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The new campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 maintains its over-the-top action style but introduces some fresh features to keep things interesting. In addition to the campaign co-op mode and a new endgame experience, the game includes several boss battles across its eleven missions.
One of these bosses is The Nightmare, a giant plant that sprays poisonous gas, fires projectile attacks, and controls a swarm of zombies. If you’re used to Call of Duty, boss fights like this might be new for you. Here’s what you need to know to take down the plant from Little Shop of Horrors.
How to Defeat The Nightmare
The Nightmare is a massive plant that mostly absorbs or takes reduced damage depending on where you hit it. When the fight begins, focus your fire on the small flowers located on its stalk. These look just like the ones you’ve been destroying during the mission and will take a good chunk of health off when you shoot them.
While attacking, The Nightmare will use two main attacks. First, it releases a poison cloud that causes heavy damage and knocks you back. Stay behind higher cover to avoid the cloud, moving behind it when necessary. The second attack involves slow, spherical projectiles that track your movement. Either outrun them or shoot them down before they hit you.
Tip: Use sniper rifles, DMRs, or long-range assault rifles to stay at a good distance during the fight.
Once all the small flowers are destroyed, The Nightmare becomes immune and summons zombies along with mutant spiders to attack you. Fight off these enemies to make The Nightmare vulnerable again, causing it to bring back the small flowers on its stalk. Repeat the process of destroying these flowers until they’re all gone, but be aware that zombies will keep spawning, so stay mobile and avoid being surrounded.
Progressing During the Fight
When The Nightmare’s health drops to about one-third, new mechanics come into play. The smaller flowers will stop spawning, and the main, larger flowers will glow orange when they attack. These are the boss’s weak points now. Position yourself, wait for the boss to begin its attack, and then shoot the glowing orange “mouth” on each of these larger flowers for extra damage.
Keep an eye out for zombies while focusing on the weak points, as this step can be tricky—balancing shooting, dodging attacks, and dealing with other enemies around you.
Final Phase and Victory
When you damage enough of the large flowers, they will wilt and stop glowing orange, indicating it’s time to move on. Repeat this for all three big flowers. Once they all wilt, The Nightmare will be defeated, triggering a cutscene. Congrats—you’ve conquered one of the toughest bosses in Black Ops 7.
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