimately in Call of Duty Black OPS 2 we can count 4 different endings. In this guide we see what they are and what you need to do, what choices you need to make in the various missions to see them all. Let’s go! ATTENTION!!! The guide contains SPOILERS about the plot !!! Final 1 (Best final, also watch the video at the end of the article)
Main decisions: Save Woods / Save Karma / Save Menendez

  • Pyrrhic Victory: Mason saves Woods.
  • Celerium: Celerium device recovered.
  • Old Wounds: Question Kravchenko for CIA mole information.
  • Time and Destiny: Find all Intel information on the CIA mole, which has been thoroughly searched.
  • The Fallen Angel: Find information about Zhao’s secret meeting / protect Harper
  • Karma: save Karma / DeFalco dies
  • Suffer With Me: Menendez can’t manipulate Woods
  • Achilles’ Veil: Farid Stays Alive / Strategic Defense Coalition allies with the US Army (Strike Force mission Completed)
  • Ulysses: Rescue Admiral Briggs / SDC protects USS Obama with drones / USS Obama survives long enough for supplies / Karma and USS Obama survive attack
  • Cordis Die: Save the president
  • Judgment day: capture Mendez

Final 2
Main decisions: Save Woods / Karma dies / Save Menendez

  • Pyrrhic Victory: Save Woods.
  • of Swift: Recover it from Rapid Worm.
  • Old Wounds: Kill Kravchenko without resistance
  • Time and destiny: find intel information
  • The Fallen Angel: Find information from Zhao’s secret meeting / Harper’s face is burned
  • Karma: karma muore
  • Suffer with me: Menendez manages to manipulate Woods / Woods dies / SDC remains vulnerable
  • Achilles’ Veil: Attempt to shoot Mendez / Farid dies
  • Ulysses: Admiral Briggs dies / USS Obama becomes defenseless / USS Obama crew dies
  • Cordis Die: Save the president
  • Judgment day: capture Mendez

Final 3
Main decisions: Save Woods / Karma dies / Kill Menendez

  • Pyrrhic Victory: Save Woods.
  • of Swift: Recover it from Rapid Worm.
  • Old Wounds: Kill Kravchenko without resistance
  • Time and destiny: find intel information
  • The Fallen Angel: Find information from Zhao’s secret meeting / Harper’s face is burned
  • Karma: karma muore
  • Suffer with me: Menendez manages to manipulate Woods / Woods dies / SDC remains vulnerable
  • Achilles’ Veil: Attempt to shoot Mendez / Farid dies
  • Ulysses: Admiral Briggs dies / USS Obama becomes defenseless / USS Obama crew dies
  • Cordis Die: Save the president
  • Judgment Day: Kill Menendez

Final 4 (Worst ending)
Main decisions: Woods dies / Karma dies / Kill Menendez

  • Pyrrhic Victory: Woods dies.
  • of Swift: Recover it from Rapid Worm.
  • Old Wounds: Kill Kravchenko without resistance
  • Time and destination: search carefully in the compound
  • The Fallen Angel: Find information from Zhao’s secret meeting / Harper’s face is burned
  • Karma: karma muore
  • Suffer with me: Menendez manages to manipulate Woods / SDC remains vulnerable
  • Achilles’ Veil: Try to shoot Mendez / save Farid
  • Ulysses: Admiral Briggs dies / USS Obama becomes defenseless / USS Obama crew dies
  • Cordis Die: Save the president
  • Judgment day: kill Mendez

All clear? You can also watch the following video which shows the choices to be made to see the best ending while in this other video you can see all 4 endings Call of Duty: Black Ops II 383 ratings (SPOILERS) How To Get The BEST ENDING Possible! In this guide, I will be showing you how to get the best ending on Black Ops II. With this ending, you will: Save Alex Mason and Woods, and stop Menendez’s Invasion to save the world! ALL STRIKE FORCE MISSIONS MUST BE COMPLETED! This is very important if you want to achieve the best ending, complete any Strike Force Mission when given the chance!
Chapter 1: Pyrrhic Victory You play and beat this chapter normally.
Trivia: Black Ops II features the choices you can make in the franchise for the first time. Chapter 2: Celerium You play and beat this chapter normally.
In-Chapter Easter Egg: Thor’s hammer can be found near the start of the chapter inside a small dark cave standing upright on a rock, and there’s a way to interact with it (Video below).
Chapter 3: Old Wounds After you hold off the Russian attack at the end of the chapter, you will start interrogating Kravchenko, and Mason will be very tempted to kill him. You will need to resist by spamming the use key in order to learn about the mole in the CIA. (This part is crucial for doing the next step in the following chapter ‘Time And Fate’.
In-Chapter Easter Egg: In the beginning after the initial Soviet attack, you will plant a cratering charge to blow up the entrance of the ruins, if you go prone and take a closer look at the charge, you will see the following text «FOR MAKING BIG HOLES ONLY, NOT FOR AHOLES, DONT BE AN AHOLE WITH EXPLOSIVES, COVER YOU AND YOUR BUDDY’S EAR» Chapter 4: Time And Fate In Time And Fate, after entering the cocaine bunker, you will have to find the intel file which contains information about the CIA Mole, search quickly or the file will burn.
Trivia: . Black Ops II is the first Call Of Duty to feature custom loadouts for the campaign. Chapter 6: Karma At the end of Karma, you have to kill DeFalco before he escapes with Karma. If you fail at doing so, you will trigger a new Strike Force mission called ‘Second Chance’, in which you get the second chance to save Karma. Saving her is very important.
Trivia: In the main menu, the background will often change, depending on how far along the player has progressed in the story. Chapter 7: Suffer With Me Towards the end of this chapter, you will get to a rooftop with Noriega, and will be ordered by Hudson to kill Nexus target who’s confirmed to be Menendez, it’s not him, It’s Mason, you will need to shoot him in the leg, when you do, Hudson will again order you to shoot him in the head, don’t, shoot his leg again, and the next cutscene will trigger.
Trivia: The character Manuel Noriega is actually a real person. In fact in July of 2014, he sued Activision for the false portrayal and use of him in the game. Chapter 8: Achilles Veil Once you meet with Menendez at the Citadel, he will shoot down Harper’s VTOL and will capture him. He will then order you to execute him, killing Harper is necessary, otherwise Farid’s cover will be blown.
Easter Egg: Once you finish the campaign, there is a cutscene of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold appearing in the game with the song «Carry On». Chapter 9: Odysseus The only thing you need to do here is to shoot Admiral Briggs in the leg, after that, he survives. With Karma on his side and the SDC, the Obama will be successfully protected from Menendez’s attack.
Trivia/Reference: In the Avenged Sevenfold easter egg cutscene, you can see aged Alex Mason and Viktor Reznov dancing. In the next cut Reznov is gone and Mason is looking around confused. This is a reference to Black Ops I, in which Mason saw Reznov in his mind throughout the game, thinking he was actually there. Chapter 10: Day of the Heart You play and beat this chapter normally.
Trivia: There is an actual Youtube channel called cordisdie with 1 video uploaded (4 months before the release of the game) titled «A New World», which connects to the cutscenes we’ve seen in the game of Menendez’s propaganda video. In the campaign it’s titled «A Newer World». Chapter 11: Judgment Day And finally when you get to decide Menendez’s fate at the end of the final chapter, you will ultimately have to capture him.
Easter Egg: You can see a very young Jimmy Kimmel at the end of the game (only if you kept Menendez alive). He is seen on the tv during the jail cell scene. Thank you! Well, there you have it! The best ending for Black Ops II.
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