“How does the Black Ops 2 Zombies ranking system work? How do I rank up in zombies?”
Currently the formula for the Black Ops 2 ranking system is a bit of a mystery. There is no official information on how the ranking system actually calculates and ranks a player. I’ll probably be updating this post regularly and be making many corrections til we know exactly how the new Black Ops 2 Zombies ranking system works.
The Black Ops Zombies ranking system probably takes several different factors into consideration such as kills, rounds survive, bullets fired, performance and whatever else.
The rank icon can be seen next to your name whenever you play Black Ops 2 Zombies.
It takes 5 slashes to move up to the next level. How exactly you earn these slashes is a mystery.
So if you have one bone, It will take 5 slashes till you move up to the next level and get a new icon which would be two bones and so on. (This is not a true statement, you can move up the ranks without having all five slashes)
I will continue to update this as I move up the zombie ranks. Please shoot me (get it) a comment if I need to make any corrections.
Black Ops 2 Ranking System (its a working progress)
Rank 1 – One Bone
Rank 2 – Two Bones
Rank 3 – Skull
Rank 4 – Skull with blue eyes
Rank 5 – Skull with Dagger (Knife)
Rank 6- Skull with Dagger and Blue Eyes
Rank 7 – Skull with Shotguns
Rank 8 – Skull with Shotguns and Blue Eyes (The Ultimate Zombie Pwner, show some respect son!)
Update: According to a recent interview the zombie ranks is based on a ‘live’ reflection of your skills. It can fluctuate in a game. That would explain people going from one bone to the blue eyes skull.
Its pretty confusing to me… i was a level 2 (two bones crossed) with 4 slashes and then the next game of grief i leveled up to a skull with blue glowing eyes with 5 slashes….?
Yeah i was at that rank “Legit” with the blue eyes with the skull and 5 tally marks, played 1 game now i got the skull with a knife through it and 5 tally marks. Btw the next rank is a knife through the skull and rank 5 is 2 cross shotgunns and a skull.
Just wondering wether it is a Deffinate that it takes five slashes? Just because ive seen Friends with different Badges (ranks) and differing number of Slashes, and i personally moved up a rank with 4 slashes and didnt gain or loose any (stayed at 4). Im only asking because im as mystified as everyone else and would like a little more infomation on How exactly to acheive the Higher ranks. for Example work on headshots….Knife kills….ect..ect
Also on a side note, you can also go down in rank
i just got my skull with blue eyes after just the skull
I know the amount of slashes doesn’t make you rise to thr next emblem symbol… from what i’ve gathered the symbol and the hash marks are two different ranks in themself. I’ve just gotten a 5th hash mark and at the same time my emblem changed to a skull with blue eyes and a background shadow… I’m not sure how the two tie together, i’ve seem players with 2 bones and 4 hash marks and others with a skull and 2 hash marks… i’m still trying to figure out exactly how it works.
Yours,
Dax_Soulless (psn)
It doesn’t seem to be a linear promotion system. I went from the icon you have down as Rank 3 to the next icon – which is a slightly different shield and a knife through the skull. I’ve seen people with the “Rank 3” symbol with blue eyes however, and I am yet to get the blue eyes.
If you watch the zombies reveal trailer on youtube you will see they show Ranks 1-5 on the bus route. The 1 bone, the 2 bone, the skull, then it’s a skull with a knife then a skull with 2 shotguns. I believe that the more you build and the longer you last are factors in leveling. But it is as said, still a mystery.
I have a skull which is the next rank after that is a skull with glowing eyes but not sure about the glowing eyes
Also I have 995 kills , my other friend just got his skull so it takes like not too long to get a skull I played from like 10 to 5 with breaks I between because the servers crashed my ps3 -.- also you can play this custom or online doesn’t matter for the rank
Yeah, I was playing nuketown zombies and I was a skull with 4 slashes and then I got a quite good round and I had a skull with 5 slashes and bright blue eyes.
After the blue eyes, it’s knife in skull >2 knives in skull
Ramk 3 and 4 are the same rank… ? rank 4 is the knife. Getting the blue eyes doesn’t mean you ranked up.
Ur missing a rank because my uncle had a skull with a knife through it and didnt have blue eyes
It’s really been annoying me. I continually get to wave 20+ on transit, have over 8000 kills, am top 2000 in the world for headshots, and am higher than all of my xbox friends. Yet I have a plain skull with no blue eyes, and they all have blue eyes and knifes. I have only played 1 or 2 grief modes though. Any advice?
My advice, Jack, is to play solo on Tranzit, Town, or Nuketown, and crush it. Sometimes you can do better without teammates going down and getting in your way. Take things slow, play it safe, and you should be able to get to round 30; round 40 if you’re good.
Ye, The more objectives you do in Zombies lvls you up faster, like making zombie shields, parts like that etc, opening doors, turning the power on, this is what i noticed anyways, because when me and my friend were playing Transit I made all the parts etc and opened doors and after we were done i had a skull and he was at a 2bones so eh thats my take on it
I think it’s based on preformance, like not going down or something along those lines, or beating your hi score each game. i’m on the 2 knifes and skull right now and havn’t seen anyone even close to my rank yet. tho some claim to already have the double shotgun (doubt it )
Yeah i think the blue eyes is something to do with the electrical zombie boss not sure tho
SOOO confusing this ranking system is I still have NEVER got the Blue eye’s but I am on the emblem with the 1 dagger going into the skull without blue eyes with 4 tally marks.
I’ve been at rank 4 and 5 tally marks for almost an entire day now, but yesterday i went from 1 to 4 in rank…wtf? I play zombies like 10 times a day now with an average of around surviving to round 13…
you get the blue eyes on the skull when you reach tally mark 5 so it is just saying you have reached your max rank for that level.
And it seems to be harder to rank up after each rank, it’s taking me ages to get to next rank now..
i have a skull with a blade through it. the eyes are not blue though.
@MadClown2
no i have a frined that has skull with blue eyes but 2 slashes
i really want to findout how to rankup lmao so i can focus solely on doing whatever it takes to rank up. Not to be arrogant but im not a half bad zombie player and i dont want people thinking i suck shit because i have a bad ranking
i had a dagger before blue eys so this is my theory. skull is for headshots dagger for knife kills blue eyes for revives so on
iv seen skull with 2 shotguns no blue eyes and with blue eyes
iv done 35 rounds and am #22 in the world for rounds with 20000 total kills
The system at my guessing is the performance. I was 4slash skull, rank 3 without blue eyes. Went onto tranzit, and was soloing hordes and running to different locations w/o the bus. After getting to wave 22 with my friends on a custom (everything normal settings). We died, also is nt in rankings position for the 4 player Tranzit’s positions. But after we lost I got a dagger behind, 4 slashes, no blue eyes. I died a lot though, and my friends didn’t get a ranked up, only me and they at 5slash skull, nothing behind. And one of my friends had over 1,000 kills soo that’s why I believe it’s performance based, not kills, etc.
You Have To Play Survival To Rank Up Guys Not TranZit Survival And Ran Up Or Grief Either One 😀
i have a skull into a star with two shotguns and 3 slashes. the star is red and the skull and the shotguns are blue
My friend had the rank of a skull with glowing eyes with the dagger through it then after playing a few matches the eyes on the skull weren’t glowing anymore. As far as I know it goes 1 bone, 2 bone, skull, skull with glowing eyes, skull with glowing eyes and dagger, skull with dagger, skull with 2 shotguns glowing eyes.
So i have seen that some skulls with the knife exist without the blue eyes. I think the blue eyes have something to do with revives. I noticed that when I got them that I revive people a little faster than everyone else. If you have blue eyes on your skull see if you notice the same thing
so i was a skull with eyes lit and a sword thru it…i played a pub game to try and get the 75g achievement, lost out at rd 12 i think and it took my sword away…outrage i tell you
the slashes are the level you are on that emblem. this means you can go up on emblam but still have the same amount of slashes or get more or less. by the way you can go down levels aswell. when i beat my personal best on nuketown (my seconed game) i went from one bone with one slash to two bones with two slashes.
@john
i don’t think so bro, i got the skull with blue eyes with dagger and it ain’t getting people up any faster though i know some of my friends have been getting people up really fast in random cases, it might just be a glitch (without quick revive )
When you get the blue eyes you get quick revive perm
Hi Guys,
I had 4 stripes with a line through them and a skull with glowing eyes yesterday, now today just 4 lines and not line across and no glowing eyes. It’s like I’ve been demoted but I’m averaging 2000 or more kills a day. I’m on 12000 odd kills now and headshots about 3000. I play tranzit, survival and grief. What the hell?
Xbox name: stevo 247365
Hey i went from 4 slashes and skull no glowing to 4 slashes with the dagger still no glowing eyes.. I mucked around and lost a few rounds early on tranzit and now my dagger is gone lol.. My revive to down ratio is really bad thanks to that.. Tomorrow im gonna pkay lots of that 4v4 zonbies and focus on reviving i average 50% headshots aswell i dont understand how to rank up at all.
Just confused about how i skipped the blue eyes makes me think its about your revive to death or down ratio..
@LOL
I dont think so. I revive people quick in all cases and it wasnt like that til I had the blue eyes. I thnk the eyes have to do with the number of revives you get overall. And in the interview about zombies they did say that the emblem would show what a player would bring to your game. You would think they would be a little more open about this…
@Alex
have you experienced the same effect?
im 41st in the world for total kills and i only have the skull with the knife and blue eyes. people with less kills then me is rank 7 some thing they’re doing doesnt make any sence.
i am the best in the world and my name says it all.
I had BLUE EYES than it brought me BACK!!! to REGULAR EYES. WTF.
I am a skull with 5 slashes and blue eyes as well as one of my online friends I have a few more achievements than he does and if I’m not mistaken you need to have the achiev fir buying 2 perks while the powers off
maybe having the knife makes your knife stronger. having the shot guns makes your bullets stronger. blue eyes you revive faster. and shield you build faster?
I’m really good at zombies but my rank makes me seem like I’m not good. I don’t know how to raise it.
I’m pretty sure that if somebody leaves during a game, then it won’t record the round you reach, and you won’t rank up either, as if you haven’t played at all. At least that’s what seems to happen to me.
@Alex and John
What makes you think that? Kus your the 3rd or 4th person i hear say that nd it got me wondering now (about reviving faster wit blue eyes)
Has anyone locked down a for sure way to level up? I mean I play really good games most of the time. Hell I went late 20’s like 5 games in a row and I am still on the damned Blue Eyes Knife one.
Been playing for 15 hours straight with the skull waiting for blue eyes. Had a not so good round but died in the corn field looking for and finding the tower. Didn’t connect any parts to the obelisk table below the tower and power was not on, not sure if those matter but the cornfield is 100% the key to blue eyes. I think it’s to seperate the players who never leave the safety of the 5 main areas, and could theoretically never even see the face grabbing denizens of the forest but definitely never really attempt to progress on the Easter egg. I’ll take bets on this one.
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Ok i figured it out, it has nothing to do with the eyes, the quick revive thing is a kind of special achievement ( revive the same person in one game 10+ times) and i think it only works in tranzit and when you have it and pick someone one the revive thingy will be purple. Idk if it works in grife or survival, so far it doesn’t seem too.
I think it has not that much to do with ‘survival’ games. On 3 games i am around rank #500-700 with it, and i still have the skull with blue eyes. In town i made it until round 29, 3 times (1 player , 3 player and 4 player). However i did not play Transit with 4 players last days that much, so i think it has something to do with that. I will make a new record on transit to day with 4 players and see if I rank up or not. If i do we know it has a lot to do with Transit and less with the other maps.
Everybody.. Listen.. The truth is.. The leveling up system is just a mystery but I could tell you what happened today.. So my friends & I were playing in a custom game trying do the easter egg.. In the beginning I only had the 5 slashes with the skull & blue eyes, while I was playing my friend randomly sent me a message saying I got the knife behind the skull & I was like ” no I don’t have it, but hopefully soon” and after that I just kept playing and because one of my friends had to go we couldnt finish the easter egg so we went back to the lobby I noticed the knife behind the skull & I was surprise so
We decided to go practices while we wait on our friend to get back on, we started a game on level 20 we did okay but after the game I noticed I lost the knife & I was wondering why, I didnt do bad at all I was the only person alive after my friend died I finish the round so then after that I went to play a quick public game & I got it bak.. So I believe it just shows how good you are.. If you do bad.. It could make you lose your rank..
I have been skull with blue eyes,,and haven’t gained anything,,I have most of the acheivements for zombies,,my brother had the same blue eyed skull,,than after one match he lost the blue eyes and only has the skull,,so I have no idea what kinda method it is to trey archs madness
It definitely has more to due with Tranzit, I went from one bone to skull with blue eyes in one single game of Tranzit!
so the ranking system seems to be about over all skill levels but I am wondering about the custom games feature. When you read the letter that pops up sometimes when you you click zombies, there are a few paragraphs at the bottom that seem to hint at how the ranking system operates. Says something like, experimentation with the custom features is key to separating players skill levels. The features i am speaking about are headshots only, magic off (removes box and drops), and hellhounds enables. These are much harder difficulties but I havent had much of a chance to test this theory-term paper due tomoro. Someone try out mixing and matching these features and see what happens.
Does anyone hav any remote idea of how to get from skull blue eyes to the dagger from experience coz I’ve been on the blue eyes for quite a while now and I want to get to next emblem, I have 5 strikes btw
I also hav a friend who only has 2 tallies and the dagger, and I had no idea how that worked
I skipped the skull with no glowing eyes and a knife.
My rank went from blue eyes to blue eyes + knife
not really sure how it works i was a skull with 4 bars and jumped all my friends to a blue eyes dagger 5 bar. They need to figure out whats up and fix it. I think building the items and playing with different things on and off such as magic, original difficulty, hell hounds, or headshots only changes how fast you rank up. Im not entirely sure, try it out and see what happens.
the whole 5 slashes thing cant be 100% accurate because i have 5 slashes currently with the blue eyed skull
i know they are not ranks but rewards, because there are people with shotguns and no blue eyes, i think you get the blue eyes for headshots 60 or something, i would say the shotgun is for shots fired in one game or something im not sure about what exactly but im pretty sure they are rewards
I dont know for sure obviously. But here what it looks like to me.
– You lose rank if you leave games before they actually end (Leave game)
– Lose rank if you AFK alot (Low APM)
– Lots of things affect how fast you gain rank, but it seems the main one is your highest round reached.
Just ripped up a bunch of 30+ round games in 2-3 player lobbies and I am still stuck on the Blue eyed skull with knife. I am going to go really far on a singleplayer lobby tomorrow and see if I rank up.
can i rank up only in normal mode or easy too?
I have been stuck on the 2 bones for a long time, but then with 3 bars. Now, i played a game and got the skull. As it seems, the emblem ( skull, bones, eyes) you get, if for the higher rounds.
i think the shotguns are for something els.
Also
Treyarc sayd that they had a zombie ranking system, where you can see how good the player is, and not how long he has been playing.
That’s not true, I’m ranked 17th in the world right now on ps3 at level 38 name- KillahBags and I still have just have a skull n blue eyes, I never leave games don’t get downed much but I only play Tranzit so idk
I spend 60% of my time in the fog, always get a heap of kills & headshots, go down not a lot, I revive heaps and like build everything. Open a heap of doors, bank heaps of cash, and I’m only skull 3 slashes, I don’t have the quick revive permaperk though, I will get tonight and see what happens
im at the blue eyed skull wid 5 slashes, ive been here for a long time now (5000 kills), i have almost 10k kills and i always revive and rebuild everything, however i mainly play survival and the average level i reach is 24-26. i do not believe the blue eyes means perma quik revive but i will test this out tonight. cheers.
my friend has reached lvl 35 and he is still at the blue eyed skull, so i dont know how heavily reaching a high level is weighed… but im sure it helps ofcourse.
also if you look on the leaderboards in-game, you can find alot of highly ranked people with the blue eyed skull, and the same goes for alot of lower ranked people have knife n skulls etc. so just because you have alot of kills doesnt neccesarily mean you will rank up (emblem rank).
i think the ranking formula is a little more complex than people may think, i believe factors such as highest level reached, kills, revives, downs, buildables, etc all count towards the “formula” that calculates your rank….
i think we will find out that certain factors will definetly count more than others, but overall just play as best as you can and you will be ranked accordingly.
just remember that its a mystery for a reason. just my 2 cents. cheers.
Did anyone thought of that it could be the TIME that had something to do with it? Like you could speend an hour to get to level 20 just becouse you left a crawler and whoring box and pack a punching your weapons etc. When others would just do all that along, and reach level 20 in 25-30min.
Just a thought,
Cheers
It seems if you dont play everyday then your rank goes down i was on skull with blue eyes and now im on skull with 2 lines and i havent played a game……so irritating……
I think the most important thing is how many kills you have vs how many downs. This truly shows how good a player is. For instance I have blue eyes and knife and have a kill/down ratio of 78. All my friends above 70 seem to have the knife. Take your kills and divide by your downs to find your ratio.
I think the slashes have something to do with the amount of people you play with or something? :S
Mitchell do you think that with a certain ratio you would reach the shotguns? What ratio do you think this would be?
Yea but I don’t know what number that would be. I got my ratio up to 89 today. I figure it needs to be atleast 110 or higher. There are other factors like leaderboards I think but it’s less important.
I think mine is higher than 110 but I would have to check I did die a bunch in that one game. Maybe 200? 150? I’ll just have to do a bunch of super good solo rounds to see if that helps me rank up.
Mitchell’s theory might be accurate. I’ve gone to round 36+ numerous times and am still only the skull (no blue eyes), but my kill/down ratio is really low (38) because I afk a lot. It seems as if though the higher the ratio, the higher the emblem (rank).
I would like to agree with the KDR idea, it makes alot of sense, however if your “downs” wer that important would they not include them into call of duty elite?
if you look at your zombie stats it shows only a handfull of stats… im thinking these are the most important ones. interestingly enough the stats that are shown are the ones that could potentially help your teamates the most.
what do you guys thinks?
It’s a mystery yes, but I think it also has flaws. A few days ago I was a skull with blue eyes and a couple slashes, then in the middle of playing I went just a skull with 4 slashes. I was thinking wtf? I’m almost always lasting into the high teens in tranzit levels, and I often have like 300-400+ kills with only being downed once or twice. I build just about everything, and review all the time. I never ever leave early…then I realized that with some of the buggy issues Black Ops 2 has with crashing the PS3 consoles, perhaps the ranking system considers when you crash out that you left the game early? If so I’m screwed because if I play for four hours, I’m guaranteed to crash at least twice in that span.
i don’t believe in your idea with the KDR-thing. Because a player playing his first game and surviving really long and not going down (maybe a solo game) could go directly to skull with shotguns! (1k kills, 3 downs = kdr of 333….)
More sense would it make if you compare the amount of revives to downs/ deaths. (but the death stat gets faked through the Tombstone, so it can not be that either!)
I just played 1 game yesterday and today when i went online i was back on the skull without blue eyes, after playing 1 game I was back on the skull WITH blue eyes.
– I know that the emblem is NOT based on your bullets fired
– I know that the emblem is NOT based on the amount of bullets hitting the target.
– I know that the emblem is NOT based on your presicion (i have 120% precision).
– I know that the emblem is NOT based on your kills (have 18’000 and i have friend with 13’000 and higher emblems)
– I don’t believe that your doors / perks / miles stats have something to do with your zombie rank!
I further know that:
TranZit does affect the emblem more than other maps!
I have spoken a lot to other zombie players.
I made wave 40 with a friend on Nuketown (ranked like 140 overall). After that 2 more games wave 30+ and it didn’t change anything on the emblem.
+ I haven’t played TranZit for a while now, and I think that it is the reason why my rank hasn’t increased (because i have the skull with blue eyes since 12’000 kills now.. -.-)
the guy from nuketown made 1 game on TranZit really good (wave 30+) & his rank directly went to the blue eyed knife (he has about 6’000 less kills then I have)
So: short version:
Probably it’s the TranZit who’s affecting the rank the most! I gonna play some TranZit the next few waves and gonna post my results here.
For questions, or people who wanna play a round (at least 1 map wave 25+! & skull) add me att PSN: HeLveTiC_LaMoS.
I know the whole easteregg story and lots more of stuff.
cheers
So i was playing and after my match on town round 32 solo i came out and had red eyes!!! it was so sick so i went back into another game and it wouldnt let me buy juggernaut perk and the machine just clicked and later that game i found out i had PERMANAUT! it was aweseome!
The Ranks have very little to do with transit alone. I play survival, and have rank 7, only played transit a few short times. It does take into account your stats as they are the primary factor in increasing your rank. Currently I say under 400 in headshots on the leaderboar and believe this is (among my other stats) the reason for my spiked skull with shotguns.
okay i got the knife with blue eyes finally, im a happy camper haha!
I just got ranked down from blue eyes with knife to no blue eyes after a Rd 15 grief match where I got ~550 kills and 0 downs (I solo’d round 15.) What the hell? I’ve had the blue eyes with knife for the past week and I get ranked down after a good game…
“So i was playing and after my match on town round 32 solo i came out and had red eyes!!! it was so sick so i went back into another game and it wouldnt let me buy juggernaut perk and the machine just clicked and later that game i found out i had PERMANAUT!”
Yeah, right. Even with perma-QR it still lets you buy QR. There are only a few permanent bonuses that have been confirmed so far, and perma-jug is not one of them. Is there a bridge above you when you look up?
To address some doubt on the Kills per down idea (still no proof) perhaps it also takes into account the number of kills total. For example a Blue eyed skull knife needs say 70-150 kills per down with more than say 8000 kills overall. This would prevent someone from playing one game and getting it. That said I have a friend who jumped in his first game right to the blue eyed skull.
Its certainly linked with KDR or Downs Because I was playing with a buddy the other day and we found the perment & double quick revive secret. Go To My Channel @ http://www.youtube.com/InfiniteKos For the Tutorial on that And Many More Secrets like Steel Barricades!!!. Long story Short He Had BLUE eyes And went down 20+ times in one game, when we got to the lobby he had 2 bones. We played another game and he got 1000 kills and got the eyes back.
well i have a KDR of 62 and i have blue eyed knife with 5 slashes, at fist i calculated that a KDR above 60 got u the knife but my buddy went from a 55kdr to a 65kdr and still no knife…. so this bunks my theory.
Also, there are still alot of ppl in the 70+kdr with just a knife and no blue eyes.
so yes there is a mystery factor here that we have yet to uncover.
one thing is forsure tho… and that is that all the ppl with a shotty have a fairly high KDR so that lets us know that KDR definetly counts because u dont see low KDR ppl with shottys.
let the exploring continue haha
Supporting info: My KDR is 82 with 20,000 some killed zombies. Created all buildable items in tranzit and usually get to wave 20+ with leader board rank of wave 34. And I have a skull with bull eyes.
Well in all probability it is more like a giant mathematical equation with some things counting more than others. Basically a rank probably required you to be within certain ranges for each stat group and some are more important than others. You probably need a certain number of kills per down, a certain range of headshot to kill ratio, a certain number of rounds reached, a certain number of doors opened, gibs done, etc. And once you have it all within the proper ranges you attain the goal rank. There might also be a couple of possible ranges. For example a person with say 2000 kills per down and lower other stats might be a knife blue eyed skull while another person with only say 60 kills per down and really high states in other categories might be the same rank.
i agree with you dangthing, definelty.
i just got the skull with blue eyes and a knife by getting round 27 on town survival – orignal mode (not easy) – single player – head shots only so if your wondering custom games do rank you up
i look at what i have and it sais i have a skull but next game i look at it again at it sais 2 bones i dont get it?
i just got the skull with blue eyes and a knife by getting round 27 on town survival – orignal mode (not easy) – single player – head shots only so if your wondering custom games do rank you up
Dangthing, this has been my idea lately as well. I’m thinking you have to have certain ratios so maybe for every 500 kills only 2 or 3 downs 250 headshots 5 revives so on. But lately iv been losing my eyes whenever I don’t play. So this makes me think somehow your ratios are relative to other players ratios to get your rank, having to place in a certain percentile for a certain rank. My k/d is currently 125 and I don’t have blue eyes anymore because I didn’t play for 2 days. I have a friend whose is as low as 70 with the eyes. To address Helvetic, when you make it far you get lots of kills and few downs also deaths mostly show how good your teammates are not the player. At this point I dont think leaderboards have any value in your rank. Also, sorry for the long post, I have 2 friends with shotguns one with 3 tallies who is 215 and the other with blue eyes who is 260.
mitchel, after looking at my friends ranks in the leader boards it seems that you loose 1 tally if you don’t play for a day
Yea I realize this now after I talked with a friend
I just played a game and had the normal skull without blue eyes.
I used to think if you were in a game and someone left that it wouldn’t count, but someone left early on and we carried on playing and it did count after all and my rank increased.
Now the confusing part, as already mentioned I was the normal skull, we got to round 23 (should have been more but I was with a poor team) I had 1500 kills and 1000 headshots with 2 revives and 4 downs. I build a few things, didn’t bother with perks accept tombstone.
At the end of the game, my badge levelled up to the skull with a dagger through it which obviously skipped out the blue eyes. I’m thinking it’s to do with kills and rounds survived in my opinion, possibly something to do with downs as already mentioned.
Oh and I was playing tranzit.
Mitchell, does your shotgun friend play grief at all? Or even multiplayer zombies with others who aren’t his friends? I’m asking because I have a theory that’s fairly accurate up to a point.
I have achieved skull with blue eyes and a knife. I have 17,000 kills, have no idea what my KDR is and I know for a fact that statistics don’t play a huge role in your rank. They do matter, just it’s not as important as everyone thinks they are. You do need high kills, a low amount of downs to kills, and high round consistency. My theory is that you need to be CONSISTENT in zombies. People all think that transit is extremely important which it may be; however, it’s more about your zombies game as a WHOLE. What I mean is that the system sees how good you are at playing EVERY map and, if your friend plays grief or multiplayer, it will also be determined by online play. I’ve never played online and have done well on all zombie maps and I have the skull with blue eyes and a knife, so this will determine if I’m more or less correct.
Thanks,
Jay
Hey Scarab ur revives are probably low, that seems to be what is keeping people from obtaining a higher rank, keep ur kdr at a good level and get ur revives up. i have a fairly low kdr (71) but i have 500 revives and i have knife with blue eyes. cheers.
My theory on the blue eyes, is that you gain them from doing TranZit. Since I stopped playing TranZit and focused on Town Survival, I’ve lost my blue eyes but have achieved skull with shotguns (4 tallys). I believe you go up regular rank (no blue eyes) from K/D, Revives, and rounds survived. Currently I have 17,280 kills, 98 downs, 64 deaths, 340 revives. Miles ran, headshots, and gibs likely play a roll as well (of my 17k kills, 5500 are headshots). Hope this helps!
Also, I believe tallys are achieved by days played in a row. If it also helps- I average 28-35 rounds town survival on easy, with hell hounds. ~22 rounds on normal with hell hounds.
I finally got the shotguns with blue eyes. I have 51665 kills and 322 downs. If you want to get far on Town or Nuketown add me.
PSN gamertag: littleballs3452
I found out something yesterday. My zombie kill/down ratio went to 148 and I lost my shotguns. I played another game going 2411 kills, 8 downs and my kill/down ratio went to 154, and I got my shotguns back. Emblems may be a mere reflection of kill/down ratio.
I’m positive that the game does not take revives, or any other category besides kills/deaths, into consideration. Not meaning to gloat, but i’m currently ranked around 400 on PSN in revives with 1800(and im still stuck with dagger&skull). ranked 2000 in almost every other category (still stuck at dagger&skull). I have 72500 kills with 480 downs, maybe my K/D ratio needs to be higher.
I can at least tell you that the slashes indicate the number of days you have played zombies in a row. I had none after i havent played for a few days. I played 1 day, got 1 slash, played the next day too, got a second one, etc. Now, i don’t know how they demote those (don’t play for 1 day = no slashes? / 1 slash less?). Another thing. Me and a friend of mine were both at the skull. He had blue eyes, i didnt. We reached round 38, and when we died in that round, he got the skull and dagger, while i didnt. He had like 200 kills more and only 1000 points. Maybe it has to do with the blue eyes and the round?
Hey guys im stuck on blue eyes and i want to find out why. My kd is quite high. Ive got a little amount of deaths but alot of revives. I hope u answer my question because im really eager to find out why im not ranking up
It also has something to do with the consistency of your play. If you always get around 500 kills and get to round 20, but then one playthrough you get 600 kills and get to round 22 (hyphethetical numbers), you will probably go up. Ive also noticed that keeping downs to an ABSOLUTE minimum helps you get up. That means below 3 downs. My idea of an ideal match of zombies is, round 25 or higher, 750 kills, 1 down, and 10 revives, 300 headshots. Opening doors also contributes, so don’t be greedy with the cash, just spend. You can more than likely earn back whatever cash anyway. If you wanna play and rank up with me and my friends, add me (PSN): IconicAssassin
It depends on how many rounds you survived when i started i got a bone then i survived 10 rounds i got 2 bones then i survived 15 rounds i got skull i think rounds is the main thing about The ranking system i don’t know yet
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This is not true, if you would have read my earlier comment, me and a friend of mine got to the same round, and he ranked up, while i didnt. After I got blue eyes too, we got to round 40 (so higher), we died again, and i still didnt have the skull and dagger rank. Point is, it’s not about round. Also Jimmy Zalinksi (one of the producers) said that the ranking system combines all of your skills, so i will be about a lot of things.
I seem to know a little more about the ranking system than you guys. First, the blue eyes means that the player has played for 5 days straight. If the player doesn’t play for 1 day, he/she will lose the blue eyes and 1 slash. This has been proven. Also, the game constantly switches me between the skull and crossbones, depending on how I do in my last few games. Currently I’m on crossbones because I have been playing on survival on town, and my k/d ratio has gone down, because I never have luck with the mystery box in the map, and I end up having to fend of a hoard of zombies with a f-ing sniper rifle.
Okay I achieved skulls with shotguns after getting to round 40 on town and then the very next game getting to 42. I moved up from skull with dagger and three hash marks to shotguns with three hash marks. I honestly feel like the major contributor to ranking up is your average rounds reached and maybe 40+ is what gets you the shotguns? I really don’t have a damn clue though Treyarch just needs to tell everyone how this system works so we all can shut the hell up haha.
By the way, does anyone know if not playing for a long time can derank you from say the shotguns or the dagger or can you only derank by playing badly? I feel it is the latter I just didn’t know if anyone had any personal experience to offer.
the ranking system is based on kd 75-100 is knife with blue eyes 100-120 is shotguns with blue eyes go to custom games put it to easy and get 1000 kills per 1 death and make it to atleast round 20 each time it will rank you up super fast i have shotguns with blue eyes and this is how i did it and i never play transit just town
I know now that there are certain “achievement” type requirements that must be fulfilled to rank up and it’s not a one and done deal you must continuesly do these things for instance a criteria of shotguns (so i’ve heard) is getting 1,000 kills dying or downing then getting another 1,000. This is so far yet to be proven but the ‘achievement’ thing I’m sure of
It’s weird, I had the blue eyes but than I dropped back down a rank anyone know how the ranking actually works
you need to play on easy try getting 500 400 kills any is ok but when you about to die leave game, if you have skull blue eyes that gets you the knife its 500 – 0 death just try it one time or two should be enough
this is wrong… the tally marks are just how often you play, has nothing to do with ranking up.
Listen none of this is right i have skull with shotguns and blue eyes it is all about teamwork if u revive protect back help them in situations like a stack of zombies after them and then u throw a monkey bomb or a granade and this would give u 2 slashes
Blue eyes is not a level. The reason for having blue eyes is that your have 5 tally marks. as you can see in each picture that is presented with blue eyes there is always 5 tally marks.
LOL how it works Concussion nade from box get u blue eyes knifing 4 knife shotguns with spikes nades kills n shotgun kills
I have tried leveling up but it just doesn’t work I’m on skull and I can’t get any higher
Add my Gamertag if you want proof of how to rank up
Hey, I have the skull+knife..rank pos 13,000 in headshots global @ 22k global, I believe marks are time/consistency. I’ve mainly had the blue eyes throughout the game. Maybe the blue eyes are how you participate with your teammates (buy doors, revive, etc.) – the emblem I believe put rounds, grenades, headshots, kills into consideration. I could be wrong, however, it pieces together perfectly.
i think its like a challenge you have to complete but if you want the shotguns you can get them by going on to round 30 or above more than 1000 kills ,30 revives & less then 2 downs. works on custom game whatever difficulty you chose
Listen… You guys are all idiots. I’ve been playing this now for a while and know exactly how the ranking works. 1-5 tally is a mixture of everything but goes down if you don’t play for a few days. Blue eyes ALWAYS come at the 5th tally mark. Shotguns and knifes and separate things. The knife is obtained from a 75 kill/death ratio and the shotguns are around 120+. That is it, no other bs answers.
everyone has a different story lol. get the CORRECT one….. how the hell do we rank up in zombies?
Actually Jon you’re the idiot. My K/D is above 75 and I don’t have the knife. Dumbass.
The above statement is semi-wrong. Every 5th mark IS Blue (except on bones cause no eyes), Knife and Shotguns do not matter on your k/d ratio. (Just checked cause mine is 253). You ranking goes down because other people’s goes up. So if you stop playing for a month, your ranking went down because many people went past your score. Basically like a tournament, the better person gets the better rank. That’s also why some of you are stuck on skull mark 4 or 5. Alot of people are on that rank and it takes a lot to pass them.
I know how part of it works. The rumor that 5 tallys gets you the blue eyes is false. I got this game on xmas and i have had 5 tallys since the 5th day. But one day i didnt play for 24 hours and i had 4 tallys. But since my first game. I have had 2 crossbones. If i dont have a sucky team than my minimum kills is like 150 with 1 down. I currently have exatcly 7000 kills and crossbones with 5 tallys. I dont have blue eyes so thats not true. Add my gamertag and send me a message to reply. I am JDog3456. Try with or without a space inbetween jdog and 3456
The five tally for blue eyes is fact and its based on consecutive days played. I also got “promoted” from the skull to the skull with a dagger and I didn’t have blue eyes so it as nothing to do with that. I will note that I got promoted after I played a game on farm and had 73 revives so I do think it takes everything into consideration.
i have been playing for a while i have a skull with blue eyes i played a game of nuke town zombies with 300 something kills and 2 downs a score of 30.000 points i am a real good player i get to high rounds so maybe i not takeing something in to consideration
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I think it’s how much you play, I have K/D ratio on 95, and over 600 revives, I haven’t gotten to over lvl 30 though, but I can’t find anyone that actually live as long as me either so -.- I do think the ranking is about how many days you have played in a row.
Okay ive been talking to numerous people online and this is what I think and why: I Have Skull with knife and blue eyes, my stats are average at best but heres what I think because almost everytime I play I try to do better than the other 3 players in the game with me as far as revives opening doors and rebuilding windows (so the teamwork part of it) and once I went from a skull with a knife and 4 tallys to a skull with a knife and blue eyes and 5 tallys we only made it to round 6 but i had 4 downs and 5 revives in that game better than everyone else and I went up to the skull with knife 5 tallys and blue eyes, its gotta be how good your performance that game is and if youre playing by yourself your still going to buy all doors and for sure quick revive, I DO RECOMMEND buying Quick Revive first remember TEAM
You checks are how many days you’ve played in a row get to give get eyes play for three miss a day then play u start over from one again
Almost all of you are wrong. The tallies are how many days in a row you have played. Once you hit 5, you get blue eyes. If you dont play one day, you will lose a tally. Sometimes the game will glitch and it takes more than 5 days to get to blue eyes though. The actual rank is mostly based on k/d down ratio but not the only thing which im still trying to figure out. You need a certain amount of kills to each emblem. My kdr is over a 202 but i still only have the skull and knife. My higjest round is 43 on Die Rise and im 8000 in the world for kills so I have enought kills for the requirement. Add me (xbox 360) if u wanna play. (Im ASIAN RAWR)
I know the ranking system (100% CONFERMED)
add me if you want to know PSN: Pavalistic
The tally marks are for how many days out of the last 5 you have played. If you miss one day, but play every day for the next 5 days you will get your 5th mark. If you miss 2 days in a row on the 5th day you will have 4 marks and on the 6th day you will have 5 and your blue eyes. 5 marks = blue eyes as long as you have a skull.
Don’t know if this is still an ‘active’ page however I am stuck on 2 bones and I don’t know what KD or whatever I need to get onto skulls 🙂 thanks
to rank up too skulls shotguns u need 200 kills per down every game
Ok listen, I have the crossbones icon as well as 5 tallys. 20k kills, alot of headshots and revives. However I have very little door opens and grenade kills. I think these might play as a factor in the icon ranking. Since I have about 2x as many kills as a couple people here.
At one point my k/d ratio was over 800. That is correct….800 kills per down. I play every day yet i was stuck forever at 1 bone with 5 slashes. Someone in a live match in town with me said i needed to play tranzit. We did so and i jumped to the skull w/ lit eyes and 5 slashes after that 1 game. I have been stuck there ever since. My kd ratio is now slightly above 500 and no dagger or shotguns. i have 116,000 kills and 210 downs. I have almost 1000 revives as i am usually the last person standing in any public match i play in.
I think the way to really rank up is with teamwork. Because that is really how you do alot of stuff in zombies, like the easter eggs.
Also, I did a custom match with two of my friends in a custom game and I had skull with blue eyes and they both had two bones. So I start the match and ended it because I forgot to put on magic. Then for somen unknown reason they were automatically at my rank, as it were some type of glitch.
You get slashes by playing days consecutively, if you play for 3 days in a row you get 3 slashes, if you don’t play for a 4th day, you loose one slash, and slashes (which are actually tally marks) aren’t required to rank up, they are only required to get blue eyes, which is zombie vision and you will be able to see odd green, orange, and red mists, no one knows what they are for though.
Hey my name is faze chronicle i am a experiented online player
But i play zombies and i have a skull with dagger and blue eyes also i just reached round 50 town solo on custom games easy with hellhounds 4 downs 850 headshots and 3.5k kills i’m just wondering why i didnt get shotguns i think it’s abouy k/d but the weird thing is i got someone with k/d of 211 and doesn’t got shotguns…. What the fuck is this
Also by the way i jumped from 2 bones to skull with knife i dont know how it works tbh…
When people say zombies is based on skill and kdr etc etc etc… it really isnt. Zombies is based on the task at hand. I have been stuck on the skulls with no blue eyes (4 tallies only) for a while. I made it to round 44 on buried with only 2 downs and 3k plus kills and 1k plus headshots. No level was gained just a cool leaderboard statistic. The next day me and my friend tried to do the achievements for buried and i gained 8 of them (8/10). I ended up going from skull with 4 tallies to skull with knife and 4 tallies. Focus on the tasks the game gives you and most likely you should get the max rank. I also believe doing the easter eggs will get you to higher icon ranks in zombies since they are a major factor in the game.
I played a game with my friend on buried (resolution 1295) and we both started with a skull and 4 tallies then in the game he had nearly twice the amount of kills as me but he got a skull and blue eyes and i got a skull with a knife and blue eyes!? Why did i get it instead of him because he did a lot better than me?
I went on die riese today I got 500 headshots 2000 kills and 3 downs and I’m at the skull with blue eyes why can’t I rank up!!! >.< add me on psn: Lilljojo_06
well basically the tally marks are the consecutive days played and we know that the rank is based on kd but in someway we dont know why ive seen people with higher kds but lower ranks than me… it might be a mystery forever!
I tried my best i ‘be played over a hundred matches with friends and I get a skull with blue eyes I read your guys comments and one of you said you get 5 slashes then you play a match a move to the next rank I don’t know how much matches I should play I’m on blue eyes so help me get the knife emblem how many matches must I play to get the knife
The “tallys” are depending on how often you play. For e.g; if I play 5 days in a row for 2 hours each day I would get all 5 but if I was on 4 tallys and didn’t play the next day I would drop a tally and so on.
The “Icon Rank” is a reflection on how you are overall skilled at zombies. For E.g; you will need a decent K:D Ratio. How well you play (Regular Suvived Rounds) , Headahots, Doors Opened, perks Drank Etc.
Rank Kills Estimate;
Rank 1 ( Bone) – 0 Kills
Rank 2 ( Two Bones) – 500
Rank 3 ( Skull) – 1000-2000
Rank 4 (Skull w/Blue Eyes) – Need 5 Tallys
Rank 5 (Skull w/Knife) – 5000-15,000
Rank 6 (Skull w/Knife Blue Eyes) – Need 5 Tallys
Rank 7 (Skull w/Shotguns) – 25,000+
Rank 8 (Skull w/Shotguns Blue Eyes) – 5 Tallys
But as you know once you get these certain amount of kills you must have a certain amount of time played and overall skills and then you will move up a rank.
One last thing – You CAN get deranked so don’t think because your on the next level you won’t get deranked. Just ONE game can determain which Rank ur on. TALLY won’t Change as that’s to do with how often you play but your overall skills can get you deranked!
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