Quick answer: In the BO7 Camo Costume Party (Season 6: The Haunting), there is no single "shotgun challenge" — there are four separate shotgun legs, one per mode, and they only count kills inside that exact mode with a weapon the game classes as a Shotgun. The most-reported "not tracking" leg is the Zombies one: get 75 eliminations with Shotguns during a single T.E.D.D. Trial (die or leave and the counter resets to zero). If a leg shows 0 progress, you are almost always in the wrong mode, using a weapon that isn't classed as a Shotgun, or you broke the "single match / without dying" condition. Below is every exact requirement, what silently voids progress, and the fixes that actually re-sync the counter.
The Camo Costume Party runs September 17 – October 8, 2026 (it started Sept 17 at 9 AM PT and ends Thursday, Oct 8 at 10 AM PT, per Treyarch's event page), so you have a hard deadline to finish these before the four animated camos and the hidden Oozed Mastery Camo leave for good. If the shotgun leg is the one blocking your Oozed completion, this guide gets it unstuck.
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Key Takeaways
- There are four shotgun challenges — Endgame, Multiplayer (Gray Matter), Zombies (Zombie Mai Tai), and Warzone (Patchwork) — with completely different requirements. Mixing them up is the #1 reason progress "doesn't track."
- The Zombies shotgun leg is the hardest and most bug-prone: 75 eliminations with Shotguns during a single T.E.D.D. Trial. It's a per-match counter — it resets if you die or the Trial ends.
- Most "not tracking" reports are condition breaks, not true bugs: wrong mode, a weapon the game doesn't class as a Shotgun, or breaking a "without dying / without taking damage" streak.
- The reliable fix stack: finish the match, hard-restart the game to re-sync, and confirm the weapon's class + the exact mode before you grind.
- Event ends October 8, 2026. Everything here — and the Oozed Mastery Camo — is gone after that.
Why your shotgun challenge says 0% — the four-challenge trap
The Camo Costume Party isn't one checklist. It's four parallel checklists — Endgame, Multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone — and each mode has its own Shotgun challenge with its own rule. According to the official Treyarch challenge list, each mode awards its own animated Mastery Camo, and completing all four modes unlocks the hidden Oozed Mastery Camo plus bonus XP.
That structure is exactly why progress "disappears." The counter you're staring at in one mode's tab is not the counter that ticks up when you play a different mode. Kills in Multiplayer do nothing for the Zombies leg, and vice versa. The game doesn't warn you — it just sits at 0.
Here's every shotgun requirement, verified against Treyarch's official Camo Costume Party challenge list (published via Call of Duty / Treyarch, Sept 17, 2026), so you know exactly which one you're actually working on.
Every Costume Party shotgun challenge (all four modes)
Endgame — camo set "Undergrowth": Get 10 kills with a Shotgun without taking damage, 15 times. This is a streak challenge — you need 10 Shotgun kills across a life without taking any damage, and you have to bank that 15 separate times.
Multiplayer — camo set "Gray Matter": Get 3 kills without dying, 10 times, with Shotguns. Another streak leg — a clean 3-kill run with a Shotgun, repeated 10 times. Dying before you hit 3 resets that attempt (but not your banked count).
Zombies — camo set "Zombie Mai Tai": Get 75 eliminations with Shotguns during a single T.E.D.D. Trial. This is the leg everyone gets stuck on. It's not 75 total — it's 75 in one Trial, and if you die or the Trial ends before you hit 75, you start over.
Warzone — camo set "Patchwork": Get 10 kills with a Shotgun while in the Top 10. Your Shotgun kills only count once the lobby has shrunk to the final 10 squads/players, so early-game shotgun spam does nothing here.
Notice how different these are. "My shotgun challenge won't track" is almost meaningless until you know which of these four you're actually trying to do — because the thing that voids each one is different.
Fixing each shotgun leg (mode by mode)
Zombies: the 75-in-one-T.E.D.D.-Trial leg
This is the big one, and the reason the r/blackops7 threads exist. It's a live community pain point right now — one current r/blackops7 thread is titled, verbatim, "Camo Costume Party Shotgun Zombies challenge" (u/bfig78), and the wider "not tracking" complaint spans weapon classes, e.g. "Camo Costume Party Marksman Rifle Challenge Not Tracking?" (u/ExcellentSchedule416). The requirement is 75 Shotgun eliminations inside a single T.E.D.D. Trial, so the two killers are (1) not knowing it's a single-run counter and (2) dying at kill 60-something and watching it reset.
How to actually complete it:
- Do it inside T.E.D.D. Trials specifically. Regular Rogue Run kills won't count toward this leg — it's mode-locked to the Trial. If the counter isn't moving, first confirm you're in a T.E.D.D. Trial, not standard Zombies.
- Use a Pack-a-Punched shotgun and stack survival perks. You need to survive long enough in one run to bank 75. Jugger-Nog for survivability, a shotgun upgraded through Pack-a-Punch so it one-shots through the Trial's later rounds, and grab armor/salvage as you go.
- Play the objective conservatively. The goal isn't to win fast — it's to stay alive and keep feeding the shotgun. Let hordes group up so every shell counts, and avoid pushing into a down.
- If you die at 70, you restart at 0. There's no partial bank inside the Trial. That's intended, not a bug — plan the run around surviving, not speed.
Multiplayer (Gray Matter): 3 kills without dying, 10 times
The catch here is the "without dying" streak. Each attempt only banks if you get 3 Shotgun kills before you die.
- Play a mode with tight spawns and short sightlines so a shotgun is viable — smaller 6v6 maps, close-quarter objective modes.
- Don't over-push after kill 2. Dying at 2 kills wastes the attempt. Play the third kill safe.
- Make sure your equipped weapon is classed as a Shotgun in the Gunsmith — not every close-range weapon counts (see the weapon-class section below).
Endgame (Undergrowth): 10 kills without taking damage, 15 times
Similar streak logic, but the bar is no damage at all across 10 Shotgun kills — and you need to do it 15 times.
- Prioritize flanks and unaware enemies so you never take chip damage.
- A single point of damage voids that streak, so disengage and reset if you get tagged before 10.
- This is a grind — budget multiple matches for the 15 bankings.
Warzone (Patchwork): 10 Shotgun kills in the Top 10
- Your kills only count in the final 10, so survive to the endgame, then hunt with the shotgun.
- Resurgence-style playlists get you into more endgames faster than a single long BR, which makes banking 10 easier across several matches.
- Drop hot for gunfights, but the challenge kills specifically need to happen once the lobby is down to the Top 10.
What silently voids shotgun progress (real "not tracking" causes)
Before you report a bug, rule these out — they account for the vast majority of "it's not tracking" posts:
- Wrong mode. The four legs are mode-locked. Zombies kills don't touch the Multiplayer leg; Warzone kills don't touch Endgame. Check which tab's counter you're watching.
- Weapon isn't classed as a Shotgun. The challenge checks the game's weapon class, not how the gun feels. If you're using a close-range weapon that the Gunsmith lists under a different class, kills won't count. Open the weapon and confirm it literally sits in the Shotgun category.
- You broke the condition. "Without dying" and "without taking damage" legs reset the current attempt the instant you break the streak. That's not lost progress on your banked total — it just means the run you were on didn't count.
- You left the match early. Progress for several event challenges only commits when the match ends. Backing out mid-game can drop the last chunk of progress.
- You're not in the Top 10 yet (Warzone) or not in a T.E.D.D. Trial (Zombies). Same class of mistake as "wrong mode" — the sub-condition matters.
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The fix stack: how to force the counter to re-sync
If you've confirmed you're doing the right challenge in the right mode with a real Shotgun and it still won't move, the event does have community-acknowledged tracking hiccups. Work this list in order:
- Finish the match. Don't back out. Let it end so progress commits server-side.
- Hard-restart the game. Fully close BO7 (not just Alt-Tab / rest mode) and relaunch. This re-pulls your challenge state from the server and is the single most reliable fix for a stuck counter.
- Re-log your account if a restart alone doesn't do it — sign out of your Activision account in-game and back in to force a fresh sync.
- Check the Career tab, not just the event tile. Some progress displays lag on the event tile but show correctly in the Career/challenge menu after a restart.
- Wait out a live patch. Treyarch has been shipping frequent Season 6 fixes; if a specific leg is confirmed bugged community-wide, a same-week update usually resolves it. Bank progress elsewhere while you wait.
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How the shotgun legs feed the Oozed Mastery Camo
The shotgun challenge in each mode is one of nine weapon-class legs that unlock that mode's animated Mastery Camo. The reward ladder, per Treyarch's official structure, works like this:
| Milestone | Reward |
|---|---|
| Any 9 Camo Costume Party challenges (across any modes) | Arcblade melee weapon |
| All challenges in one mode | That mode's animated Mastery Camo + XP |
| All challenges in all four modes | Hidden Oozed Mastery Camo + bonus XP |
So each shotgun leg isn't just a camo on its own — it's a required brick in that mode's full set, and all four mode sets are required for Oozed. Skip the shotgun leg in even one mode and Oozed stays locked. That's why the fiddly shotgun challenges matter more than their individual reward suggests. For the full 36-challenge picture across every weapon class, see our BO7 Camo Costume Party challenges and Oozed guide.
If you've already cleared the launcher or marksman legs and shotguns are the last wall, you're closer than it feels — it's usually one focused session per mode.
FAQ
Why is my BO7 shotgun camo challenge not tracking at all? Almost always because you're in the wrong mode or using a weapon the game doesn't class as a Shotgun. The four shotgun legs (Endgame, Multiplayer, Zombies, Warzone) are mode-locked and only count kills with a weapon listed under the Shotgun class in the Gunsmith. Confirm both, finish the match, then hard-restart the game if it's still stuck.
What is the BO7 Zombies shotgun challenge requirement? Get 75 eliminations with Shotguns during a single T.E.D.D. Trial. It's a per-run counter — if you die or the Trial ends before 75, it resets to zero. Use a Pack-a-Punched shotgun, run survival perks like Jugger-Nog, and play to stay alive rather than to win fast.
Does the 75-kill shotgun counter carry between matches? No. It only counts within a single T.E.D.D. Trial. There's no partial bank between runs — you have to hit 75 in one Trial.
My kills counted but the tile still shows 0 — is it bugged? Often it's a display lag. Check your progress in the Career/challenge tab rather than the event tile, and hard-restart the game to force a re-sync. Progress that committed server-side will usually appear after the restart.
When does the Camo Costume Party end? The event runs September 17 – October 8, 2026. After it ends, the four animated Mastery Camos and the hidden Oozed camo are no longer obtainable, so finish the shotgun legs before the deadline.
Do I need the shotgun challenge for the Oozed camo? Yes. Oozed requires completing every weapon-class challenge in all four modes, and each mode has a shotgun leg. Skipping the shotgun challenge in any mode leaves that mode's set — and therefore Oozed — incomplete.
