How to Easily Spot Sleeper Agent Players in Black Ops 6! | (Full Breakdown & Tips)

[@JayTheRonin]

Just as another tip if youre playing in a full party the name will still show as blue instead of green. Your party member names and icons show up as green random teammates will show up as blue

[@tom_606HQ]

That's genius! I'd have known if I ever had that many friends, lol Very unnecessary question but if the enemy using sleeper agent was in your friend list, would they appear green? I think not even though it'd be very unlikely to encounter this anyway.

[@Predash051]

Still blue only the active party members are green ​@tom_606HQ

[@ExorPraetor]

One of the things I like most about Sleeper Agent is unironically the sinister sound cue when one kills you I love batshit crazy gameplay items like this

[@Gman07024]

Gives me 1950s detective in a trench coat vibes

[@JB-423]

I like the sound you get when a teammate uses a war cry

[@ProphetTLK]

Shame it's useless in high SBMM lobbies

[@JusttAlf]

@@ProphetTLK Not entirely, stick to perimeters and be fast, they'll still delay their response, it has been baked over years into the psyche of players not to shoot allies, nobody can just not hesitate. They may investigate faster tho and be more aware, but far from useless

[@DannyFenton217]

Call of duty fan ultimate challenge: can't mention sbmm in any comment for 24 hours 😂​@@ProphetTLK

[@tuxedoterrorwrist]

My favorite part of Sleeper Agent is you can always tell which players in a lobby have played TF2 before since the ones who have will immediately mag dump all of their teammates the second they know theres a Sleeper Agent on the map

[@bud856]

I've played a few hours and I remember learning what spy checking is when I kept dying because everyone would see me running towards their spawn. I suck at tf2 but atleast it taught me how to tell a spy

[@zombiekillerr9764]

Friendly fire is the best fire.

[@PlayBatty]

Real

[@ducking...]

I do that and dont even know what TF2 is

[@Mrmusicngamez]

did this in a hardcore lobby once not really thinking twice about it and instantly got kicked lol

[@drummaghua2687]

Another thing I found to be useful against sleeper agent is the sudden appearance of a teammate indicator that is not in the current spawn zone; if you are using sleeper agent in a small map, make sure you use it in an area that is within a general spawn zone. Using sleeper agent on a crate or a weird camping spot will instantly give away your identity.

[@MOOSICKIDEMO]

Thats my best tell. Especially with the in game announcement.

[@shannonjones8877]

He even kinda shows it in this video, the enemy sleeper agent suddenly appeared as a blue arrow from where the enemies were spawning, so he knew immediately who it was.

[@ElliotTPham]

My hundreds of hours as a sneaky tf2 frenchman have prepared me for using this field upgrade so well. There's nothing quite like getting into the mindset of the enemy to figure out where I should be positioning myself to pass as a teammate.

[@veilsidefun]

TF2: he could be you, he could be me, he could even be *BOOM

[@tylersampson2239]

Surprised they haven't added Taunt Kills to COD yet tbh

[@ElliotTPham]

@@tylersampson2239 finishing moves are kinda that, especially the goofier more recent ones

[@haroldadams3951]

I can't express enough how helpful these videos are. Best COD KZbinr by far, it's not even close.

[@ZarZrak]

So glad you made a full fledged video on this! Something else I would like to point out is that, especially in Search and Destroy, it's not that difficult to track a enemy sleeper agent through a wall. Because that blue dot stays above their head. So if you see a dot moving near where a teammate just died to a sleeper. You can keep track of him through the entire map. Realistically you can also do it in respawn, but there usually is way too much going on to do this effectively.

[@MapleMonarch213]

The announcer only actives when someone dies to one. If you play with the character voice on and an enemy active, the sleeper nearby your character will yell, "There's a traitor nearby"

[@tom_606HQ]

A friendly operator might say "enemy using sleeper agent" or as you said, if they see them using it but you might not notice. True that the announcer only announces it once the sleeper agent kills not when they activate

[@eurybiaball63]

The user’s name will be covered in black in the kill feed

[@TheGuyATX]

8:37 I don’t think the announcer announces the other team has a sleeper agent until the sleeper makes a kill, not when they activate sleeper agent.

[@TheRealDaichi]

That's my experience as well

[@darkgub]

That is correct, it won't announce it until the sleeper agent gets a kill

[@PlayBatty]

I was definitely wondering this

[@shannonjones8877]

I think this was an update that they made at some point, and it's a good change

[@TheSceletonx]

@theXclusiveAce great video, as always. Just a slight mistake, the announcer "there is a rat in our ranks" etc, only happens when sleeper agent enemy first kills someone (you first time see the black out name in kill feed) not when the field upgrade is activated. and one more tip - checking time. As sleeper agent has such a long cooldown time (and is not that frequently used, at least as of now in my lobbies) whenever you see there is enemy running it -> check the game time and you know that you are safe from that player's sleeper agent for 3 min, but slightly after the 3minute mark from the time he made his first kill, you can expect that the sleeper agent will be activated again, so be ready for that. And games are not that long so there usually wont be more than 2 (sometimes 3) activations for the same player, so it is not that hard to track. Of course you can bring it to even higher level, and just check the time by instinct every game, because first time you will see sleeper agent in game, will be slightly after 3 minute mark (and most of the player will actually use it shortly after it is available, to get that potential 3rd (well in faster mode even second) use of it. So get in the habbit to be on the lookout for them around minute 3 : 00 - 3 : 15. Or you can even bring it for even next level if you are really pissed of by this field upgrade, and get a loadout with vigilence ready and swap to it whenever you are respawning close to 3 minute mark (and then 3 minute after you see sleeper agent usage). Then swap back to whatever you are running normally after the danger is over. Of course the above point is not bullet proof, because of leavers and backfillers the initial timings could be scuffed. But the "be ready 3 min after you have seen sleeper agent to see another one works everytime.

[@GhostProtocolXL]

8:44 there will also be a unique music with the announcement of Sleeper Agent and that's a big giveaway too.

[@LayHova21]

lol I like how he used the polite call out and did say Woods “ There’s a fuckin rat”

[@LazyHispanic]

Sleeper Agent is a cool field upgrade. Imo if they somewhat buffed the ability, they should match the corresponding skin that players are using. Normally, when you use it, you have the default skin of those operators. Most of my lobbies players have those expensive skins from the shop. Would be a good buff if they did that. If players are smart on what skins teammates are using, it acts like a dead giveaway

[@llYOrchll]

It does use the skin fom one of the enemy players. Like in the video, the enemy characters changes to The Replacer skin

[@LazyHispanic]

@llYOrchll The Replacer skin is its own operator character. He will pop up if players have him selected. What i mean is skins from other operators. For example, the blackcell skins or the battle pass skins. Let's say someone is using those skins and you popped Sleeper Agent. The game gives the default skin of those characters on the opposing side. Not the blackcell or battle skins.

[@tom_606HQ]

​@@llYOrchllI always thought it changes to your "enemy operator" you selected

[@AJTheSmither]

@LazyHispanic it does

[@macgyver3434]

Most people already know how to detect it. Do you know how long it took me to get my 100 Sleeper Agent kills? A LOOOOONNNG time. Most of the time I got shot by the first enemy I encountered. It is extremely rare that it fools anyone.

[@ybfelix86]

The trick is assume they always know it’s you and just avoid appearing in front of them. It’s like playing a stealth game but with humans instead of enemy NPCs😂

[@shannonjones8877]

Most of the time it's because enemies still approach like enemies even when they're in disguise. Like if i see you running right at me from across the room like you're going for a melee kill, of course i'm going to shoot you.

[@lavon65beamon]

Cuz they nerfed it so fast

[@macgyver3434]

@ybfelix86 That's what I do. I assume they know it's me and sneak around first, or wait for the spawns to reverse.

[@dr.ludwig8189]

Sleeper Agent with Suppressor and all stealth perks is one of the best playstyles in COD history.

[@grandmarquice3655]

U trash as hell.. lmao👍🏾

[@LowKeyProductionz]

Arming or defusing a bomb with this perk is 1 of the hardest calling cards

[@Jon-ef2rp]

Just plant the bomb when you have teammates guarding you. I could be wrong but I just started working on this challenge and it doesn't seem too bad. Might just be getting lucky tho

[@sQuaTsiFieD]

Not hard but can be time consuming as they made it 10 plants or defuses. Really should've been 5. Just use gear head so you can get 2 charges held and you should be able to get 1 or 2 done every game.

[@josephtitus6318]

Played you on extraction yesterday, Ace. We had a fun lil back and forth at mid lol, huge fan!

[@i_undulate]

I would like to add one tip to spotting a Sleeper Agent. When you start seeing teammates dropping to a sleeper agent, check where you're seeing the skulls and if there's a blue arrow (sleeper agent) in the corresponding area. That's how I most often figure out who's the agent if I don't have any of the perks to counter it.

[@SeriousApache]

The best counter is: Fire at everything that moves. With amount of weird skins we currently have it is practically impossible to tell apart friend from foe by playermodel. So players developed natural instinct of "shoot first ask questions later"

[@AreLawReady]

If you’re paying attention to where the sleeper agent is getting kills at, you can usually pin point which player is the agent because they aren’t in the same general area/direction as your other teammates. And since can see their blue dot through walls, I prefire the corners they run around and it’s usually easy kills

[@charlesk8578]

I'm usually in a full party, so we immediately know it's the 'Blue' guy. Even when I'm not in a full team, the minute we hear the sound cue, everyone shoots at each other. I did not know about the name scramble though, good info.

[@davidschumann9827]

I like it. It's in a much better place now. Easier to detect but also easier to miss if you're not careful

[@GoesWithTheNameOfGTJ]

I believe activating Sleeper Agent will also let you in on the enemy comms, for whatever that's worth since hardly anyone is using the in-game voice channels

[@akshatagarwal6776]

Vigilance is also nice as a sleeper agent as it detects enemy sleeper agents who will activate it around the same time as you do thanks to the same charge time.

[@scarface51393]

I love when the enemy uses sleeper agent in search and destroy round when it’s only a 1v1 😂

[@Adrian-19-A]

I've been using this in harcore. It's awesome.

[@Propersciguy]

I’d like a field upgrade that works like a spotting scope, but it turns enemy team players names red to look like ours for a brief duration. A “confusion ability” if that makes sense. When this happens, the affected players are subject to friendly fire from their team and their deaths count towards your team. Obviously this is a 10 sec maximum duration ability or maybe less.

[@NinjaPieceLOL]

I haven't seen sleeper agent in ages. I think it rarely gets used because it's unlocked at a high level, and people want to quickly prestige.

[@blackonyx1]

You left out that if you use the Recon Specialty, that person will still be highlighted after a respawn. This literally happened to me prior to seeing you uploaded this video. Crazy coincidence.

[@tom_606HQ]

I honestly like the idea of sleeper agent in bo6 - it really fits the game's story and setting, like the idea of getting alerted to look for a sleeper agent. However for the same reason I wouldn't like it as much if it was to carry over to other cod games, and godforbid Warzone xD I was quite spectical about it in Hardcore but since I don't play HC at all, best I can say is that i agree with Ace here that UAV should show "revealed"

[@kevinmozz2542]

I think that the field upgrades needs a modifier with scores in-game so that things like sleeper agents can charge faster if a player is being good in the match. It's pointless that such field upgrades takes forever to be charged while a single perk/perks can easily counter them.

[@Big-Jow]

My favorite moment using this was with my partner, we were somewhat apart but still together on rewind in the back near the RV with the long sightline. I was disguised and on one side of the RV, with my partner being on the other side when an enemy came out the store and aimed at us, he immediatly went for her instead of me, netting me the kill. Just a small little moment of hesitation is all I needed and that honestly made the long charge time and numerous hard counters to it worth it honestly.

[@trashgodclaire]

Hope you’re having a good day Ace

[@Moetheboi2024]

You can also hear dramatic staccato heartbreak/betrayal music if you or someone close to you is killed by a sleeper agent (similar to tf2 spy)

[@yoorichyrichGaming]

Yea it's usually the footsteps, that's how i can tell, thanks for confirming

[@sherrdreamz7232]

The best tool that works for me is to look toward any Blue dots further away and see the players name when i hear the sleeper agent announcement. If it is an enemy that name will not appear on my team. About 50% of the time I will identify every sleeper agent In about 10-15 seconds that way and than hunt them down. The other 50% are when I am too busy in combat or lack the opportunity to scan my teamates. Sleeper Agent looks to be a fun tool, but observant players in higher skill lobbies will invalidate it pretty quick. Also In "core" lobbies no reason not to shoot your teamates when an enemy has it active either.

[@tylerhill40]

Sleeper agent is probably the best new idea to cod in a very long time

[@myytti16]

Thanks for this video @TheXclusiveAce ! As someone who has day job I have no time to figure out everything about the game, so this information is really valuable. I really appreciate it!

[@dany4th]

Can you do a breakdown on the drill charge. Sometimes I feel like it doesn't go through the wall, might be throwing wrong etc.

[@AJTheSmither]

sometimes it gets a glitch where the bomb just gets teleported in the floor or it just gets stuck in the wall

[@dany4th]

@AJTheSmither for reals. It's annoying but I still want to continue using it to get the hang of it

[@AJTheSmither]

@@dany4th yes only reason i use them bc the funny reactions and for the mastery badges

[@dany4th]

@@AJTheSmither same same 😂😂

[@kordami28]

3:30 Ghost semi-counters the HARP - it makes it work like a regular UAV.

[@Gidrah]

He could be any one of us! He could be you, he could be me!

[@DaddyCOolZA]

My most useful tip if you're a sleeper agent, don't contest objectives. I've killed so many because the site only has a teammate on it but shows as either contested or as being held by the enemy team.

[@llYOrchll]

One weird thing that happens when using Sleeper Agent and I think its a bug, once you activated it, if an enemy is near you, you will hear him say something like "Enemy using Sleeper agent" even if he didn't see you at all. AFAIK, from the enemy player's POV, his character didn't says anything but you heard it for some reason and, if you have good headphones, that voiceline from the enemy character will give you a good directional indication of wherehe is, giving you a potentially free kill

[@Thecorrector3000]

I found a sleeper agent on accident the other day. I respawned and panic shot a teammate who happened to be a sleeper agent running by.

[@damiangarcia1997]

It would be cool if you Could choose for both sides what skin you want. Because generally speaking, after a couple of seasons, most people are gonna have flashy skins and it’s gonna be a dead giveaway if the default skin is always being used

[@SlammedZero]

Refreshing to see a video that is actually about the game and not bitching about the game.

[@danl9513]

Not to mention if you are playing in a full party the sleeper advent will always have a blue nametag instead of the green one for being in your party

[@MavicAVF]

I’m wondering if sleeper agent or the footstep amplifier is better to use

[@dillonc7955]

Acoustic Amp plus drill charges and FMJ ammo on your weapon is definitely a cheat code at times.

[@goldenwolf_gamingYT]

Amp with vigilance is better

[@MavicAVF]

@@goldenwolf_gamingYTwhat does vigilance do for amp?

[@xxxthwagdrakexxx4672]

amp is based af it gives you +15 score each time you get a kill and sometimes with other things i will not specify

[@goldenwolf_gamingYT]

@MavicAVF vigilance negates sleeper agent entirely for you while amp allows you to hear them running much louder and track them relatively easier. That combo is honestly broken when sleeper agent doesnt work at all against vigilance perk users and disables it for you allowing you to see the sleeper agent as they were before using sleeper agent

[@bomberdogg9706]

I pretty much only use it for executions. Flank the enemy, activate, come up behind and execute one. Then call them an idiot because it also lets you in on enemy comms

[@Oxbayer]

Dude I needa go into S&D with a full 6 man running Sleeper Agent lmao

[@incompetencelogistics8924]

a bit of a downside with vigilance is you don't get to see their real time movements anymore

[@TheRetrollectors]

Tracker perk is technically broken when it comes to certain skins used. I believe one of the Blackcell skins leave a flaming footprint on the ground which looks very similar to tracker footprints. They need to fix a lot of the broken skins. The Squid Games are way too similar.

[@DonDeLem]

Usually when the announcer states somebody has activated Sleeper Agent, I look at the map and see who isn't with my other teammates. It's usually the guy who's on a part of the map all by himself.

[@PhishyStuff_]

TF2 Bundle: Red and Blue Spy for each team. Butterfly knife skin. knife taunt as finishing move and using Spy operator equiped with Sleeper Agent instead takes out disguise kit.

[@halberdierv2]

The TF2 spy in Call of Duty in an ability.

[@noahgoldowitz]

Mans is coming with video after video after video, salute 🫡

[@OneColdMonkey]

Thanks for the info! Feels like tracker shouldn't be able to pick up their footprints to me.

[@junyaiwase]

I forgot this field upgrade existed TBH, it wasnt a big deal in my DM grind but if i was nuke grinding which I will soon im sure I would care

[@jaywerner8415]

Even if its only 30 seconds, I can totally picture people doing "I wanna be the Spy from Team Fortress 2" with this field upgrade.

[@YoungAbel15]

I wish the announcer in game would announce if the sleeper agent was eliminated by a teammate that way I can focus my attention back onto the enemy team instead of just my team.

[@Heywood7277]

Doesn’t seem to be able to activate it in some maps like stakeout when using the wild card that allows 2 equipments like having a choice between trophy or scrambler as an example. ( the name escapes me right now) When the perk charges up to use it, Sleeper agent comes up as “Not ready”.

[@blemisheddiscgaming6464]

Sleeper Agent was my first permanent unlock. I've got well over 1000 kills while active. And it's not hard to get 6 or 7 kills while it's active.

[@elnumbrotres]

I still need to get finishing moves with the sleeper agent! It didn’t track when I got mine

[@yasserahmed7646]

3:28 how were you still getting pinged on map even though you were moving?

[@steverob8432]

This gear is fun AF. Does using tact gear or grenades expose you? I like to run the spy camera w it and haven’t noticed anything. Also, strike the enemy team when they’re taking an objective. Run Sam turret and deploy one before you go undercover, then you don’t need ghost as much.

[@Reddragon212115]

Hey I’m pretty sure there voice over saying there’s a sleeper agent active only happens once they get their first kill

[@fallendiety6948]

I'm surprised there is no mention of playing in a party Ace. If you have a full party they still appear blue (or default for colorblind mode) so you will know immediately who it is.

[@DangerDMA]

Can a full team use sleeper agent at the same time? Would be hilarious to see.

[@ducking...]

Me: uses sleeper Agent The lobby: drops everything to kill me within 00.2 seconds

[@echo6echo419]

The character skin thing doesn't work as the new skins can be used regardless of the side you're on. One of the most frustrating things is to NOT shoot at someone because they look like a team mate, but are the enemy with the same skin.

[@robertthornton7900]

I'm running Vigilance half the time fornthe CUAV benefits. So I never worried about Sleeper Agent

[@DJDJ-kl2os]

Any recommendations for sleeper agent while on HC?

[@ricardoloza-hernandez5706]

Thanks Ace for mentioning about how aim assist can lock on an enemy who is using sleeper agent. There have been a couple times where I felt my gun and aim drift and was like what the hell lol

[@Darkxlink1]

Does shooting an un suppressed gun remove your blue name from people outside of line of sight? Like in search

[@s-b6218]

Does sleeper agent work well in stakeout for headshots

[@alwinuding8926]

If you get killed in the first couple of seconds after activating "sleeper agent", do you still get to use it with your next spawn?

[@soulfire5354]

Question if your running recon will the sixth sense ability show up when a sleep agent is looking in your direction?

[@Elniniss]

What about pinging? Do the pings appear for your teammates? Or is it like voice chat and your comms are now on the enemy team?

[@themlgbrosftw4960]

banger video Ace

[@yg_legendary2437]

Hey Ace, nice video! Any chance you could do a video on all the shadow banning going on? I recently got hit by this it's so frustrating to now only play with cheaters. I know you mainly do gun guides and more positive vids, but I think talking about this issue would shed some light on Activision's poor anti cheat.

[@pete67aus]

In my opinion there are already more than enough ways for an enemy to flank you on the present maps. It is near impossible to hold a lane in this game compared to previous CODs. Sleeper Agent just adds yet one more way that an enemy can get behind you. I don't think it's a good addition to the game.

[@scmsean]

There seems to be a short delay in the tag showing for me. I just shoot everyone running toward me.

[@epicgamerzfail4575]

Not a fan of how vigilance is a hard counter. It'd be fine if maybe it kept the name disguise but didn't appear as a teammate on the minimap, but I feel as-is you can't really get away with sleeper agent kills, especially since almost everyone who wants to use the recon specialty will be using vigilance

[@dillonc7955]

Vigilance isn't that oftenly used outside of players who are lower level or just prestiged. Most things that can feel unfair or annoying, especially sleeper agent and second chance need a hard counter. Either that or they'd be nerfing sleeper agent as they did with high alert not too recently.

[@Helloyousilverdevil]

Eh, honestly the “there’s a traitor on our team” callout is pretty big. As soon as you see or hear shots from a part of the map near you where it’s all friendlies, you can track the agent down pretty fast

[@biscutboi]

I will say its kind of odd to me that sleeper agent gets countered by a perk but the spring mine doesnt get countered by flak jacket

[@c__curly]

⁠​⁠@@biscutboiyeah I think flakjacket should cover all nonstreak explosive damage but I feel it's inconsistent but it is countered by shadow the new green perk

[@epicgamerzfail4575]

​@@dillonc7955Id rather something be nerfed than just have a hard counter imo

[@BlahBlah-kb1wf]

@TheXclusiveAce I've got a question that's been bothering me for years! When I'm killed by an enemy, even before the cut to the kill cam, the enemies' names turn blue. Then in the kill cam they're blue. I find this to be incredibly annoying and sometimes causes problems. Is there a reason why this happens?

[@knvb10]

Imagine a stack of 6 using it at the same time. More than one player would be confused.

[@Knothead1187]

Does high alert for recon work with sleeper agent?

[@Jumperman12mac]

I'm still fairly mixed on it, but at least there's an perk to counter it.

[@axelfowleylefebvre8040]

When they change skin, is it only the base character? Or they can be a random skin?!

[@gatorrade1680]

I thought the scrambled names were a bug, but I have noticed them just once or twice anyways😅

[@chrisballengee5746]

The biggest problem is the maps being so small you are almost always right near an enemy and a teammate

[@latralesmith5410]

The sleeper agent thing says: that it can happen in the enemy Comms is that true or what?

[@SirIroquois]

I also shoot at random team mates nearby when I hear the announcement . Sometimes you get lucky

[@jjfiset]

Nooo you had to share the secrets of how to detect one, I swear randoms never knew how to tell before this and it was always so easy

[@cwdii]

I'm glad Sleeper Agent takes so long to charge up, makes it something you don't see very often and because of that the impact of the field upgrade isn't lost, for both you and the enemy team. Unless the enemy team is incredibly vigilant, you can quite often catch a majority of the team off guard, which opens up some incredible clip opportunities if you play it right.

[@dgeneratio1]

In Hardcore the UI is hidden mostly so how will you be able to tell if you are hidden or revealed?

[@andreivaldez2929]

Don't shoot an unsuppressed weapon and run stealth perks - holy shit, I can't believe that's so hard to understand lmao. Sub 60IQ moment 😂

[@dgeneratio1]

@@andreivaldez2929 That's what the tips in the video is for. I understood better after watching it.

[@davidjay257]

1500+ kills and loving it😂

[@monmaker]

While I did learn a few things as someone that has gotten sleeper agent gold, I hate this video for the sole fact that it is already so easily countered, even by people that don't know the tells... Especially considering the long charge time

[@dodgee_doo]

ACE! Do you know the delay time in the alert to the opposing team? I've noticed that I'll die before the game announces "enemy UAV" or "scout pulse in your area" indicating a favorable delay to the other side. I was just curious if you tested this or if it's immediate upon activating it.

[@SirSoap]

Hey Ace, I hope all is well! Are there any updates to the hidden skill rating video you made?

[@BaxsStudios]

The amount of times I used sleeper agent on nuke town to get to the camping spot on the window and then take the camper hostage and do unspeakable things on the bed with his camping ass man. Thats peak cod