With the prestige system in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, you can rank up over 1,000 levels in a season and earn cool rewards. MeinMMO shows you how to use your prestige keys.
What is it about? Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War offers a progression system that allows you to rank up many levels each season – the prestige ranks. However, you don’t just accumulate level-ups; you also unlock various challenges and rewards that compensate you for your efforts.
Especially the prestige keys are exciting. With these keys, you can unlock special calling cards and prestige symbols in the shop. Most of these are cosmetic items from previous CoD games, which should be a nice bonus for some veterans.
MeinMMO shows you everything you need to know about the prestige keys and the shop, so you can turn your level progress into sparkling emblems and colorful calling cards.
Update December 23: To reduce unintentional purchases, you now have to confirm the purchase of an item in the prestige shop again. At the start, it was enough to press a button to exchange an item for keys.
Important answers about the prestige shop
Go to the ‘Barracks’ tab in the main menu of Cold War and then click on the ‘Progress’ sub-item. Now select the tile with the image of the prestige keys to access the shop.
You can earn prestige keys thanks to the merged progression system, but the prestige shop itself is only accessible through Cold War.
By playing Call of Duty. Every 50 season levels, you receive one of the keys for the prestige shop and can earn up to 24 keys per season.
Buy symbols and calling cards in the shop with prestige keys
How do I get calling cards? Most items are calling cards from previous CoD games. Once you have a prestige key, you can directly choose a card here. The key is consumed with the purchase. However, you don’t have immediate access to all items, but only to the “alternative cards” and a few from the “prestige” category at the beginning.
To unlock more cards from “prestige,” you need to rank up to a higher prestige rank. Some cards are only accessible from prestige rank 7, which is the maximum from season 1.
Then there are the “Prestige Master” cards. Once you rank up 200 season levels in a season, you become a Prestige Master and unlock further rewards. In this category, you unlock the last card for purchase in season 1 at season level 500.
How do I get prestige symbols? You only gain access to the symbol shop once you are the prestige master of a season. To do this, you need to rank up 200 levels. In return, interesting rewards await you, as you can change your prestige symbol in Cold War, which is displayed next to your rank. However, this is only possible if you are currently active as a prestige master in a season.
In the symbol menu, you will also receive items from earlier CoDs for your keys. Each prestige level unlocks a maximum of 5 emblems, with each corresponding to a prestige emblem from the four previous “Black Ops” titles or CoD: World at War from 2008.
Additionally, you will also receive the corresponding symbol as an emblem and a sticker for your weapon. You can then use them without the prestige master rank once you have purchased them once.
With the prestige system, Black Ops Cold War brought back a mechanic requested by fans, but rather focuses on a mix of the old prestige system and the seasonal approach of its predecessor, Modern Warfare. The changes in the rewards for such high rank-ups should be welcomed by many players. As well as the fact that you can level up your rank in Cold War, Warzone & CoD MW.
